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Yuri Leiderman
Born 1963, Odessa, USSR. Lives and works in Berlin and Moscow.
Selected solo exhibitions
2005
Rapport geopoetique, Musee d’art contemporain, Marseille.
2004
Le Quartier, Quimper, France.
2002
Achselhohlen eines Entenflugels, GAK, Bremen, Germany.
1999
Circles and Lumps, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana.
1996
Apprendre l’histoire de l’Europe à un chat, FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France.
Selected group exhibitions
2004
Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale.
2003
Individual Systems, La Biennale de Venizia.
1998
11th Biennale of Sydney.
1996
1st European biennale Manifesta, Rotterdam.
1995
1st Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea.
The concept of ‘geopoetics’ became one of the artist’s leitmotifs over the last few years. The artist thinks that it is a complete
opposite to ‘geopolitics’, but rather it belongs completely to the sphere of ‘the artistic’. Foreseeing reproaches for ‘incorrectness’,
it is not by accident that Leiderman denies the political aspect of his works. His work is not so much a utopia but rather a fantasy
with the characteristic absence of a cause-and-effect relationship. The socially significant notions of ‘nation’ and ‘the people’ are
transformed into abstract forms like ‘little ovals, little balls or coffee dregs’.
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Yuri Leiderman (Russia)
Geopoetics-7 (Liberation of Odessa), 2007
Installation, performance, video
Courtesy the artist
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