One Street is a series of multi-format events, united by a common subject — the study of the historical and contemporary context of Zeleny Prospect Street. Once a short alley in the center of Perovo, today it is one of the main thoroughfares connecting Moscow districts of Perovo, Novogireevo and Ivanovskoe. The project is aimed at involving participants from local residents to visitors to the neighborhood in a thoughtful and informative dialogue about everyday life in the city, common micro-history, and the cultural significance of everyday places and situations; using and developing observing and scrutinizing skills, finding tools for fixing and museification of the experience gained.

Here you can find a more detailed schedule of the events and sign up for them. The schedule will be updated.

Walking tour along Zeleny Prospect

25.09.2022 13:00-15:00

REGISTRATION

The tour will be led by Moscow connoisseur and historian Maria Kalish and architect and architectural researcher Tigran Arutyunyan. Participants will learn the history and architecture of the German Town and Perovo Polye, the buildings of the Perovo and Novogireevo district administrations; talk about planned housing construction; learn what the square in front of the former department store near the Perovo metro station looked like; visit the Afghan Park, the monument Those Left Without Burial by Vadim Sidur and the nearby museum dedicated to his art.

Meet us on September 25 at 1:00 p.m. at the junction at the beginning of Zeleny Prospect.
Participation in the tour is free. The number of participants is limited, so we ask you to sign up.

Zeleny Prospect: A Different Map

November 11 — November 27, 2022

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The course introduces a diversity of approaches to research the everyday life and the history of place through visual and narrative means. Course participants will explore a space of urban routine that often escapes active attention. To mark it out and re-invent it we will learn to observe and find stories in little things, connecting the typical and the unique, the real and the fantastic. Using various techniques — drawing, sketching, collage, field notes — students will compose their own guidebook to Zeleny Prospect.

The course lasts from November 11 to November 27.
It takes 6 seminars: every Friday at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Course fee: 4000 rubles

Creative writing with Sveta Kovalenko

November 10 — November 26, 2022

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Participants will explore the urban everyday life and their personal experience of living in the city through a writer’s lens.
In our sessions we will talk about how urban spaces can be a place of action, an important part of the context, or the main character of an artwork. We will look at exclusion, destruction and oblivion as a form of presence. We will also become flaneurs and flaneuses — drifters who discover the city, using the method of psychogeography.

The course lasts from November 10 to November 26.
It takes 6 seminars: every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3:00 p.m.
Course fee: 4000 rubles

«Now & After» started in 2011, the author of the project is Marina Fomenko, who is the festival’s founding director and curator. It focuses on the presentation, development and promotion both Russian and international video art, getting together emerging and established artists from around the world to present their works to general audience.

The theme of Now&After’20 is THE POSSIBILITY OF COLOR. Artists don’t need words to express their sense of color. In their works, video artists from different countries explore color as a social, emotional or cultural metaphor for real and virtual worlds, memory and the possibilities of the future.

«Now&After» takes place at museums’ venues. Within a few weeks all festival’s videos are shown in an integrated space of a video installation. Now&After’20 main venue where video art exhibition takes place is Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, and Special Program takes place in the Education Center of Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Ermolayevsky Lane, 17). Now&After’20 special program includes video art projects of the well-known international festivals , such as Videoformes Digital Arts Festival (France), Over the Real Festival (Italy), Suwon Photo Festival (Republic of Korea), Waley Art (Taiwan) as well as video art projects from Dagestan and Belgium. Performances and meetings with artists and curators will also be held there.

The entrance is free.

SPECIAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

October 21

12:00 — 18:00
Common Ground Project, Belgium
Curated by Kika Nicolela

Common Ground is a collaborative project created by Kika Nicolela and supported by Transcultures Pépinières Européennes de Création.
It’s the beginning of a new decade, and the human species faces an invisible, faceless, brainless yet highly efficient enemy: a virus that menaces our lives and our way of life. The tendency is to attempt to return to «normality» as quickly as possible, and to forget this period. Alternatively, we see the COVID-19 crisis and all that it triggered, as an opportunity to reflect on some essential political, economic, ethical and metaphysical questions.

