Skip to main content
  • About Us
  • News
  • Follow us
  • Contact us
  • Support us

Menu

  • Visit
  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • Tours
  • News
  • Français
  • עִבְרִית
  • EnglishEN
  • DeutschDE
  • Visit
    • Opening hours
    • Tickets
    • Guided Tours
    • Museum Shop
    • Cafe Eskeles
  • Exhibitions
    • Current
    • Permanent
    • Upcoming
    • Collections
    • Travelling
    • Exhibitions Archive
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Photogallery
    • Videos
  • Education
    • Adults & Students
    • Tours for Schools
    • Museum goes City
    • Kids & Families
    • Photogallery
  • Research
    • Provenance research
    • Archive
    • Library
    • Restoration
    • The JMW research team
    • Loans
  • icon search
Home

Lecture Vitaly Komar: „My experience as an artist in Soviet Russia and in the West“

Thursday, 19 Apr, 2018 18:30,
Museum Dorotheergasse

Vitaly Komar was born in Moscow (USSR). He graduated from The Stroganov Art Academy in 1967. He was one of the founders of Sots-Art: Russian art movement of conceptual pop-artists, based on Soviet visual propaganda and Socialist Realist art. He had collaborated on many projects with Alex Melamid. In 1974 his works, among works of other underground artists, had been destroyed by the  Soviet autorities at the officially unsanctioned "Bulldouzer exhibition".

Since 1978 he has lived and worked in New York.

He participated in many international exhibitions, such as Venice Bienalle (1997;1999); Documenta 8 in Kassel (1987); Tate Modern in London: The World Goes Pop (2015) and Performing for the Camera (2016); Pompidou Center in Paris Collectia (2017). His works in collection of Metropolitan Museum (New York); Tretiakov Gallery (Moscov); MOMA (New York); Ludwig Museum of Modern Art (Cologne); Gemente Museum (The Hague); Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London); Pompidou Center (Paris); 

Advanced booking requested: Tel.: +43 1 535 04 31-110 or e-mail: events@jmw.at.

Free admission as of 6:15 p.m.

Image (c) Vitaly Komar

 

This event in my Add to My Calendar

Events

April

  • Prev  
  •   Prev
S M T W T F S
1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
 
19
 
20
 
21
 
22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30
 
 
 
 
 
 
JMW events in my
Add to My Calendar

Become a member

A big thank you to our sponsors:

  • Wien Holding
  • Wien Kultur
  • Bundeskanzleramt Sektion II: Kunst
  • Raiffeisen Meine Bank
  • Uniqa
  • Raiffeisen Capital Management

More

  • Visit

    More

    • Opening hours
    • Tickets
    • Guided Tours
    • Museum Shop
    • Cafe Eskeles
  • Exhibitions

    More

    • Current
    • Permanent
    • Upcoming
    • Collections
    • Travelling
    • Exhibitions Archive
  • Events

    More

    • Calendar
    • Photogallery
    • Videos
  • Education

    More

    • Adults & Students
    • Tours for Schools
    • Museum goes City
    • Kids & Families
    • Photogallery
  • Research

    More

    • Provenance research
    • Archive
    • Library
    • Restoration
    • The JMW research team
    • Loans
Close
  • Imprint
  • Press
  • Privacy Policy

© 2021 Jewish Museum Vienna. Site by WDMJMW

info@jmw.at+43-1-5350431
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Youtube

Search form