Avdey Stepanovich Ter-Oganyan

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Contemporary Art Collection of the State Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow; ART4.RU Museum of Actual Art, Moscow; Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Rostov-on-Don; Oklahoma City Art Museum, Christian Keese Collection, Oklahoma City, USA; Collections of Yevgeny Nutovich, V. Ovcharenko, N. Brilling, Moscow

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Olga Sviblova is Crap, or the End of Critical Discourse. With Zoya Cherkassky, M&YU Gelman Gallery, Moscow
2006 Telefonrechnung. Vpered! Gallery, Berlin
Voices (audio ready-made). With Alexey Buldakov, Vpered! Gallery, Berlin
Avdey Ter-Oganyan. Retrospective, Stavanger
2004 New Works. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
2003 Non-normative Painting. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1999 Works by Avdey Ter-Oganyan from the M. Gelman Gallery Collection. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1998 Out of Art. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1997 Portable Museum. Yaroslavl, Krasnoyarsk
1996 Sun in a Glass. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1993 Some Problems of Restoring Contemporary Art. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
1992 Still Life with Candlestick. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
L.H.O.O.Q. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
From the New. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Towards the Object. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Forward. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
1981 City Psychiatric Dispensary, Rostov-on-Don
1980 Youth Center, Rostov-on-Don
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Russian Poor. Project by Sergey Gordeev. Curator: Marat Gelman. River Terminal, Perm
2007 Artist's Diary. Special project by the M. Gelman Foundation within the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Thaw. 15 years of the M. Gelman Gallery. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2006 RUSSIA! S. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Russia 2. Bad News from Russia. WHITE BOX, New York
2005 Russia 2. Special project by the M. Gelman Gallery at the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Face Portrait (with I. Kitup). M. Gelman Gallery and M'ARS Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2003 Art-Moscow, M. Gelman Gallery booth, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2002 Contemporary Russian Painting. New Manezh, Moscow
Ex Patria. Art Car Museum, Houston
Silence! Experimental Space, Prague
2001 Kolmo k Ose 2. House of Arts, Opava
Check In/Check Out. Experimental Space NOD, Prague
Russian Artists – To Andy Warhol. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1998 Young Godless. Art-Manezh, Moscow
1997 Vodka. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
III International Biennale of Eastern European Countries, Pavilion New Icon. Cetinje, Yugoslavia
Faces in History. Traveling exhibition in cities of the Russian provinces
Department of New Trends over Five Years. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1996 Moscow Forum of Artistic Initiatives, Small Manege, Moscow
Performance Festival, Timisoara
Onziemes Ateliers du FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire
1995 New Russian Art. Painting from the Christian Keese Collection, Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma
Reproduction Mon Amour, Copenhagen
1994 VI Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fluchtpunkt Moscau, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Artist Instead of Art, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Month of Photography of Bratislava, Bratislava
Academy, Cetinje Biennale, Cetinje
1993 Modest Pupils of a Great Master. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Dedicated to the Seventh Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. M. Gelman Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992 Moscow Romanticism. Central House of Artists, Moscow
0-10. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Neoacademia. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Dwarves. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
1991 Mercy. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Sea of Vodka. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
Novecento. L-Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Not a Fountain. Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
1998 "Out of Art!" M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1997 "Portable Museum" (based on the contemporary art collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve), Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow. Ars-Forum Gallery, Yaroslavl
1995 "Exercises". Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
1993 "Futurists Go Out to Kuznetsky" (action). Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1992 "Form and Content" (with K. Reunov). Gallery at Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
"Questions of Art". L-Gallery, Moscow
"For Abstractionism". Gallery at Trekhprudny Lane, Moscow
1991 "On Saturday Evening". Former Lenin Museum, Lviv
1990 "Great Magicians of Painting". Peresvetov Lane, Moscow
"Waiting for Rest." Cultural Center on Petrovsky Linii, Moscow
"For Cultural Leisure". "Kashirka", Moscow
Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow
1989 "Italy Has the Shape of a Boot." Exhibition Hall of the Artists' Union, Rostov-on-Don
"An Exhibition That Doesn’t Count Because Everything is Very Bad." Hotel "Youth", Moscow
1988 "Hell." Exhibition Hall of the Artists' Union, Rostov-on-Don
"Provincial Avant-garde." Cooperative toilet "Progress", Rostov-on-Don
ACTIONS AND PERFORMANCES:
1998 Action on Granovskogo St., Moscow
1997 "School of Contemporary Art" (as part of the Golden Mask Festival). VTO, Moscow
1996 "Gallery 'Vpered' Presents Performances by Moscow Artists" (within the Eastern European Performance Festival) Timisoara, Romania; Berlin, Germany

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Just as there never was a Phidias in Moscow, so there won’t be a Jasper Johns: Avdey Ter-Oganyan’s project to beautify the capital is too utopian. Not because his proposal to hang Jasper Johns’ Flag painting on the flagpole of the pompous U.S. embassy building frightened the ambassador. On the contrary, such an extravagant and unprecedented idea in global exhibition practice amused them. All the more so since the famous work is not parodic in relation to its original. As early as 1958, French critic Pierre Restany noted that Johns cleverly used painting to earn the right to exhibit the actual flag, “symbolizing the whole American myth, lifestyle, value hierarchy, and approaches to world politics.” As they used to say, Johns “challenged” painting. After 35 years, Ter-Oganyan wished to literally realize this metaphor—to subject the encaustic painting of the famous pop artist to the test of a rainy Moscow autumn. There was no point even asking the painting's owner, Mr. Leo Castelli. Only one thing remained: to copy. By repainting Jasper Johns and other genius modernists, Ter-Oganyan puts himself in the position of a "post-historical" artist. For him, all these precious pieces, viable only in the saline solution of museum halls, are a new classic—passionately loved, yet endlessly distant and alien. His involuntary profanation of Jasper Johns' masterpiece is not an attempt to insult or dethrone the master, but a result of almost classically naive and reasonable understanding of art—when it was not yet an appendage of personality, not a symbol of some authorial position or a “challenge” to anyone, but simply depicted gods and decorated cities. But one cannot deny that in his desire to hoist the banner on the U.S. embassy himself is also a fair share of mischievous ambition of a provincial parvenu, a stray and an outcast who broke into Moscow and—give him time—will conquer New York, too.
A. Erofeev, “Avdey Ter-Oganyan.” - "Segodnya", 1993, September 11

Ter-Oganyan A. Group of Comrades // ArtChronika. — 2009. — No. 9.
Brandon Taylor. Actual Art. 1970–2005. — M.: Slovo, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN 5-85050-884-8.
Russian Actionism 1990-2000. “World Art Museum” №28/29. — M.: WAM Books, 2007. — 416 p.
To the 15th Anniversary of the M. Gelman Gallery: Catalogue. — M.: GIF, 2007. — 560 p. — ISBN 5-9237-0026-3.
Kovalev A. Name Index. — M.: NLO, 2005. — 400 p. — ISBN 5-86793-356-3.
Belozor M. Magic Land. — St. Petersburg: Krasny Matros, 1999. — 158 p. — ISBN 5-7187-0358-2.
Nemirov M.M. A.S. Ter-Oganyan: Life, Fate and Contemporary Art. — M.: GIF, 1999. — 96 p. — ISBN 5-9237-0002-6.
Erofeev A. Avdey Ter-Oganyan // Segodnya. — 1993. — 11 Sept.