Nato nel 1938 a Kharkov, Ucraina
Vive e lavora a Berlino

Principali Mostre Personali 

2019
Before Sleep/After Drinking, C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin, Germany 
FotoZeit Salzau, Soviet Collective Portrait, When my Mama was young, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2018
Yesterday's Sandwich, Sprovieri Art Gallery, London
The soul, a subtle internal combustion engine, CRP, Douchy-les-Mines, France

2017
57th Venice Biennal - Ukrainian Pavilion, Venice

2016
Boris Mikhailov: Ukraine and Mariken Wessels: Taking Off. Henry my Neighbor, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
Mit Meinen Eigenen Augen, Fotoarbeiten, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

2015
Io non sono io, Museo MADRE, Naples
Profiles and..., Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Ukraine, CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin
Boris Mikhailov, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris

2014
Men's Talk, Guido Costa Projects, Turin

2013
Four Decades, Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York
Salt Lake, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
Die Bucher 1968-
201, Sprengel Museum, Hannover

2012
Promzona / Men's Talk, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris
Time is Out of Joint. Fotografien 1966–
2011, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Triptychs, Sprovieri Gallery, London
Salt Lake - La Criée, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes
Tea - Coffee - Cappuccino,
2000-
2010, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris
I am not I -
1992, Suzanne Tarasieve / Loft 19, Paris

2011
If i Were a German, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
Yesterday's Sandwich, ShugoArts Gallery, Tokyo
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Boris Mikhailov: Case History, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Boris Mikhailov - Tea Coffee Cappuccino, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Boris Mikhailov, Art Hall Gallery, Tallin (Estonia)

2010
At Dusk -
1993, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris
Yesterday´s Sandwich, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
Utopia and Reality, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim (Germany)
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Villa Schoningen, Postdam (Germany)
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2009
Yesterday´s Sandwich - 1969/70, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris
Dusk, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem (Belgium)

2008
Bricolage, National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow
Historical insinuations - Personal exhibition of Boris Mikhailov to 70th anniversary of artist, Mulimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow
Fluid Street: Alone, Together, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Red, Brown - Yeaterday's Sandwich, Art4.ru - Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
The Wedding, Sprovieri Gallery, London
Boris Mikhailov - Look at Me I Look at Water or Perversion of Repose
1999, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris

2007
Banzai!, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Intimacy, Matthew Bown Gallery, Berlin and London
Yesterday's Sandwich, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Boris - Look at me I look at Water / Or Perversion of Repose (
1999), Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Boris Mikhailov, Merano Arte, Merano (Italy)
Look at Me - Beach, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo

2006
Yesterday´s Sandwich - ShugoArts, Tokyo
Intermezzo, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
Case History / Salt Lake, Muzeum Historii Fotografii im. Walerego Rzewuskiego, Krakow
Moments / Monuments, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin

2005
Boris Mikhailov, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris
Butterbrot From the 60s/70s, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux
Private Pleasures - Burdensome Boredom - Public Decay, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
Boris Mikhailov, Osterman Common Room, Ann Arbor (Michigan)
Look at Me - I Look at Water, Maison des Arts du Grütli, Geneva (Switzerland)
Look at Me - I Look at Water, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf (Germany)

2004
Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Boris Mikhailov, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Boris Mikhailov. TV-Mania, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg (Germany)
Boris Mikhailov. In the Street, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Boris Mikhailov. Testimony of the Negative Photography, Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Boris Mikhailov, fotografies 60's-
2003, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona
Boris Mikhailov, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid

2003
Boris Mikhailov, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris
Football, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Raum 1: Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf (Germany)
Salt Lake, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Boris Mikhailov, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Case History, ArtForum Moscow - Satellite Corporation Art Prize - Central House of Painters, Moscow
Het Sociale Verval in Rusland Fotografisch Gedocumenteerd, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (Netherlands)

2002
Tv-Mania, Galerie der Stadt Schwarz, Schwarz (Austria)
The Insulted and the Injured, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York
Tv-Mania, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Case History, First International Festival of Photography, Rome
Boris Mikhailov, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz (Austria)

2001
Case History: Case History & Heiner Muller Projekt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Case History, Saatchi Gallery, London
Boris Mikhailov, Orchard Gallery, Derry (Ireland)
Boris Mikhailov, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Boris Mikhailov, Bildmuseet, Umeå (Sweden)

