Worker and Farmer II   Yuri Avvakumov, screenprint 1998

Yuri Avvakumov Born in Tiraspol, 1957, Awakumov graduated from Moscow Architecture Institute in 1981. He reintroduced the term "Paper Architecture" to describe the genre of conceptual design in the USSR of the 1980s and has been a member of the "Utopia Foundation" in Moscow since 1993. He has had many solo exhibitions including "Russian Utopia: A Depository", Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2000; "Temporary Monuments" Russian Museum, St. Petersburg / State Museum of Architecture, Moscow; and "A. S. Pushkin and Money", XL Gallery, Moscow. Awakumov has participated in many group exhibitions. These include: 1996-97 "The Archaeology of the Future City", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Hiroshima Museum of Art / Gifu Prefectural Museum; 1996 "Sensing the Future. Architect as Seismograph", VI International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice; 1997 "Living Bridges", State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; >>>