Rapid Response Team

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Biography
1992

Serhiy Bratkov and Serhiy Solonsky are engaged in organizing one of the first contemporary art spaces in Kharkiv – the "Up/Down" gallery in Bratkov's studio, simultaneously starting the first joint creative experiments, which at that time did not yet have a completed serial nature.

1994

"The Rapid Response Group" was formed after curator Marta Kuzma invited Boris Mikhailov and Sergey Bratkov to participate in the exhibition "Alchemical Capitulation", which took place on the ship "Slavutych" in Sevastopol, AR Crimea[1].

[1] Sergey Bratkov: Glory Days / Fotomuseum Winterthur. Essays by Thomas Seelig and others. Verlag Scheidegger&Spiess, Zurich, Switzerland, p. 140.

1994

One of the collective's key projects was created – the series “If I Were a German”[1]. In 1995, it was published as a photo book.

[1]. Boris Mikhailov. Time is out of joint. Photography 1966-2011 [Electronic resource] Access mode.

1996 [1997]

The latest collective work of the group is "Karaul" (Moscow)[1].

[1] Sidlin M. (02.02.2007) The Art of Brutal Irony: Why Sergey Bratkov Photographs Children, OMON Officers, and Metallurgists [Electronic resource] Access mode: http://www.photographer.ru/cult/person/712.htm

Exhibitions
1999.09.09
The Future Has Arrived. Ukrainian Art of the 1990s
2015.09.23
If I were a German (within the framework of the Vienna Contemporary fair)
2011.11.06
If I were a German
1995
If I Were German (within the Kyiv Art Fair)
1995
If I were German
1995
If I were German
1995
If I were German
1995
Elections
1994
Art action
1994
Raphael
1995
I spit on Moscow
2016.05.21
Fault
2014.05.24
Ukrainians
1999.10.16
After the wall
1999.06.18
The Future Has Arrived. Ukrainian Art of the 90s
1994.07.20
Alchemical Capitulation
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