Max Sher
Berlin, Germany
Born in St. Petersburg, raised in Siberia and educated in Siberia and France, Max Sher is primarily interested in de-exoticising the representation of built environment, architecture, and infrastructure, as well as in investigating local/problematic histories. His work was exhibited as part of solo and group shows both in Russia and internationally, including Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Museum of Architecture, Triumph Gallery, Calvert22 Gallery, PERMM, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterina Foundation, Format Festival, and Noorderlicht, and is included in public and private collections in Russia. Sher has also worked on assignments for The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Bloomberg Businessweek, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Welt, Monocle, Le Monde, Libération, Financial Times Weekend, etc. Sher is the author of a number of artist books and zines, including A Remote Barely Audible Evening Waltz (Treemedia Publishers, 2013), Palimpsests (Ad Marginem Press, 2018), 245 Khrushchev Housing Entrances (self-published in 4 editions, 2018-20), Dictatorship of the Seven Seas (2018), and Infrastructures, a joint photobook with Sergey Novikov published in 2019 under their own small publishing brand RecurrentBooks. Max Sher is based in Berlin since 2021.
- Architecture
- Arts
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Interior
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- English
- French
- Russian
- German
