The year 1998 saw the opening of the “In Memory of Dizi” exhibition, initiated by the Municipal Gallery and the Nuremberg House, as well as 17 prominent Kharkiv artists.
Dizi Nuremberg was a German gallerist who had a long-standing friendship and collaboration with Kharkiv artists. Thanks to Nuremberg, the works of Kharkiv artists were repeatedly exhibited at international exhibitions. For the first time, our fellow countrymen presented their art in 1990 at Dizi’s gallery in an exhibition of paintings by Vachagan Norazyan and Vitaliy Kulikov. Nuremberg’s collaboration with Kharkiv masters continued until his death.
Oleksiy Borysov, Sergiy Bratkov, Andriy Gladkiy, Viktor Goncharov, Natalia Goncharova, Olga Yefremova, Oleksiy Yesiunin, Olena Kudynova, Vitaliy Kulikov, Pavlo Makov, Yevheniya Morgulyan, Igor Morgunov, Vachagan Norazyan, Andriy Pichacchi, Viktor Sydorenko, Yuriy Sheyn, and Eduard Yashin dedicated their exhibition to the memory of the gallerist. Some of the works were exhibited in Germany at CONSUMENT ART 97 – the last exhibition organized by Dizi Nuremberg.
“Dizi tried not to call himself a ‘gallerist’ (that is, the owner of a gallery who exhibits artists’ works), but modestly referred to himself as a postman who delivers correspondence – the art of artists from Scotland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Ukraine. He was not a wealthy person by German standards, but he was rich in creative ideas, plans, and friends: artists, musicians, owners of small restaurants, old bikers. The German ‘postman’ considered himself completely free to live his life as he pleased,” wrote artist Sergiy Bratkov about his friend.