The Common Ground Project proposes a creation of a growing database, with the collaboration of artists around the world, sharing video, sound and/or text-based pieces. The main immediate goal is to collect a large and varied snapshot of the impact of this crisis from various corners of the planet, to realize how people are coping with the lockdown and the post-lockdown, but above all, how we can use this crisis as an opportunity to reshape the world.

The project will have its first public presentation at the International Video Art Festival Now&After’20 in Moscow.

Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator based in Brussels since 2014. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela has also completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK). She was the recipient of several prominent Brazilian and Belgium grants and awards. Since 2008, Kika Nicolela also curates and coordinates the Exquisite Corpse Video Project, an ongoing collaborative series of videos that involves more than 90 artists from 30 countries.

The Dagestan Art Video Fest Program, Russia
Curated by Dzhamilya Daghirova

The First Gallery is the Dagestan contemporary art gallery (Kaspiysk). It was established in 1998 as an independent non-state art institution. It mainly focuses on exhibitions and projects featuring contemporary Dagestani artists, as well as research projects, publishing practice, projects for children, workshops and charitable programs.

This is a retrospective screening of video art pieces created by contemporary Dagestani artists over the years. All the featured authors are well-known artists of the republic working in a variety of media, from painting and graphic arts to sculpture, installation and performance. Video art has been actively gaining momentum to become more and more popular among contemporary Dagestani artists to express problems and themes they are facing. Many of the works of the Art Video Fest were created and demonstrated in the projects of Pervaya Galereya: The North Caucasus Biennial 2013, Water (2009, 2012), Koisu (2014), In Search of the Wanted (2015), as well as in solo shows. Our screening features premieres: The Tears TV and The Shooting of Clay Horses by the famous Dagestani artist, the first video artist in the republic, Murad Khalilov; Fear by Magomed Mollakaev, Sabab by Zaira Magomedova and Khalimat Saidudinova, and Klaz by Zaira Magomedova.

Dzhamilya Daghirova is curator and founding director of The First Gallery. She has been working as a museum specialist for 30 years and running the gallery for 22 years. She is author and curator of all the Gallery’s projects and exhibitions, participant and co-curator of many regional and all-Russian projects, and an artist. She is a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, of the Russian Art Critics Association and of the ICOM Russia.

October 22

12:00 — 18:00
Suwon International Photo Festival Program, Republic Korea
Curated by Kang Jeauk

The Suwon International Photo Festival is an annual documentary photography festival that takes place in the Korean city of Suwon — a creative and cultural hub with an abundance of artists and ideas. Suwon Photo is the only independent photo festival in Korea; it is run by a group of trailblazing photographers who place great value upon the freedom of expression present in the festival’s remarkable exhibitions. Suwon Photo has recently been expanding its fields of interest, and is organizing exchanges with neighboring genres such as video art.

Kang Jeauk is photographer, visual artist and curator. He is the director of Suwon Photo and promotes various international exchange projects in the field of visual arts. He is also director of «art and disaster projects» that overcome trauma with the help of artists in disaster areas.

Over The Real International Video Art Festival, Italy
Curated by Maurizio Marco Tozzi

This festival was born in 2015 from an idea by Maurizio Marco Tozzi and Lino Strangis. Over The Real presents the most significant areas of research that have emerged in recent years in international audiovisual arts. Every year the works are selected by an important panel of curators. Over The Real takes place at historical locations around Lucca (Italy). The Festival also presents installations, multimedia performances, workshops and talks with the participation of important artists and media art experts.

This selection presents some of the most interesting authors who have participated in the last editions of Over The Real. These are artists who contribute to the evolution of the aesthetic and semantic abilities of different video art languages. Their works illustrate new visions to escape a world full of loneliness, violence, and an unbalanced economy and also invite the public to seek a new awareness and balance, overcoming the thresholds of perception and the space-time dimension. Something truly profound seems to happen in the faint darkness of the human condition, and sometimes a small breath can change things.

