Alexander Pankin

Painter, graphic artist, object artist, architect. Born in the family of Fyodor Pankin in the town of Yegorievsk in Moscow Region (1938). Studied at Moscow Institute of Architecture (1957–63) and took up abstract painting (1960s). Member of the Union of Architects (1971) and Ely Belyutin’s New Reality studio (1971–82). Worked on abstract paintings (1960s), figurative works (1970s–80s), abstract compositions and mathematical objects (1990s). Awarded a grant by the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation (1998). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions in Russia (from 1966) and abroad (from 1989). Contributed to Labyrinth: Neue Kunst aus Moskau at Katowice in Poland, Schloss Wotersen near Hamburg and Schloss Bennigsen near Hanover (1989), Soviet Avant-Garde 1920s–80s at the Palace of Arts in Minsk (1989), Czerwone i bia?e: Wschodnia fala / Red and White: The Eastern Wave at the Hala Gwardii in Warsaw and the Galeria Dijkstra in Amsterdam (1989–90), Ryska konstnärer at the Galleri Atrium in Stockholm (1989), 100 Kleuren at the Galeria Dijkstra in Amsterdam (1989), L’avant-garde russe et soviétique 1970–1980 at the Galerie Bodenschatz in Basle, Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence and Moscow Palette Gallery in Moscow (1990), Art Myth 1 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1990), Alternative Art of the 1960s at the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow (1990), Zeitgenössische Künstler aus Moskau at the Osteuropäisches Kulturzentrum in Cologne (1990), Pittori moscoviti contemporanei at the Palazzo Rondanini alla Rotonda in Rome (1990), Russische Avangarde 1970–1989 at the Galerie am Lindenplatz in Vaduz (1990), Große Kunstausstellung NRW at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (1990, 1992, 1994), Contemporary Artists to Malevich at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1991), Quest for Abstraction 1960s–90s at the Belyaevo Gallery in Moscow (1991), Kunst, Europa: 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern at the Meppener Kunstkreis in Meppen (1991), Perestroika Art at the Galerie Christine Colas in Paris (1991), Contemporary Soviet Art at the Kostakis House of Art in Toronto (1991), Russische Maler – Realismus bis Avantgarde at the Atelier Harald Sommer in Bad Soden am Taunus (1991), On the Track to the Spiritual at the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow (1991), Nuance at the Far Eastern Museum of Art in Khabarovsk (1992), Mansarde: Russian Avant-Garde of the Twentieth Century at the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art in Kaliningrad (1992), From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Prehistoric Art in the Context of Modern Culture at the Malevich Centre in the Paleontological Museum at the Yury Orlov Paleontological Museum in Moscow (1992), From Russia to the Field Gallery: To Benefit the Children’s Studio at the Tretyakov Gallery at the Field Gallery in West Tisbury (1993), Modern Graphic Art of Russia at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994), Nie! – i konformi?ci: Oblicza sztuki radzieckiej lat 50. do 80. / No! – and the Conformists: Faces of Soviet Art of 50s to 80s at the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie and the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (1994), Zwischen Glauben und Ästhetik: 15 zeitgenössische russische Künstler at the Evangelische Akademie der Nordkirche in Hamburg (1994) and Leo-Lippmann-Saal in der Finanzbehörde in Hamburg (1996), Autonomous Art at Le Chat Gallery in Moscow (1995), After the Concept at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1995), New Sincerity: The Moscow Underground in Dialogue with Michael Morgner at the Goethe-Institut in Moscow (1995), Das Russische Haus at the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Bildungsstätte Zündholzfabrik in Lauenburg (1995), First Congress of the Creative Fund of Russia at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1996), Moderne Kunst at the Muschelsaal in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus (1997), Art Manège ‘98 at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1998), PhoCom-98 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1998), Das Haupt at the Galerie Sandmann in Hamburg (1998) and Berlin (1999), To Malevich at the Dom Cultural Centre in Moscow (2000), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Counter-Evolution at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art in Moscow (2002), Moscow Abstraction: Second Half of the 20th Century at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2003), Abstraction of the Epoch of Perestroika at the Directorate of Exhibitions and Auctions of the Ministry of Culture in Moscow (2003), Figurative as Abstraction at the Sam Brook Gallery in the Vysotsky House on Taganka in Moscow (2003), Kazimir Malevich’s Birthday at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (2004), Purest Abstraction ‘05 at the pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2005), Photogram, Projection, Silhouette at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (2005), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), SupreMADIsm: Homage to the Masters of Russian Constructivism at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (2006), Adventures of the Black Square at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2007), New Angelarium at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (2007), Kulibin at the Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2008), 100% Black Square at the pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2008), The Power of Water at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2008), Art Moscow 13th International Art Fair at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2009), Whales of the Season © 5 at the Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2009), Whales of the Season © 6 at the Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2010), Earth, Cosmos, Gagarin at the Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2011), Russian Cosmos at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin (2011–12), Science Art 2012 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2012), Moscow. The Signs Come from Us. Dedicated to Kazimir Malevich at the Nadja Brykina Gallery in Zurich (2012), Art Only at the Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2012), Tell Me, Uncle... at the Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2012), joint exhibitions with Yevgeny Gor and Gennady Vasilkov at the Galerie Leuchter & Peltzer in Düsseldorf (1989) and with Yevgeny Gor at the Luxemburgisches Schloss in Königstein im Taunus (1990) and one-man shows at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (1985), Kashirka Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1988), Peresvetov Lane Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1990, 1992, 1993, 1996), Eemil Halosen museo in Lapinlahti (1992), Galeria Zeidler in Gdansk (1992), Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow (1996), A3 Gallery in Moscow (1997), World Bank Russia Country Office in Moscow (1997), Gallery on Solyanka in Moscow (1998), Dom Cultural Centre in Moscow (2000, 2002), Museum Centre of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow (2001), National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (2003), Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (2003), Central House of the Architect in Moscow (2004, 2008), Masters Gallery in Moscow (2005), Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2008) and M’ARS Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (2009).