Boris Mikhailov

Foam presents a broad survey of the work of Boris Mikhailov. The Ukrainian Mikhailov is widely recognised as one of today’s leading photographers. He has received the Coutts Contemporary Art Award, the Hasselblad Award and the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize. Over the years, Mikhailov has produced an extremely diverse oeuvre which inspires, irritates and has even been considered disturbing. The exhibition covers a period of 35 years: from the ‘developed’ socialism of the 1970s to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990-91 and the subsequent Wild East period, until Mikhailov eventually moved from Ukraine to the West in the late 1990s.

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Boris Mikhailov
A retrospective. Private Pleasures, Burdensome Boredom, Public Decay