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Russian Pavilion, XLVII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Maxim Kantor, Luneburg, Germany
Maxim Kantor. He is an artist, a writer, an essayist and a socialcommentator of an openlyphilosophical turn, and, as he uses to say, one professionproceeds from the other.

Two works of Maxim Kantor's: "State" and "Cathedral in the Ocean".

Born: Dec 1, 1957
Moscow
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MaximKantor can most properly be defined "the Artist of the Existential Realism" since he proclaims that his philosophicalroots are Sartre, Camus, Beckett and Hemingway.

I will continue to write,” he says. Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

1996 Maxim Kantor.

Maxim Kantor

Education

1975-80 Moscow Art Polygraph Institute

Solo Exhibitions

2007 New Empire exhibition tour continues at: Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg,

Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Centre Culturel de Rencontre, Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg.

Maxim Kantor.

Paintings 1982-1994, Porin Tadesmuseo, Pori, Finland

1994      Kunsthalle Emden / Stiftung Henri Nannen, Emden, Germany
              Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
              Galerie im Haus Dacheroden, Erfurt, Germany

1993      Art Frankfurt, Galerie Lupfert, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
              Salle d'Exposition de l'Hotel de Ville, Colmar, France
              Galerie Lupfert, Hannover, Germany
              FIAC, Asbaek Gallery, Paris, France
              Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin, Germany

1992 Maxim Kantor.

1989, 10.

Cullerne-Baum M. Contemporary Russian Art. Phaidon/Oxford, 1989.

Gillespie P.

and Millington N. "Without and within." Marguette Tribune Weekend 1989, 20 Sept.

Gregor B.&M. He has lived and lives in Moscow and in many differentEuropean countries.

As a painterMaxim Kantor, who states that "he didn't want to studyunderanybody and his father was all he needed" was deeplyinfluenced by Michelangelo, Mantegna, Goya and Petrov Vodkin.

Paintings 1982-1994, Royal College Of Art, London, UK
Maxim Kantor. Soon he becameknown and appreciated in many differentcountries and held exhibitions in a greatnumber of important museums. “I hope to live long enough and productively enough to defeat fascism and see results of my work.”

Who is Maxim Kantor?

Maxim Karlovich Kantor, a Russianpainter and writer.

Maxim Kantor was born in Moscow in 1957.

Retrospektive, Museum Bochum, Germany
Galerie Lupfert, Hannover, Germany

1991      Stuart & Co. Gallery, New York, USA
              Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
              Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin, Germany
              Art Cologne, Galerie Eva Poll, Koln, Germany

1990      Facing Apocalypse, Newport Art Museum and Art Association, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
              Russia: Within and Without, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
              Galerie Lupfert, Hannover, Germany

1989 Goethe-Institute, Dusseldorf, Germany
Landesvertretung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg bein Bund, Bonn, Germany

1988 Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin, Germany
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

Bibliography

2005 Morris R.C.

"A Russian painter’s New empire." International Herald Tribune 2005, 30 March.

2001 Barstow A. "Kantor’s gothic vision of the Russian dilemma." LifeStyle: The Russia Journal 2001, 9-15 Nov., p.L7.

1999 Hosford J.

"Maxim Kantor – Russia’s Contemporary Master." Contemporary Optical Waves (C.O.W.), 1999, February

1998 Turner E. "Art show’s shaky grip on capitalism." Herald USA 1998, 18 Dec.

1997 Durden-Smith J. "Transcending Trends of art." Moscow Times 1997, 4 Feb.

Morris R.C.

"The touch of the brush: a parting of the ways in Venice."International Herald Tribune1997, 15 Jun.

Morris R.C. "A painter’s Russia: More awful, more exciting." InternationalHerald Tribune 1997, 23 Jul.

1993 Merilin R.

"Moscow Jewish painter sides with each minority." Wiskonsin Jewish Chronicle 1993, 12 Sept.

1990 Kuchkina O. "Maxim Kantor: portrait and self-portrait." Soviet Theatre 1990, # 3.

1989 Brown M.C. Contemporary russian art. Phaidon/Oxford, 1989.

Clare H.

"Peretsroika and the profit bring in form and the Cold." Glasgow Herald 1989, 1 Nov.

Corbin-Pardee L. Contemporary Russian Art. Art Muscle. Young people should know more and should know precisely, what happened, not only now, but also [in the] last century to be able to compare it,” he says, and by extension, work to choose a path that considers the moral implications of an ever-shifting geopolitical landscape.

In the Soviet time he became a watchfulobserver of society and a sharppoliticalcritic and holds fast to this line up to now both in his country and in the West. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin

2004-05 European tour of exhibitions "New Empire": new pictures and new graphic cycle "Metropolis.Atlas" (70 etchings in eau-forte and lithography techniques).

              Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck
              Querini Stampalia Fondazione, Venice
              Ulster Museum, Belfast

2001      Started the exhibition tour presenting the project WASTELAND.Atlas in Russia:
              State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
              State Primorsky Museum of Art, Vladivostok
              Krasnoyarsk Culture and History Museum Complex
              Novosibirsk Museum of Fine Art
              Tomsk Art Museum
              Ekaterinbourg Museum of Fine Art and WASTELAND.Atlas in the museums all over the world, among them: Staedel Museum, Frankfurt, Culturgest, Lisboa, Ulster Museum, Belfast, South Australian

Gallery, Adelaide.

2001 Eva Poll Gallery, Berlin
Artcore Gallery, Toronto

1998-2000 Exhibition tour of the European and United States museums, among them: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida,

Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, Wisconsin, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg.

1997 Maxim Kantor.

Paintings 1982-1994, Musee de Pully, Pully, Switzerland
Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin, Germany
Art Cologne, Galerie Eva Poll, Koln, Germany

1995 Maxim Kantor.

In 1977, aged twenty, he founded in Moscow the undergroundgroup Red Housewhichorganized a number of one-day shows the most resounding of which took place in 1982 in the MoscowInstitute of Philosophy. Etchings. Paintings 1982-1994, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning,

                         Denmark Kunsthalle
              Emden / Stiftung Henri und Eske Nannen, Emden, Germany
              Maxim Kantor.

Art in America 1988, 2.

Dujardin R.C. "Confronting Fears of the Apocalypse." Newport Chronicle 1988, 18 Apr.

Public Collections

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Staedel Museum, Frankfurt
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Ulster Museum, Belfast, United Kingdom
Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Herning Museum Of Art, Herning, Denmark
Kunsthalle Emden / Stiftung Henri Nannen, Emden, Germany
Luxembourg Museum Of Art And History, Luxembourg
Musee de Pully, Pully, Switzerland
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Neuen Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aix-la-Chapelle, France
The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
South Australian gallery, Adelaide
Stuttgart Stadtgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Novosibirsk Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
Togliatti Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
Perm Art Museum, Russia

“Some people may say that it leads to a rather simplified character, of still dividing the world in black and white, good guys versus bad guys.

New paintings and three graphic cycles.