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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

August 2023

  • Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi

    Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

    Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’

June 2023

  • Monumenta 2014 : Ilya And Emilia Kabakov Artwork : Press Preview At Grand Palais<br>PARIS, FRANCE - MAY 07: The Russia artists Emilia and Ilya Kabako installation entitled "The Strange city"during temporary Monumenta 2014 event at Grand Palais on May 7, 2014 in Paris, France.Every year, the French Ministry of Culture invites a contemporary artist to develop an exhibition using the architectural space of the Grand Palais. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)

    Ilya Kabakov obituary

    Artist whose installations drew on the everyday aesthetics of his first 50 years in the Soviet Union

November 2019

  • ‘Art is a powerful tool’ … We are Free! by Ilya &amp; Emilia Kabakov, 2018.

    Yoko Ono and the freedom fighters – in pictures

    Featuring work by Gerhard Richter, Yoko Ono, William Kentridge and more, Art 19 is an Amnesty exhibition inspired by Article 19, which defends freedom of expression. The show tours Europe next month

September 2018

  • Suffering, fear, tragedy ... Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, now exhibiting in Russia.

    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov on their return to Russia: 'Our art is universal'

    The artist couple, now living in the US, explain why they’re finally taking their installations about Soviet life to Moscow

October 2017

  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov art exhibit opens in London<br>epa06271141 A man poses with the work 'Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future' at the media preview of the exhibition 'Ilya and Emilia Kabakov - Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future' at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 17 October 2017. The exhibition dedicated to Russian-born US artists Ilya and his wife Emilia Kabakov runs from 18 October 2017 to 28 January 2018. EPA/NEIL HALL

    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov review – Russia’s great escape artists

    The grim realities of life in the USSR become universal nightmare in the compelling, tragicomic work of the Kabakovs
  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Not Everyone will be Taken into the Future, Tate Modern, Press Image

    A terrifying trip to the USSR's dark heart – Ilya and Emilia Kabakov review

    With its harrowing echoes of repression, deprivation and murder, the Kabakovs’ art is a magnificent, moving monument to the millions crushed by communism
  • The Six Paintings about the Temporary Loss of Eyesight, from the Tate show Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future.

    'A paradise inside hell' … the amazing Kabakovs on how art became a weapon in Soviet times

    From a man launched through a ceiling to a train vanishing through a wall, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov make breathtaking installations that speak of life, death and disappearance under Soviet rule. As the Tate shows their great works, we meet the husband and wife artists

May 2014

  • Visitors walk through the labyrinth inside Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's 'Cite Etrange'

    A-mazed and amused: the Kabakovs' Strange City – in pictures

  • Part of Ilya And Emilia Kabakov's installation The Strange City for Monumenta 2014.

    Monumenta 2014: enter the Kabakovs' Strange City

March 2014

  • The art of being Ilya Kabakov

    A visit to Long Island provides a glimpse into how Russia's best-known artist uses three studios to create his works

March 2013

  • happiest man

    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man; Two Mountains – review

  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Two Mountains #5 2010

    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man; Two Mountains – in pictures

September 2008

  • Red Pavilion

    Arts: Abramovich's girlfriend opens doors to Garage, Russia's answer to the Tate

    Dasha Zhukova unveils gallery despite admitting she knows little about art

November 2005

  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

  • Sleep of reason

January 1999

  • The Children's Hospital

    There is a kind of spooky poignance to this installation by the veteran Russian conceptualist Ilya Kabakov, now working with his wife and fellow emigrant, Emilia Kanevsky. At London's Roundhouse last year they created the Palace Of Projects - a castle of ordinary people's dreams. In Dublin, they have recreated a depopulated children's hospital down IMMA's long East Wing: the walls painted a pallid institutional green to navel-height; the rooms and 'wards' separated by white muslin curtains.

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