Died conceptual artist Elena Elagina – News – Culture – Kommersant

Elena Elagina, a representative of Moscow conceptualism, died at the age of 73. She died after a severe long illness. She reported this in her Telegram channel art historian Ksenia Korobeynikova, without providing details.

Since 1990, Mrs. Elagina has worked in collaboration with her husband Igor Makarevich. Artists since 1979 included in the “Collective Actions” group. In 1990, the first joint project was presented – the “Closed Fish Exhibition” in Moscow.

In 2009, they participated in the main project of the 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art “Creating Worlds”. In 2011 – participants of the exhibition “Empty Zones. Andrey Monastyrsky and “Collective Actions” in the Russian pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. Laureates of the Innovation Prize in the honorary nomination For Creative Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Art (2012).

Mrs Elagina herself called his main work “Children’s”.

Read about their work in the publication of the Weekend app “About Fishes, Mushrooms and Trees”.

Maria Fedotova