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Jan 28, 1954 70 years old
Russian artist
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About Genia Chef
- Genia Chef (born Evgeny Scheffer, 28 January 1954) is a Russian artist living in Berlin, Germany.
- International Who's Who 2000 notes that before emigrating to the West in 1985 he was a member of Soviet Nonconformist Art circles in Moscow, a group that included, among others, Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Anatoly Zverev and Semyon Faibisovich.
- During that period he began to use the pseudonym "Genia Chef". His work is represented in the permanent collection of the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
- His work is also held in the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection in the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey; the Kolodzei Art Foundation; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia; the Sigmund Freud's Dreams Museum in Saint Petersburg; and Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin, among others. Spain's La Vanguardia newspaper has called Chef "[a]n artist of grand culture, whose precise work combines ideas and techniques from both East and West in an effort to portray a new social order that seeks to recapture beauty".
