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WHEN
until January 19
WHERE
Moscow, Zotov Center
On September 6, the Zotov Center and the Bakhrushin Museum will open an exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of one of the main reformers of the 20th century theatre scene, Vsevolod Meyerhold. The exhibition consists of two circles: the outer and the inner. The first is devoted to the director’s performances made between 1922 and 1924: “The Generous Cuckold”, “The Death of Tarelkin”, “The Pointed Land”, “D. M.I.” and “Forest”. And the second is biomechanics – a technique for training an actor, which Meyerhold first puts into practice in his work with his students. Among the exhibits (270 of them were collected) are reconstructions and sketches of costumes; tableau; graphics; photographs of scenes, performances and structures; drawings; negatives of titles and hand-made posters.
Lyubov Popova, poster for the play “The Earth Bristles”, 1921 Yakov Tolchan, photograph of a scene from the play “The Death of Tarelkin”, 1922
WHEN
until September 28th
WHERE
Moscow, ART&BRUT gallery
Nikolai Morgunov’s personal exhibition, entitled Eigengrau, which means “inner grey” in German, opens on September 5. The name is not accidental: as the author himself admits, grey is an ideal tool that, due to its neutrality, does not distract attention from other elements of the image. The main theme of the artist’s work is the search for rhythm and synchronicity of basic elements and their impact, the exploration of new facets and possibilities in a seemingly simple structure of repeated lines and elements. The exhibition is structured in such a way that it will be possible to trace how one work gave rise to the next or, on the contrary, how the previous idea was taken up and rethought – in total, more than 20 works in mixed media will be presented. The visual perception of art objects will be enhanced by music written by performer Yaroslav Vyalykh (Linja).
Nikolay Morgunov, painting k/6.0, 2024 Nikolay Morgunov, installation Anthropophagy, 2024
WHEN
until November 17th
WHERE
Moscow, the centre of modern culture “Malt House”
Artist Asya Zaslavskaya presents a new exhibition project dedicated to reflections on the selectivity of memory and the traumatic nature of changing contexts. The basis was the archive of the little-known Soviet artist and designer Gennady Mishenev (1931-2013), whose career pinnacle was the position of chief artist at VDNKh. Zaslavskaya chose an emotional method of working with Mishenev’s things, mixing the artist’s original things with objects created specifically for the exhibition. The exhibition is divided into five conventional sections: “Path”, “System”, “Interlocutor”, “Layout” and “Garden”. Each of them builds relationships with the past in a different way, allowing us to feel how our view of people and things of the past is changing and what this view of an artist could be.
Asya Zaslavskaya, paintings from the series “Fragments”, 2024
WHEN
until October 20th
WHERE
Moscow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
From September 6, the works of two prominent contemporary Russian photographers – Sergei Borisov and Mikhail Rozanov – will be on display at the MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard. The exhibition, prepared jointly with the Ruarts Foundation, showcases two polar approaches to working with Moscow architecture and life: Mikhail Rozanov will present works highlighting the architectural beauty of Moscow, and Sergey Borisov, in turn, brings the spirit of the times, reflecting historical periods and events in the city through people. Together they create a multifaceted image of the capital, where letters and architecture intertwine, forming a rich palette of emotions and meanings. As an information partner of the exhibition, BURO. We will tell you more about the project, stay tuned.
Sergey Borisov, photo “Exit Dance”, 2020 Mikhail Rozanov, photo from the series “Dream”, 2019
WHEN
until October 16th
WHERE
Moscow, pop/off/art gallery
The new exhibition season at the pop/off/art gallery starts on September 11: it will be opened by the “Ochre” project by the creative duo Vika Begalskaya and Alexander Vilkin, one of the leading authors of the modern Russian art scene. The exhibition will feature tempera painting on canvas. In the vein of previous projects, the artists again turn to individual mythology and create a poetic world with images and heroes characteristic of their works: monkeys, hyenas, dogs, skeletons. The paintings combine pictorial and graphic techniques, where the canvas is not just the basis for creating space, but a field of action, an active element of the image. One of the constant features of the project’s works is that the characters are constantly in motion, on the road, wandering. “Ochre is what lies underfoot,” the artists say, referring to the wide distribution of these shades in the world, especially in the desert. In world culture, the latter has often become a territory for creating a new community and escaping the current system.
Vika Begalskaya and Alexander Vilkin, painting “Stephany”, 2023 Vika Begalskaya and Alexander Vilkin, painting “Yorik”, 2022
WHEN
until November 10th
WHERE
Moscow, Beton Center for Visual Culture
More than 100 photographs of the Russian province from the 19th and 20th centuries will be exhibited at the Béton exhibition grounds, from daguerreotypes from the 1840s to engravings from the 1910s. The photographs show views of Russian cities, portraits of people and genre scenes. There is no connection with the area on purpose. The geography is conventional, the portraits of the townspeople are impersonal. This approach allows us to create a collective image of the Russian province and the people who lived there. This art project invites the viewer to become an impartial observer, to immerse themselves in the non-metropolitan life of that time, to put together a motley mosaic of unceremonious Russia from various details of everyday life captured in photographs.
Friedrich Moebius, untitled photograph, 1860s Unknown author, photograph “In the kitchen”, 1910s
WHEN
until November 22
WHERE
Moscow, Q-ART Gallery
The exhibition, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Bulldozer Exhibition, will tell about important events in the art underground of 1974. The exhibition will bring together works by representatives of the first wave of nonconformism of the 1960s – participants in Bulldozer, and then Izmailovskaya and other nonconformist exhibitions. In total we will see more than forty works, many of which will be presented for the first time. By analogy with the historical titles – “First viewing of paintings in autumn” (better known as the Bulldozer Exhibition) and “Second viewing of paintings in autumn” – the project is divided into two parts and illustrates two important places for the metro of the 70s – Belyaevo and Izmailovo. The first series starts on September 19 and will focus primarily on the artists of the Lianozov group: Lydia Masterkova, Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Nemukhin, Sergei Bordachev, Yuri Zharkikh and Rimma Zanevskaya.
Ernst Neizvestny, painting Red-hot Crazy Dancer, 1988 Vladimir Weisberg, portrait of Olya Alogina, 1981
WHEN
until September 30th
WHERE
Moscow, Gorky Park Museum
The exhibition of photographer Diana Guledani, held by the Surface Lab Art gallery, is dedicated to man’s emotional perception of nature through art. The diptychs of the exhibition combine flowers from the Central Park of Culture and Culture named after Gorky, captured directly in the park, and the heroines of the project – they were the Bolshoi Theatre dancers Ana Turazavshvili and Maria Vinogradova. Diana Guledani’s photographs are not the ideal embodiment of a flower through a dancer’s pose, verified down to the last detail, but an impression and emotion snatched from a fleeting moment of reality. The heroines of the project convey the living spirit of a rose, a peony, an iris or a canna, captured by a photographer in a changing reality. As a result, viewers are invited into a garden of experiences where the synthesis of arts gives rise to a deeper and more sensorial perception of nature.
Diana Guladeni, “Cream Pink” diptych, 2024
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