curated by Klaus Werner and Dieter Daniels
Coachman’s house of Herfurth’s Villa
Ilya Kabakov, who lives in New York, is today the most internationally known artist from the formerly “unofficial” Moscow art scene. He showed the installation “Voices behind the door” in Leipzig from November to December. The viewer is shown the lives of three families in a Moscow communal apartment, the Kommunalka, from the 1960s to the 1980s. With tragic irony, Kabakov tells about the everyday life of Soviet communal living.
Since the beginning of November 1994, Kabakov has been working on the installation together with students from the Academy of Visual Arts and the Institute of Art History as part of the project “Teaching by working I”. During the construction of this “total installation” typical of Kabakov, his ideas and contents were discussed daily.