Yuri Leiderman

born 1963

During summer Petya lives in the country-side. He’s just four years old and even standing on his tiptoes he barely can reach the low branches of a cherry-tree in the garden. But sometimes in his dream he becomes extremely tall, higher than all the houses 1987
© Yuri Leiderman; courtesy of the artist and Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
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Biography

Yuri Leiderman (born in 1963, Odesa, Ukraine) is an artist and writer, one of the Moscow Conceptualists. He participated in apartment exhibitions in Moscow and Odesa since 1982. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after D. Mendeleyev in 1987. He was one of the founding members of the "Medical Hermeneutics" group in 1987, leaving the group in 1990. He was awarded the Andrei Belyi literature prize in 2005. He was a member of the groups "Kapiton" and "Corbusier", 2008–2010. He was a participant in the 68th Venice International Film Festival. He resides and works in Berlin.

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Artworks

1 When you have been told … 2 That in many places … 3 Your lung cancer … 4 was discovered …
Yuri Leiderman
1985
So, shall we go to the station? Why, I’m already at home
Yuri Leiderman
1985
So they say, we stay overnight, try not to freeze, then all will be better
Yuri Leiderman
1986
During summer Petya lives in the country-side. He’s just four years old and even standing on his tiptoes he barely can reach the low branches of a cherry-tree in the garden. But sometimes in his dream he becomes extremely tall, higher than all the houses
Yuri Leiderman
1987

Biography

Artworks

1 When you have been told … 2 That in many places … 3 Your lung cancer … 4 was discovered …

So, shall we go to the station? Why, I’m already at home

So they say, we stay overnight, try not to freeze, then all will be better

During summer Petya lives in the country-side. He’s just four years old and even standing on his tiptoes he barely can reach the low branches of a cherry-tree in the garden. But sometimes in his dream he becomes extremely tall, higher than all the houses

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