Yuri Kalendarev, sculptor, was born in Leningrad, USSR.
1963-67 Studies engineering at Leningrad Aircraft Institute and sculpture at Yusupov Palace, Leningrad.
1968-69 Service in Soviet Army.
1970-73 Studies monumental sculpture at the Higher 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.
1976 Obtains permission to leave USSR. Arrives in Israel.
1976 Establishment of permanent residence in Artist's Village Ein Hod, Israel.
1977 Service in Israeli Army .
1978-79 Teaches sculpture at Haifa University.
1979 First travel to Carrara, Italy.
1980 Establishes studio in Carrara, Italy.
1992 First return to Russia.
1992 First light – works.
1992-95 “Column of Light” Light project for the city of St. Petersburg.
1994 Begins to study calligraphy with Prof. Ruan ZongVa and Shodo with Rev. Jomyo Tanaka.
1995 “Project for Kilian” Light environment for the city of Kiel, Germany.
1998 First golden light works.
2002 First sound sculptures.
2004 First sound performances.
SELECTED SOUND PERFORMANCES
• ”Beyond the Sound”, Sound Sculptures, Auditorium del Palazzo dei Congressi, Institute of Clinical Physiology of National Centre of Research, Pisa, Italy.
"Cardio 21", Sound Sculpture & Sound Performance for Cardiological Symoposium, Auditorium del Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy.
"Sound Sculptures", Together with Pierre Favre, Crypt of Grossmunster, Zurich. Switzerland
• "Sound Sculptures", Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa di Pomaia, Italy.
"Kursk", Sound Sculptures, Grossmunster, Zurich, Switzerland.
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", S.Petersburg, Russia.
SELECTED ENVIRONMENTS
• "Golden Beat" - Project for Nazarian building of Music Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
1995 “Requiem”, House am 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 Art 14'83, Basel, Switzerland
1982 “Gravitation. About anchors”, Perspective 13'82, Basel, Switzerland
SELECTED ONE-MAN EXIBITIONS
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
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 and Light” , Russian State Museum, S.Petersburg, Russia
1995 “Earth and Light”, National Art Gallery, Oslo, Norway
1995 First International Symposium of stone sculpture, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia
1994 “Bread and Light” , Contemporary Art Museum, Sopot, Poland
1994 Selbstindentifikation, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
1991 “The presence of the absent”, University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1991 Kunst auf Landesgartenchau, Hockenheim, Germany
1989 LVAA Water Tower, Louisville, KY, USA
1989 “Solitude. Plane and project”, Solitude Palace, Stuttgart, Germany
1988 Rathaus, Mainz, Germany
1988 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
1980 The International Symposium of Marble Sculpture, Carrara, Italy
1980 “The Marble Pavilions”, Carrara, Italy.
1978-79 “From Moscow to Jerusalem, Art in Transformation”, traveling exhibition, USA.
1978 Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, Canada
1978-79 “Those who came from Russia”, Kar Gallery of Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
1978 National Art Center, Ottawa, Canada
1977 Israel Art Center, Jerusalem, Israel
1976-77 “12 from Soviet Underground”, traveling exhibition, USA, Canada
1975 “GROUP ALEF” Moscow, USSR
1975 First exhibition of “GROUP ALEF”, Leningrad, USSR
1975 “Leningrad's non-conformists”, Gaza Palace, Leningrad, USSR
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