Maurizio Marco Tozzi is a contemporary art curator. He has focused his research on the audiovisual language and the relationship between creativity and new technologies. He has curated exhibitions in important galleries and museums and he regularly takes part in lectures and talks about contemporary art. His last essays are: Gianni Melotti, art/tapes/22 video tape production (Giunti publisher, 2017), and The Italian Video Art (Danilo Montanari publisher, 2016). He is a lecturer in Digital Culture at Alma Artis Academy of Pisa.

October 23

12:00 — 21:00
VIDEOFORMES International Festival of Digital Arts Program, Watch Me, France
Curated by Gabriel Soucheyre

VIDEOFORMES is a structure for diffusion and artistic production which annually organizes, since 1986, an international video and digital art festival. The festival highlights various artistic forms such as installations, videos, performances and multidisciplinary digital creations. The event is a chance to bring internationally renowned artists (such as Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Catherine Ikam, Pierrick Sorin, Chris Marker, Samuel Rousseau, Ko Nakajima, John Sanborn) and young artists face to face. Beyond the festival, VIDEOFORMES takes part into regional, national and international cultural events, and initiates a policy of artists-in-residency. While the festival offers a programme including multidisciplinary as well as experimental performances (vidéobars), it also publishes a magazine (Turbulences Vidéo) on a monthly basis and provides artistic and cultural initiatives for a young public.

Gabriel Soucheyre is the director of VIDEOFORMES, an International Digital Arts Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, and of the VIDEOFORMES Digital Archive since 1986. He is also the editor of Turbulences Video (a video art and Digital Culture quarterly magazine). He is a curator at the VIDEOFORMES Galerie. He participates in many national and international events as a curator or jury member. He is a former teacher at Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand and also a video and digital art producer, vlogger and videomaker.

Waley Art Center Program, Taiwan
Curated by Peng Tsai-Hsuan

Waley Art is a contemporary art alternative space founded in August 2014 and located in Taipei City, Taiwan. In 2016, Waley Art held the Galaya Art Festival, which was linked to the cultural history of the region. In 2018, Waley Art hosted the South Sour Water Performance and Visual Art Festival. Waley Art has cooperated with museums, art festivals, biennials and art institutions around the world, including Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh and Argentina.

«Sour water» is the matter vomited up when one gets sick, which in turn disturbs the body’s harmonious dynamics. The South Sour Water Performance and Visual Art Festival tackles the hybridity of contemporary visual culture, resists social, generational and cultural institutions and utilizes performance as a way to experiment with body awareness.

Peng Tsai-Hsuan is the Founder and Art Director of Waley Art and the former executive director of the Taiwan Monga Culture Creative Center. He is the founder of the Galaya Art Festival and the South Sour Water / Performance and Visual Art Festival. Peng also worked as the main project investigator with the National Taiwan Arts Education Center, the Asia Culture Center and the Korean and Mediations Biennale Poznań, Poland. He is the organizer of the art administration and curatorial workshop for the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan. In 2015, Peng Tsai-Hsuan won the Best Art Award for the project «Art Participation in Community» hosted by Taipei Fine Arts Museum and was invited as the keynote speaker to the 2016 Taipei Biennale.

18.00 — 18.45
Sergey Filatov, Searching for a Floating Point, sound performance

Sergey Filatov constructs multichannel soundscapes using his own custom-designed musical instruments and field recordings. Inosphere is a hybrid sound system created by the artist, where each module is a bundle of sound generators and filters. The devices’ shells are made of marine gyrospheres. The sound of the instrument is combined with sound generations collected using hydrophones in underwater spaces.

