VADIM GUSHCHIN
Art-photography

Artist's Site
Vadim Gushchin is a Russian art-photographer, based in Moscow

"Russian art photographer Vadim Gushchin, who combines minimalist, conceptualist, and abstract strategies, is also entwined with two crucial aspects of Russian art that are inseparable from the nation's identity and history. He photographs the most mundane objects from his (and our) daily life, each in series: books, envelopes, pills, packages, bread. Photographers from Stephen Shore to Gabriel Orozco have also photographed the least imposing elements in our homes— a plate, a pail, a table mat— but Gushchin manages to transpose the globally recognizable, inconsequential, disposable fragments of life into pristine artifacts of art, more beautiful in their spare perfection than reproductions of his work suggest." - Vicky Goldberg, writer, photography and art, Boston.
Public Collections

  • The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
  • The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
  • Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
  • Museum House of Photography, Moscow
  • Museum of Moscow, Moscow
  • National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
  • Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow
  • Museum of the Russian Photography, Kolomna, Russia
  • State Russian Museum of Photography, Nishny Novgorod, Russia
  • Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography, Moscow
  • Rosphoto State Museum, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
  • Sigismund Yurkovsky Museum of Photography, Vitebsk, Belarus
  • Collection of Photograph's Union, Moscow
  • Surgut's Museum of Fine Arts, Surgut, Russia
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, USA
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
  • Museum Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
  • Boghossian Foundanation, Brussels, Belgium
  • Museum fuer Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
  • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Private collections:

  • Collection Spallart, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Collection of Frazier King, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Collection of Hermann Praeger, Wittingen, Germany
  • Collection of Lahmann-Schulze, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Collection of Judy Nyquist, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Collection of Bohnchang Koo, Seoul, South Korea.
  • And more private collections in Russia, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, USA, France, Italy.

Awards

  • 2007 -The "Silver Camera"- Award, received 1st place for best report on Moscow in the category of "Architecture". Moscow