Julia Kissina was born in 1966 in Kiev, Ukraine and belongs to the most radical group of contemporary Russian writers.\u00a0She moved to Germany in 1990 and lives in Berlin and in New York.\u00a0She studied dramatic writing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. As a Visiting Professor of Photography, she taught at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design as well as The Rodchenko Art School in Moscow.<\/p>\n
Kissina\u2019s poetry and prose\u00a0were\u00a0included in the much-translated anthology of modern Russian literature, \u201cRussian Flowers of Evil\u201d (1997). Her first collection of stories in German \u201cForget Tarantino\u201d was published in 2005. Her novel \u201cSpringtime on the Moon\u201d exploring the tragic dynamic between surreal perception and bureaucratic despotism was published by Suhrkamp (2013). In 2016 her novel \u201cElephantina\u2019s Moscow Years\u201d was published\u00a0in Germany (Suhrkamp). In 2018 she was\u00a0the\u00a0editor of\u00a0a\u00a0German anthology of modern Russian avant-guard\u00a0literature\u00a0\u201cRevolution Noir\u201d.<\/p>\n
Julia Kissina is also known as a visual artist, having devoted herself to conceptual photography in the 1990s. As part of a performance in 2000, she herded an actual flock of sheep into the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. She also co-curated the \u201cArt & Crime\u201d festival at the Hebbel Theater, Berlin in 2003, and performed in a German prison. In 2006 Julia Kissina created The Dead Artist\u2019s\u00a0Society, which held s\u00e9ances to conduct \u201cDialogues with Classic Artists\u201d such as Duchamp and Malevitch.<\/p>\n
Milin und der Zauberstift. Children\u2019s book. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2005.<\/em> Julia Kissina was born in 1966 in Kiev, Ukraine and belongs to the most radical group of contemporary Russian writers.\u00a0She moved to Germany in 1990 and lives in Berlin and in New York.\u00a0She studied dramatic writing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. As a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8073,"template":"","categories":[7,14],"class_list":["post-609","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author","category-moderator"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nVergiss Tarantino. Short stories. Aufbau, Berlin 2005.<\/em>
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\nDead Artists Society. Non-fiction. Verlag f\u00fcr Moderne Kunst, N\u00fcrnberg 2010.<\/em>
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\nFr\u00fchling auf dem Mond. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013.
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\nElephantinas Moskauer Jahre. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"