Sergey Filatov is a musician, sound artist and developer of musical instruments and sound sculptures. He is a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia and of the International Association of Art (IAA/AIAP, UNESCO). He has participated in international exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art: the 58th Venice Biennale, the Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 (UK), Ars Electronica (Austria), Laboratory of the Future: The Kinetic Arts of Russia (St. Petersburg). Filatov is the winner of the VII International Contemporary Art COMEL Award (Italy, 2018) and the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize (2017).

Registration

October 24

12:00 — 21:00
The Best of Now&After — screening of the program dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Now & After International Video Art Festival.

13:00 — 14:00
Meeting with artist Dmitry Bulnygin (artist’s talk)

Registration

Education Center of MMOMA, Ermolaevsky lane, 17
November 30 — December 1

The Space for Art Festival is to take place from November, 30th to December, 1st at the MMOMA Educational Center at 17, Ermolaevsky lane. The Festival is planned as the final event of the two years long joint initiative by the Goethe Institute in Moscow and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Space for Art. The exhibitions and educational programme of four independent art spaces in Germany, which presented their programme in dialogue with their Moscow counterpart, have unraveled the clear need of one more event that would essentially focus less on exhibition strategy and practice and more on burning issues of functioning of self-organizations in all their forms.

The Festival revolves around the relations that have developed during the exhibition part of the project and their extension in a dialogue with its past participants. It is primarily oriented on the members of independent and self-organized communities, initiatives, art spaces. They accumulate artistic energy and encourage creative connections, experiment with new ideas and turn into stimuli for cultural and social development. For its participants, the Festival is an opportunity to touch on urgent problems, share their experience in taking various approaches, creating different organizational structures and funding models, as well as establishing partnership with other creative initiatives.

The Festival programme includes the participants of several self-organized initiatives from Germany, Russia (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Perm, Tomsk and Krasnodar) and Belarus. It features discussions, pop-up space, performative seminar, a musical performance, a thematic game and other events. The topics under discussion include the definition of self-organization as such, its forms, its genesis, female self-organization, solidarity and establishing internal ties.

As part of the event, the Goethe-Institute in Moscow and the MMOMA offer a platform and a framework for sharing experience and forging connections between different initiatives and their members, whereas the participants will present discussion and performative programmes, which may be of interest for a wider public.

Participants: alpha nova & galerie futura (Berlin), Archive Books (Berlin), FFTN (Saint-Petersburg) and ||||||||||9| aka. Lilia (Perm), Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin), Project Space Festival Berlin/Kreuzberg Pavilion (Berlin), Axinya Sarycheva (Tomsk), Ivan Isaev (Moscow), Working group: Work Hard! Play Hard! (Minsk) — Fatigue and Pharmachoreography. Performative seminar , Union of Convalescents (Nizhny Novgorod — Moscow), Tipografia (Krasnodar) and Aroundart (Moscow), ShShSh, Katerina Shadkovska (Warsaw).

Working Group of the Festival: Sergey Babkin, Marina Belyaeva, Ekaterina Sidorenkova, Zinaida Shershun, Astrid Wege, Anna Zhurba

The schedule of the Space for Art Festival of Self-Organization:
Education Center of MMOMA, Ermolaevsky lane, 17
November 30. 16:00 — 21:00 | December 1. 12:00 — 21:00

During the whole Festival:
Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin) — Moskauer Zone

Saturday, November 30:

16:00
Working group: Work Hard! Play Hard! (Minsk) — Fatigue and Pharmachoreography. Performative seminar

16:45
Archive Books/Kabinett/Journal/Appendix (Berlin) — Where Is Self-Organization? Lecture by Paolo Caffoni and video screening of an excerpt from Cooperative (Raphaël Grisey, 2008)

18:45
Ivan Isaev (Moscow) — Salon of Idleness

20:00
FFTN (Saint-Petersburg) and / \ | / | / \ | / | 9 | (Perm) — pop stars? or how local winter could be on one’s beam-ends... Fairy tale romantic clubbing about the desire of double load or dance drift through us.

