1974 was born in Moscow, Russian Republic of form. USSR

 

1990/91 studied and worked as a journalist at the independent news agency

„Studinformo“, Moscow

 

1991 graduated the Moscow Literature Lyceum (secondary school)

 

1991 journalist of the russian language daily newspaper „Novosti Nedeli“

in Tel-Aviv, Israel

 

since 1992 lives and works in Berlin, Germany

 

1994/95 assistant of the fashion photographer Ali Kepenek, work at his casting 

agency „Type Face„, Berlin

 

1996 private education by Prof. Dieter Appelt, High School of Art, Berlin

graduated Moscow Polytechnical College (Photography)

 

1997 computer graphics, layout and photography for the „Puschkin“

magazine  (Moscow, Russia), 

since the end of 1997 – an art director of the magazine. 

 

1998 computer graphics, layout and printing design for the 

„Moscow House of Photography“,

culture critics and essays for the „Russian Journal“ – online edition

of the “Pushkin” magazine

 

1999/2000 computer graphics, layout and printing design for the 

„Appelt Mediaservice“, Berlin

 

2001/02 video editing systems education (Avid) at „Jump Cut“, Tel-Aviv, Israel

 

2003/04 computer graphics, layout and printing design for the „Moscow

House of Photography“; media analysis for the „Effective Politics

Foundation“ (Moscow, Russia)

 

since 2004 works on hand made collages in Berlin

 

2007 collaboration with free-jazz trio (Philipp Bernhardt,

Sabine Worthmann und Joana Charcan

for the cross-media performance

 

2008 works on digital media artworks, based on “analog” hand made collages

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

 

1999 Paris, Galerie „Carre Noir“

 

2005 Berlin, Galerie „Kondensstreifen“

 

2006 Köln, Galerie “Susanne Zander”

 

2007 Berlin, “Taylor&Wessing”

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

1996 Berlin, Galerie “Parzival” (Kai Hilgemann) – “Moskau-Berlin /

Berlin-Moskau”;

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Galerie “Marstall” – “Moskau Berlin /

Werkstätten Moskau” (Installation „Kofferleben“ mit Igor Seidel) cat

 

1998 Moscow, Artfair „Art Manege 98“ (Photoprojekt „Archetypen /

Nationale Merkmale“)

 

1999 Berlin, Row Tempel, „WOW“ ( Computerinstallation mit Igor Seidel)

2000 Barcelona, Sonar- Festival 2000

2005 Köln, Art-Cologne’2005

2006 London, Freeze’2006 

 

 

Performances

2007 Days of the German Culture, in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), Poland

cross-media performance with Philipp Bernhardt, Sabine Worthmann

and Joana Charcan

 

2008 videoinstallation for the Berlinale 2008 Short Film awards party

 

 

Scholarships

1996 Akademie der Künste Berlin (Stiftung Eduard Arnold)

Dr. Esther- Schlossberg-Stiftung (Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische

Zusammenarbeit, München)

 

Annemarie und Helmut Börner – Stiftung (Köln)

 

 

Recent Project: 

 

August 2008  Love, Death, Soul, Life at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium

This project brings together 7 artists–Tania Bedrinana (Peru); Dustyn Bork (U.S.); Markus Gutmann (Germany); Lou Joseph (U.S.); Michael Markwick (Netherlands); Mary Robinson (U.S.); and Misha Shenbrot (Russia/Israel)– to explore the universal themes of Love, Death, Soul, Life through the medium of printmaking. We will work together on a portfolio of prints at the Frans Masereel Centrum during August 11-29, 2008. We will complete 8 sets of the portfolio, one of which will enter the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Print Kabinet. The prints will be exhibited at Zimmer Gallerie in Berlin, Germany; Galerie in Vorm in Brussels, Belgium; Pictura in Dordrecht, the Netherlands; the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, United States; and the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, United States.

 misha shenbrot. beth collage 2007

 

 

 

 misha shenbrot. beth – detail II collage 2007

 

 

misha shenbrot. spirit – detail I  collage 2007 

misha shenbrot. spirit – detail II  collage 2007 

misha shenbrot. spirit – detail III  collage 2007 

 

misha shenbrot. red – detail I  collage 2007 

 

 

misha shenbrot. red – detail II  collage 2007 

 

 

  

 

misha shenbrot. red – detail III  collage 2007 

 

 

misha shenbrot. black light – part I  collage 2007 

 

 

 misha shenbrot. black light – part II  collage 2007 

 

 

 

misha shenbrot. black light – part III  collage 2007 

 

misha shenbrot. paradise – detail I  collage 2007 

 

misha shenbrot. paradise – detail II  collage 2007 

misha shenbrot. paradise – detail III collage 2007 

misha shenbrot. sphynx  collage 2007 

misha shenbrot. sphynx – detail I  collage 2007 

 misha shenbrot. blue  collage 2007