Elena Elagina (1949–2022) was born in Moscow and studied in the Philology Faculty of Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
Igor Makarevich was born in 1943 in Trialeti (Georgian SSR). He studied in the Art Faculty of the All‑Union State Cinematography Institute (VGIK).
From the late 1970s they were involved with the group Collective Actions. The project Closed Fish Exhibition (1990) marked the beginning of their working together. Selected solo exhibitions: Within the Limits of the Beautiful, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (2005); In Situ , Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2009); Countdown , Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2020). They took part in the 53rd (main project, 2009) and 54th Venice Biennales (Russian Pavilion, as part of the exhibition Empty Zones. Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions, 2011). They are winners of the Innovation Prize in the nomination Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Art (2012) and the Moscow Prize in the nomination Visual Art and Architecture (2021).
Works
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 11993Open storage
- Still Life with Fish1997Open storage
- Red Fish Cutting1994Open storage
- Cuts1994Open storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 21993Open storage
- Fishing Season (version)1998Open storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 41993Open storage
- Cut1994In storage
- Caravan1994In storage
- Ris-Unok2000Open storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 31993Open storage
- Ris-Unok2000Open storage
- Sketch 11994Open storage
- Ris-Unok2000Open storage
- Unok2000Open storage
- Deck1996Open storage
- Ris-Unok. Lead Pencil2000In storage
- Closed Fish Exhibition1990
- Ris-Unok. Lead Pencil2000In storage
- Ris-Unok. Lead Pencil2000In storage
- Radio Motor at Sea1994Open storage
- Sketch 21994Open storage
- Ris-Unok2000Open storage
- Ris-Unok2000Open storage
- Portrait of a Helmsman1998Open storage
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