Andrej Barov

1958 born in Leningrad, Russia
The artist is living in Munich, Germany

Career

1976-1981	Studies at the "Akademie für Theater, Musik u. Spielfilm", Leningrad (Diploma)
1961-1988	Assistant Production Manager at the movie studio Lenfilm, Leningrad
1989	Immigration to Germany; Direction for two dramas at the University theater in Tübingen; Movie for the Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden: "Asyl in der Kaserne"
1994	University lecturer ath the "Neuen Akademie der Schönen Künste", Sankt Petersburg
Seit 1990	artistic profession as photographer

 

Single Exhibitons (Choice)

2004	"Digitalisierte Welten", DigitalART, Rödermark
2003	Coll Emotions (wiht M. Wehmer), Gallery Christa Burger, Munich
2001	"Raumdefinitionen", Gallery Benninger, Cologne
2000	"Erbgut", Gallery Benninger, Cologne
1999	Gallery "Goethe 53", Munich, Kulturreferat, Munic; Gallery Benninger, Cologne; CeBIT 1999, MAXON; "Realitiy TV (First "Long night of the museums in Munich)
1995	"Museum der Neuen Akademie der Schönen Künste", Sankt Petersburg
1993	Graphik-Photo-Art-Gallery, Munich
1991	Gallery Fischinger, Stuttgart; Galelry Grießhaber, Tübingen

 

Group exhibitions and Projects (Choice)

2003	"Images Against War", Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, "Lavori Fotografici", Commune di Gargagno, Italy, "Abstraktion", Kunstverein Schloss Plön, "Wohnträume-Wohnräume", Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Galerie RAAB, Berlin, TaylorWessing, Frankfurt a.M.
2002	"Les fleurs d´antan", Gallery Christa Burger, Munich; "Unsolid Icons", International Meeting of Photography, Plovdiv, Bulgary;
2001	"Initiale 7", Projektraum M54, Basel; "unbezähmbar", Lebenshaus-Projekt, Cologne
1999	"Hertener Phototage", Herten; "Biennale della Fotografia Storica e Contemporanea", Venedig; "Die lange Nacht der Museen", Gallery Goethe 53, Munich (Videoinstallation); "Biennale der Photographie", Moskau; "Aufbruch -Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Rußland", AGFA/"photokina´98", BAYER Leverkusen (später St. Petersburg, Moskau); "Modernism and Postmodernism: New Russian Art of the Ending Millennium", Hartford College, Oneonta, New York; "Neue Tendenzen aus Sankt Petersburg", Gallery ArtKiosk, Brüssel; "X", Gallery Seefeld; "Oscar Wilde bittet zm Tee" / Sankt Peterburger Neoakademismus; Gallery Lichtblick downtown / Tina Schellhorn, Cologne

 

Awards/scholarships

1993	European Photography Award
1998	Award of the "Kulturministerium der Russischen Föderation"
2002	LGS Kronach, "Kunst am Bau"
2003	Bronze ADC Deutschland ("Bitte ein Byte", SZ Magazin)