Marat Gelman
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Marat Alexandrovich Gelman ' onMouseout='HidePop("35917")' href="/topics/Chisinau">Chişinău
, Moldavian SSR
) is an owner and director of Guelman's Contemporary Art Gallery, ex-owner of the Foundation for Effective Politics
, and the former assistant director of Channel One (Russia)
.
and screenwriter
Alexander Guelman. He claimed that he was studying in school #37 but abandoned it due to youth problems
.
In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Communication. While he was in high school he worked at the Moscow Art Theatre
during the evenings. He then avoided the military draft because this institute had a military chair
.
Between 1985 and 1990 he was the general director
of a science and technical youth center (kind of commercial companies during late Soviet time) in Chişinău.
and Andy Warhol
, as well as many political performances.
Since 1991 he has worked with so-called political technologies (political public relations campaigns) in cooperation with the image-making company of Yefim Ostrovsky.
During the 1995 Russian Parliament elections
, he was listed as a candidate in Komsomol's block "Threshold Generation" (Поколение рубежа). Together with Gleb Pavlovsky
, he created the Foundation of Efficient Politics.
In 1997 he was going to start gathering voters to sign petitions for a Moscow referendum to remove the monument of Peter the Great by Tsereteli
, but then stopped this due to terrorist acts (from presumably existed Komsomol
's group "Revolutionary military council of RSFSR").
During the 1999 Russian Parliament elections
, he was the head of election staff for the Union of Right Forces
. During the elections of the Mayor of Moscow he worked for Sergei Kiriyenko
.
of many internet-projects, both art- and politics-related:
Chisinau
Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...
, Moldavian SSR
Moldavian SSR
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union...
) is an owner and director of Guelman's Contemporary Art Gallery, ex-owner of the Foundation for Effective Politics
Foundation for Effective Politics
Foundation for Effective Politics is a Moscow-based organization involved in significant parts of Russian public politics by creating numerous printed and online politics-related media. Some consider it to be a think tank .The founders of the FEP are Gleb Pavlovsky and Marat Gelman....
, and the former assistant director of Channel One (Russia)
Channel One (Russia)
Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...
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Early years
He was born in the capital of Moldova, then a Soviet republic. His father was famous Soviet playwrightPlaywright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
Alexander Guelman. He claimed that he was studying in school #37 but abandoned it due to youth problems
.
In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Communication. While he was in high school he worked at the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
during the evenings. He then avoided the military draft because this institute had a military chair
Military education in the Soviet Union
There existed an evolved system of military education in the Soviet Union that covered a wide range of ages.-Late Soviet Union:All able-bodied males obtained basic and specialized military training during obligatory 2-3 year male draft....
.
Career in Chişinău
Between 1983 and 1985 he worked as the head of non-standard equipment at the Chişinău television factory "Alpha". In 1985 he worked as an engineer at the Chişinău Scientific Research Institute of Non-destructive Diagnostics.Between 1985 and 1990 he was the general director
General Director
In CIS corporate governance, the general director is the highest executive position in a company, analogous to a US CEO or a UK managing director...
of a science and technical youth center (kind of commercial companies during late Soviet time) in Chişinău.
1990-2000
In 1990 he moved from Moldova to Moscow, Russia and established the "Guelman Gallery" there. This gallery hosted exhibitions of Joseph BeuysJoseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...
and Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
, as well as many political performances.
Since 1991 he has worked with so-called political technologies (political public relations campaigns) in cooperation with the image-making company of Yefim Ostrovsky.
During the 1995 Russian Parliament elections
Russian legislative election, 1995
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 17, 1995. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma , the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia ....
, he was listed as a candidate in Komsomol's block "Threshold Generation" (Поколение рубежа). Together with Gleb Pavlovsky
Gleb Pavlovsky
Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky is a Russian national, political scientist . He was an adviser of the Presidential Administration of Russia until April 2011. During the Soviet times he was prosecuted as a dissident....
