Anna Skladmann – Little Adults
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
28 March – 22 April
Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Grinberg Photos Company present the First large-scale presentation in Moscow of a project by a young photographer Anna Skladmann.
Leonid Sokov – Point of View
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 23 – July 1, 2012
The exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the first time in Russia offers an unprecedented personal retrospective of a well-known master of the ‘Soviet Pop Art’, or Sots Art, presenting works from the 70ies and up to the present days. The display includes over 120 works by the artist and is divided into 9 sections, gradually presenting the development and metamorphoses of Leonid Sokov`s signature artistic and symbolic language.
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
March, 14th – May, 6th 2012
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, presents the exhibition Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan intended to introduce the general public to the art trends of Contemporary Japan.
Joan Hernandez Pijuan – Retrospective
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
January 30 – March 11, 2011
Joan Hernandez Pijuan (1931-2005) is one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of the last decades. He produces compositions through uniform planes of neutral color in a simple yet expressive style. Pijuan has received many honors and prizes and is reckoned among the most significant European artists of the 20th & 21st centuries.
TOTART – Natalia Abalakova – Anatoly Zhigalov
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
January 25 – February 26, 2012
The exhibition of Natalia Abalakova and Anatoly Zhigalov at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art embraces the work of several decades. This is a kind of total project with the conceptual approach perceived and employed as a technology of contemporary art.
Ignacio Burgos – Retrospectiva 1993-2011
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
November 9 – December 14, 2011
Moscow Museum of Modern Art continues the program of the Year of Spain in Russia with the solo exhibition of Ignacio Burgos, one of the most interesting contemporary artists in his country. His art is recognizable and self-contained; for long years, the master is faithful to his style and does not surrender to the dictation of markets, galleries, and curators. His manner can be defined as ‘figurative expressionism’: in his canvases, the exquisite palette of blues, purples and ochres comes into balance with a special Mediterranean light, and soft but precise brushwork.
Irina Nakhova – a special guest of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts
May 19 – July 3, 2011
Irina Nakhova is considered to be an author of the first Russian “total installations”. Her artistic career is inherently linked to the Moscow Conceptualist circles. She has early recognized her mission as an artist. She has defined the existence of art as a vital necessity.
Ivan Chuikov Labyrinths
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
November 3 – December 5, 2010
Ivan Chuikov has long been and remains a challenging figure in the international art scene – this is what makes him truly unique. The universally acknowledged classic of conceptual art who opened a window to Europe, ‘the prince of emptiness’, ‘the heretic of the easel’, the embodied contradiction, the dandy of postmodernism… All these titles exist simultaneously, assuming that the artist stays true to his enduring method – the combination of sharp thought and flawless plastic quality.
RES PUBLICA
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 7 – October 17, 2010
‘RES PUBLICA’ exhibition based on the collection of the National Center for Visual Arts of France presents works by artists who comprehend art as the space of thought and reflect upon the surrounding social and political reality, as well as our relations with the world. Its title refers to the Latin term ‘res publica’, or ‘common business’, or ‘people’s business’, which in antiquity meant the highest value of social importance and became the basis for contemporary concept of the state and, in a more narrow context, the notion of a republic. ‘RES PUBLICA’ exhibition offers an approach to art as ‘common business’ and presents a sort of public space where artists share their views of the surrounding world and its structure, of man and society, of coexistence and shared life, and find adequate artistic forms of expression.
Alexandra Exter – A Retrospective
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 29 – August 22, 2010
An unprecedented retrospective exhibition of works by Alexandra Exter hosted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a truly remarkable event. Alexandra Exter, one of the ‘amazons’ and brightest stars of the Russian avant-garde, took part in most significant shows of the new art, including exhibitions of ‘Jack of Diamonds’ group and ‘Union of Youth’, ‘№ 4’ and ‘Tram B’, ‘Shop’, ‘5×5=25’ and so on. One cannot imagine innovative Russian art of the early 20th century without this artist’s oeuvre.
Anya Zholud: Exhibition Continues
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 15 may – June 13 2010
“Exhibition Continues” project at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will feature a range of familiar works by Anya Zholud within one artistic and physical space. The starting point of the exhibition is the image of a gantry crane, casting a giant shadow over the walls of a 4-storey museum building. Around this axis, the works reflecting the artist’s interest in global themes will gravitate: “The Scheme of Elementary Happiness Space”, “Cultural Institutions”, “Paintings and Sculptures”, “Emptiness”…
James Hill “Victory Day”
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
April 30 – May 23, 2010
Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents “Victory Day”, solo exhibition of British photographer
James Hill, as part of “Fotobiennale-2010” parallel program. The exhibition marking the 65th anniversary of the victory in World War II unites black-and-white portraits of Russian veterans made during the last four years.