Yury Kharchenko

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Yury Kharchenko (Russian Юрий Харченко, born 1986 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian German artist. He lives and works in Berlin.{{Cite web |last=Horwitz |first=Simi |date=2024-03-26 |title=Influenced by comic books, Salvador Dali and Mark Rothko, a Russian-born Jewish artist embraces his contradictions |url=https://forward.com/culture/art/596548/yury-kharchenko-russian-jewish-german-artist-antisemitism-dali-rothko-superman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241015170350/https://forward.com/culture/art/596548/yury-kharchenko-russian-jewish-german-artist-antisemitism-dali-rothko-superman/ |archive-date=2024-10-15 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=The Forward |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Salié |first1=Olaf |title=Rising: Young Artists to Keep an Eye On! |date=2011 |publisher=Daab |isbn=978-3-942597-03-6 |pages=228–231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GLytcQAACAAJ |language=en}}

Life

Kharchenko was raised in Moscow and West Germany. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2004 to 2008, graduating with a master of fine arts degree and diploma. He was briefly in a PhD programme at the University of Potsdam from 2011 to 2012; the subject of his research was art philosophy in postmodern times influenced by Jacques Derrida. He currently lives in Berlin.{{cite web |title=Biography – Yury Kharchenko |url=https://yury-kharchenko.com/cms/biography/ |website=yury-kharchenko.com |access-date=6 May 2025}}

His works are part of collections in the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf,{{cite journal |last1=DuBois |first1=Kathrin |title=Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast {{!}} Düsseldorf |journal=Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch |date=2012 |volume=73 |page=59 |jstor=24667246 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24667246 |access-date=6 May 2025 |issn=0083-7105}}{{cite web |title=Simeon - House of spirit |url=https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/objects/440362/simeon--house-of-spirit |website=Digitales Kunst- und Kulturarchiv Düsseldorf |access-date=6 May 2025 |language=de}} NS Documentation Center Cologne, State Collection Düsseldorf, Kunst aus NRW Aachen, Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabrück, Kunstmuseum Walter, and the Wemhöner Collection.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

Exhibitions

  • 2024, Welcome to the Jewish Museum, {{ill|Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum|de}}{{cite news |title="ברוכים הבאים למוזיאון היהודי": התערוכה החדשה שתעלה בגרמניה |url=https://www.maariv.co.il/culture/theater-art/article-1109339 |access-date=6 May 2025 |work=Maariv |date=23 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204032715/https://www.maariv.co.il/culture/theater-art/article-1109339 |archive-date=4 December 2024 |language=he |trans-title="Welcome to the Jewish Museum": the new exhibition to be held in Germany |url-status=live}}

Publications

  • Worlds Within. Kerber Verlag, Berlin 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-86678-851-0}}.
  • Journey to Jerusalem. Kerber Verlag, Berlin, 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-86678-795-7}}.
  • Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2013
  • Extra Verlag, Berlin, 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-938370-49-0}}.
  • Boesner GmbH (Hrsg.) "Kunstwelten", Boesner, Witten, 2011, BestellNr.: 9783928003001
  • Leonardo Art award, Kunstmuseum Walter, Augsburg, 2008
  • Extra Verlag, Berlin 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-938370-28-5}}.

References

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