Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will be Taken into the Future

Russian-born conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are among the most celebrated artists of their generation. Known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations, the artists’ work fuses the everyday with the conceptual. Deeply rooted in the visual culture of Soviet society yet speaking equally to universal themes, their work is characterized by a sense of melancholia but also by humor.

Celebrating five decades of work, this book traces a line from Ilya Kabakov’s ear...