Max Sher is a photographer and visual artist currently based in Berlin. Before moving to the German capital in September 2021, Sher was primarily interested in de-exoticizing the representation of post-Soviet built environment and infrastructure, as well as in investigating local/problematic histories. Sher's work has been exhibited as part of solo and group shows at the Triumph Gallery, Calvert22 Gallery, Mead Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Shchusev Museum of Architecture, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. Sher’s artist books include A Remote Barely Audible Evening Waltz (Treemedia Publishers, 2013), Palimpsests (Ad Marginem Press, 2018, funded by Heinrich Böll Stiftung), 245 Khrushchev Housing Entrances (self-published, 2019), and INFRASTRUCTURES, a joint project with Sergey Novikov published in 2019 under their own micropublishing brand recurrentBooks with the support of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Sher’s latest photo book Snow will be published in 2024 by The Velvet Cell with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Max Sher was born in St. Petersburg, grew up in Siberia, and studied linguistics and literature in Siberia and France.

MAX SHER

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SOME ONGOING AND PREVIOUS PROJECTS
Internal Colonization (2022-ongoing)
INFRASTRUCTURES (with Sergey Novikov, 2016-2019)
Palimpsests (2010-2017, book published in 2018)
Other projects here.