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Sergey Bratkov
Born 1960, Kharkov, Ukraine. Lives and works in Moscow.
Selected solo exhibitions
2006
Dream rooms, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium.
Part of my life, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
SPA, Regina Gallery, Moscow.
2005
S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent, Belgium.
2002
Djeti-Kinder-Kids, Kunstverein, Rosenheim, Germany.
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Mens, Davidsfonds Leuven, Belgium.
2004
Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain.
2003
Russian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia.
2002
25th Sao Paolo Bienal.
1999
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Sergey Bratkov’s works are provocative and unpredictable.
His heroes – sailors, waitresses, school girls, boxers, street
hooligans – shock us with their reality, but at the same time
there is a nuance of staginess – the brightness of the color
endows the image with a certain ‘excessiveness’, a deliberate?
ness. The characters acquire a character of generalizations,
marking changes in the collective psychology. The social farce
in Bratkov’s portraits becomes simultaneously tragic and
grotesque.
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Short stories, 2006
Video, 2006
Courtesy Regina Gallery
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