PROJECTS
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: Incidents (1996/7)
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: The Day Before Tomorrow (1999)
Svetlana Kopystiansky: Projects
Igor Kopystiansky: Projects
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: Archive Documents
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Bibliography
Books by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky
Art works by Igor Kopystiansky are represented in collections of Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey; Musée National d'Art Moderne Center Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France; Tate Modern, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia; Folkwang Museum in Essen; Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen; Berlinische Galerie; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Frac Corsica, France; MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Poland; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland, National Gallery of Art. Museum of the Radvilas Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Archives by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky are located at the Centre Pompidou, Kandinsky Library.
Works by Igor Kopystiansky were exhibited at venues including MoMA, New York; Center Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern London; Metropolitan Museum; Center Pompidou Metz; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Fine Arts Center UMass, Amherst, Massachusetts; Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France; Tate Liverpool; MMK Frankfurt/Main; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2011-12); Reina Sofia, Madrid; S.M.A.K. Gent; GAMeC, Bergamo; Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Finland; AGNSW, Sydney; MARCO, Vigo, Spain; MUMOK, Vienna.
Igor Kopystiansky participated in international exhibitions including Documenta 11 (2002) and biennials in Venice 1988, Sydney 1992 (curated by Anthony Bond), Sao Paulo 1994, (curated by Nelson Aguilar), Istanbul 1995 (curated by René Block), Johannesburg 1997 (curated by Okwui Enwezor), Lyon 1997 (curated by Harald Szeemann), Liverpool 1999, Triennial of Small Sculpture” Fellbach, Germany 2004 (curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann), Triennial of Small Sculpture Stuttgart 1998.
An initial inspiration for individual works by Igor Kopystiansky in media of painting and installation reproduced below came from the international avant-garde, DADA and Marcel Duchamp, specially from his ideas of not-direct appropriation. This group of works does consist from installations and objects made from appropriated paintings. Appropriated were images by various Western-European painters originally produced from 17th till early 20th century. New paintings were made deliberately in a different size then originals. It reflected the situation when the work of art does function in the society more as a reproduction in a book, as a poster, billboard, or has been viewed at the screen at the cinema when the size of the image is different then the original painting. From appropriated paintings were created objects, installations and environments. This group of works was called (de)constructions.