Tea, Coffee & Cappuccino, Boris Mikhailov's photography

Boris Mikhailov Tea, Coffee & Cappuccino

Untitled, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Untitled, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Untitled, 2000-2010.

Artist's Statement

I choose to focus on ordinary, everyday scenes and the search of formal solutions to translate this monotony into photography. These are photos I took over the last ten years (2000-2010) about the current state of affairs.

I continue my search for a photographic means to reflect the changes occurring in our lives. A new age has come – the age of business. 

Everything can be bought and sold – even children. Old women have started wheeling around trolleys full of their commodities, calling out “Tea, Coffee, Cappuccino”, the ‘preambulatory product’ of the age, also provided the title of this series. The reality of globalisation has come and extended to the places where we live and rest. A flux of cheap commodities has conquered ubiquitously, creating a colourful new plastic reality.

About the photographer

Born

1938, Ukraine

Nationality

Ukrainian

Based in

Germany

About Boris Mikhailov

Recipient of the 1996 Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award and of the 1997 Albert-Renger-Patzsch Award. 2000 Hasselblad Foundation International Award. 2001 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards and Citibank Photography Prize. The 2012 SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography.

Exhibitions:

  • Die Bücher 1968-2001, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 2013
  • Time is out of joint. Photographs 1966-2011, Berlinischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2012
  • Boris Mikhailov, Art Hall Gallery, Tallin, Estonia, 2011
  • Case History, MoMA, New York, USA, 2011
  • Utopia and Reality, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany, 2010
  • Salt Lake, Suzi et cetera, Dom of Photography, Moscow 2010
  • Yesterday Sandwich, NCCI, Moscow 2008
  • Red, Brown, Yeaterday’s Sandwich, Art4.ru – contemporary art museum, Moscow, 2008
  • Fluid Street: Alone, Together, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2008
  • Boris Mikhailov, Look at me I look at Water, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, 2007
  • Look at me I look at Water, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005
  • Case History, France Hals Museum, Netherland, 2004
  • Boris Mikhailov: private Freuden, lastende Langeweile, öffentlicher Zerfall, eine Retrospektive, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2003,of Culture  Barcelona, Spain 2004;
  • ICA Boston, USA; FOAM Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 2005
  • Boris Mikhailov: Case History & Heiner Müller Projekt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 2001
  • BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden, 2001Orchard Gallery, Derry, 2001
  • Orchard Gallery, Derry, 2001
  • The Photographic Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 2001
  • Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2001
  • Boris Mikhailov. 2000 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Göteburg, Sweden, 2000

Selected Publications:

  • Boris Mikhailov: Tea Coffee Cappuccino, Walther König, 2011
  • Buecher Books, Walter Konig, 2013
  • Time is out of Joint, Distanz, Berlinische Gallery, 2012
  • Wedding, Morelbooks, 2011
  • Maquette Braunschweig, Steidl, 2009
  • Crimean Snobbism, Hisako Motoo, 2007
  • Yesterday Sandwich, Phaidon, 2006
  • Suzi et cetera, Walther König, 2006
  • Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective, Scalo, 2003
  • Look at me, I look at water, Steidel 2003
  • Salt Lake, Steidl, 2002
  • 55, Phaidon, 2001
  • Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000, Scalo, 2001