Mikhail Kosolapov

Artist
Mikhail Kosolapov was born in 1970 in Moscow. He is a co-founder of Art Business Consulting Group. Mikhail works with the most unlikely and unexpected materials – tubes and tyres, fixtures and glass, molten computer mice, monitors and fax machines – to create astonishing artefacts.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Indirect political statement. XL Gallery. Moscow
2010 MILF. XL Gallery. Moscow
2009 Contact (ABC group). XL Gallery, Moscow Thin motley line. ABC-gallery, Moscow
2008 Layers. Desktop graphics (as ABC group). XL Gallery, Moscow
2007 Turbo. Self-portrait. ABC-gallery, Moscow
2006 But whose life is easy nowadays? (solo). ABC-gallery, Moscow Anual Report (ABC group). State Hermitage, St.Petersburg
2005 God’s den. (solo) ABC-gallery, Moscow 6
2001 My pregnancy (solo). Ulitsa OGI gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 VIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale
2008 The golden Bough. Public-art festival, Izhevsk Invasion:evasion, Baibakov art projects, Moscow
2007 2nd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Moscow abc.etc. XL Gallery, Moscow/Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2005 Collaborators. Tretyakov Gallery Peripheral vision. ‘Hotel Antelope’, Cardiff
2004 The hunting of the clerk. Public-art festival, Art-Kliazma, Moscow region
2003 Cultural hero memorial. Public-art festival, Cheboksary. Digital Russia, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2002 Golden man. Public-art festival, Nizhnekamsk
2001 Deadline. OGI Street gallery, Moscow
1999 Vinyl bones. XL Gallery, Moscow

Projects