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These Heroes Boost Moscow's Art Scene into the World
Better Note Down Their Names ASAP...
People 04 Oct 2018

Moscow is slowly gaining its recognition within the art community, bringing superstar’ shows to the Garage Museum (remember Murakami last autumn?) run by the art-collector and philanthropist Dasha Zhukova, the COSMOSCOW Art Fair and soon by the V-A-C Foundation, opening in Autumn 2019 in a former GES-2, completely redesigned by Renzo Piano.
Apart from those institutions, the Russian capital has its very own heroes who are actively working towards changing the art community and bringing it to global awareness. Meet the 10 brightest and under-30 (ok, or slightly above) art professionals from Moscow and make sure to follow them straight away – you couldn’t have any better guides to the scene.

Nikolay Koshelev
Artist, Co-Founder of exhibition space ДINAMIKA

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
“Garage”
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
no idea
A show in Moscow to visit now…
Russian Icons
Russian art scene is not exciting because…
ideas

Aleksandr Blanar
Communications director, Russia, Phillips Auction House

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
new cafe in MMOMA on Ermolaevsky lane. But the best one is at KM20 on Stoleshnikov lane.
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
Evgeny Antufiev, Dima Rebus, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Andrey Bogush.

A show in Moscow to visit now…

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future. In New Tretyakov Gallery
Russian art scene is exciting because…
Just exciting. And more people should come to Russia and see it!

Instagram: @blanar
Yulia Silina
Clients Relations, ARTWIN GALLERY

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In the art world currently I find most exciting that…

Question “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” is not that urgent nowdays
Favourite hashtag…
#найди силину (it means – find Silina(me) )
Art world gent I would love to have lunch with…
Tracy Emin
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
Evgeny Antufiev, Anna Titova and Dima Rebus

Andrey Misiano
Curator for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
Garage?
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
apart from obvious names Russian contemporary theatre demands attention: Theatre Doc, Theatre of Mutual Operations, and many others..

A show in Moscow to visit now…

The Kabakovs, Mikhail Larionov, and Vladimir Salnikov retrospectives. In one phrase – the old masters.
Russian art scene is exciting / not exciting because…
is exciting because now it is exactly the same as many others and not exciting because it is exactly the same as many others

Instagram: Sorry, I am not…
Tatiana Getman
Head of special projects & events department, The State Tretyakov gallery

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
Severyane
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
Olga Croytor, Masha Iv

A show in Moscow to visit now…

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Mihail Larionov, Nissky
Russian art scene is exciting / not exciting because…
Exciting because the number of new incredible art institutions is growing every year and it’s super cool / not exciting because sometimes you realized that you know almost all people inside this community

Instagram: @catchmycat
Alexey Maslyaev

An independent curator and a cultural historian.
Is institutionally linked with the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art as a curator, and with the Education Department of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art as a research scientist.

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
MMOMA Education Center has recently saw the opening of the cozy MMOMA Café perfectly suitable for a friendly conversation or a working meeting.
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
I believe that today there are many interesting young artists in Russia. Among them are Taus Makhacheva and Evgeny Antufiev, who are already well known to the foreign audience. Besides, among the artists, with whom I have gladly collaborated, it is worth mentioning Sveta Shuvaeva, Mikhail Tolmachev, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, and Ivan Gorshkov.

A show in Moscow to visit now…

Sveta Shuvaeva’s Lakeview Special Offer at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (9, Tverskoy Boulevard, through October 5, 2018); and Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov’s Collection of Pink Book №2 at the Timiryazev State Biological Museum (through December 2, 2018).
Russian art scene is exciting / not exciting because…
The Russian art scene is, of course, exciting because it still has everything ahead of it.

Instagram: @alexeymaslyaev
Yulia Belousova
An independent curator writer, Founder of Ephemeral Dinner – exhibitions

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
Moloko, Denis Simachev shop bar, Proliv
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
Elena Artemenko, Anya Mokhova, Katya Isaeva, (girls power), EliKuka

A show in Moscow to visit now…

Solo show by Christian Falsnaes’ at ДINAMIKA that I curated 😉
Russian art scene is exciting / not exciting because…
it’s almost inexistent and it’s growing fast and has the freedom to take any direction possible, like a newborn learning to walk

Anastasiya Efimova
FOUNDER RICHTER MOSCOW

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
garage museum and soon richter.moscow project…
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
egor fedorychev, kirill garshin, evgeny antufiev

A show in Moscow to visit now…

Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Russian art scene is exciting / not exciting because…
unfortunately in some place we are in lack of expertise and professionals but at the same time a lot of passion and willingness to do smth. No system but chaos that can create and depress at the same time..

Instagram: @richter.moscow, @mamontanet
Ian Ginsburg
Artist

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
Richter space.
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
Andrei Monastyrski.

A show in Moscow to visit now…

Soviet Antiquity at the gallery «Na Shabolovke».
Russian art scene is exciting / not exciting because…
Because it exists.

Anya Mokhova
Artist, Educator, Founder of Alarm Salon Arts Auction

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Art place in Moscow to have a lunch …
Garage
Russian Artists we should have on our watch list are…
Zhanna Bobrakova
Anna Kolosova

A show in Moscow to visit now…

DAEMONS IN THE MACHINE at MMOMA
Russian art scene is not exciting because…
it is very small!

Instagram: @anya_mokhova_

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