the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The Great Utopia was shown from 1991 until 1993 in Frankfurt am Main, Amsterdam, New York City and Moscow. Despite organizing the exhibit and numerous others, Iljine has stated he does not see himself as a curator, and he has no special education in the arts. Guggenheim Foundation He worked as the European representative for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation from 1994 to 2008, and in 2008 was also their representative in the Middle East. In this role he was instrumental in creating and implementing museum projects including Guggenheim Bilbao, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin with Deutsche Bank, Guggenheim-Hermitage in Las Vegas, and the development of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. He also curated architectural competitions for designing the Guggenheim museum in Lithuania and Mexico. While at the Guggenheim he organized major exhibitions such as RUSSIA!, a 2005 survey of Russian art at the Guggenheim in New York that was opened by Putin. He has taken active part in organizing numerous other Russian art exhibitions, including Kazimir Malevich - Suprematism, Amazons of the Avant-Garde (opened in New York by President V.V. Putin) and Kazimir Malevich - Suprematism, and RUSSIA! Exhibition opened by V.V.Putin in September 2005. For three years during the Art Basel Miami fair, he organized an annual exhibition of Russian contemporary art. Recent years From 2008 to 2010 he worked for GCAM (Global Cultural Asset Management Group) in New York, headed by Thomas Krens. As VP for international development, Iljine dealt with museum construction, building art collections, management programming, and art investment. He worked jointly with French architect Jean Nouvel on the design for a project of a Museum of Contemporary Art in Baku. As of February 2010, he was a consultant on issues such as "international cooperation" to several European cultural institutions. He is acting as Educational Activities Adviser at the M.T. Abraham Foundation, and since 2013 is heading the advisory board of the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel. Writing Iljine has published, co-authored, and edited a number of novels in his career. Early on he contributed to eight illustrated publications for Lufthansa on flight myths and legends. He later worked on the 2008 book Nikolai Suetin, about the artist Nikolai Suetin. Selling Russia's Treasures In 2000, Iljine was an editor for the Russian-language anthology of essays titled Prodannye Sokrovishcha Rossii (Sold Treasures of Russia), a publication detailing of the sale of Russian art confiscated from the