Joseph Backstein

Born 1945, Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Computer Sciences. PhD in Sociology of Arts and Culture. Artistic Director of the State Centre for Museums and Exhibitions ROSIZO, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow). Lives and works in Moscow.

Selected exhibitions:

2006

• Norman Foster. Space and Time, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

2005

• Angels of History. Moscow Conceptualism and its Influence (co-curator), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
• 1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (coordinating curator), Moscow, Russia

2002 

• Video-Zone (co-curator), Video Art Biennial, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• Sergei Bratkov, 25th Sao Paolo Biennial, Curator for Russian participation, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Mona Hatoum, Measure of Distance, Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia

2001

• On the Way to the Screen (co-curator), Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia

2000

• Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik Art Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

1999

• Komar & Melamid. Collaboration with Animals, Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy