Erik Bulatov was born in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), where his father had been posted, in 1933. In 1936, his family moved to Moscow, where he grew up. Erik Boultatov’s parents were firm believers in communism, and his education was conducted according to the Soviet norms (he was engaged in the Pioneer and Komsomol movements). Fascinated by painting from an early age, in 1947 he attended the Moscow Secondary School of Art. He learned to paint in a peculiar context, where any painting that was foreign, hostile to the established regime…
Erik Bulatov was born in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), where his father had been posted, in 1933. In 1936, his family moved to Moscow, where he grew up. Erik Boultatov’s parents were firm believers in communism, and his education was conducted according to the Soviet norms (he was engaged in the Pioneer and Komsomol movements). Fascinated by painting from an early age, in 1947 he attended the Moscow Secondary School of Art. He learned to paint in a peculiar context, where any painting that was foreign, hostile to the established regime or outside the scope of official aspirations was forbidden. Even the Impressionists were censored. This repression gradually led Boulatov to break with the Soviet system.
Following Stalin’s death in 1953, a certain thaw took place. Boulatov established himself as the best pupil of his school. He was therefore granted the Lenin scholarship to join the Sourikov Institute and was allowed to travel to India. A bright official career lay ahead of him. Nevertheless, he decided to take the lead in the revolution against the Institute’s education in order to change its academic program. He believed that “true creation and official art had become irreconcilable” and that “in Russia (his) enemy was ideology as ideology was the enemy of art”. He then met professors expelled from the Institute who taught him an alternative vision of painting, as well as artists who shared the same values as his – like Ilya Kabakov. To live up to his artistic ideology, he worked on illustration for more than thirty years in order to earn a living and to paint in secret. In 1957, he discovered Pop Art at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow which exerted a predominant influence on art in the Soviet Union.
His work was presented for the first time on the other side of the Wall in 1973, at the Dina Vierny gallery, during the Russian avant-garde – Moscow 73 exhibition.
In Boulatov’s paintings, an almost photographic vision of the world is confronted with linguistic representation. This confrontation is the result of a long reflection on abstraction, light and semiology. Each painting is the fruit of a process emerging from a ceaseless exploration of the pictorial space and a continual questioning of the representation of social space.
Starting from a structural search, in the spirit of Malevich, Boulatov then shifted to an objective vision of reality where the letter was to take in hand the abstract force of language. Photography became the necessary instrument with which to capture a subjective perception.
Erik Bulatov – Part I, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (March 1st – April 30)
Erik Bulatov – Part II, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (November 6 – December 23)
Erik Boulatov – Formule de Survie, Prisme, Paris (September 19 – November 2nd)
Forward, Tate Modern, London
Erik Bulatov, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (March 17 – May 7)
BOT, 3 Grafton Street, London (October 6 – December 4)
Erik Bulatov. Come to Garage !, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (June 12 – July 30)
Erik Bulatov, Peintures et Dessins 1966-2013, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National, Monaco (June 28 – September 29)
Our time has come, Arndt, Berlin (March 8 – April 13)
Erik Bulatov New works, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris (October 6 – December 10)
Erik Bulatov. Peintures 1971-2008, in L’Espèce de chose mélancolie, MAMCO, Geneva (October 28 – January 17, 2010)
Erik Bulatov : O, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (January 27 – March 14)
Erik Bulatov : La voûte céleste, Galerie Pièce Unique Variations, Paris (January 17 – April 5)
Erik Bulatov. Ici, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (July 29 – September 2)
Day-Night, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (September 13 – October 27)
Train-Train, Galerie Arndt & Partner, FIAC, Paris (October 18 – 22)
Erik Bulatov : That’s it, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (September 19 – November 19)
Eric Bulatov : Freiheit ist Freiheit, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (February 24 – May 28)
Here. Paintings, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Erik Bulatov. I live – I see, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Erik Bulatov : Works 1995-2001, Blomqvist Kunst-handel AS, Oslo (January 24 – March 2nd)
Erik Bulatov, FIAC, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October 24 – 28)
Erik Bulatov, Musée Maillol – Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris (October 21 – January 20, 2000)
Erik Bulatov. Nicht verbindbare Räume, Galerie Berndt, Köln ; Galerie Reckermann, Köln (November 11 – January 19, 1996)
Erik Bulatov, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Erik Bulatov, FIAC, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October)
Erik Bulatov, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Erik Bulatov, Galería Fernando Durán, Madrid
