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Avdey
Stepanovich Ter-Oganyan

Russia • born in 1961

Born December 2, 1961 in Rostov-on-Don. From 1978 to 1982 he studied at the Rostov Art College. M. B. Grekova. In 1988, he founded the Art or Death Partnership in Rostov-on-Don. In 1989, he moved to Moscow. He directed the gallery in Trekhprudny Lane, the gallery "Forward!" In 1995-1998 he directed the School of Modern Art, in which he taught teenagers (including his son David) theories and practices of avant-garde and post-avant-garde art, some of which began to act as the Radek Society.

 

At the Art Manege-98 exhibition on December 4, 1998, Avdei Ter-Oganyan performed with the performance “Young Atheist”, after which a criminal trial was opened against him on charges of inciting religious hatred. Without waiting for the trial, Avdey Ter-Oganyan emigrated and received political asylum in the Czech Republic. He lived and worked in Berlin, where he resumed the work of the School of Contemporary Art and the Forward Gallery. Currently lives in Prague.

 

Miroslav Nemirov’s book A. is dedicated to the work and fate of Ter-Oganyan S. Ter-Oganyan: Life, Fate and Contemporary Art ”(1999).

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