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 held at Putkin House, London (2017); The RISD Museum, University of Rhode Island, Providence (2016); Calvert 22 Gallery, London (2013); and Architecture Center Strelka, Moscow (2012), amongst others. He has participated in group exhibitions, including ‘General Rehearsal: a show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST,’ Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2018); Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin (2017); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal  (2017); ‘Fortune museum’, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow (2014); and participated i nthe Antarctic Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Brodsky has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Innovation Prize (2012); the Kandinskyj Prize (2010); Premio Milano, Museo del Presente, Milano (2001); and with Ilya Utkin, won the ‘East Meets West’ Design Competition, Jacob K. Avits Convention Center, New York.

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