Yuri Kalendarev, sculptor, was born in Leningrad, USSR.
Lives and works in Tuscany, Italy.
1963—67
Studies engineering at Leningrad Aircraft Institute and sculpture at Yusupov Palace, Leningrad.
1970—73
Studies monumental sculpture at the Mukhina Institute of Industrial Art, Leningrad.
First involvement with non-conformist art-movement.
Studies stone carving at “Monumentsculptura”, Leningrad.
1974—75
Takes part in first “Leningrad non-conformist” exhibition at Nevsky Dvoretz, Leningrad.
Takes part in the first underground exhibitions of “Group Aleph”, Leningrad and Moscow.
1977
Establishes studio in Ein Hod, Israel.
1978—79
Teaches sculpture at Haifa University.
1980
Establishes studio in Carrara, Italy. First environmental projects.
1992
First lightworks.
1994
Begins to study calligraphy with Prof. Ruan Zong Va and Shodo with Rev. Jomyo Tanaka.
1998
First golden light works.
2002
Begins to study Art of tunning of metals from Robert Paiste, at Paiste AG, Nottwil, Switzerland.
First sound sculptures.
2004
First sound performances.
2008
First sounding screens.
SELECTED SOUND PERFORMANCES
2011
Dance in the standing Wave, Passion Bild, Kunst Museum Bern, Switzerland
2010
Sound Sculptures, Sound performance for newblueearth.org at the “Earth Commoners” Roundtable, Château de Bossey, Geneva, Switzerland.
Beyond the Sound, Sound Sculptures, Silent Action for Grossmunster. Grossmunster Cathedral, Zurich, Switzerland.
2007
Beyond the Sound, Sound Sculptures, Art & Transpersonal Psychology, Gazgolder, Moskow, Russia.
Beyond the Sound, Sound Sculptures, ArtMoscow, Moskow, Russia.
Beyond the Sound, Sound Sculptures, Dei Schachtel Sound Art Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2006
Cardio 21, Sound Sculptures & Sound Performance for Cardiological Symposium, Auditorium del Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy.
Sound Sculptures, Together with Pierre Favre, Crypt of Grossmunster, Zurich. Switzerland
Sound Sculptures, Gompa of Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa di Pomaia, Italy.
2005
Kursk, Sound Sculptures, Grossmunster, Zurich, Switzerland.
Beyond the Sound, Sound Sculptures, Auditorium del Palazzo dei Congressi, Institute of Clinical Physiology of National Centre of Research, Pisa, Italy.
2004
Kursk, Sound Sculptures, The Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", for The Museum of Nonconformist Art, The Society “Free Culture" and The Art Center “Pushkinskaya-10”, St.Petersburg, Russia.
SELECTED ENVIRONMENTS
2003
Golden Beat, Project for Nazarian building of Music Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
1995
Requiem, House is Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
1990
Project for Seltenleer, Heidelberger Castle. “Blue – color of distance”, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
1989
Project for Water Tower, for LVAA Water Tower, Louisville, KY, USA
1986
Project for Tefen, Open Museum, Tefen, Galilee, Israel
1980
Gravitation, Project for “Perspective83”, Art 14’83, Basel, Switzerland
1982
Gravitation. About anchors, Perspective 13’82, Basel, Switzerland
SELECTED ONE-MAN EXIBITIONS
2011
Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
Andersen Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1990
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
1989
Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
1984
Gallery Schoeneck, Riehen, Switzerland
1983
Thorens Fine Art AG, Basel, Switzerland
1984
Lopez Gallery AG, Zürich, Switzerland
1982
Gallery Court Saint-Pierre, Geneva, Switzerland
1981
“Perspective 82” ART 13’82, Basel, Switzerland
1980
Debel Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1979
Goldman’s Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1974
Arena Stage, Washington D.C. USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Nostalgia. Sound Installation. In collaboration between Venice Biennale 57, and The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts,
at Soranzo, Palazzo di Van Axel, Piazza dell Miracoli (Venice), Italy.
Ends at 5th September, Venice, Italy.
2016
Silent Action. Sound Installation.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow, Russia.
2011
Passion Bild, Kunst Museum Bern, Switzerland
The Standing Wave, Sound installation for Pro@Contra Symposium, special project of Moscow Biennale.
Silent Horizon, together with E.Yufit, Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
2008
Horizon, Sound sculpture, MediaMuseum, MediaArtLab, Moscow.
In nome della Rosa, mia nonna, Sound installation, Gall. Giannone, Pisa, Italy.
2004
10 Sound Plates for Saint Petersburg, Sound installation & Sound performance, The Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", for The Museum of Nonconformist Art, The Society “Free Culture” and The Art Center “Pushkinskaya-10”, S.Petersburg, Russia
1996
Bread and Light, Sofienholm Museum, Copenhagen, Dennemark
1995
Bread, Light and Salt, Russian State Museum, S.Petersburg, Russia
Earth and Light, National Art Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Stones, First International Symposium of stone sculpture, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia
1994
Bread and Light, Contemporary Art Museum, Sopot, Polan
Голод Starvation, „Selbstindentifikation“, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
1991
The presence of the absent, University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Gravitation, Kunst auf Landesgartenchau, Hockenheim, Germany
1989
Project for Water Tower, LVAA Water Tower, Louisville, KY, USA
Solitude. Plane and project, Solitude Palace, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
Rathaus, Mainz, Germany
Weiterbildungszentrum, Dusseldorf, Germany
1987
Kubus, Hannover, Germany
1985
Lopes Gallery AG, Zürich, Switzerland
1984
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1982
Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago, USA
1980
Two-man show with Tatsumi Oki, Ein-Hod, Israel
The International Symposium of Marble Sculpture, Carrara, Italy
The Marble Pavilions, Carrara, Italy.
1978—79
From Moscow to Jerusalem, Art in Transformation, traveling exhibition, USA.
Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, Canada
Those who came from Russia, Kar Gallery of Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
National Art Center, Ottawa, Canada
1976-77
Israel Art Center, Jerusalem, Israel
12 from Soviet Underground, traveling exhibition, USA, Canada
1975
GROUP ALEF, Moscow, USSR
First exhibition of “GROUP ALEF”, Leningrad, USSR
1974
Leningrad non-conformists, Gaza Palace, Leningrad, USSR.