Erik Bulatov : Moscou, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (January – June) ; Portikus, Frankfurt ; Kunstverein Bonn ; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam ; Kunstverein Freiburg im Briesgau, Freiburg im Briesgau ; Centre Pompidou, Paris (September 28 – November 27) ; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (February 22 – April 23, 1989) ; List Visual Art Center, Boston (May 6 – July 2, 1989) ; The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (July 27 – October 1, 1989); The University of Chicago, Chicago (February – November 1989)
Erik Bulatov, Bluebird Café, Moscow
Le Nu et le Portrait – Asses and Faces, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (September 13 – November 2)
Contrepoint, l’art contemporain russe – De l’icône à l’avant-garde en passant par le musée, Musée du Louvre, Paris (October 14 – January 31)
RUSSIA!, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 16 – June 11, 2006)
Moi! – Autoportraits du XXème siècle, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (March 31 – July 25); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (September 1st – January 9, 2005)
Painting: from Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003, Biennale di Venezia, Museo Correr, Venice (June 15 – February 2, 2004)
Hypermental: Rampant Reality, 1950-2000. From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (November 17 – May 6, 2001)
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant Garde. J. Treisler Collection, Pasadena, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Unmapping the Earth: Speed, Space, Hybrid, Power, Becoming – 2nd Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju (September 1st – November 20)
Growth of the Collection Peter Stuyvesant / Groei in de Collectie Peter Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam
Face à l’Histoire, 1933-1996, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France (December 19 – April 7, 1997)
Bulatov, Kabakov, Yankilevsky, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris, France (September)
From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art From The Soviet Union 1956-86.The Norton And Nancy Dodge Collection, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick
NO ! – and the Conformists: Faces of Soviet Art of 50s to 80s, Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw
Humanism and Technology: The Human Figure in Industrial Society, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
À la découverte .. de collections romandes I: à suivre, FAE – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne (February 19 – June 27)
Soviet Socialist Realist Painting, 1930 – 1960s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (January 12 – March 15)
Modern Art From Russia – Contemporary Masters, The Rotunda, Hong Kong
1989 – Berlin Wall : Art For Europe In Motion, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid
In the USSR and Beyond / In de USSR en Erbuiten: 28 Kunstenaars, 1970-1990, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (September 21 – November 4)
Contemporary Russian Artists / Artisti Russi Contemporanei, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (February 10 – March 14)
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris (May 18 – August 14)
Erik Bulatow, Wladimir Jankilewski, Ilia Kabakow, Oleg Wassiljew. Zeichnungen Und Graphische Blätter Von Vier Moskauer Künstlern, Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (August 3 – November 4)
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago (May 8 – 13)
Sots Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (April 12 – June 12)
Sots Art : Russian Mock-Heroic Style, Semaphore Gallery, New York (January 4 – 28)
La Nuova Arte Sovietica : una prospettiva non officiale, Biennale di Venezia (November 15 – December 17)
Progressive Strömungen In Moskau, 1957 – 1970, Museum Bochum, Bochum (January 12 – February 10)
Russian Avant-Garde. Moscow 1973, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (May 3 – June 30)
Erik Bulatov / Ilya Kabakov, Sinyaya Ptitsa Café, Moscow
Erik Bulatov / Vyacheslav Kalinin, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow (closed one hour after opening)
Exhibitions of Young Moscow Artists, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow
Erik Bulatov was born in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), where his father had been posted, in 1933. In 1936, his family moved to Moscow, where he grew up. Erik Boultatov’s parents were firm believers in communism, and his education was conducted according to the Soviet norms (he was engaged in the Pioneer and Komsomol movements). Fascinated by painting from an early age, in 1947 he attended the Moscow Secondary School of Art. He learned to paint in a peculiar context, where any painting that was foreign, hostile to the established regime or outside the scope of official aspirations was forbidden. Even the Impressionists were censored. This repression gradually led Boulatov to break with the Soviet system.
Following Stalin’s death in 1953, a certain thaw took place. Boulatov established himself as the best pupil of his school. He was therefore granted the Lenin scholarship to join the Sourikov Institute and was allowed to travel to India. A bright official career lay ahead of him. Nevertheless, he decided to take the lead in the revolution against the Institute’s education in order to change its academic program. He believed that “true creation and official art had become irreconcilable” and that “in Russia (his) enemy was ideology as ideology was the enemy of art”. He then met professors expelled from the Institute who taught him an alternative vision of painting, as well as artists who shared the same values as his – like Ilya Kabakov. To live up to his artistic ideology, he worked on illustration for more than thirty years in order to earn a living and to paint in secret. In 1957, he discovered Pop Art at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow which exerted a predominant influence on art in the Soviet Union.
