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 |