Boris Groys

Boris Groys (Russian Борис Ефимович Гройс / Boris Efimovich Grois; born March 19, 1947 in Berlin) is a philosopher, art critic and media theorist. He is regarded as important theorists of the humanities and art history of the 20th century.

Life

Boris Groys was born 1947 in (East) Berlin. He studied from 1965 to 1971 at the University of Leningrad, philosophy and mathematics. He then worked as a research assistant at several institutes in Leningrad, and from 1976 to 1981 at the Institute of structural and applied linguistics in Moscow. 1981 Groys left the USSR and moved to Germany, where he received various scholarships to 1985. From 1986, he worked for two years as a freelance writer in Cologne until 1988, he received a visiting professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA). In 1991 he was for a year a visiting professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA). Groys 1992 received his doctorate in philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. From 1994 he was professor of art history, philosophy and media theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, and since 2005 he taught as a Global Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, New York. Prof. Dr. Boris Groys is a Senior Research Fellow of the HfG Research Institute and a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art.

Work

Boris Groys focuses in his research intensively with the Russian avant-garde art of Stalinism as well as the aesthetic and intellectual concepts of post-communism.

Cultural economy of the New

Groys considers the effect of works of art and theories in the context of a hierarchy of values ​​. This will break down the world into a cultural archive and a profane space. The archive is the materialized memory of a society in which the deemed valuable cultural assets are kept. Groys cites as examples of libraries, museums and film archives.

" The section that consists of all the things that are not covered by the archives, can be described as the profane space. "

If a new work of art or a new theory suspected to be culturally valuable, takes place according to Groys, a comparison between the archive and profane space, the new one is either assigned to the profane or the archive. An innovation was therefore overcoming the value boundary between these two areas as part of a " revaluation of values ​​", where Groys refers to Friedrich Nietzsche. Works of art and theories relate their effect ie from the tension between value levels. Also technical innovations can be determined according to this logic with Groys.

Writings

  • Moscow Romantic Conceptualism ( Moskovsky romanticeskij konceptualizm ) in: A- Ya. Paris 1979, pp. 3-11.
  • Foreword. In: Theodor Lessing: The Jewish self-hatred. With an essay by Boris Groys. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1984, p VII- XXXIV ISBN 3-88221-347-7
  • Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, Munich 1988
  • Dnevnik filosofa ( in Russian) (Diary of a philosopher ), Paris 1989
  • The art of fleeing ( with Ilya Kabakov ), Munich 1991
  • Contemporary Art from Moscow - From the Neo - Avant-garde post- Stalinism, Munich 1991
  • About the new. Attempt at a cultural economy, Munich 1992
  • Utopia i Obmen ( in Russian) ( Utopia and exchange ), Moscow 1993
  • Vanishing Point Moscow ( eds.), Stuttgart 1994
  • The invention of Russia, Munich 1995
  • The art installation ( with Ilya Kabakov ), Munich 1996
  • Kierkegaard. Writings (ed.), Munich 1996
  • Logic of the collection, Munich 1997
  • Under suspicion. A phenomenology of the media, Munich 2000
  • Policy of immortality. Four interviews with Thomas Knöfel, Munich 2002 (Spanish: Política de la inmortalidad, Buenos Aires / Madrid, Katz Editores, 2008, ISBN 9788496859258 )
  • Topology of the art, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, Vienna, 2003, ISBN 3-446-20368-0
  • In the name of the medium. Audio CD, Cologne: supposé 2004, ISBN 3-932513-52-5
  • The Communist Postscript, Suhrkamp, ​​2005, ISBN 351812403X
  • Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment, MIT Press 2006
  • Groysaufnahme. Philosophical thoughts about the movie, Idea and photography: Natalia Nikitin, section Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-9806313-7-2
  • The art of thinking, Hamburg 2008
  • Introduction to Anti- philosophy, Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23404-8
  • The reason to power. Debate with Vittorio Hösle. Vienna / Berlin, 2011.
  • Originality, in: Lettre International, LI 100, Spring 2013
  • Why museums, in: Lettre International, LI 100, Spring 2013

Curated exhibitions

  • Dream Factory Communism, September 24, 2003 - January 4, 2004, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
  • Privatization - contemporary art from Eastern Europe, May 16, 2004 - June 26, 2004, Kunst-Werke Berlin eV
  • Pictures of an empire. Life in pre-revolutionary Russia, April 23 to August 6, 2006 Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • Total Enlightenment. Moscow Conceptual Art 1960 - 1990, June 21-September 14, 2008 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 10, 2008 - January 11, 2009, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid
  • Medium Religion, November 23, 2008 - April 19, 2009 ( with Peter Weibel), Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer, May 20 -15. July 2012, BAK Utrecht and October 17 2012-7. January 2013 Paris

Boris Groys was curator of the Russian Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia, 2011, in which the performance artist Andrei Viktorovich Monastyrski and his group have been issued Collective Action.

Artistic works

  • The Art Judgement Show, film and video installation, Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija 2001; Brussels: Roomade 2002; Berlin: Podewil 2002
  • Thinking in Loop. Three videos about the Iconoclastic, Ritual and immortals (DVD) Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern- Ruit 2008
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