Mikhail Ladeyschikov was born on August 12, 1949 in Sverdlovsk. He graduated from the Sverdlovsk Institute of Culture (Department of Photography). He lived and worked in the cities of Cheboksary and Yoshkar-Ola. He was one of the organisers of the first photofestivals in the USSR. Since 1986 he has been an active member of the photography group Fact (Cheboksary-Yoshkar-Ola). He has participated in numerous All-Union, All-Russian and international photography exhibitions. Mikhail worked as a set designer for the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre. For the last few years he has been living in Moscow.
Personal Exhibitions:
2012 Polyphonic realism. Grinberg Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 Personal exhibition of pictures and objects at PFUR (People’s Friendship University of Russia), Moscow, Russia
2004 Gorod bez sveta (“City without Light”), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Photobiennale-2004), Moscow
2002 Atsy, batsy i drugie tsarapki (paintings, objects, aesthetics of absurdism), Petr Vois Gallery, Moscow
1996 Mikhail Ladeyshchikov (Bratislava International Month of Photography), Bratislava
Group Exhibitions:
2013 Art Paris Fair, Grinberg Gallery booth
2012 Contemporary Russian Photography. FotoFest Biennial, Houston, USA
2007 Fotoestafeta. Ot Rodchenko do nashikh dnei (“Photorelay. From Rodchenko to Today”), Central Manezh, Moscow
2003 Artkonstruktsiya (“Artconstitution”). Exhibition of the Petr Vois Gallery in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
1994 Iskusstvo sovremennoi fotografii. Rossiya, Ukraina, Belarus (“The Art of Modern Photography. Russia. Ukraine. Belarus”), Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992 Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. Amsterdam
1991 Photo Manifesto. Contemporary Photography in the USSR, USA
1990 OPPOSITIONS, Rotterdam
Collections:
His works are featured in the collections of the Moscow House of Photography, the State Center of Modern Art and the Museum of Photographic Collections.
Book Publications:
Iskusstvo sovremennoi fotografii. Rossiya, Ukraina, Belarus (“The Art of Modern Photography. Russia. Ukraine. Belarus”), published by AUTOPAN, Moscow, 1994
Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. CIRC Foundation, Amsterdam, 1992
Photo Manifesto. Contemporary Photography in The USSR, Stewart, Tabori&Chang , USA, 1991
Glasnost у Fotografia. Nuovo fotografia Sovietica. (Contemporary Soviet Photography), Milano, Idea Books Italy, 1989
TOISINNAKIJAT (Dissent-viewers), Sn-Kirjat, Helsinki, 1988