2000
Boris Mikhailov -
2000 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg (Sweden)
Boris Mikhailov, Photographers' Gallery, London
Boris Mikhailov, Sprovieri Gallery, London
Boris Mikhailov, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Boris Mikhailov, Dvir Gallery, Tel Avivi (Israel)

1999
Boris Mikhailov, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
Case History and Dance, Scalo Gallery, Zurich
Case History, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Boris Mikhailov, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Boris Mikhailov. Pri Tleh (
1991) / By the Ground (
1991), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

1998
Peri Center of Photography, Turku (Finland)
Boris Mikhailov, Castello di Rivara - Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivara (Italy)
Boris Mikhailov. Les Misérables (About the world), Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Boris Mikhailov, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam

1997
Boris Mikhailov, Galeria FF - Forum Fotografii, Lodz (Poland)
Boris Mikhailov, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
Crimean Grafomania, Galerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin
photomania, DAAD Gallery, Berlin

1996
Boris Mikhailov, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (New York)
Art of the Indigent, XL Gallery, Moscow
Boris Mikhailov, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Boris Mikhailov. A Retrospective, SCCA - Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kiev (Ukraine)

1995
Boris Mikhailov: After the Fall, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Boris Mikhailov, Portikus, Frankfurt and Main; Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich

1994
Perspektief, Photographic Center, Rotterdam
Hotel Europa, Foto Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
By the Ground, XL Gallery, Moscow

1992
Boris Mikhailov: Works from the 1970-
1991, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (Austria)

1990
The Union bank Collection, Helsinki
The Missing Picture: Boris Mikhailov, MIT - List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (USA)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Dom Kino, The House of Cinematography, Moscow
1989
Boris Mikhailov, Arles (France); Signalhallen Armémuseum, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere (Finland)

Principali Mostre Collettive

2018
Hot Art in a Cold War: Intersections of Art and Science in the Soviet Era, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA 
Parliament, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, US 
Freedoms Is Recognized Necessity, Stedelijk Museum Amesterdam, Amesterdam, Netherlands 
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, Barbican Centre, London, UK

2017
Jan <3 Boris, Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, Netherlands
5 Odessa biennale: Turbulence, Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ukraine 
Fotos aus der Von der Heydt-Sammlung, Von der Heydt Kunsthalle, Wupperta, Germany
Von Malewitsch bis Judd, von Deineka bis Bartana Die Revolution ist tot. Lang lebe die Revolution!, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland 
Innere Haut, Kunst und Scham, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

2016
The End of the World, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (Italy)
The Human Condition Session II: Human And The Others. Love, Friendship, Suspicion, Aversion, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia 
Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom 
Dreamworlds and Catastrophes, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA 
Uniques en leurs genres, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France 
Dancing with Myself: Selbstporträt und Selbsterfindung Werke aus der Sammlung Pinault, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 
Perdidos en la ciudad/ La vida urbana en las colecciones del IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

2015
ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
FACES NOW. European Portrait Photography since
1990, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Prix Pictet, East Wing, Doha (Quatar)
Group Exhibition, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin

2014
Intenzione manifesta, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
The Ukrainians, Daadgalerie, Berlin
After the Victory, Ermilov Centr, Kharkov (Ukraine)
Playgrounds. Reinventing the Square, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Gallery Artists Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo

2013
Théâtre du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen (Belgium)
Ukraine: Expropriation, Grinberg Gallery, Moscow
Critique and Crises. Art in Europe Since 1945, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn (Estonia)
This Infinite World, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Austria)
Russisches Berlin, Central Exhibition Hall, Perm (Russia)
The ShugoArts Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
The Desire for Freedom - Arte in Europa dal 1945, Palazzo Reale, Milan
Expansion Of The Object, Moscow Museum of Modern Art - MMOMA, Moscow
Primrose - Russian Colour Photographh, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
Riotours Baroque: From Cattelan to Zubaràn, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Quartiers d'été de la collection Bernard Magrez, Villa Roches Brunes, Dinard (France)
Everthing was moving: Photography from the 60s to the 70s, Barbican, London

2012
Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union, Saatchi Gallery, London
Reality Bites the Document in Contemporary Art, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
XXX. Europaratsausstellung - Verführung Freiheit. Kunst In Europa Seit 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Fkaking it: manipulated photography before photoshop, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
La Belle et la Bête, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux
Durchsucht - Fixiert - Geordnet, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (Germany)
9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
C´est la Vie - Das Ganze Leben - Der Mensch in Malerei und Fotografie, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden (Germany)
Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2nd Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art - Production Of Meanings, Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg (Russia)
4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (Germany)
Junge Menschen, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Deftig Barock, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Fremde Überall – Foreigners Everywhere - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection, Jüdisches Museum, Vienna
Arsenale
2012, Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev
The Allure of the Collection, NMAO - National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
German Portraits, Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York
Revolution vs Revolution, Beirut Art Center, Beirut (Libano)
Underground: Russian Photography 1970s - 1980s, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York
Theatre Of The World, Mona - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (Tasmania)
Visible / Invisible, Toyota municipal Museum of Art, Toyota (Japan)

