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
- Sturgeons1989In storage
- Ris-Unok2000In storage
- Ris-Unok. Lead Pencil2000In storage
- Cuts1994In storage
- Ris-Unok2000In storage
- Red Fish Cutting1994In storage
- Seiners1994In storage
- Sketch 11994In storage
- Portrait of a Helmsman1998In storage
- Still Life with Fish1997In storage
- Ris-Unok2000In storage
- Ris-Unok2000In storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 31993In storage
- Cut1994In storage
- Ris-Unok. Lead Pencil2000In storage
- Sketch 21994In storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 41993In storage
- Fishing Season (version)1998In storage
- Ris-Unok2000In storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 11993In storage
- Caravan1994In storage
- Portraits of Hothouse Combine Workers, no. 21993In storage
- Étude. Oil1994In storage
- Ris-Unok. Lead Pencil2000In storage
- Deck1996In storage
- Unok2000In storage
- Radio Motor at Sea1994In storage
