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Moisei Feigin
Read more...Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Alexander Feigin in the town of Rechitsa on the River Dnieper in White Russia (1903). Attended grammar school in Warsaw and Moscow (1910s). Member of th...
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Leo Seemanpillai
Read more...Leo Seemanpillai’s room has already been stripped bare, but a sheet of paper remains stuck to the door. “It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us,” runs the quote on it. Out in the l...
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Bijan Ebrahimi
Read more...In pale autumn sunshine, two small children on scooters rattle along uneven paving stones past the house where Bijan Ebrahimi once lived. The planters full of blooms and the hanging baskets that he t...
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David Clapson
Read more...We know that David Clapson was actively searching for work when he died because a pile of CVs he had just printed out was found a few metres from his body. The last time he spoke to his sister, a few...
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Prince Felix Yussupov
Read more...Born in St Petersburg (1887) in the family of Count Felix Sumarokov-Elston and Princess Zinaida Yussupova. First cousin of Count Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston. Married Princess Irina Alexandrovna (1914), ...
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Emil Kan
Read more...Photographer, painter. Graduated from the studios of Nikita Charushin and Andrei Pakhomov at the Faculty of Graphic Art of the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningra...
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Vik (Vyacheslav Zabelin)
Read more...Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of a Russian officer called Yury Zabelin near the city of Choibalsan in eastern Mongolia (1953). Studied at the Vladimir Serov School of Art in Leningrad (...
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Denis Yegelsky
Read more...Painter, ballet dancer. Born in the family of Yevgeny Yegelsky in Leningrad (1963). Studied ballet under Konstantin Sergeyev at the Agrippina Vaganova Academy of Dance (1973–77) and art at the studio...
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Alexandra Galkina
Read more...Artist, curator. Born in Moscow (1982). Participated in Avdei Ter-Oganian’s School of Contemporary Art (1997–98) and the actions of the Radek Community (2002–05). Awarded the special prize of the Ste...
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Erbossyn Meldibekov
Read more...Erbossyn Meldibekov was born in the town of Tyulkubas in southern Kazakhstan in 1964. A sculptor, video artist and photographer, he studied at the Department of Monumental Sculpture at the Institute ...
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