Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov
Илья Кабаков
Kabakov in 2017
Born
Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov

(1933-09-30)September 30, 1933
DiedMay 27, 2023(2023-05-27) (aged 89)
New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forInstallation art
SpouseEmilia Kanevsky
Kabakov gives instructions for the installation "The Man Who will Fly into Space From His Apartment" in 2016
Installation in Münster[1]
The fallen Chandelier in Zürich
"Tomorrow We Fly", exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2023

Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в; September 30, 1933 – May 27, 2023) was a Russian–American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After that he lived and worked on Long Island, United States.[2]

  1. ^ Siebold-Bultman, Ursula (2000). Birksted, Jan (ed.). New projects for the City of Munster: Ilya Kabakov, Herman de Vries and Dan Graham (1st ed.). London & New York: Spon Pres, Taylor and Francis Group. pp. 205–222. ISBN 0419250700. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Ilya Kabakov, the Ukrainian American Conceptual Artist Who Lived Through Totalitarianism but Dreamed of Utopia, Has Died at 89". May 30, 2023.