, he created the Foundation of Efficient Politics.
In 1997 he was going to start gathering voters to sign petitions for a Moscow referendum to remove the monument of Peter the Great by Tsereteli
Tsereteli
Tsereteli is a former noble family in Georgia, which gave origin to several notable writers, politicians, scholars, and artists.- History :According to traditional accounts, the family’s ancestors had been chieftains in Dagestan or Ossetia, who fled the Islamization of their homeland by Tamerlane...
, but then stopped this due to terrorist acts (from presumably existed Komsomol
Komsomol
The Communist Union of Youth , usually known as Komsomol , was the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban centers in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Communist Union of...
's group "Revolutionary military council of RSFSR").
During the 1999 Russian Parliament elections
Russian legislative election, 1999
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on 19 December 1999. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma , the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia...
, he was the head of election staff for the Union of Right Forces
Union of Right Forces
The Union of Right Forces, or SPS , was a Russian democratic opposition party associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the 'Young Reformers' of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. Nikita Belykh was the last party's leader...
. During the elections of the Mayor of Moscow he worked for Sergei Kiriyenko
Sergei Kiriyenko
Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko is a Russian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin...
.
Since 2000
- In April 2002 Guelman left the "Foundation of Efficient Politics", explaining that "FEP practically became a department of media services of President Administration".
- Between June 2002 and February 2004 he worked as the assistant of the General Director of Channel One, head of analytics. His resignation letter explained that this job was too simple for his analytical skills.
- Between March and October 2003 he worked in the election staffRussian legislative election, 2003Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 7, 2003. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma , the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia ....
of Sergey GlazyevSergey GlazyevSergey Yurievich Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist, Academician of Russian Academy of Science since 2008. He was a minister in 1993, a member of the State Duma in 1993-2007, and ran for President of Russia in 2004...
and Dmitry RogozinDmitry RogozinDmitry Olegovich Rogozin is a well-known Russian diplomat and popular politician, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia. In January, 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO. He was a leader of the Rodina party until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the...
coalition RodinaRodinaRodina or Motherland-National Patriotic Union was one of the four parties that controlled seats in the Russian legislature in 2003-2007...
(its name was changing, first it was "Comrade" and "Comrades"). (Later these clients were included in his own "list of fascists and xenophobs".) - In 2004 he has participated in the Ukrainian presidential electionsUkrainian presidential election, 2004The Ukrainian presidential election, 2004 was held on October 31, November 21 and December 26, 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union...
as an adviser to Viktor YanukovychViktor YanukovychViktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...
(whose coalition Party of RegionsParty of RegionsThe Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others...
most possibly has no connections with same-name Polish and Russian parties.) - Between the summer of 2005 and the autumn of 2006 he was a prominent member of the newly-created Social Democratic Party of RussiaSocial Democratic Party of RussiaThe Social Democratic Party of Russia was a political party founded in Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev on November 26, 2001. First name of party is: Social Democratic Party of Russia . It was a coalition of several social democratic parties, had approximately 12,000 members, but had no seats in the...
.
Internet projects
Marat Guelman is also known as a curatorCurator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of many internet-projects, both art- and politics-related:
- Artist Batynkov unmasks free masons
- Putin-chess
- Irak.ru and Vojna.ru (in association with Konstantin RykovKonstantin RykovKonstantin Rykov , a.k.a. Jason Foris is a Russian politician.-Biography:Rykov was born in Moscow. Since 1998 he made his mark as one of the first professional Russian Internet producers. Rykov together with Egor Lavrov created websites such as and and television programs such as the popular...
) - Kazakhstan art
- AES groub, "islamic project"
- supposedly art-group Voina (2008 scandal as reported by Reuters)
External links
- Official website — Guelman.Ru, contemporary art in internet
- Guelman's Gallery in Kiev (in Ukrainian)
- GiF.Ru (in Russian) — «Inform-agency Kultura», Guelman's internet-project
- Interview with Marat Guelman
