Born in 1955 in Moscow.

Georgy Kiesewalter is an artist whose name is primarily associated with the conceptual group Collective Actions, in which he was one of the founders and a photo chronicler of actions and performances.

In 1976-89 he was one of the first members of the Russian conceptual performance group Collective Actions. He was very close to artists such as Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov and others of the circle in the mid-1970s. He was an active participant in the AptArt movement (Moscow), the Archive of New Art (MANI) and the Avant-garde Club in Moscow: unofficial artistic collectives of the time. In 1996 he moved to Canada where he began to write. He returned to Russia in 2006.

In the early 1990s, Kiesewalter hosted a number of arts and culture programs on Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany. He wrote and co-wrote several books and articles on contemporary art and photography that were published in Russia. In 1997, he received a grant from the Open Society Institute for the publication of his first book entitled "The Communal Assembly of Moscow" about unofficial artists in Moscow.

His work is in private and institutional collections, including those of the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the Duke University Museum of Art (USA), the Art Museum in Bern (Switzerland) , Georges Pompidou Center, (Paris), National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Ekaterina Cultural Foundation (Moscow), Kolodzey Art Foundation (New Jersey - Moscow).