Dmitri Prigov

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (Russian Дмитрий Александрович Пригов, scientific transliteration Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov; born November 5, 1940 in Moscow, † July 16, 2007 ) was a Russian artist.

Life

Prigov studied sculpture at the Stroganov Art Institute in Moscow. After intensive examination of visual and concrete poetry, he wrote his own poems, plays and essays. He organized music performances with jazz and rock musicians and was a leading figure in some of the new Russian conceptualism.

In 1987 Prigov in the Documenta 8 in Kassel. In 1989 he had his first solo exhibitions at the Struve Gallery, Chicago and St. Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art; In 1990 he received a DAAD scholarship to spend a year in Berlin, during which he wrote the work of a poet with no personality. On 16 July 2007 Prigov died of a heart attack in Moscow.

Works

• Poet without personality. From the Russian by Peter Urban. Literary Colloquium Berlin, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-926178-22-1.
• The policeman and the others. Poems and alphabets. Adaptations of Günter Hirt and Sascha Wonders. Leipzig 1992.
• Nietzsche with Hitler on his hip. Ink and acrylic on paper. In 1994.
• Live in Moscow! From the Russian by Erich Klein and Susanne power. Vienna 2003.
• Moscow - Japan and back. non-fiction. From the Russian by Christiane grains. Wien -Bozen 2007.