Boris Ignatovich

♂ *1899-1976 / Russia

Works

Contacts for the work of Boris Ignatovich

Lumiere Brothers Center RU

The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
Bolshaya Polyanka street, 61, bld. 1
119180 Moscow
+7 495-228 98 78
info@lumiere.ru
www.lumiere.ru
Mon-Sat 11-20

Lumiere Brothers Gallery RU

Lumiere Brothers Gallery
Bolotnaya naberezhnaya 3 b. 1
119072 Moscow
+7 968 -451 40 19
gallery@lumiere.ru
lumierephoto.ru/en/
Tue-Sun 12-21

Boris Ignatovich

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Solo exhibitions

BORIS IGNATOVICH

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
25 Oct 2019 – 26 Jan 2020
Kunst im Auftrag

Deutsch-russisches Museum, Berlin (DE)
17 Nov 2006 – 11 Feb 2007
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imago fotokunst, Berlin (DE)
2 Sep 2003 – 8 Nov 2003

Group

Photobiennale 2026 МАММ

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
23 Sep 2026 – 29 Nov 2026

with Victor Akhlomov, Anonymous, Roger Ballen, Alexandra Catiere, Mikhail Grachev, Vladimir Lagrange, Ivan Mikhailov, Igor Mukhin, Georgy Petrussov, Mikhail Prekhner, Max Prekhner, Alexander Rodchenko …
Inoxydable

Musée Nicéphore, Chalon-sur-Saone (FR)
28 Jun 2025 – 21 Sep 2025

with Claire Chevrier, Francois Deladerriere, Stephen Dock, Bertrand Meunier, Andre Papillon, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Andre Steiner, Jean-Pierre Sudre
The Photo Club "Innovator". Twentieth century

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
7 Feb 2025 – 14 Apr 2025

with Igor Palmin, Alexeji Vassiliev
Masterpieces of Socialist Realist Photography,

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
10 Sep 2024 – 16 Nov 2024

with Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Yakov Khalip, Georgy Petrussov, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Sergei Shimansky, Georgij Zelma
CONSTRUCTING THE FRAME

Composition Among Soviet Avant-Garde and Nonconformist Artists

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
1 Nov 2023 – 23 Dec 2023

with Peter Galadzhev, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Sergei Shimansky
The Powerful Wings: Soviet Aviation 1920s–1930s

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
14 Oct 2020 – 14 Nov 2020

with El Lissitzky, Boris Kudoyarov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Georgij Zelma
THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE IN SOVIET RUSSIA: 1920S-1930S

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
7 Sep 2020 – 13 Oct 2020

with Yakov Khalip, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet
THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN IN SOVIET RUSSIA 1920S-1940S

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
13 Feb 2020 – 31 Mar 2020

with Jewgeni Chaldej, Semjon Fridland, Alexander Grinberg, Moissej Nappelbaum, Alexander Rodchenko, Ivan Shagin
CONSTRUCTING THE FRAME: COMPOSITION AMONG THE EARLY SOVIET AVANT-GARDE

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
3 Sep 2019 – 26 Oct 2019

with Jewgeni Chaldej, El Lissitzky, Peter Galadzhev, Yakov Khalip, Gustav Klutsis, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Georgij Zelma
Vintage Masterpieces of Soviet Photography

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
27 Mar 2019 – 11 May 2019

with Peter Galadzhev, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet
Pendulum . Moving Goods, Moving People

Images from the MAST Foundation's Collection

Fondazione MAST, Bologna (IT)
4 Oct 2018 – 13 Jan 2019

with Yto Barrada, Gabriele Basilico, Sonja Braas, Luca Campigotto, Mario De Biasi, Robert Doisneau, Roger Fenton, Mario Finocchiaro, Floto + Warner, Vincent Fournier, Robert Frank, Ulrich Gebert …
Masterpieces of Soviet Photography