Sunday, December 1:

12:30
alpha nova & galerie futura (Berlin) — In a Feminist Way: Perspectives and Challenges of a Cultural Space in Berlin and Beyond. Lecture

13:00
alpha nova & galerie futura (Dr. Katharina Koch and Dr. Marie-Anne Kohl, Berlin) + Nataliya Protassenia (ex-Red Square Gallery) and ShShSh with the participation of Lika Kareva, Nuriya Fatykhova, Lana Uzarashvili (Fem Talks) (all — Moscow) — Women’s Council. Round table

14:30
Nataliya Protassenia (ex-Red Square Gallery) and ShShSh (all — Moscow), with the participation of Katerina Shadkovska (Warsaw) — Therapy Group. Performance

16:00
Work Hard! Play Hard! (Minsk) — Fatigue and Pharmachoreography. Performative seminar

17:00
Tipografia CCA (Krasnodar) and aroundart.org platform (various Russian cities) — One More Sock to Go! Game

17:50
Kreuzberg Pavilion + Project Space Festival Berlin (Berlin) — About the Risks and Dreams of Permeable Spaces. Lecture
18:45
Axinya Sarycheva (Tomsk)— Video Essay on Self-Organization, Art Situation in Siberia, a Swamp, Coal, Fire

20:00
Union of convalescents (Nizhny Novgorod — Moscow) — The Commune of Beautiful Souls Talk Show. Play

On Thursday 9 May, more than 150-people attended RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL, a Round Table, a Sitespecific installation and a Cocktail Reception dedicated to contemporary Russian art in a global and national context, at the Ca’ Dolphin hall of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The event was hosted by: Cosmoscow International Art Fair, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and ROSIZO-NCCA. The round table discussion featured Margarita Pushkina, Founding Director of Cosmoscow art fair and the Cosmoscow Foundation; Alisa Prudnikova, Commissioner of the NEMOSKVA Project and Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art; Vasili Tsereteli, Executive Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Xiaoyu Weng, Curator of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art; Simon Rees, Art Director of Cosmoscow art fair; and Stanislav Kasparov, Director of the Business support division for regional operations, of SIBUR. The discussion was moderated by Richard Wallis, Editor-in-chief of Russian Art Focus; and was kindly supported by The Vladimir Potanin Foundation and SIBUR.

Notable attendees included: Nic Iljine, Javier Perez, Matthew Stephenson, Sarah Wilson, Kathleen Weyts, Inke Arns, Oksana Oracheva, Olga Temnikova, Olga Strada, Ekaterina Iragui, Elvira Tarnogradskaya, Anna Barinova, Elena Panteleeva, Maria Katz, Kestutis Kuizinas, Olga Egarmina, Natalia Akhmerova, Elena Zhukova and Alexey Novoselov. The cocktail reception was hosted in partnership with illy and Simple.

The event also featured the first showing of the installation Cocktail Reception Gone Wild by Voronezhbased artist Ivan Gorshkov, an artistic rethinking of a cocktail reception as a social form transformed into a kinetic sculpture. Crude, creepy and sometimes monstrous, rude and cute, funny and ridiculous like circus monsters — the characters and images incorporated in the installation attracted and repelled the public at the same time, leaving no one indifferent. MMOMA is staging a solo-exhibition by Ivan Gorshkov’s exhibition later this summer.

Margarita Pushkina: «Cosmoscow considers the promotion of contemporary Russian artists on the international art scene as one of its top priorities since the foundation of the fair in 2010. I judge the success of the project by how many like-minded people it can gather. Over the years, Cosmoscow has acquired a number of long-term partners who share our aspirations and belief that Russia’s contemporary art has enormous global potential. The number of our initiatives aimed at its fulfillment is growing year-to-year, with the help of the Cosmoscow Foundation established in 2017. I’m sure that together we will achieve amazing results.»

