Dimitri Michnovski lives and works in Berlin. He assembles his own archives. Sometimes he finds the material; sometimes the material finds him. Found objects, photographs, drawings, prints, fragments of historical research: the work either emerges from these archives, or becomes one. He follows the question, not the medium, working across photography, painting, drawing, digital print, and installation. He is interested in what archives, images, and political narratives leave unsaid, and in the work of bringing it back into view. His ongoing series Realitätsdiagramme is an open, expanding archive of Jewish existence in present-day Germany; other projects, such as Maidan, follow the same logic into post-Soviet political imagery.
Born in 1986 in Chișinău, he has lived in Germany since 2000.
"Like the German-Jewish art historian Aby Warburg, whose unfinished Mnemosyne atlas found its way out of Nazi Germany to London, Michnovski undertakes to reveal alternative routes through a reality shaped by visual media."
"Michnovski establishes himself in the field where art, politics, and new media technologies intersect, as a shrewd detective."
— Ralph Buchenhorst, 2022