Igor Ganikowskij

www.ganikowskij.de

 Igor Ganikowskij has taken part in more  than 50 one- man shows, 13 of these in museums, and 100 group exhibitions.  He has exhibited at Art-Basel, Art Cologne, Arco Madrid , Art LA and Art London.  He has been widely published, with 11 solo-catalogues and more than 300 articles on his art in books, magazines, newspapers.  His work is represented in the collections of more than 35 museums.

                                                                                                                   

1950       Born, a teacher’s son, Moscow, Russia

1968       Final examination at a Mathematical school in Moscow

1972       Honours degree at the Steel-Institute

1972-

1983       Member of Scientific Institution, constructor in an engineering office, teacher

1973       First drawings and paintings

1976-

1978       Attendence at the art studios of Isaj Braslavsky and Michail Kasanski in Moscow

1983       Admission to the Youth Group of the Artist`s Association, first participation in a

               professional exhibition

1985       Admission into the Artist`s Association

1989       Solo exhibition, Gallery Pelin, Helsinki .

                The first  official one-man show of  a soviet artist in a private gallery in the West.

1990       Scholarship from the George Soros Foundation; six month stay in USA

1991       Elected vice-president of the International Association of Creative Intelligenc 

             “World of Culture”.

1993      Became resident  in Germany

2004      August Macke-Preis

2006      Prestel Verlag included color work of Ganikowskij in it “Geshichte der

              bildenden Kunst in  Deutschland“  Vol.8 „Von Expressionismus bis Heute“

              Since 2000 lives and works in Bergisch-Gladbach ( Bergisches Land ).

Public Collections:

Kunsthalle Henri Nannen Stiftung, Emden , Germany

Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund , Germany

Museum Ludwig, Köln , Germany

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen , Germany

Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch-Gladbach , Germany

Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück , Germany

Von der Heyt-Museum, Wuppertal , Germany

Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany

Kunstmuseum Bochum , Germany

Sprengel Museum , Hannover , Germany

Märkisches Museum , Witten , Germany

Jüdisches Museum Westfalen, Dorsten , Germany

Museum Synagoge Gröbzig

Judisches Museum Wiena, Austria

Städtische Tretjakow-Galerie, Moscow , Russia

Städtische Puschkin-Museum, Moscow , Russia

Russische Kulturstiftung, Moscow , Russia

Stiftung des Kulturministeriums, Moscow , Russia

Ludwig Museum , Saint Petersburg , Russia

Russian Museum , Saint Petersburg , Russia

The Israel Museum , Jerusalem , Israel

Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv , Israel

The Corine Maman Museum Ashdod , Israel

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Chamalier , France

Mondriaan Huis, Amersfort, Holland

The Magnes Museum , Berkeley , USA

Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Silkeborg , Denmark

Museum of Modern Art, Trento , Italy

Nationalgalerie, Warsaw , Poland

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Posen

Museen der Bildenden Künste Novosibirsk , Russia

Staatliche Galerie Tula , Russia

Museen der Bildenden Künste Penza , Russia

Museen der Bildenden Künste Tomsk , Russia

Museen der Bildenden Künste Omsk , Russia

Staatliche Galerie Semipalatinsk , Kazakstan

Museen der Bildenden Künste Symy , Ukraine

Historisches Museun Kanotop , Ukraine

Private Collections:

Australia, Brazil , Denmark , Germany ,

England, Holland , Hong Kong , Finland , France ,

Greece, Italien , Iceland , Israel , Japan , Canada ,

Luxembourg, Norway , Poland , Portugal , Russia ,

Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Hungary , USA

„Ganikowskij's art is charged with hidden symbols and has to be deciphered in order to understand it deeper meaning. The artist has developed a code of visual symbols and his apparently strictly reduced works reveal their contents only when we have learned to unveil their enigma. So, it is worth while to embark on a journey into this 'terra artis incognita', trying to outline a preliminary topography of his work in a few sections. “

Dr.Marc Scheps, former director Tel-Aviv Art museum and Ludwig museum Köln. Light Symbols in artwork of Igor Ganikowskij

(Catalog).

“Living through something very deep in our world has always been very important for my work, as is the search for likenesses of these processes in the higher worlds. Perhaps this is the only possibility, not just to see the great and small worlds at the same time, but also to understand their configurative interaction. Moreover, moving from one hierarchal step to another, through a variety of levels of realities, the symbolisations grow, and the contents of the transcendent seem to glimmer through the expression. The symbol plays the part of the bridge between the rational and the mystical.

It is also important that the space of my works lives a double semiotic life, modelling the universe one hand, and being modelled by it on the other. Of course, it may be that we see only shadows, slight reflections, but even from these contours one can try to shape something, repeatedly verifying the result by the numerous reflections.”

Igor Ganikowskij:  Liberation of Light. (Catalogue)

“In several ways,his riecent work  with its emphasis on the semantic aspect of the image thus seems to recall the the achievements of the so-called formalist tradition in Russian art,If so it means that he reopens a wide field. lt is worth reminding that the importance of this tendency   had impact not only on art , but on music, literature, linguistics, and philosophy as well. But disturbingly enough, Ganikovsky also sometimes introduces signs and symbols into his apparently most classical  abstract compositions. Even if they are only present as secondary, barely emerging elements, they create a feeling of ambiguity and remained us that not all   processes in the mind can be expressed in mere operations with pure form. “

“Das Werk von Igor Ganikowskij fasziniert mich sehr, Ich dachte immer, dass es nicht möglich sei, in Richtung Malewitch etwas neues zu sagen”

Dr.Troels Andersen, former director of Silkeborg museum, one of the more famous specialists in K. Malewitch. (Catalogue) and newspaper „Politika“, Kopenhagen.