His work was presented for the first time on the other side of the Wall in 1973, at the Dina Vierny gallery, during the Russian avant-garde – Moscow 73 exhibition.
In Boulatov’s paintings, an almost photographic vision of the world is confronted with linguistic representation. This confrontation is the result of a long reflection on abstraction, light and semiology. Each painting is the fruit of a process emerging from a ceaseless exploration of the pictorial space and a continual questioning of the representation of social space.
Starting from a structural search, in the spirit of Malevich, Boulatov then shifted to an objective vision of reality where the letter was to take in hand the abstract force of language. Photography became the necessary instrument with which to capture a subjective perception.
Erik Bulatov – Part I, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (March 1st – April 30)
Erik Bulatov – Part II, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (November 6 – December 23)
Erik Boulatov – Formule de Survie, Prisme, Paris (September 19 – November 2nd)
Forward, Tate Modern, London
Erik Bulatov, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (March 17 – May 7)
BOT, 3 Grafton Street, London (October 6 – December 4)
Erik Bulatov. Come to Garage !, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (June 12 – July 30)
Erik Bulatov, Peintures et Dessins 1966-2013, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National, Monaco (June 28 – September 29)
Our time has come, Arndt, Berlin (March 8 – April 13)
Erik Bulatov New works, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris (October 6 – December 10)
Erik Bulatov. Peintures 1971-2008, in L’Espèce de chose mélancolie, MAMCO, Geneva (October 28 – January 17, 2010)
Erik Bulatov : O, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (January 27 – March 14)
Erik Bulatov : La voûte céleste, Galerie Pièce Unique Variations, Paris (January 17 – April 5)
Erik Bulatov. Ici, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (July 29 – September 2)
Day-Night, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (September 13 – October 27)
Train-Train, Galerie Arndt & Partner, FIAC, Paris (October 18 – 22)
Erik Bulatov : That’s it, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (September 19 – November 19)
Eric Bulatov : Freiheit ist Freiheit, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (February 24 – May 28)
Here. Paintings, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Erik Bulatov. I live – I see, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Erik Bulatov : Works 1995-2001, Blomqvist Kunst-handel AS, Oslo (January 24 – March 2nd)
Erik Bulatov, FIAC, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October 24 – 28)
Erik Bulatov, Musée Maillol – Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris (October 21 – January 20, 2000)
Erik Bulatov. Nicht verbindbare Räume, Galerie Berndt, Köln ; Galerie Reckermann, Köln (November 11 – January 19, 1996)
Erik Bulatov, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Erik Bulatov, FIAC, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October)
Erik Bulatov, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Erik Bulatov, Galería Fernando Durán, Madrid
Erik Bulatov : Moscou, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (January – June) ; Portikus, Frankfurt ; Kunstverein Bonn ; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam ; Kunstverein Freiburg im Briesgau, Freiburg im Briesgau ; Centre Pompidou, Paris (September 28 – November 27) ; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (February 22 – April 23, 1989) ; List Visual Art Center, Boston (May 6 – July 2, 1989) ; The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (July 27 – October 1, 1989); The University of Chicago, Chicago (February – November 1989)
Erik Bulatov, Bluebird Café, Moscow
Le Nu et le Portrait – Asses and Faces, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (September 13 – November 2)
Contrepoint, l’art contemporain russe – De l’icône à l’avant-garde en passant par le musée, Musée du Louvre, Paris (October 14 – January 31)
RUSSIA!, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 16 – June 11, 2006)
Moi! – Autoportraits du XXème siècle, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (March 31 – July 25); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (September 1st – January 9, 2005)
Painting: from Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003, Biennale di Venezia, Museo Correr, Venice (June 15 – February 2, 2004)
Hypermental: Rampant Reality, 1950-2000. From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (November 17 – May 6, 2001)
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant Garde. J. Treisler Collection, Pasadena, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Unmapping the Earth: Speed, Space, Hybrid, Power, Becoming – 2nd Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju (September 1st – November 20)
Growth of the Collection Peter Stuyvesant / Groei in de Collectie Peter Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam
Face à l’Histoire, 1933-1996, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France (December 19 – April 7, 1997)
Bulatov, Kabakov, Yankilevsky, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris, France (September)
