Yury Kharchenko
Subtitle: painting, 2007-2018
By: Herausgeber, Yury Kharchenko
Contributors: Felix-Nussbaum-Haus (Osnabrück, Germany); NS-Dokumentationszentrum (Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln)
Series: Kerber art; Kerber art
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: ger
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783735604644
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: Since 2009, the German-Russian painter Yury Kharchenko (*1986) has occupied himself in his work groups, and lately also in portraits, with questions regarding human identity as well as his own Jewish identity. Although he regards his identity as poisoned by the Holocaust, he does not impose a prohibition of images, but instead strives for a language that leads to a freedom of emotional and philosophical engagement. In his visual imagery, violence, and beauty are juxtaposed with one another and intermix. There is also sexuality, love, and, again and again, the color red. This color gives the works an organic and contradictory quality at the same time. Exhibition: Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany (19.08.-08.11.2018) / NS Dokumentationszentrum, Cologne, Germany (13.07.-02.09.2018).
Notes: Catalog of the exhibitions "Yury Kharchenko - Kein Ort Zuhause" held at the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, August 19 - November 8, 2018; "Yury Kharchenko: Von Herschel Grynszpan über Simon Wiesenthal zu Amy Winehouse", NS-DokumentationsZentrum Köln, July 13 - September 2, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.