2011
Photography: New Documentary Forms, Tate Modern, London
Collection Platform 2: Circulation, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Photography Calling! - The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
6a Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba (Brasil)
8, Mercosul Bienniale, Brazil
Heimatkunde. 30 Künstler Blicken auf Deutschland, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
Vrai ou Faux?, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna
Double Sun, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Ostalgia, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Not For Sale, Passage de Retz, Paris
Message From The Ages - Churches And Monasteries On The Balkans, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
Breaking News - Fukushima and the Consequences, Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
New Documentaries Form at Tate Modern, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul
Der Zweite Blick, Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Landau / Pfalz (Germany)
Leipzig. Fotografie seit 1839 - 1962, Heute - Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (Germany)
Aires de Jeux, Champs de Tensions, Le Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier
Der Zweite Blick, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm; DESTE Foundation, Athens
Collection Platform 1: Circulation, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Monanism, Mona - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (Tasmania); Venice Biennale - Collateral Projects, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
People and the City, WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Photography Calling, Sprengel Museum, Hannover

2010
The Hasselblad Award 1980-
2010, Hasselblad Foundation, Goteborg
Place - Time…, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Les Recherches d’un Chien, La Maison Rouge, Paris
October, Anya Stonelake / White Space Gallery, London
The Adventure of Reality International Realism, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Arbeit / Labour, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Körpernah Akte/Nudes, Galerie Tammen & Partner, Berlin
Realismus - Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo - Kulturstiftung, Munich
Tudo o Que é Sólido Dissolve-se no Ar: o Social na Colecção Berardo, Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Ukrainian Art in Transition, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm (Russia)
Sexuality and Transcendence, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1989 - 2.Abschnitt , Villa Schöningen, Potsdam (Germany)
Malas Calles, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Photo I - Photo You, Calvert22, London
Realismus - Sas Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit. Courbet - Hopper - Gursky, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden (Germany)
Summa Summarum, National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow

2009
Les Rencontres d'Arles. 40 ans de rupture, Arles (France)
Investigations of a Dog, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão (Portugal); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Gender Check - Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien - Museumsquartier, Vienna
Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-80s, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick (Canada)
Young Ladies, Old Chaps and Some Thai Friends, Galleria SpazioA, Pistoia (Italy)
Gallery Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Memorizer - Der Sammler Andreas Züst, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (Switzerland)
Movie Painting, National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow
1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld (Germany)
Printed Matter - Set 6 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Looking at Others - Photograpfs and Video-Instalations, Umjetnicki Paviljon / Art Pavilion Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia)

2008
Gluck - Welches Gluck, Deutsches Hygiene - Museum Dresden, Dresden (Germany)
Helga De Alvear im Dialog mit Harald Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
La Ilustracion Total - Rte Conceptual de Moscu 1960-
1990, Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Efter Eisenstein, Lunds Konsthall, Lund (Sweden)
Familienangelegenheiten, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm (Germany)
Die Totale Aufklärung - Moskauer Konzeptkunst, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
REAL. Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ-BANK, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Street & Studio: an Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London
"Paradies und Zurück - Sammlung Rheingold Zeitgenössische Kunst", Stiftung Schloss Dyck, Jüchen (Germany)
Fluid Street-Alone, Together, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Baby. De Ideale mens Verbeeld 1840 - Heden, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Semantic Dislocations: Artistic Translations, Bereznitsky, Berlin
Are You Close Enough? Hommage to the Dutch Photographer Peter Martens, Galerie West, The Hague (Netherlands)
Liebe. Love. Paare, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm (Germany)

