Biography
Vadim Gushchin was born in Novosibirsk in 1963.
In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
He devoted himself to artistic activity since 1988.
He lives and works in Moscow.
Represented by Liza Fetissova Gallery (ex-Russiantearoom gallery) since 2016.
Vadim Gushchin's work is held in the following permanent public collections:
Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico(USA) ; Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas (USA) ; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California (USA) ; Museum Albertina, Vienna (Austria) ; Museum fuer Photographie, Braunschweig (Germany) ; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense (Denmark) ; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) ; Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (Belgium) ; The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Russia) ; The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia) ; Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (Russia) ; Museum House of Photography, Moscow (Russia) ; National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow (Russia) ; Museum of Moscow, Moscow (Russia) ; Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow (Russia) ; Lumiere Brotherth Photography Center, Moscow (Russia) ; State Russian Museum of Photography, Nishny Novgorod (Russia) ; Collection of Photograph's Union, Moscow (Russia) ; Surgut's Museum of Fine Arts, Surgut (Russia)
And also in private collections in Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, the US, South Korea, and Belgium.
exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2018 “From the private library”, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow
2015 "Subject Interpretation", the 7th international Festival of Photography "PhotoVisa", Krasnodar, Russia
"Fragments of Private Spaces", Moscow, Russia
2014 "Cultural Treasures", "Lianzhou Foto 2014", Lianzhou, China
2013 "BOOKS", Cologne, Germany
"Inventory of a Private Library", Portland, Oregon, USA
"Object. Function. Image", Moscow, Russia
"Vadim Gushchin. Photographs 2000 - 2013", Paris, France
"Passed", the 23rd Month of Photography Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 "Kulturelle Schaetze", Brunswick, Germany
"Cultural Traesures", Chicago, USA
2011 "Cultural treasures", Moscow
2010 "Aesthetik der Statik" Alexander Grinberg/Vadim Gushchin, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 "Russian Landscape", Moscow, Russia
"Photographs", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2008 "Cloack - room", Moscow, Russia
2007 "Typology" (together with J. Galert), Nishny Novgorod, Russia
"Reflex" Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 "Tasty and healthy", Moscow, Russia
Odense Foto Triennale 2006, Kerteminde, Denmark
2005 “Rotta ad Est” (together with M. Koulakov), Italy
2004 "il tempo mai andante", Roma, Italy
"Geometrie der Hygiene", Düsseldorf, Germany
Studio Domenico Gioia, Italy
2003 "Personalismus des Dinges", Düsseldorf, Germany
"Reflex" Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 "Art Attributes", Moscow, Russia
"Glaz" Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2001 "Im Regal", Wittingen, Germany
2000 "Bread and Wine", Moscow, Russia
1999 "Meine Dinge", Braunschweig, Germany
Exhibition, Ruesselsheim, Germany
"My Things", Moscow, Russia
1998 "Still Life on a Shelf", Moscow, Russia
1997 Participation (together with S. Ivanova), 11th International Photoszene, Cologne, Germany
1996 Exhibition at the Moscow Historic Museum, Moscow, Russia
1995 “Dove” (together with D. Pilikin), Moscow, Russia
“Doubled Meaning”, St. Petersburg, Russia
Selected group exhibitions
2015 "Neue Russische Avantgarde. Kunst als Bruecke zwieschen Ost und West", Düsseldorf, Germany
"New Acquisitions. 1998-2014", St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 2014 Auction Exhibition at HCP, Houston, Texas, USA
"Paris Photo 2014", Paris, France
"Homage to Domestic Familiarity III", Houston, Texas, USA
2013 «Contemporary Russian Photography: From Mystery to Poetry and Back», 5th Seoul PHOTO 2013, Seoul, Korea
"Tarantel 2", Berlin, Germany
"Expansion of an Object", Moscow, Russia
"VIENNAFAIR 2013", Vienna, Austria
"ART.FAIR 2013", Cologne, Germany
"Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
"New Exponates", from Museums Collection of XIX - XXI Centuries, Nishny Novgorod, Russia
2012 "Contemporary Russian Photography", FOTOFEST 2012, Houston, USA
«Museum, look of Photographer», Moscow, Russia
Art-fair «Fotofever», Stand Beckell-Odile Boicos Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
«The Collector's eye», Collection of Frazier King, Houston, Texas, USA
«Articifes», Paris, France
2012 «Homage to Domestic Familarity», Houston, Texas, USA
2011 “Natura Morta”, Moscow, Russia
“Fotografias - Coleção Joaquim Paiva", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010 “Doors open day” Russian art 1989-2009, Moscow, Russia
“Photographie russe historique, moderne et contemporaine 1850-2010”, Paris, France
“Foto Tage Trier 2010”, Trier, Germany
2009 "Art-Moscow", Moscow, Russia
"In Box of Dreams", Pingyao, China
2008 "Before and after", Moscow, Russia
2007 “Bread is life”, Moscow, Russia
"Silver Camera", Moscow, Russia
2006 “The Earth”, FotoFest 2006, Houston, USA
Photobienalle 2006, Moscow, Russia
2005 “Photogram, projection, silhouette”, Moscow, Russia
“Author’s book”, Moscow, Russia
2004 “Russische Fotografie 1920 – 2000, Moskau in Fotos”, Innsbruck, Austria
“Photo relay: from Rodchenko to today”, Moscow, Russia
2003 “Russian autumn”, Wuppertal, Germany
2002 “Idea Photographic: after Modernism”, Santa Fe, USA
2001 “15 Jahre Galerie Lichtblick”, Cologne, Germany
2000 “Wolfgang Freitag, Wadim Guschtschin, Andre Schweers”, Cologne, Germany
1999 “Development”, Moscow, Russia
“Photogram”, Moscow, Russia
1998 “Die Dinge und die Stille – fuenf Fotografen aus Moskau”, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Aufbruch – die neue russische Fotografie”, Leverkusen, Germany
Vestisches Museum, Recklinghausen, Germany
1997 “Coincidence”, Cologne, Germany
“Rosije” national exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
1996 "Photopage 4", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
1995 “Neue Fotokunst aus Russland”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover; Düsseldorf, Germany
Exibition of 11 Russian Photographers, Moscow, Russia
1994 “Jeunes Photographes Russes”, Paris, France
1993 “A la recherche du père”, Paris, France
“Certain Aspects of Contemporary Photography”, Moscow, Russia
1992 "The young talents", Moscow, Russia
1991 "Invisible world", Tallinn, Estonia
Publications
Iskusstvo Kachestva, Iskusstvo, The Moscow Times (Russia); Stadtzauber Kulturmagazin, Braunschweigische Zeitung (Germany); Foto&Video, Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung (Russia); Nord Reinische Zeitung, European Photography (Germany); Russian ZOOM, Foto Travel, Nishegorodsky Rabochy, Otdych v Nishnem, Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Russia); Art in Focus (USA); Photomagazin, Bukvy, Afisha, Iskusstvo (Russia); Exibart.onpaper (Italy); Die Zeit, d:Art, Kunsttermine.de, Westdeutsche Zeitung (Germany); Kwartalnik Fotografia (Poland); Expert, Portfolio, Izvestya, Shurnal, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Nesavisimaya Gazeta (Russia); Isehagener Kreisblatt (Germany); Photo (France); IMAGO (Slovakia); Photopresse, Goettinger Tageblatt, Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung, Braunschweigische Zeitung, Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany); Kommersant, Kamera Obskura (Russia); Duesseldorfer Museen, Reinische Post (Germany); Hudoshestvenny Zhurnal, Reticulatsya, Fotografia, Sovetskoe Foto (Russia)