Alisa Prudnikova: «For the NCCA with its network of branches throughout Russia, it has always been important to develop the local cultural infrastructure and create conditions for the development of artists. Another equally important mission is the integration of Russian art into a global context. Based on these strategies, we initiated theNEMOSKVA platform to raise critical questions aboutthe presentation of national art and the „manifestation“ of Russia’s regions on the world map. After a touring symposium, we identified the need for residencies. And a new center for curatorial practices is being established. On June 27, the opening of the „12th time zone: A report from Russia“ exhibition dedicated to the results of our symposium will open at BOZAR in Brussels. We are also waiting for the opening of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale, which has displayed brilliant results for 10 years now, and has made Yekaterinburg a point of attraction for art professionals from all over the world.»

Vasili Tsereteli: «This year, MMOMA celebrates its 20th anniversary. Being the first state museum of contemporary in Russia, it is our mission to promote contemporary art, support young artists and reintroduce the names of forgotten artists — who left Russia. We eagerly work with the regions: last year alone, the geography of our MMOMA footprint covered 9 Russian cities including Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Tobolsk, Stary Oskol, and Krasnoyarsk. The task is not only to get public acquainted with our collection but also to engage in education. For each project in the regions, ourteam prepares a unique program. In Moscow, at the 7 venues of MMOMA, there are more than 60 projects that are different in structure and task: they include exhibitions of works by graduates of our school, major solo retrospectives of avant-garde artists, representatives of Socialist art, complex interdisciplinary projects (i.e. the General Rehearsal hosted together with the VAC Foundation and the Kadist Foundation). There is a strategic division working with young Russian artists. This winter, the research project by Pavel Otdelnov gained much international attention. Titled PROMZONA, it was about a complex of chemical plants in the artist’s hometown, Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod Region). I am very pleased that this fall we will participate in Cosmoscow as the Museum of the Year, and will be able to acquaint the guests of the fair with our ambitious plans.»

Stanislav Kasparov: «Wherever our enterprises operate, we aim for SIBUR to make a significant contribution to the development of that region to improve the quality of life of people in partnership with local authorities, social institutions, and citizens. In terms of culture, we have two priorities: creating opportunities for citizens to be engaged in diverse leisure activities, acquainting them with the latest cultural trends, as well as educational modules for cultural managers. We are aware that while art tours take place once or twice a year, cultural life should be a permanent component of a prosperous and healthy society, and it is important to focus on the development of regional representatives of creative professions, providing opportunities for their growth, improving the quality of cultural products they have access to. Thanks to the NEMOSKVA project, many artists from the SIBUR regions now have such opportunities — they were able to present their works and get acquainted with the best representatives of the international contemporary art scene.»

The event concluded with the premiere of NEMOSKVA: Art in Regions a documentary dedicated to the NEMOSKVA Symposium, the largest international Trans-Siberian art expedition. The Red Pepper Film team (director K. Verkhozin, cameraman A. Khudyakov): «We tried to convey the state of the movement and drive the participants were in, as well as talk about young artists working in remote areas of Russia.» The soundtrack featured compositions of such Russian bands as Shortparis, Pasosh, Daniel Shake and Naadya.

Apply until May 20.
School of contemporary art «Free workshops»

Moscow Museum of Modern Art and School of contemporary art «Free workshops» announce open call for the annual exhibition of young art «Workshops’19». Artists under 35 years old are invited to present their art pieces produced no later than 2018.

Application form could be filled in at the museum website mmoma.ru or send via e-mail masterskaya.mmoma@gmail.com with a letter subject "Workshops’19".Application deadline is May 20, 2019.

WORKSSHOPS’19. DYSMORPHOBIA, OR WAR INSIDE YOU". It’s interesting whether people on earth who can affirm without any touch of guile that they are perfectly content with their body and appearance. It’s highly unlikely. The whole history of civilization, society and culture is governed by standards of beauty. In these latter days, with their permanent and almost instant access to information, their mass dependence on approval in social networks, the problem of self-representation comes to the fore.