2007
Der Kontakt des Fotografen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Germany)
SWITCHER SEX: Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
Información Contra Información, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Man Ray bis Sigmar Polke. Eine Besondere Fotogeschichte. Sammlung Barbara und Horst Hahn, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen (Germany)
Liebe. Love. Paare, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg (Germany)
Anatomia dell’Irrequietezza, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (Italy)
Stripped Bare . Der entblößte Körper, C/O Berlin, Berlin
Existencias, Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon (Spain)
Patriot Games / Ukrainian Gothic, Collection Gallery, Kiev
Grey Matters, Aftercop - The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
SUMMER SHOW
2007, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Attitude
2007, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto - CAMK, Kumamoto (Japan)
Fotografierte Landschaften, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (Germany)
Objects of Art, Matthew Bown Gallery, Berlin
Objects of Art, Matthew Bown Gallery, London
Hot + Bothered: Looking at the Landscape, Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York
52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Aus dem 21. Jahrhundert - Neuerwerbungen, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Scenes and Traces - From the Collection Design, Photography & Video, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
What Does the Jellyfish Want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2006
Replacing Mashkov - Recent Acquisitions by the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague (Netherlands)
In the Face of History - European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Twilight. Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London
Postorange - Beispiele Ukrainischer Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle - Museumsquartier, Wien
Revelation (Uppenbar(a)t), Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Boris Mikhailov & Illay Chichkan - Moments / Monuments, Bereznitsky, Berlin
At Second Glance - Portrait Photography from the Collection of De Hallen Haarlem, The Hague(Netherlands)
Beach Photography, Anya Stonelake / White Space Gallery, London
Corpus Christi. Christusdarstellungen in der Fotografie, Kunsthalle, Krems (Austria)
Click Double Click, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Die Schönheit der Chance Positionen + Tendenzen
2006 - Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg (Germany)
Die Schönheit der Chance, Institut für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nuremberg Go, Ukraine, Go!, ReginaGallery, Moscow
Toucher l'Indicible, CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète (France)
Dokumentation im Bild, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig (Germany)
Geschichten - Geschichten, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Personal Affairs, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Germany)
Click Double Click, Haus der Kunst München, Munich
Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin - Art from two Cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2005
Recent Acquisitions / Nieuwewin Aanwinsten, Museum of Photography The Hague, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague (Netherlands)
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Rundlederwelten, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Miradas y Conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
East Art Museum, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen (Germany)
Information / Transformation - Extra City, Kunsthal, Antwerp (Belgium)
2LIVE, Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec
Citizens, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown (Wales)
Bock mit Inhalt - Summer Exhibition
2005, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
The Theatre of Art - Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Villa Manin - Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Italy)
Miradas y Conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo - MEIAC, Badajoz (Spain)
Emergencies, Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon (Spain)
Earlier Works, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Circa Berlin, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen
Western Biennale of Art, John Natsoulas Art Gallery, Davis (USA)
Citizens, PM Gallery & House, London
Minimalist Kitsch & Visionare Sammlung Vol.1, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

2004
The Seven Sins, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana
IDFA: ParaDocs, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
Play, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
45th October Art Salon / Continental Breakfast , Oktobarski Salon, Belgrade
Dorf in die Metropole, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Channel Zero, NIMk - Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (closed,
2013)
Die zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden (Germany)
"Blow Up" - Zeitgenössische Künstlerfotografie, Ulmer Museum, Ulm (Germany)
Manifesta 5 - San Sebastian, Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Privatisierungen - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa, Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin
Himmel über der Straße - Topographie der Obdachlosigkeit, Storms Düsseldorf GmbH, Dusseldorf (Germany)
The Beauty of Darkness, Galerie Alex Daniels / Reflex Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Fotografie / Film, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Secrets of the '90s', Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem (Netherlands)
SOZIALE KREATUREN - Wie Körper Kunst Wird, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Verworpenen en Zondagskinderen - Aanwinsten en Gemeenteaankopen, De Hallen, Haarlem (Netherlands)
BISS, New National Gallery Berlin and Museum deer Arbeit, Hamburg
Verbal photography: Ilya Kabakov and Boris Mikhailov, Museum Serralves, Porto
HA KYPOPT! Russsche Kunst heute, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden (Germany)
XL Photography, Deutsche Boerse Collection, Frankfurt
Ernst Barlach - Kathe Kollwitz - Boris Mikhailov, Kunsthalle Goeppingen, Goeppingen (Germany)
The Post-Communist Conditon, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Kunst Werke, Berlin
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Akademie der Kunsts, Berlin; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Germany)

