Artist's Biography
Selfportrait 2020

VADIM GUSHCHIN
Born in Novosibirsk (USSR) in 1963.
In 1986 he graduated at the Moscow Energy Institute.
Has been creating artistic photography since 1988.
Lives and works in Moscow.

Selected solo exhibitions:
  • 2021 – «Item Appearance», Vitebsk Museum of Local Lore, Vitebsk, Belarus.
  • 2021 - «Subject -Abstraction», IGUMO Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2019 - Exhibition in the PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.
  • 2018 - «From the Private Library», The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2015 - «Fragments of private space», Glaz Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2015-«Subject Interpretation», in programm of the 7th International Photofestival «PhotoVisa», Krasnodar, Russia.
  • 2014 - «Cultural Treasures», in programm of the «Lianzhou Foto 2014», Shoe Factory, Lianzhou, China.
  • 2013 -«Passed», in programm of the 23th Month of Photography, Franziskanska Kaplnka, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 2013-«Vadim Gushchin. Photographs 2000 — 2013», Gallery Beckel-Odille-Boicos, Paris, France
  • 2013 -«Object. Function. Image.», The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2013 -«Inventory of a Private Library», Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center of the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • 2013 -«Books», In Focus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  • 2012 -«Cultural Treasures», Jennifer Norback Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 2012-«Kulturelle Schaetze», Stadtbibliotek, Brunswick, Germany.
  • 2011 -"Cultural treasures", Glaz Gallery, Moscow
  • 2010 -"Aesthetik der Statik" Alexander Grinberg/Vadim Gushchin, "Viktor Grray" Gallery , Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • 2009-"Photographs" Museum of History of Photography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2008 -"Cloak Room" Lumière Brothers` Photogallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2007 -"Typology" (with J. Galert) State Russian Museum of Photography. Nishny Novgorod, Russia.
  • 2007-"Reflex" Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2006-Odense Foto Triennale 2006, Johannes Larsen Museet, Kerteminde, Denmark.
  • 2006 "The Earth", FotoFest 2006, Winter Street Studios, Houston Texas, USA.
  • 2005 -"Rotta ad Est" (with M. Koulakov), Sala yachting club. Porto della Marema, Italy.
  • 2004 -"Il tempo mai andante", Contarte Gallery, Rome, Italy.
  • 2004-"Geometrie der Hygiene", Etage20 Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • 2003 -"Personalismus des Dinges", Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • 2003 -"Reflex" Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2002 -"Art Attributes", Art café Pirogi, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2001 -"Im Regal", P Gallery, Wittingen, Germany.
  • 2000 -"Bread and Wine", Fenix Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1999 -"Meine Dinge", Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, Germany.
  • 1999-"My Things", ROSIZO Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1998 -"Still Life on a Shelf", Na Peshchanoy Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1997 -11th International Photoszene (with S. Ivanova), "EXIT-ART", Cologne, Germany.
  • 1996 -Moscow Historic Museum, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1995 -"Double Meaning", 21 Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 1995 -"Dove" (with D. Pilikin), 1.0 Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Selected group exhibitions
  • 2020 "Word Play" Museum of Fine Art, San-Fe, New-Mexico, USA
  • 2019 -"Red Stars" RTR Gallery, Arles, France, within the Arles photo festival.
  • 2019 - Dallas Art Fair, Booth of the PNDB Gallery, Dallas, USA. 2019-«Photo Trouvée - Die Wahrheit über das flache Objekt in der Fotografie»,
  • Atelier Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany.
  • 2018 "Artist as Hero", International Photography Festival, Pingyao. China.
  • 2018 «Stillife in Photography», The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2018 «Aipad photograpy show», Booth of the PDNB Gallery, New York, USA.
  • 2017 «Fotofever», Booth of the Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France.
  • 2017«Art Karlsruhe», Booth of the «In Focus Gallery», Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • 2016 «After Glamour», An artistic analysis of current developments in russian society. KIT, Duesseldorf, Germany.
  • 2016 «Evolution of Sight. 1991-2016», Central Exibitional Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2016 «Space Veggies and Earth Plants», Tsereteli MOMA Tbilisi, Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2016, Georgia.
  • 2016 «XX Part Two» - 20th Anniversary Exibition, Anya Tisch Gallery, Houston, Texas.
  • 2016 «The Lives of Books», Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, Florida.
  • 2015 «New Acquisitions. 1998-2014», The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2015 «Russian House», Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Netehrlands.
  • 2015«Soviet Photo», The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2015«Neue Russische Avantgarde. Kunst als Bruecke zwieschen Ost und West», Kellermann Galerie, Duesseldorf, Germany.
  • 2014 «Homage to Domestic Familiarity III», Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
  • 2014 «Paris Photo 2014», Booth of the GLAZ Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
  • 2013 «Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion.», The State Russian Museum, Sankt-Petersburg.
  • 2013«Art Fair Koeln 2013», Booth of the «In Focus» Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  • 2013 «VIENNAFAIR 2013», Booth of the GLAZ Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
  • 2013 «Expansion of an Object», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.
  • 2013«Tarantel 2», Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2013 «Contemporary Russian Photography: From Mystery to Poetry and Back», 5th Seoul PHOTO 2013, Seoul, Korea
  • 2012 «Homage to Domestic Familarity», Anya Tisch Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
  • 2012 «The Collector's eye», Collection of Frazier King, FotoFest Headquarters, Houston, Texas, USA
  • 2012 Art-fair «Fotofever», Stand Beckell-Odile Boicos Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2012 «Museum, look of Photographer»,The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
  • 2012 «Contemporary Russian Photography», FotoFest 2012, Spring Street Studio, Houston Texas, USA.
  • 2011 Art-fair «Fotofever», Stand Beckell-Odile Boicos Gallery, Paris, France.
  • 2011 "Fotografias - Coleção Joaquim Paiva», Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2011 "Natura Morta", Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2010 "Doors open day" Russian art 1989-2009, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2010"Photographie russe historique, moderne et contemporaine 1850-2010", Beckel-Odille-Boicos Gallery Paris, France.
  • 2010 "Foto Tage Trier 2010", Bischoefische Dom- und Dioezesanmuseum, Trier, Germany.
  • 2009 "Art-Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2009"In Box of Dreams", International Photography Festival, Pingyao. China.
  • 2008 "Before and after", Ost Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2007 "Bread is life", Kreml, Palace of Congresses. Moscow, Russia.
  • 2007"Silver Camera" Central Exibition Hall Manej, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2006 Photobienalle 2006, Photocenter, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2005 "Photogram, projection, silhouette", National Сentre of Сontemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2005"Author's book", National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2004 "Russische Fotografie 1920 – 2000, Moskau in Fotos", Stadtmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • 2004 "Photo Relay: from Rodchenko to today", House of Photography, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2003 "Russian Autumn", Kunstbruecke 2000 e. V., Wuppertal, Germany.
  • 2002 "Idea Photographic: after Modernism", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe New Mexico, USA.
  • 2001 "15 Jahre Galerie Lichtblick", Lichtblick Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
  • 2000 "Wolfgang Freitag, Wadim Guschts, Russia.
  • 2000 "Photogram", "Manezh" Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1998 "Die Dinge und die Stille – fuenf Fotografen aus Moskau", Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • 1998 "Aufbruch – die neue russische Fotografie", Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany.
  • 1997 "Coincidence", Kulturzentrum "IGNIS", Cologne, Germany.
  • 1996 "Photopage 4", Museum of the Cityhistory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
  • 1995 "Neue Fotokunst aus Russland", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe. Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt. Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover. Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, Duesseldorf, Germany.
  • 1995 Exibition of 11 Russian Photographers. Teatro Metropol, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1994 "Certain Aspects of Contemporary Photography", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1994"Jeunes Photographes Russes", Centre Pouchkine, Paris, France.
  • 1993 "A la recherche du père", Forum des Halles, Paris, France.
  • 1992 "Young talents", Photocentre, Moscow, Russia.
  • 1991 "Invisible world", Russian House, Tallinn, Estonia (USSR).

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