Sometimes the dependence on the reaction of the society blows out of proportion, so that external deficiencies, often the imaginary ones, give rise to psychological issues, sometimes resulting in utterly negative attitude towards one’s body. It is widely thought that, in case of genetic susceptibility, this scenario may lead to a compulsive idea of a physical defect — dismorphophobia.

To read more about the concept, click here.

The Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art is an educational platform for young artists and curators working in the field of contemporary art. The school was set up by a group of artists and art historians as part of the Museum in 1992. The school’s students study theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary art under eminent lecturers, distinguished figures of culture, philosophers and theorists of contemporary art. The school offers its support to young artists at different stages of their artistic career through organizing group and solo exhibitions and acquiring their works for the museum’s collection.

6 — 10 May, 2019
The MMOMA Education Center, 17 Ermolaevsky Lane

‘We begin with a squiggle’ *
Apply until April 3rd

From 6th until 10th of May 2019 a collaborative workshop between 21 graphic design students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, who will come to Moscow for this occasion, and 21 student from Moscow, who will be selected through this open call, will take place at the Education Center of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The workshop will be guided by a group of international designers from Amsterdam and Moscow: Natasha Agapova (RU), Bart de Baets (NL), Tanya Ermolaeva (RU), Paul Gangloff (FR), Roman Gornitsky (RU) and Elisabeth Klement (EE).

All graphic design students and recent graduates in Moscow are invited to apply to participate in the workshop. Please send your complete application documents to participate@rietveld.moscow until April 3rd. To apply for ‘We begin with a squiggle’ please write a motivation letter (no more than 300 words) about:

1. Why you would like to join
2. How the workshop is relevant to your interests
3. What you hope to get out of the experience

Please include images of three works that you feel represent you. Format of application: PDF (under 8MB)

Attention: The application must be in English. All workshops will be held in English, fluent knowledge of English is therefore essential.

All applications will be reviewed by the organisers and teachers of the workshop. Every applicant has an equal opportunity. You will be informed about your application status before April 13th.

http://rietveld.moscow

‘We begin with a squiggle’ is organised by David Bennewith and Claudia Doms. The workshop organisation is assisted by Bram van den Berg.

About Gerrit Rietveld Academie:

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is an international university of applied sciences for Fine Arts and Design in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its graphic design course is world renowned for its innovative and international program, with many of the most prominent figures in contemporary graphic design having graduated from the Rietveld Academie. The course aims to educate graphic designers who can contribute to the development of the discipline, that are prepared to use their work to engage in debate, adopt an investigative and reflective approach to media, find an own method of working, and can express themselves in their own visual language.

* https://drive.google.com/file/d/182810lq_p-xesMgSGWnX1aB53nbG3F5-/view

We begin with a squiggle*

6 — 10 May, 2019
The MMOMA Education Center, 17 Ermolaevsky Lane

Organisers: MMOMA and We begin with a squiggle

‘We begin with a squiggle’ is a one week collaborative workshop, conducted at the Education Centre of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, pairing six graphic designers from Moscow and Amsterdam to work with a total of 46 students from both cities.

The workshop is accompanied by a series of public events, including talks by the national and international teaching team and a presentation of the workshop outcome.

The title of the workshop is inspired by a personal account of Russian artist Ariadna Arendt’s (1906-1970) time studying at the Vkhutemas, Russia’s revolutionary state art school of the 1920s, and following its abrupt dissolution in 1930 at INPII — the Institute of Proletarian Fine Art. For further reading see.

‘We begin with a squiggle’ is organised by David Bennewith and Claudia Doms. Assistance by Bram van den Berg, Maria Shumilova and Victoria Sobko.

Participating graphic designers and lecturers are Natasha Agapova, Bart de Baets, Tanya Ermolaeva, Paul Gangloff and Roman Gornitsky.

