Zeigam Azizov
Curriculum Vitae
Artist, critic. Video, installation, essays
1963 - born in Azerbaijan, Salyan. Since 1992 -lives in London
1981-1985
Studied art and philosophy in Azerbaijan, Russia
1996-
Postgradute Studies in Continental Philosophy, Staffordshire University, UK
1999-
L'Ecole Magasin, France, MA in Contemporary art and Curating
Selected exhibitions and projects:
2003
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich
50th Venice Biennale, Utopia Station, Venice
Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
Migration: Globalization of Space and Time, Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau
2002
Outsourcing, inIVA, London
Risk and responsibilities of representation, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
City-Info, Dresden-Prohlis, Dresden
Broadcast, Cubitt Gallery, London
Art in Media Space, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Routes, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria
2001
Mutations, TN Probe, Tokyo, La Rafffinerie, Brussels,
Belonging, Shedhalle, Zurich
Loft Story, SE Travel Agency, Istanbul
Never look back, Shedhalle, Zurich
Touring London, (with Isaac Julien), inIVA, London
Strategies of Presentation, Kopelica Gallerie, Ljubljana
Videonalle 9, Kunstverein, Bonn
2000
ForthepeopleontheirwaytoEurope, Exnergasse Kunsthalle, Vienna
Arcade Project, The Trade Apartment, London
Mutations: Urban Rumours, Free Art, Fribourg, arc en reve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux
Transact, Museum in Progress, Vienna
1999
Temporary Radio, Espace 2, Radio Suisse -Romand, Geneva
1998
The Trial of Pol Pot, /Centre national d'art contemporain/, project by Liam Gillick and Phillipe Parreno, Grenoble
1995
Viewpoint, ICA, London
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
Postscript, Lisson Gallery, London
Selected videos:
2003
Back to Moscow and back. Again.5min.
Becoming global:Dessau,17min.
Oxford Street, 5 min.
2002
Travelling ideas, 7min.
At the end of the world, 6min.
2000-2001
Migrasophia, 23min.
1999
Introduction to Migrasophia:Zuruckgeweisen, 8min.
1995
Viewpoint, 13min.
Selected reviews:
2003
Johannes Wendland, Dot.City ladt sich aug, Frankfurter Rundshau, 01.07.2003
Brigitte Huck, Routes, Artforum, May
2002
Mattias Dusini, Anders Reisen, Springerin, April
Reinhard Braun, Kunst zwischen Cultural Studies und Politik,
Camera Austria, 80
Walter Seidl, Auf der Reise, Arts Magazine,
Jochen Gertz, Anthology of Art, Lettre International (extra)
2000
Justin Hoffman, Moneynations, Springerin, 44
1999
Radiotemporarie, Le Magasin newspaper
1998
The Trial of Pol Pot, Art Monthly, December
Selected publications:
2003
(with Stuart Hall), The world has to be made to mean!, Venice Biennale catalogue,
Bringing the world into the world, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau
Paramnesia, Project Russia, Moscow
Will multuiculturalism be russified? in Moneynations, (ed. Marion von Osten), Selena Verlag, Vienna
2002
Migrasophia: de ser "Artista" a 'Devenir Otro', Brumaria 1, Madrid
Domestification of Visual Plesaures, in Outsoursing, (ed. Paula Rush) inIVA/MSDM
Brand Ranking: in between conformity and consciousness, in Outsoursing
In between home and globe, Routes, Grazer Kunstverein
2001
Camofulage: The Visible in the Invisible, Third Text, 57
Radiotemporarie, (ed.), Le Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble