Misha Shenbrot

There is no one particular way to percept my works. There are (or should be) as many of them, as many individuals with their own personal experience observe my collages. Each one can find his/her own way to perceive my works. In this context my works are opposit to the western traditional scientific dogma with it's methodologies, verification processes and paradigms as frames which make the only correct perception and interpretation possible. Each certain way of perception contents an ideology, hidden in it's structure and I just have no right to obtrude any kind of ideology upon an observer.

But also I find it necessary to take a few steps forward those of you, who have found my collages interesting and want to know a bit more about them.

There is one very popular example - an image of something, that could be identified either as a vase or as two faces opposit to each other. According to "common sense" you can not see both images at once. But my own experience tells me that it is possible, although not so easy. Caused by capacity limits of actively perceived information, our brain use to complete the images we see. Recognizing an object in our environment as an object seing before, the brain delivers a complex image of the enti...

1999 Paris, Carre Noir
2005 Berlin, Kondensstreifen
2006 Köln, Susanne Zander
2007 Berlin, Taylor&Wessing
2009 Hamburg, Hinterconti
2010 Hamburg, Westwerk (with Mathias Deutsch)
Berlin, Uhrwerk
2012 Berlin, Uhrwerk
2014 Berlin, Uhrwerk (with Jing Liu)

Group Exhibitions:

1996 Berlin, Parzival Gallery (Kai Hilgemann) - “Moskau - Berlin / Berlin - Moskau”;
Berlin, Academy of Arts, Marstall Gallery - “Moskau - Berlin / Werkstätten Moskau” (Installation „Kofferleben“ with Igor Seidel) cat
1998 Moscow, Artfair „Art Manege 98“ (Photoproject „Archetypes / Nationale Merkmale“)
1999 Berlin, Row Tempel, „WOW” (Computerinstallation with Igor Seidel)
2000 Barcelona, Sonar Festival 2000
2005 Cologne, Art-Cologne’2005
2006 London, Freeze’2006
2008 Hamburg, target: autonopop - "unlimited liability"
2009 Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Friedrichshein
2011 Jewish Museum Berlin, "Heimatkunde. 30 Künstler blicken auf Deutschland", 15.09.2011 - 29.01.2012
Berlin, Tacheles, "NUCLEaR UNFaiR"
Hamburg, target: autonopop - "unlimited liability"
Chonking High School of Arts, China
2013 Hamburg, Westwerk
Leipzig, "SubStance", Handelskammer zu Leipzig
2014 Hamburg, Westwerk