Andrej Krementschouk

Andrej Krementschouk (Russian: Андрей Кременчук, Andrei Krementschuk; born 2 May 1973 in Gorky, Soviet Union ) is a Russian photographer. He lives and works in Leipzig. From 2009 to 2011, he was a member of the Berlin-based agency Ostkreuz.

Andrej Krementschouk (now Nizhny Novgorod ) born in 1973 in Gorky. After the eighth grade, he left school and trained as a restorer of icons and metal art objects at the University of Art and Restoration in Suzdal. From 1991 to 1995 he studied at the conservatory in Vladimir, at the Department of Ethnomusicology. He put the diploma as a choral conductor.

From 1991 to 1997 he worked as a freelance goldsmith and restorer of icons. Andrej Krementschouk studied Illustration and Communication Design with an emphasis on photography at Ute Mahler at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg.

His first book, No Direction Home received several awards and international attention.

Works

  • 2008-2012 Chernobyl zone
  • 2005-2007 No Direction Home
  • 2006-2010 COME BURY ME

Publications

Monographs

  • Chernobyl Zone II, writers Wolfgang Kil, Esther Ruelfs, Andrej Krementschouk, Kehrer Verlag, German / English, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8
  • Chernobyl Zone I, Kehrer - Author Andrej Krementschouk - ISBN 978-3-86828-200-9
  • COME BURY ME, Kehrer - Author Andrej Krementschouk, Swiss brochure with open thread stitching - ISBN 978-3-86828-120-0
  • No Direction Home, Kehrer Verlag - Authors Andrej Krementschouk, Boris Mikhailov - Paperback - ISBN 978-3-86828-056-2

More photo books (selection)

  • The city. Becoming and Decaying, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern

As editor

  • Alexander Chekmenev - DONBASS, Kehrer Verlag, German / English / Russian - ISBN 978-3-86828-185-9

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2011 - " No Direction Home ," Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, USA
  • 2011 - "home - Chernobyl ," Galerie Clara Maria Sels ( Dusseldorf )
  • 2011 - " zone - home. Chernobyl. Andrej Krementschouk, " Reiss - Engelhorn Museums, ZEPHYR - Space for Photography / C4.9b, (Mannheim)
  • 2011 - " No Direction Home ," in the studio in high-rise - Art and Literature Workshop, Berlin
  • 2009 - " Krementschouk Andrei, photography ," Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
  • 2009 - " No Direction Home ", Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Dusseldorf
  • 2009 - " No Direction Home ," Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig

Group Exhibitions

  • 2011 - "The city. Becoming and Decaying " Lindenau - Museum, Altenburg
  • 2011 - "The road enthusiasts ," Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Morat -Institut and Morat -Institut, Berlin, Kiev, Warsaw, Gartow, Freiburg, Hamburg
  • 2010 - "The city. Becoming and Decaying " Bavarian Chamber of Insurance, Munich
  • 2010 - F / STOP 4th International Photography Festival, Leipzig
  • 2010 - FotoDoks 2010 - Documentary Photo Festival, Munich
  • 2010 - "The city. Becoming and Decaying ", C / O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Berlin
  • 2008 - " good prospects - young German photography 2007-2008 " in Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2008 - " good prospects - young German photography 2007-2008 ", Martin -Gropius -Bau, Berlin
  • 2008 - " Russian Variations ", painting and photography. Drostei, Pinneberg near Hamburg
  • 2008 - " Friction and Conflict ," Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden

Awards / Promotions

  • 2010 PDN Photo Annual 2010 - " No Direction Home "
  • 2009 German Photo Book Prize 2010, Silver for " No Direction Home "
  • 2007-2008 " No Direction Home " with "good prospects - young German photography 2007/2008 "
  • 2007 Project funded by the Cultural Work of VG Bild-Kunst

Secondary literature

  • Wolfgang Kil: half-life of memory. In: Chernobyl zone II, Kehrer Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8.
  • Esther Ruelfs: Idyll BETWEEN AND RUINS: THE REPEALED UTOPIA - essay about the photographs of Andrej Krementschouk. In: Chernobyl zone II, Kehrer Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8.
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