Emilia Kabakov

Emilia Kabakov
Emilia Kabakov in 2013
Born1945
Dnepropetrovisk, USSR
EducationMoscow University, Music College of Irkutsk
Known forInstallation art
SpouseIlya Kabakov
Websitewww.kabakov.net

Emilia Kabakov (born 1945) is an American artist born in Dnepropetrovisk, USSR (now Dnipro, Ukraine), whose work is most closely associated with conceptualism and installation art. Since 1988, she has been frequently collaborating with her husband Ilya Kabakov. With the exception of painting, Emilia has shared the credit for all of Ilya's projects since 1997.[1]

Early life and education

Kabakov was born in 1945 in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union. She studied Spanish literature and the Spanish language at Moscow University, and also had studied at the Music College of Irkutsk.[2]

Biography

In 1973 she immigrated to Israel, after which she settled in New York City in 1975 to pursue a career as a gallerist and curator. In 1988 she began collaborating with Ilya Kabakov[2] who is both her husband and her cousin.[1]

Work

Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern,[3][4] the 1993 Venice Biennale,[5] where they represented Russia,[2] the Hirshhorn Museum,[6] the Irish Museum of Modern Art,[7] among many other museum venues. In 2000, the Kabakovs were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to create a major installation, The Palace of Projects, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City consisting of 65 separate projects within a large spiral configuration 80 feet in diameter by 40 feet high.[8]

Collections

Kabakov's work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp,[2] the British Museum,[9] among others.

References

  1. ^ a b Ahmed, Fatema (19 October 2017). "Back in the USSR: an interview with Ilya and Emilia Kabakov". Apollo International Art Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 July 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ilya & Emilia Kabakov". M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp). Archived from the original on 9 July 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  3. ^ Bishop, Claire (March 2018). "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Tate Modern". Artforum. 56 (7). Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  4. ^ Cumming, Laura (22 October 2017). "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov review - Russia's great escape artists". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  5. ^ Kishkovsky, Sophia (29 June 2022). "'Art will go back underground': artist Emilia Kabakov on the war in Ukraine and the fate of the Russian art world". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Utopian Projects". Hirshhorn Museum - Smithsonian Institution. 2017. Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the Irish Museum of Modern Art". Irish Museum of Modern Art. 11 June 1998. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Palace of Projects". Public Art Fund. 2000. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Emilia Kabakov". British Museum. Retrieved 23 February 2023.