November 16, 2019 - February 16, 2020
Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Boris Mikhailov’s (* 1938 Kharkov, Ukraine) multi-faceted work of snapshots, banal photography, hand-colored portraits, reportage photos and self-stagings has been made during the past forty years – but until the 1990s it has barely been shown publicly. Because: these pictures shock! Mikhailov shows the homeless people of Kharkov up close, partially naked and with almost no conventional or aesthetic filters, which would allow the viewer an inner distancing.
Image: Ohne Titel, aus der Serie Luriki, 1976-81, Copyright Boris Mikhailov, VG Bild-Kunst, 2019