QUEERING THE POST-SOVIET: A Conversation with Yevgeniy Fiks

A presentation by Yevgeniy Fiks on his recent work, including the UDP book, MOSCOW; with Ivan Savvine and Matvei Yankelevich and Q & A.
The New York Public Library’s Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs invites you to join us for a lecture by Yevgeniy Fiks on his recent work. Following the presentation, Fiks will will be joined by Ivan Savvine & Matvei Yankelevich for a conversation and Q&A session.

For well over a decade, Fiks has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: “Lenin for Your Library?” in which he mailed V.I. Lenin’s text “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” to one hundred global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries; “Communist Party USA,” a series of portraits of current members of Communist Party USA, painted from life; and “Communist Guide to New York City,” a series of photographs of buildings and public places in New York City that are connected to the history of the American Communist movement. His most recent work has broadened this project to include the two nations relations to homosexuality: the Soviet Union’s during it’s 70+ year existence and the USA’s during the height of the Cold War, when communism and homosexuality were twinned in the fevered minds of the American cold-warriors.

11 May 2013
@ 3pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium

Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has been living and working in New York since 1994. Fiks most recent book, Moscow, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013 and his solo show at Winkleman Gallery “Homosexuality Is Stalin’s Atom Bomb to Destroy America,” was up earlier this spring. In addition to Winkleman, Fiks’ work has been shown at Postmasters gallery (New York), Mass MoCA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Marat Guelman Gallery (Moscow), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico City), and the Museu Colecção Berardo (Lisbon). His work has been included in the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011, 2009, 2007 and 2005), the Biennale of Sydney (2008) and the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007).

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