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
1 Nov 2018 – 27 Nov 2018

with Max Alpert, Dimitry Baltermants, Lev Borodulin, Jewgeni Chaldej, Semyon Fridlyand, Mikhail Grachev, Samary Gurary, Yakov Khalip, Alexander Khlebnikov, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Vladislav Mikosha, Alexander Rodchenko …
ROSSART

Masterpieces of Soviet Photography

Photobastei, Zürich (CH)
18 Oct 2018 – 4 Nov 2018

with Lev Borodulin, El Lissitzky, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Lev Sherstennikov
The Soviet Century: Russian Photography from the Lafuente Archive (1917-1972)

PhotoEspaña18

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (ES)
6 Jun 2018 – 16 Sep 2018

with Max Alpert, Dimitry Baltermants, Lev Borodulin, Jewgeni Chaldej, Dmitrij Debabov, El Lissitzky, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Semyon Fridlyand, Mikhail Grachev, Naum Granovsky, Yakov Khalip, Mark Markov-Grinberg …
Russian Photography After the Revolution

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
7 Sep 2017 – 30 Nov 2017

with Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Semyon Fridlyand, Yakov Khalip, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Sergei Shimansky, Abram Schterenberg, Solomon Telingater, Georgij Zelma
ROSPHOTO’s 15th Anniversary Exhibition

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
12 Jul 2017 – 10 Sep 2017

with Felice Beato, Jewgeni Chaldej, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Dana Kyndrova, Alexander Rodchenko
The USSR is building socialism

Masterpieces of the Soviet photobooks of the 1930-ies

Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow (RU)
12 May 2017 – 18 Jun 2017

with El Lissitzky, Yakov Khalip, Mikhail Prekhner, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Anatolij Skurichin, Solomon Telingater
The Kiss

Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow (RU)
7 Apr 2016 – 12 Jun 2016

with Yuri Abramochkin, Vladimir Antoshenkov, Ilse Bing, Vladimir Bogdanov, Alexander Borodulin, Edouard Boubat, Viktor Budan, Robert Doisneau, Vasily Egorov, Elliott Erwitt, Harold Feinstein, Vladimir Filonov …
The Power of Pictures

Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

Jewish Museum, New York (US)
25 Sep 2015 – 7 Feb 2016

with El Lissitzky, Michal Kalatozow, Yakov Khalip, Eleazar Langman, Moissej Nappelbaum, Max Penson, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Dziga Vertov, Georgij Zelma, Georgij Zimin
Soviet Photography: 1920s-1930s

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
9 Sep 2015 – 30 Oct 2015

with Max Alpert, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Semyon Fridlyand, Yakov Khalip, Moissej Nappelbaum, Max Penson, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Georgij Zelma
Soviet Photo

Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow (RU)
14 May 2015 – 6 Sep 2015

with Alexander Abaza, Yuri Abramochkin, Max Alpert, Dimitry Baltermants, Vladimir Bogdanov, Sergey Borisov, Lev Borodulin, Jewgeni Chaldej, Vasily Egorov, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Vladimir Filonov, Valery Gende-Rote …
Wir müssen den Schleier von unseren Augen reißen

Fotografie und Zeichnung der russischen Avantgarde aus der Sammlung der Sepherot Foundation

Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum (DE)
22 Mar 2015 – 31 May 2015

with Jewgeni Chaldej, El Lissitzky, Ida Nappelbaum, Alexander Rodchenko
PROzavod

Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow (RU)
15 Jan 2015 – 1 Mar 2015

with Alexander Abaza, Yuri Abramochkin, Max Alpert, Vladimir Antoshenkov, Vladimir Bogdanov, Nikolay Drachinsky, Grigoriy Dubinsky, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Pavel Glebov, Alexey Gostev, Fred Grinberg, Sasha Gusov …
XVII Encuentros Abiertos, Festival de la Luz 2014

