Victor Skersis
Victor Skersis is a Moscow conceptualist, artist, and theoretician.
Life and work
Skersis studied at the Moscow State Polygraphic Institute. The institute forced him to withdraw two weeks before he was to graduate. His areas of interest include analytical conceptualism and metaconceptualism.As an active member of the Moscow art scene since 1975, Skersis works independently, and collaborated with other artists. He was a member of "The Nest", 1975–79, "SZ", 1980–84, 1989–90, "Cupid", "Edelweiss" and “Tsar of the Hill”, and others.
A participant of numerous unofficial art shows in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, including the 1975 nonconformist art show in the Culture Pavilion at VDNKh, Moscow; the 1977 Venice Biennale "La nuova arte Sovietica"; exhibits at APTART gallery, Moscow 1982-84; “The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976,” The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow and The State Russian Museum, Leningrad 1990-1991; “40 years of nonconformist art,” The Central Exhibition Hall Manezh Moscow 2002; “Sots-Art. Political art in Russia,” Maison Rouge, Paris, France, The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow, 2007-2008; “Kollektsiia,” Pompidou Centre, 2016; “Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art,” Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2016.
Victor Skersis lives and works in Moscow and the U.S., where he is engaged in fundamental research into the processes of art.
From 1975 to 1979 he was a member of The Nest, together with Gennady Donskoy and Mikhail Roshal.
Exhibitions
1975- The Nest, House of Culture, VDNKh, Moscow
- The Nest, Venice Biennale, "La nuova arte Sovietica"
1983
- 1st SZ exhibition.
- Apt-Art Gallery, Moscow
- 2nd SZ exhibition. Apartment M. Roshal, Moscow
- 3rd SZ exhibition.
- House of Culture of the 2nd State Bearing Plant on Shabolovka St., Moscow
- 4th SZ exhibition. Apartments of N. Alekseev, I. Chuikov, D. Prigov, A. Yulikov, L. Bazhanov, G. Kizevalter, Moscow
1989
- 5th solo exhibition "SZ". Organized during the exhibition Muveszet helyet Muveszet, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1990
- Bruder Karamazoff. Sophia Ungers Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2004
- Group SZ. E.K. Art Bureau, Moscow
2008
- The Nest Group. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- Aspects of meta-art. Project "Factory", Moscow
2009
- Fragma, pragma and enigma. Project "Factory", Moscow
- Show and Tell. The artist and his model. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow