New Directions: Young Chinese Contemporary Artists
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
November 7 — December 2, 2012
In November 2012, the New Directions: Young Chinese Contemporary Artists exhibition will be inaugurated at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is held in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese International Exhibition Agency.
Joseph Beuys: Appeal for an Alternative
State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard
September 12 — November 14
The “Appeal for an Alternative” exhibition by Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is one of the key events of the Year of Germany in Russia 2012/13. It is the first full-scale exhibition by this influential twentieth-century German artist in Russia.
Maggie Cardelus «Total Environment»
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 15 – June 10, 2012
The «Total Environment» exhibition by Maggie Cardelus in Moscow Museum of Modern Art contains artworks which explore the concept of home and family as the basis of human existence. The artist was born in 1962 in the USA. She holds citizenship in the Spain and the US. She has been residing in Italy since 1993.
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.
ARTisARTisART
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
November 25, 2011 – September 2, 2012
Conversation about paintings and sculptures is the foundation to comprehending art. Artworks are discussed by viewers, critics and art historians. Artworks are commented by artists, who quote paintings and sculptures of their predecessors in their own pieces of art. From the moment of its creation, every artwork includes a set of commentaries.
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.
Necrorealism
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 13 – October 30, 2011
Necrorealism emerged in the early 1980s in Leningrad, founded by Evgeny Yufit, artist and independent film director. Necrorealism overturned the established Soviet concept of death as the only possible heroic ‘death in the name of Motherland’. Necrorealism was born as a social protest, full of absurdity and black humor, and based on forensic medicine textbooks.
Alexander Sokolov «Apofigey»
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 21 – October 30, 2011
Alexander Sokolov (1941 — 2009), a renowned Moscow sculptor, belongs to the artistic generation of the 80s. He has had a number of solo and group shows in Russia and abroad.