From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art From The Soviet Union 1956-86.The Norton And Nancy Dodge Collection, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick
NO ! – and the Conformists: Faces of Soviet Art of 50s to 80s, Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw
Humanism and Technology: The Human Figure in Industrial Society, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
À la découverte .. de collections romandes I: à suivre, FAE – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne (February 19 – June 27)
Soviet Socialist Realist Painting, 1930 – 1960s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (January 12 – March 15)
Modern Art From Russia – Contemporary Masters, The Rotunda, Hong Kong
1989 – Berlin Wall : Art For Europe In Motion, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid
In the USSR and Beyond / In de USSR en Erbuiten: 28 Kunstenaars, 1970-1990, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (September 21 – November 4)
Contemporary Russian Artists / Artisti Russi Contemporanei, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (February 10 – March 14)
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris (May 18 – August 14)
Erik Bulatow, Wladimir Jankilewski, Ilia Kabakow, Oleg Wassiljew. Zeichnungen Und Graphische Blätter Von Vier Moskauer Künstlern, Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (August 3 – November 4)
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago (May 8 – 13)
Sots Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (April 12 – June 12)
Sots Art : Russian Mock-Heroic Style, Semaphore Gallery, New York (January 4 – 28)
La Nuova Arte Sovietica : una prospettiva non officiale, Biennale di Venezia (November 15 – December 17)
Progressive Strömungen In Moskau, 1957 – 1970, Museum Bochum, Bochum (January 12 – February 10)
Russian Avant-Garde. Moscow 1973, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (May 3 – June 30)
Erik Bulatov / Ilya Kabakov, Sinyaya Ptitsa Café, Moscow
Erik Bulatov / Vyacheslav Kalinin, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow (closed one hour after opening)
Exhibitions of Young Moscow Artists, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow
Erik Bulatov was born in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), where his father had been posted, in 1933. In 1936, his family moved to Moscow, where he grew up. Erik Boultatov’s parents were firm believers in communism, and his education was conducted according to the Soviet norms (he was engaged in the Pioneer and Komsomol movements). Fascinated by painting from an early age, in 1947 he attended the Moscow Secondary School of Art. He learned to paint in a peculiar context, where any painting that was foreign, hostile to the established regime…
Erik Bulatov was born in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), where his father had been posted, in 1933. In 1936, his family moved to Moscow, where he grew up. Erik Boultatov’s parents were firm believers in communism, and his education was conducted according to the Soviet norms (he was engaged in the Pioneer and Komsomol movements). Fascinated by painting from an early age, in 1947 he attended the Moscow Secondary School of Art. He learned to paint in a peculiar context, where any painting that was foreign, hostile to the established regime or outside the scope of official aspirations was forbidden. Even the Impressionists were censored. This repression gradually led Boulatov to break with the Soviet system.
Following Stalin’s death in 1953, a certain thaw took place. Boulatov established himself as the best pupil of his school. He was therefore granted the Lenin scholarship to join the Sourikov Institute and was allowed to travel to India. A bright official career lay ahead of him. Nevertheless, he decided to take the lead in the revolution against the Institute’s education in order to change its academic program. He believed that “true creation and official art had become irreconcilable” and that “in Russia (his) enemy was ideology as ideology was the enemy of art”. He then met professors expelled from the Institute who taught him an alternative vision of painting, as well as artists who shared the same values as his – like Ilya Kabakov. To live up to his artistic ideology, he worked on illustration for more than thirty years in order to earn a living and to paint in secret. In 1957, he discovered Pop Art at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow which exerted a predominant influence on art in the Soviet Union.
His work was presented for the first time on the other side of the Wall in 1973, at the Dina Vierny gallery, during the Russian avant-garde – Moscow 73 exhibition.
In Boulatov’s paintings, an almost photographic vision of the world is confronted with linguistic representation. This confrontation is the result of a long reflection on abstraction, light and semiology. Each painting is the fruit of a process emerging from a ceaseless exploration of the pictorial space and a continual questioning of the representation of social space.
Starting from a structural search, in the spirit of Malevich, Boulatov then shifted to an objective vision of reality where the letter was to take in hand the abstract force of language. Photography became the necessary instrument with which to capture a subjective perception.