2003
Corpus Christi _ Christus - Darstellungen in der Photographie, 1850 -
2001, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Marat Gelman's Gift, The State Russian Museum - Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-
2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Tretjakow Galerie, Moscow
Micropolitics III (1980-1968), EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana (Spain)
X. Rohkunstbau - Ein Europäisches Portrait, Wasserschloss, Frankfurt/Oder
In Faccia al Mondo. Il Ritratto Contemporaneo nel Medium Fotografico, Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genova
Cruel and Tender: the Real in the Twentieth-Century Phtograph, Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Germany)
Warum? Bilder Diesseits und Jenseits des Menschen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum Serralves, Porto
We - They, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Art Fear, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
Gallery Opening Show, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Witness, Barbican Center, London
Traumfabrik Kommunismus, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Architecture of Homelessness, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Berlinische Galerie Academie der Kunste, Berlin; Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
Auf der Suche nach Identität, Studierende der Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig (Germany)

2002
Die Aufgabe der Zeit, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (Germany)
Numero Zero, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
Iconografias Metropolitanas, 25th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brasil)
Popcorn and Politics - Activists of Art, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Parc Humà, Palau de la Virreina - Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona; Centre de Cultura de Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Sand in der Vaseline, Kunstlerbucher II, 1980-
2002, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld (Germany)
How Extraordinary that the World Exists!, CCAC - Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Balzam, Helm Haus Zurich, Zurich

2001
AutoWerke, Fotocollectie BMW, Haarlem
Trade - Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland); Niederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Democratic Art?, Sprovieri Gallery, London
Remake Berlin, NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Festival Internationale de la Photographie d'Arles
2001, Arles (France)
Instant City, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (Italy)
Il ne Faut pas se Fier aux Apparences, un Train peut en Cacher un Autre, Abbaye St André - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac (France)
The Citibank Private Bank Photography (Prize
2001), The Photographer's Gallery, London
Home / Homeless, Bo01 City of Tomorrow: European Building Exhibition and sustainable, Malmo (Sweden)
Kunst und Kur / Arte e benessere, Kunsthaus Meran, Merano (Italy)
From the 60 until now…, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York

2000
X-mas Ausstellung, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
AutoWerke. Europäische und Amerikanische Fotografie
1998 -
2000, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg; De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem (Netherlands)
Urbanities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (Macedonia)
Darueber Hinaus, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
How You Look at It, Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Prière de ne pas Toucher, FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
After the Wall - Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Ludwig Museum, Budapest
En Long et en Travers, FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
Positions Attitudes Actions - Social and Political Committent in Photography, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Bons Baisers de Russie, Festival Toulouse, Toulouse (France); Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (Macedonia)
Global Conceptualism. Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT - List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (USA)

1999
Projekte mit Fotografie (7). Berlin-Stadt im Wandel 21 Fotografen, Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin
Ich und die Anderen, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim (Germany); Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
After the Wall - Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Nationalgalerie in Hamburger Bahnof, Berlin
Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie, Kunstmuseum, Bern
Global Conceptualism. Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Miami Art Museum, Miami; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada); MIT - List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (USA)
Under / Exposed, Stockholm Metro, Stockholm
Future is now, Ukrainan Art in the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Croatia)

1998
Out of Home, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
L'avant-garde Russe et la Scène 1910-1930, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels
Ainsi de Suite II, CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sète (France)
Nobuyoshi Araki and Boris Mikhailov, Satani Gallery, Tokyo
Richard Billingham & Boris Mikhailov, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Photobiennale
1998, Moscow

1996
Multinlingual Landscapes - CAC - Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
All Work No Play, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change: 1890-
1990, The Jewish Museum, New York
10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

1995
Contemporary Russian Photography, Academy of Arts, Berlin; Neu Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Currents '95 - Familiar Places, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
If I were a German…, Galerie in deer Brotfabrik and Galerie Andrea Weiss, Berlin

1994
Photo-reclamation, Photographers' Gallery, London; John Hansard Gallery - University of Southampton, Southampton (England)

1993
Fotografen aus Charkov - Ukraine, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
New Photography IX, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York

1992
Herbarium - The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Russian Art, Fotogalerie Wein - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wein (Austria)

1991
Photo Manifesto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore (USA)
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (USA)

1990
Erosion, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
1989
Torino Fotografia '89 - Biennale Internazionale, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin
1988-89
New Soviet Photography, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense (Denmark); Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Premi

2015
The Kaiser Ring Prize
2015, Kaiserpfalz, Goslar (Germany)

2003
General Satellite Corporation, Art Prize for a contribution to the development of the contemporary Russian art, Moscow

2001
The Citybank Private Bank Photography Prize, London

2000
The Hasselblad Foundation, International Award in Photography, Goteborg (Sweden)

1998-1999
Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr Fellowship, Collegium Helveticum Zurich, Switzerland

1996-1997
DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant, Berlin

1996
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award, Zurich

1994
Fellowship at Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA