Julia Kissina was born in 1966 in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a Jewish family, and studied dramatic writing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, also known as VGIK. A political refugee, she immigrated to Germany in 1990, where she later graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
A longtime member of the Moscow Conceptualist movement and one of the best known authors of Russian literary avant-garde, Kissina had been a regular contributor to the two of Russia's Samizdat literature journals, "Obscuri Viri" and "Mitin Journal". Her début short novel "Of the Dove's Flight Over the Mud of Phobia" (1992), became a cult hit of "Samizdat". Kissina's poetry and prose subsequently appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the much-translated anthology of modern Russian literature, "Russian Flowers of Evil" (1997). Her first collection of stories in German "Vergiss Tarantino" (tr: Forget Tarantino) was published in 2005, the same year as her children’s book "Milin und der Zauberstift" (tr: Milin and the Magic Pencil). Her style, characterized by whimsical humor, precise observations of social conflicts and a distinct sense of the absurd, can be described as auto-fictional fabulism. An essential theme of her work is "civilization and its discontents". Despite intertextual experiments with words and subjects, her books are intricately plotted. Her novel "Frühling auf dem Mond" (2013, tr: Springtime on the Moon) draws from her childhood in the 1970s Kyiv, exploring the tragic dynamic between surreal perception and bureaucratic despotism. Written in a similar style, her novel "Elephantinas Moskauer Jahre" (2016, tr: Elephantina’s Moscow Years) is a coming-of-age story about a young woman who moves to Moscow to explore the depths of the artistic underground in search of true poetry.
Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt Frankfurt 2000
Julia Kissina is also known as a visual artist, having devoted herself to conceptual photography in the 1990s. In 2000, she herded an actual flock of sheep into the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt as part of a performance. She also co-curated the Art & Crime Festival at the Hebbel Theater, Berlin, in 2003 and performed in a German prison. In 2006 she created The Dead Artist's Society, which held séances to conduct "Dialogues with Classics" such as Duchamp and Malevich.
Julia Kissina, / Revolution Noir – Autoren der russischen »neuen Welle« German. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2017 ISBN978-3-518-42766-8, an anthology of contemporary Russian avant-garde literature including such writers as Vladimir Sorokin, Pavel Pepperstein, Youlia Belomlinskaja etc. translated into German.
In Riga - A Memoir by Boris Lurie Edited and Introduced by Julia Kissina; Printed in the USA ISBN978-0-578-51209-9
Berlin / New York = URBAN DICTIONARY literature festival, Summer, 2018; curator. URBAN DICTIONARY brought together writers and poets from Berlin and New York. https://nyb-festival.de/en/
Julia Kissina herself is a marvellous hybrid creature: internationally acting artist with an oeuvre of installations, photography and performances on the one hand and one of the most unconventional contemporary Russian writers on the other. [...] Her literary archeology of late socialism seems not at all reactionary but highly topical, as it does with Esterházy, Cărtărescu or Tellkamp: because it’s the influences and mentalities of that time that cause the grotesques and tragedies in the Eastern European present. / Alexander Camman, Die Zeit, Germany
"Elephantina‘s Moskow Years” is a veritable inferno of a novel: smart, funny, imaginative, with powerful scenes./ Meike Fessmann, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Kissina breaks open metaphors and puts them together anew, so that you have to laugh out loud or marvel at the sheer originality of it all. [...] The colorful, grotesque, poetic images of «Elephantina» do not portray the well-known Moscow of the eighties, but evoke something quite different: a wild, anarchic counterculture. / Elisa von Hof, Berliner Morgenpost, Germany
There is hardly another book that illuminates the connexion of tyranny and subversion, of submission and autonomy, better than this novel./ Andreas Breitenstein, NZZ, Switzerland
Her unflinching will to see grotesque in the ugly, the supernatural in beauty, and the thread of the absurd running through it all, is a victory over the hardness of reality. That is what art, every art, can do. But it is rarely shown as inspiringly as here. / Katarina Granzin, Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany
A true odyssey through the cold and strange city – James Joyce could not have described it more radically or more closely. Julia Kissina's language is a linguistic firework. It does not bore for a single moment, and despite the often bitter "gutter" story, a defiant humor flourishes throughout./ Barbara Raudszus, EGOTRIP, Germany
Referencesedit
Eagles and Partridges — from Russian by Steven Volynets — Jewish Fiction journal
Julia Kissina – Suhrkamp Berlin
Fairies – Photographs by Julia Kissina – Sensitive Skin Magazine
Julia Kissina – Harpers Magazine
Julia Kissina – Tussle Magazine
External linksedit
Official website
January 01, 1970
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Learn how and when to remove this message Julia Kissina born 1966 in Kyiv is a German and Russian artist and writer Julia Kissina Contents 1 Biography 2 Publications 2 1 Art books 2 2 Anthologies and collections 2 3 Editor and curator 3 Praise 4 References 5 External linksBiography editJulia Kissina was born in 1966 in Kyiv Ukraine to a Jewish family and studied dramatic writing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow also known as VGIK A political refugee she immigrated to Germany in 1990 where she later graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich A longtime member of the Moscow Conceptualist movement and one of the best known authors of Russian literary avant garde Kissina had been a regular contributor to the two of Russia s Samizdat literature journals Obscuri Viri and Mitin Journal Her debut short novel Of the Dove s Flight Over the Mud of Phobia 1992 became a cult hit of Samizdat Kissina s poetry and prose subsequently appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including the much translated anthology of modern Russian literature Russian