Erik Bulatov – Part I, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (March 1st – April 30)
Erik Bulatov – Part II, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (November 6 – December 23)
Erik Boulatov – Formule de Survie, Prisme, Paris (September 19 – November 2nd)
Forward, Tate Modern, London
Erik Bulatov, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (March 17 – May 7)
BOT, 3 Grafton Street, London (October 6 – December 4)
Erik Bulatov. Come to Garage !, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (June 12 – July 30)
Erik Bulatov, Peintures et Dessins 1966-2013, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National, Monaco (June 28 – September 29)
Our time has come, Arndt, Berlin (March 8 – April 13)
Erik Bulatov New works, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris (October 6 – December 10)
Erik Bulatov. Peintures 1971-2008, in L’Espèce de chose mélancolie, MAMCO, Geneva (October 28 – January 17, 2010)
Erik Bulatov : O, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (January 27 – March 14)
Erik Bulatov : La voûte céleste, Galerie Pièce Unique Variations, Paris (January 17 – April 5)
Erik Bulatov. Ici, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (July 29 – September 2)
Day-Night, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (September 13 – October 27)
Train-Train, Galerie Arndt & Partner, FIAC, Paris (October 18 – 22)
Erik Bulatov : That’s it, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (September 19 – November 19)
Eric Bulatov : Freiheit ist Freiheit, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (February 24 – May 28)
Here. Paintings, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Erik Bulatov. I live – I see, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Erik Bulatov : Works 1995-2001, Blomqvist Kunst-handel AS, Oslo (January 24 – March 2nd)
Erik Bulatov, FIAC, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October 24 – 28)
Erik Bulatov, Musée Maillol – Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris (October 21 – January 20, 2000)
Erik Bulatov. Nicht verbindbare Räume, Galerie Berndt, Köln ; Galerie Reckermann, Köln (November 11 – January 19, 1996)
Erik Bulatov, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Erik Bulatov, FIAC, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October)
Erik Bulatov, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Erik Bulatov, Galería Fernando Durán, Madrid
Erik Bulatov : Moscou, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (January – June) ; Portikus, Frankfurt ; Kunstverein Bonn ; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam ; Kunstverein Freiburg im Briesgau, Freiburg im Briesgau ; Centre Pompidou, Paris (September 28 – November 27) ; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (February 22 – April 23, 1989) ; List Visual Art Center, Boston (May 6 – July 2, 1989) ; The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (July 27 – October 1, 1989); The University of Chicago, Chicago (February – November 1989)
Erik Bulatov, Bluebird Café, Moscow
Le Nu et le Portrait – Asses and Faces, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (September 13 – November 2)
Contrepoint, l’art contemporain russe – De l’icône à l’avant-garde en passant par le musée, Musée du Louvre, Paris (October 14 – January 31)
RUSSIA!, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 16 – June 11, 2006)
Moi! – Autoportraits du XXème siècle, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (March 31 – July 25); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (September 1st – January 9, 2005)
Painting: from Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003, Biennale di Venezia, Museo Correr, Venice (June 15 – February 2, 2004)
Hypermental: Rampant Reality, 1950-2000. From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (November 17 – May 6, 2001)
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant Garde. J. Treisler Collection, Pasadena, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Unmapping the Earth: Speed, Space, Hybrid, Power, Becoming – 2nd Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju (September 1st – November 20)
Growth of the Collection Peter Stuyvesant / Groei in de Collectie Peter Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam
Face à l’Histoire, 1933-1996, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France (December 19 – April 7, 1997)
Bulatov, Kabakov, Yankilevsky, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris, France (September)
From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art From The Soviet Union 1956-86.The Norton And Nancy Dodge Collection, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick
NO ! – and the Conformists: Faces of Soviet Art of 50s to 80s, Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw
Humanism and Technology: The Human Figure in Industrial Society, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
À la découverte .. de collections romandes I: à suivre, FAE – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne (February 19 – June 27)
Soviet Socialist Realist Painting, 1930 – 1960s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (January 12 – March 15)
Modern Art From Russia – Contemporary Masters, The Rotunda, Hong Kong
1989 – Berlin Wall : Art For Europe In Motion, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid
In the USSR and Beyond / In de USSR en Erbuiten: 28 Kunstenaars, 1970-1990, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (September 21 – November 4)
Contemporary Russian Artists / Artisti Russi Contemporanei, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (February 10 – March 14)
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris (May 18 – August 14)
Erik Bulatow, Wladimir Jankilewski, Ilia Kabakow, Oleg Wassiljew. Zeichnungen Und Graphische Blätter Von Vier Moskauer Künstlern, Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (August 3 – November 4)
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago (May 8 – 13)
Sots Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (April 12 – June 12)
Sots Art : Russian Mock-Heroic Style, Semaphore Gallery, New York (January 4 – 28)
La Nuova Arte Sovietica : una prospettiva non officiale, Biennale di Venezia (November 15 – December 17)
Progressive Strömungen In Moskau, 1957 – 1970, Museum Bochum, Bochum (January 12 – February 10)
Russian Avant-Garde. Moscow 1973, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (May 3 – June 30)
Erik Bulatov / Ilya Kabakov, Sinyaya Ptitsa Café, Moscow
Erik Bulatov / Vyacheslav Kalinin, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow (closed one hour after opening)
Exhibitions of Young Moscow Artists, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow