Alexander Brodsky (Moscow, 1955 – he lives and works between Moscow and Tbilisi) is one of Russia’s most prominent sculptors and architects, acknowledged for his role as a key member of the original ‘paper architects’ of Moscow Conceptualism.

Brodsky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MarchI) in 1978. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with the artist Ilya Utkin and took part in public competitions. It is associated with the “paper architecture” movement, which opposes the standardized production of mass housing. The scenarios that he then developed were inspired by the engravings of prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi from the 18th century.

In the 1990s, he traveled regularly to New York, where he settled in 1996. Returning to Moscow in 2000, he opened his own architectural studio there.

Alexander Brodsky works on the imagination of the city and its becoming ruin in the form of drawings, plans and installations.

Brodsky’s works have been exhibited in major institutions, including MMOMA, Moscow (2023); Tchoban Foundation, Berlin (2023 and 2015); Venice Architecture Biennale (2016 and 2007); Venice Art Biennale (2013); Museo del Novecento, Milan (2012); Architekturzentrum, Vienna (2011); the Louvre, Paris (2010); Garage Museum, Moscow (2009); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2006); PAC and Triennale, Milan (2001); and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1996).
His works are held in prestigious museum collections such as MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum, New York; the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Wellington Art Gallery, Wellington; and the UniCredit Foundation, Milan.
Brodsky has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Innovation Award (2012); the Kandinsky Prize (2010); the Milan Prize, Museo del Presente, Milan (2001); and, together with Ilya Utkin, he won the “East Meets West” design competition at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.

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