Kachaev Igor
Painter, video-artist, author of objects and performances.
Born in 1966 in Ekibastuz. Currently lives in Rudnyi.
1982-1986 Chelyabinsk Fine Arts College, Russia
Major exhibitions:
1994 “Logic of absurdity”, City Exhibition Hall, Kostanai, Kazakhstan
1995 “A lonely, scared swimmer amongst the concrete
sarcophaguses”, performance
“Tower of the Drainage Mine”, Rudnyi, Kazakhstan
1997 “Steppemodern”, personal exhibition, City
Exhibition Hall, Kostanai, Kazakhstan
“Mass Illusion”, “Gelios” bar of the “Tzelinyi”
Hotel, Kostanai, Kazakhstan
1999 Personal exhibition in “Red Corner” Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia
2000 “Return to Space”, action, drainage mine tower, Rudnyi, Kazakhstan
2001 “Landscape in landscape”, Rudnyi-Kostanai highway, Kazakhstan
2002 ”Inventory” videoartfestival of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Deutsch Theater, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Curatorial projects:
1999 “The last Sculpture”, City Museum, Rudnyi, Kazakhstan
2000 “Belyanin and emptiness”, Rudnyi, Kazakhstan
“Death and Rebirth of the provincial art”, Art-center, Kostanai,
Kazakhstan
Publications:
1996 “Avant-garde, or Lonely, Scared Swimmer”, Pygmalion, vol. 4-5, Rudnyi
1997 “Russian Style”, Pygmalion, vol. 9, Rudnyi
2000 “The Periphery of the Art Space”, Kostanaiskie
Novosti
“Contact is possible”, www.samal.kz/~scca/old/ru/press.htm
Also other publications in Rudnyi newspapers.
1997 Laureate of the “Art of the World Nations” Association, Moscow, Russia