Yury Kharchenko (Russian Юрий Харченко, born 1986 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a German artist. He lives and works in Berlin.
Life Kharchenko was raised in Moscow and West Germany. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2004 to 2008, graduating with a master of fine arts degree and diploma. He was briefly in a PhD programme at the University of Potsdam from 2011 to 2012; the subject of his research was art philosophy in postmodern times influenced by Jacques Derrida. He currently lives in Berlin.
His works are part of collections in the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, NS Documentation Center Cologne, State Collection Düsseldorf, Kunst aus NRW Aachen, Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabrück, Kunstmuseum Walter, and the Wemhöner Collection.
Selected exhibitions 2027 Städtische Galerie Tuttlingen (solo) Religio Museum, Telgte (group)
2026 Yury Kharchenko / Vitaly Komar, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main Altes Haus, curated by Marat Guelman, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen Klassenverhältnisse – die zweite Staffel, Kunstlehre von 1946 bis 2026, with Peter Doig, Jörg Herold, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, Günther Uecker, Markus Lüpertz and others Zitadelle, Berlin, curated by Christoph Tannert, with Arnold Dreyblatt, Emmanuel Bornstein, Zahar Zukerman, Alona Harpaz, Shira Orion, Yehudit Sasportas and others
2025 Galerie Noah, Twintowers Alt-Treptow, Berlin, with A. R. Penck, Jonathan Meese, Bernd Zimmer, Karl Horst Hödicke and others Bad/Good Jews, Bunker Berlin, curated by Yury Kharchenko, Aljosha Samjatin and Marat Guelman, with Art Spiegelman, Alexander Melamid, Michail Grobman, Marat Guelman Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art (group), with Archie Rand, Joel Silverstein, Yona Verwer, Tobi Kahn, Yigal Ozeri and others
2024 Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum, Schwäbisch Hall (solo)
2022 Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll (Kunstverein Niebüll e.V.) (solo) Kunstverein Krefeld (solo)
2021 MiQua. LVR-Jewish Museum in the Archaeological Quarter Cologne at Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne. Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik, Rita Kersting (Museum Ludwig, Cologne), Kay Heymer (Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf); moderator: Dr. Michael Köhler
2020 Messe in St. Agnes, Johann König Galerie, Berlin (group) Berlinische Galerie (group) Hamburger Kunsthalle (group) Kunstmuseum Bonn (group) HEART, in collaboration with the United Nations, with Jenny Holzer, Thomas Klipper, Anselm Kiefer, Katharina Grosse, Rose Wylie, Antje Majewski, Douglas Gordon, Joseph Kosuth, Candida Höfer, Norbert Bisky, Henning Strassburger, Nevin Aladağ, Abraham David Christian, Assaf Gruber, Reinhard Mucha, Monica Bonvicini, Anish Kapoor and others Biennale Ansbach (group), with Jonas Burgert, Justine Otto, Nicola Samorì, Martin Kobe and others
2019 Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne (group) Avanti, with Leiko Ikemura, Frauke Dannert, Katharina Jahnke, Philipp Schwalb and others St. Joseph, Münster (solo) Franz Hitze Haus, Münster (solo) Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt am Main (group), with Jonathan Meese, Justine Otto, Philipp Grözinger Lachenmann Art, Konstanz (solo)
2018 Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bild Macht Religion, with Jake and Dinos Chapman, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Berlinde De Bruyckere, David LaChapelle, Hermann Nitsch, Nam June Paik, Sigalit Landau Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück (solo) NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Cologne (solo) Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, with Thea Djordjadze, Anna K.E., Yury Kharchenko, Frauke Dannert, Seb Koberstädt, Gereon Krebber, Eli Cortiñas, Florian Meisenberg Kunstverein Sundern Galerie Noah, Augsburg Kunstmuseum Walter im Glaspalast
2017 Ketterer, Berlin, with Thomas Zipp, Anton Henning, Walter Stöhrer, Thomas Hartmann, Eugen Schönebeck, Bernd Koberling, K. H. Hödicke, Takeshi Makishima, Gama, Miriam Vlaming, Yury Kharchenko Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf — new presentation of the museum collection; selected as Masterpiece of the Month, curated by Kay Heymer; podium discussion with Kay Heymer Luther and Avantgarde, Old Prison, Wittenberg, with Ai Weiwei, Erwin Wurm, Jonathan Meese, Isa Genzken, Olafur Eliasson, Stephan Balkenhol, Christian Jankowski, Jürgen Klauke, Günther Uecker, Tal R, Gregor Schneider, Gilbert & George, Yury Kharchenko Sotheby’s auction, Vienna, with Mischa Kuball, Michael van Ofen, Axel Geis, Kirstine Roepstorff, Sophie von Hellermann, Ricarda Roggan Alte Synagoge Essen (solo), curated by Kay Heymer
2016 Clara Maria Sels Gallery (solo) Jüdisches Museum Westfalen (solo) Nordheimer Scheune, Helmut A. Müller (solo)
2015 Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf Christie’s at K21, Düsseldorf Voyage Mezzanine Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam Voyage Mezzanine Bonnefanten, Roermond, Netherlands Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, USA
2014 Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf — Ilya Kabakov, Yury Kharchenko, Panamarenko, Alexander Braun Bespoke, Düsseldorf, with Barbara Friedman, Nicola Stäglich Kunstverein Dillingen, with Thomas Huber Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, USA, with Jasper Johns, A. R. Penck, Barbara Friedman and Donald Baechler Private show, art space in Chelsea, New York, curated by Nicollette Ramirez Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin (solo)
2013 Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf (solo) Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam (solo) Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin (solo) Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam (solo) FRISCH, Halle am Wasser, Berlin (solo) Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, USA (solo) Gene Shapiro Auctions, New York Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2012 Chaplini Gallery, Cologne (solo) Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, with Nezaket Ekici Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London Prima Center, Berlin (solo) Kunst aus NRW Collection, Aachen Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2011 Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2010 Förderkoje, Art Cologne (solo) New Positions, Cologne — Michal Budny, Anja Schwörer, Michael Wutz, Zenita Komad, Yury Kharchenko, Johannes Wald, Eli Cortiñas, Michail Pirgelis, Rebecca Wilton, Marco Schuler, János Fodor, Vera Lossau Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
2009 Art Cologne Project, Russian Salon, with Vadim Zakharov and Anna Parkina Jiří Švestka Gallery, Prague Otto Schweins Gallery, Cologne (solo)
2008 Kunstmuseum Walter Galerie Noah
2007 Tris Vonna-Michell / Yury Kharchenko (solo) European Kunsthalle Project Otto Schweins Gallery, Cologne (solo) Schuebbe Projects, Düsseldorf (solo)
2006 Christie’s at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Publications Worlds Within. Kerber Verlag, Berlin 2013, . Journey to Jerusalem. Kerber Verlag, Berlin, 2013, . Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2013 Extra Verlag, Berlin, 2012, . Boesner GmbH (Hrsg.) "Kunstwelten", Boesner, Witten, 2011, BestellNr.: 9783928003001 Leonardo Art award, Kunstmuseum Walter, Augsburg, 2008 Extra Verlag, Berlin 2008, .
References
External links
Yury Kharchenko bei Artfacts.net
Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam Ober Gallery, CT, USA New York Times Tagesspiegel Kölnische Rundschau The Millbrook Independent Monopol Magazin TV Vernissage
Galerie Philia, Paris