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Ilya Kabakov
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Ilya Kabakov
| image         = "The Man Who Flew in to Space From His Apartment"("L'home que va volar a l'espai des del seu apartament").jpg
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| caption       = Ilya Kabakov gives instructions for the installation "The Man Who will Fly into Space From His Apartment"
(contracted; show full)italism]] and [[communism]]. Rather than depict the Soviet Union as a failed Socialist project defeated by Western economics, Kabakov describes it as one utopian project among many, capitalism included. By reexamining historical narratives and perspectives, Kabakov delivers a message that every project, whether public or private, important or trivial, has the potential to fail due to the potentially authoritarian will to power.

==Early life==
Ilya Kabakov was born on September 30, 1933 in Dnipropetrovsk, 
[[Ukraineian Soviet Socialist Republic]]. His mother, Bertha Solodukhina, was [[Jew]]ish. Ilya was evacuated during World War II to [[Samarkand]] with his mother. There he started attending the school of the Leningrad Academy of Art that was evacuated to [[Samarkand]]. His classmates included the painter [[Mikhail Turovsky]].

===Education===

From 1945 to 1951, he studied at the Art School, Moscow; in 1957 he graduated from V.I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow, where he specialized in graphic design and book [[illustration]].

==Career==
(contracted; show full)[[Category:American installation artists]]
[[Category:American contemporary artists]]
[[Category:Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Arts]]
[[Category:Soviet people of Jewish descent]]
[[Category:People from Dnipro]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts]]
[[Category:Russian contemporary artists]]