Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky

Untitled (street), 2008

Biography


Whether working alone or with his former collaborative partner Ilya Utkin, Alexander Brodsky creates work that explores his interest in ideas of cultural history, time, memory, and urban environments. Much of Brodsky’s work is rooted in his training as an architect; through architectonic forms and the use of serialization, he is able to critically analyze his personal history, as well as the social history of his native Russia and the dissolution of Soviet power. Many of his sculptural installations feature repeated forms displayed together—acting as indices of memory and the passage of time—and include cities, bodies, and mass-produced or handmade objects that become the loci of cultural and psychological experience. “All my life I’ve been depicting cities,” says Brodsky, “I am enthralled by the existence of the city as an object, a cultural phenomenon.” He represented Russia at the 2006 Venice Biennale.

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Exhibitions

Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show Summer 2019

Jun 05 – Jul 30, 2009 Group Show Black & White Works

Nov 21 – Dec 22, 2008 Group Show Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper

Apr 04 – May 09, 2008 Alexander Brodsky Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky

Grey Matter (bed, glasses, fire extinguisher, lizards, fish)

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Alexander Brodsky

Grey Matter (bed, glasses, fire extinguisher, lizards, fish)

1999

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Alexander Brodsky

Grey Matter (dog)

1996

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Alexander Brodsky

Dust

1999

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Alexander Brodsky

Microscope (large)

1999

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Alexander Brodsky

Untitled (wind box), 2008

detail

Alexander Brodsky

Grey Matter

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Alexander Brodsky

Grey Matter

1999

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Alexander Brodsky

Untitled (wind box)

2008

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Alexander Brodsky

Untitled (man with umbrella)

2008

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Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky, 2008

installation view

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Alexander Brodsky

Grey Matter

1999

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Alexander Brodsky

Untitled (wind box)

2008

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Alexander Brodsky

Untitled (man with umbrella)

2008

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Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky, 2008

installation view