Fundación Luz Austral, Buenos Aires (AR)
1 Aug 2014 – 30 Sep 2014

with Lara Almarcegui, Max Alpert, Claudia Andujar, Roger Ballen, Carlotta Cardana, Brad Carlile, Mario Cravo Neto, Geraldo de Barros, Lenora de Barros, Luiz Carlos Felizardo, Nelson Garrido, Luis Gonzalez Palma …
SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
6 Sep 2013 – 6 Oct 2013

with Max Alpert, Dimitry Baltermants, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Semyon Fridlyand, Boris Kudoyarov, Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina, Olga Lander, Moissej Nappelbaum, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Georgij Zelma
Photography and History in the USSR, 1920-1940

100 Masterpieces from the Collection at Regali

Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen (NL)
25 May 2013 – 30 Jun 2013

with El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Rodchenko
Russia. 20th Century in Photographs: 1918-1940

A collection of pre-war Soviet photographs of everything under the sun.

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
3 Oct 2012 – 18 Nov 2012

with Mark Markov-Grinberg, Vladislav Mikosha, Ivan Shagin, Arkadiy Shaikhet
Land/City/real/Iamgined

Diemar/Noble Photography, London (GB)
25 Aug 2011 – 1 Oct 2011

with Berenice Abbott, Emily Allchurch, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Horacio Coppola, Marcus Doyle, Lisa Holden, William Klein, Anders Petersen, George Rodger, Chris Steele-Perkins
Epoch of Optimism

Art and propaganda in Soviet photography in the 1920-1940s

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
7 Apr 2011 – 31 May 2011

with Nikolai Andreev, Jewgeni Chaldej, Alexander Grinberg, Piotr Klepikov, Sergej Lobovikov, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Ivan Shagin, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Nikolai Svishov-Paola, Vasiliy Ulitin …
Politische Bilder . Sowjetische Fotografien 1918-1941

Die Sammlung Daniela Mrázkowá

Museum Ludwig, Köln (DE)
23 Oct 2009 – 31 Jan 2010

with Max Alpert, Moissej Nappelbaum, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Georgij Selma, Arkadiy Shaikhet
European & Russian Photomontage, 1920–1940

Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection

UBU Gallery, New York (US)
15 May 2009 – 31 Jul 2009

with El Lissitzky, John Heartfield, József Pécsi, Alexander Rodchenko, Paul Schuitema, Solomon Telingater, Piet Zwart
Unforeseen: The Personal in Photography in Russia 1926-1949

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
12 Sep 2007 – 27 Oct 2007

with Yuri Eremin, Anna Frants, Yakov Khalip, Moissej Nappelbaum, Max Penson, Mikhail Prekhner, Alexander Rodchenko, Ivan Shagin, Vasiliy Ulitin
Fotografie der Russischen Avantgarde aus der Sammlung Ludwig - Alexander Rodtschenko und Zeitgenossen

Suermondt Ludwig, Aachen (DE)
13 Mar 2004 – 6 Jun 2004

with Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Ivan Schagin, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Georgij Zelma
Pioneers of Soviet Photography IV

Howard Schickler Gallery, New York (US)
1 May 2004 – 31 May 2004

with Max Alpert, Viktor Bulla, El Lissitzky, Ida Nappelbaum, Moissej Nappelbaum, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Anatolij Skurichin, Georgij Zelma
Sowjetische Fotografie der 1920er und 1930er Jahre. Von Piktoralismus und Modernismus zum Sozialistischen Realismus

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
21 Feb 2004 – 16 May 2004

with Nikolai Andreev, El Lissitzky, Yuri Eremin, Alexander Grinberg, Georgy Petrussov, Alexander Rodchenko, Leonid Shokin, Vasiliy Ulitin
Photorelay race. From Rodchenko and up to now

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
20 Feb 2004 – 7 Mar 2004

with Andrey Chezhin, Katia Golitsyna, Naum Granovsky, Yakov Halip, Michael Ladejshchikov, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Georgij Zelma
Russische Tafelrunde

Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kul, Berlin (DE)
26 Nov 2003 – 16 Jan 2004

with Wiktor Achlomow, Alexander Rodchenko, Wiktor Rujkowitsch, Arkadiy Shaikhet
Seasons of Russian photography

Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno (IT)
21 Sep 2003 – 2 Nov 2003

with Dimitry Baltermants, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Alexander Grinberg, Alexander Rodchenko, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Leonid Shokin, Vassiliy Sokornov
Der Mensch bei der Arbeit

Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin (DE)

with Arkadi Samoilowitsch Schaichet

Events

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2026

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
23 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Sergei Shimansky, Alexey Titarenko
Paris Photo 2023 artists

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
9 Nov 2023 – 12 Nov 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Michael Ackerman, Ansel Adams, Albarran Cabrera, Toni Amengual, Eugenio Ampudia, Angelo Funk, Vladimir Antaki, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nadim Asfar, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon …
Paris Photo 2019

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2019 – 10 Nov 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Oliver Abraham, Marina Abramovic, Ansel Adams, David Adika, Jun Ahn, Albarran Cabrera, Pilar Albarracin, Laure Albin-Guillot, Helena Almeida, Darren Almond, Malala Andrialavidrazana …
29. Auktion Photographie

Altenburg Auktionen, Berlin (DE)
20 May 2019 – 23 May 2019

with Ursula Arnold, Sibylle Bergemann, Kurt Buchwald, Norbert Bunge, Andreas Feininger, Arno Fischer, Martin Klimas
Paris Photo 2018

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
8 Nov 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Jun Abe, Adou, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mustapha Azeroual, Ilit Azoulay, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley, Peter Beard, Renate Bertlmann, Viktoria Binschtok, LIU Bolin, Anais Boudot …
Cosmoscow

International contemporary art fair

Cosmoscow, Moscow (RU)
8 Sep 2017 – 10 Sep 2017

with Yuri Borisov, Per Christian Brown, Stephan Crasneanscki, Naum Granovsky, Yakov Khalip, Andrey Knyazev, Zbigniew Libera, Evgeny Medvedev-Ma, Antoine Rose, Arkadiy Shaikhet
Photobookfest 2017

Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow (RU)
12 May 2017 – 28 May 2017

with Ekaterina Anokhina, Michael Christopher Brown, Haishu Chen, Gregory Halpern, Irina Popova, Peter Puklus
fotofever paris 2015

Lumiere Brothers Gallery, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2015 – 15 Nov 2015

with Max Alpert, Lev Borodulin, Wynn Bullock, Harold Feinstein, Naum Granovsky, Vadim Gushchin, Sasha Gusov, Yakov Khalip, Andrey Knyazev, Yuri Krivonosov, Vladimir Lagrange, Yuri Lunkov …
<a href="http://www.altenburg-auktionen.de" target="_blank">Altenburg Photographie Auktionen</a>

Hotel Bogota, Berlin (DE)
26 May 2007

with Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Adolphe Braun, Jewgeni Chaldej, Peter H. Fuerst, Gisele Freund, L. Fritz Gruber, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Philippe Halsman, Raoul Hausmann, Klaus Lehnartz, Ute Mahler …
The World through Pilgrims’ Eyes.

Rare 19th and 20th Сentury Photography

MacDougall's Auctions, London (GB)

with Max Alpert, Dimitry Baltermants, Gunars Binde, Jewgeni Chaldej, Dmitrij Debabov, Robert Diament, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Mikhail Grachev, Alexander Grinberg, Alexander Khlebnikov, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Georgy Petrussov …
Classical Russian Photography Auction

Russian Art, Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons Auction

MacDougall's Auctions, London (GB)

with Max Alpert, Dimitry Baltermants, Alexander Borodulin, Lev Borodulin, Jewgeni Chaldej, Dmitrij Debabov, Mikhail Grachev, Alexander Grinberg, Yakov Khalip, Alexander Khlebnikov, Moissej Nappelbaum, Pyotr Otsup …
Detlev Steinberg: Ignatovitsch und die russische Avantgarde

imago fotokunst, Berlin (DE)