Pavel Pepperstein

Pavel Pepperstein (born in 1966, Moscow, Russia) is Russian artist and writer. Participant of numerous exhibitions, including the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009, in the Russian Pavilion. Founding member of the group Medical Hermeneutics Inspection and participant of Moscow Conceptualists movement.

Biography Was born in family of Irina Pivovarova, an author of children’s books, and Viktor Pivovarov, a well-known painter. From 1985 to 1987, he studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Since 1987, Pepperstein is a founding member of the group Medical Hermeneutics Inspection. Calling themselves ‘inspectors’, Pavel Pepperstein, Yuri Leidermann and Sergei Anufriev proclaimed their idea of the ‘total investigation’. They identified the Soviet Union as a semiotic construction, which they approached using linguistics, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, driven by the Russian yearning to know and describe everything - a yearning marked at the same time by the consciousness that all activity is ultimately senseless.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 1995 - Project No.3 and Freudian Dreams (with Andrei Monastyrski). Galerie Pastzi-Bott. Cologne, Germany.
 * 1995 - Play Tennis (with Ilya Kabakov). Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Canada
 * 1997 - Portrait of an Old man. State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
 * 1999 - The Father and the Son (with Viktor Pivovarov). Kunsthaus Zug. Zug, Swithzerland
 * 2001 - Exhibition of One Talk (with Ilya Kabakov and Boris Groys). Kunsthaus Zug. Zug, Switzerland
 * 2002 - Gods and Monsters. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Aachen, Germany
 * 2002 - America. Galerie Ursula Walbrol. Dusseldorf, Germany
 * 2004 - Hypnosis. Sprovieri Gallery. London, UK
 * 2007 - Talking Animals. Kaufmann Gallery. Zurich, Switzerland
 * 2008 - Either/Or: National Suprematism as a Project for a New Representative Style for Russia. REGINA Gallery. Moscow, Russia

Books

 * 1999. The Mythological Love of Castes (Vol.1) with Sergei Anufriev
 * 2002. The Mythological Love of Castes (Vol.2)
 * 2006. Svastika | Pentagon
 * 2006. War Stories
 * 2010. Spring
 * 2012. A Prague Night