Flowers of Evil 1997 Her first collection of stories in German Vergiss Tarantino tr Forget Tarantino was published in 2005 the same year as her children s book Milin und der Zauberstift tr Milin and the Magic Pencil Her style characterized by whimsical humor precise observations of social conflicts and a distinct sense of the absurd can be described as auto fictional fabulism An essential theme of her work is civilization and its discontents Despite intertextual experiments with words and subjects her books are intricately plotted Her novel Fruhling auf dem Mond 2013 tr Springtime on the Moon draws from her childhood in the 1970s Kyiv exploring the tragic dynamic between surreal perception and bureaucratic despotism Written in a similar style her novel Elephantinas Moskauer Jahre 2016 tr Elephantina s Moscow Years is a coming of age story about a young woman who moves to Moscow to explore the depths of the artistic underground in search of true poetry nbsp Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt Frankfurt 2000 Julia Kissina is also known as a visual artist having devoted herself to conceptual photography in the 1990s In 2000 she herded an actual flock of sheep into the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt as part of a performance She also co curated the Art amp Crime Festival at the Hebbel Theater Berlin in 2003 and performed in a German prison In 2006 she created The Dead Artist s Society which held seances to conduct Dialogues with Classics such as Duchamp and Malevich Publications edit Elephantinas Moscow Years novel Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2016 Zvezda St Petersburg 2015 Fabula Ukraine 2017 Springtime on the Moon novel Azbuka Publishers St Petersburg 2012 German Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2013 Fabula Ukraine 2016 Forget Tarantino Aufbau Verlag Berlin 2005 The Smile of the Ax Colonna Publications St Petersburg Prague 2007 Milin and the Magic Pencil children s book Bloomsbury Berlin Verlag 2005 Simple Desires Alethea Press St Petersburg 2001 Nominated for the Andrei Bely Prize The Devil s Childhood novel Obscuri viri Moscow 1993 The Dove s Flight Over the Mud of Phobia novel Obscuri viri Moscow 1997 Art books edit Dead Artists Society Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nuremberg 2010 When Shadows Cast People Peperoni Books Berlin 2010 Dead Artists Society The Library of Moscow Conceptualism Russia 2011 Anthologies and collections edit Artenol Magazine New York 2016 A Thousand Poets One Language Anthology A Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum Foundation Dubai 2009 21 new storytellers Anthology DTV Munich 2003 Russian flowers of the evil ed Viktor Yerofeev Anthology Eksmo Moscow 1997 Ruske kvety zla Belimex Anthology Slovakia 2001 Les fleurs du mal Anthology A Michel Paris 1997 I fiori del male russi Anthology Voland Roma 2001 Cuentos rusos Anthology Siruela Madrid 2006 Tema lesarva Anthology Gabo Budapest 2005 Contemporary Russian Prose Anthology ed Vladimir Sorokin Zakharov Books Moscow 2003 Il casualitico Fernando Pessoa Amelie Nothomb Valentino Zaichen Renzo Paris Franco Purini Julia Kissina Voland Press Rome 2003 Magazine Lettre International N 71 Budapest 2008 Magazine New Literature Bucharest 4 1994 Magazine Schreibheft No 59 Essen Germany 2002 Magazine Via Regia No 48 49 Berlin 1997 Mitin Journal Petersburg Praha Annually Editor and curator edit Julia Kissina Revolution Noir Autoren der russischen neuen Welle German Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2017 ISBN 978 3 518 42766 8 an anthology of contemporary Russian avant garde literature including such writers as Vladimir Sorokin Pavel Pepperstein Youlia Belomlinskaja etc translated into German In Riga A Memoir by Boris Lurie Edited and Introduced by Julia Kissina Printed in the USA ISBN 978 0 578 51209 9 Berlin New York URBAN DICTIONARY literature festival Summer 2018 curator URBAN DICTIONARY brought together writers and poets from Berlin and New York https nyb festival de en Praise editThis section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately Find sources Julia Kissina news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2017 Learn how and when to remove this message Julia Kissina herself is a marvellous hybrid creature internationally acting artist with an oeuvre of installations photography and performances on the one hand and one of the most unconventional contemporary Russian writers on the other Her literary archeology of late socialism seems not at all reactionary but highly topical as it does with Esterhazy Cărtărescu or Tellkamp because it s the influences and mentalities of that time that cause the grotesques and tragedies in the Eastern European present Alexander Camman Die Zeit Germany Elephantina s Moskow Years is a veritable inferno of a novel smart funny imaginative with powerful scenes Meike Fessmann Suddeutsche Zeitung Germany Kissina breaks open metaphors and puts them together anew so that you have to laugh out loud or marvel at the sheer originality of it all The colorful grotesque poetic images of Elephantina do not portray the well known Moscow of the eighties but evoke something quite different a wild anarchic counterculture Elisa von Hof Berliner Morgenpost Germany There is hardly another book that illuminates the connexion of tyranny and subversion of submission and autonomy better than this novel Andreas Breitenstein NZZ Switzerland Her unflinching will to see grotesque in the ugly the supernatural in beauty and the thread of the absurd running through it all is a victory over the hardness of reality That is what art every art can do But it is rarely shown as inspiringly as here Katarina Granzin Frankfurter Rundschau Germany A true odyssey through the cold and strange city James Joyce could not have described it more radically or more closely Julia Kissina s language is a linguistic firework It does not bore for a single moment and despite the often bitter gutter story a defiant humor flourishes throughout Barbara Raudszus EGOTRIP GermanyReferences editEagles and Partridges from Russian by Steven Volynets Jewish Fiction journal Julia Kissina Suhrkamp Berlin Fairies Photographs by Julia Kissina Sensitive Skin Magazine Julia Kissina Harpers Magazine Julia Kissina Tussle MagazineExternal links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Julia Kissina amp oldid 1211144555, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