PROGRAMM

MONDAY, MAY 6TH
20:00–21:15
Talks by
20:00 Talk by Elisabeth Klement
20:20 Paul Gangloff — Words Per Minutes
20:40 Roman Gornitsky — Nine Books
21:00 Q&A
Attention: All talks will be held in English

THURSDAY, MAY 9TH
20:00–21:15
Talks by
20:00 Claudia Doms — Factory Visit
20:20 Natasha Agapova — Design kibutz. Working on group projects at Arbeitskollektiv
20:40 Bart de Baets — Kunstverein Langenhagen
21:00 Q&A
Attention: All talks will be held in English

FRIDAY, MAY 10TH

19:00–21:00
19:00 Introduction by David Bennewith and Claudia Doms
19:10 Maria Arendt about Ariadna Arendt
19:20 Nadia Plungian 'Ariadna Arendt and the Soviet modernisms'
19:40 Presentation workshop outcome

Attention: All talks will be held in English

Participating students were selected through an open call, in Moscow and at the Rietveld Academie respectively. https://rietveld. moscow/.

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is an international university of applied sciences for Fine Arts and Design in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its graphic design course is world renowned for its innovative and international program, with many of the most prominent figures in contemporary graphic design having graduated from the Rietveld Academie. The course aims to educate graphic designers who can contribute to the development of the discipline, that are prepared to use their work to engage in debate, adopt an investigative and reflective approach to media, find an own method of working, and can express themselves in their own visual language.

The project is kindly supported by the Rietveld Academy, Moscow museum of modern art, the Dutch Embassy in Moscow, WE Jansenfonds and Moscow Zoo Academy.

* https://drive. google. com/file/d/182810lq_p-xesMgSGWnX1aB53nbG3F5-/view

During several days, works from the collection of Moscow museum of modern art could be seen at a new angle in frames of LG SIGNATURE Art Week. In this project, they are exhibited among advanced technological devices and design objects in special scenographic decorations created by Alessandro Mendini. At this show, museum’s collection that counts thousands of storage units and embraces a wide range of Russian art of the last century is presented by specially selected ten artworks by different artists of different epochs.

The earliest of them belong to the brush of Niko Pirosmani, renowned Georgian primitive artist of the beginning of the last century. Nowadays his name is associated with the circle of artists of the Russian avant-garde, and his art — with the spontaneity and and prophetism of the naive vision of the world. A small work of Ilya Chashnik, a talented follower of Kazimir Malevich, is one of the brightest examples of suprematism. Abstract art, native modernism, in particular, alongside with works Of Eduard Steinberg and Francisco Infante-Arana are inextricably linked with the concept of the most advanced discoveries and achievements in artistic practice. They form those impulses that inspire the most courageous experiments in modern culture. On the other hand, anthropological context, which is a direct part of any creative process and human experience, manifests itself in the works of Pyotr Belenok, Timur Novikov and Viktor Pivovarov, with their interest in the well-established pictorial canon and visual codes of past eras.

The problem of the interaction of art and technology occupies a crucial place in the history of XXth century. The aestheticization of mechanical, and at the same time the interest of designers and artists in creative experiments in the field of industrial production — from the development of decorative solutions of household items to the creation of new ergonomic devices — is a decisive factor for creating original collaborations. In the halls of the museum, electrical and electronic devices play the role of totems, characters on the theater stage. The architectural solution of the exhibition is full of various elements and is built in such a way that it resembles a magical space, a kind of treasury in which LG products are stored along with works from the MMOMA collection. Here you can carefully explore the boundaries and parallels between different universes — the sphere of industrial design and the world of modern art.

As part of educational program prepared for the «Testimony» exhibition three discussions took place. They were devoted to themes and subjects that have been raised in this project.

First discussion was devoted to the methods of Haim Sokol’s artistic practice. In the dialogue with Irina Gorlova (Head of the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Tretyakov Gallery) and Andrey Egorov (Head of the MMOMA Research Department, co-curator of the «Testimony» exhibition), the artist revealed how work with memorial culture is implemented in his practice and how private family history collective memory could be interconnected.

Place and role of artistic practice in creation of memorial culture became the subject of the «ARTIST AS WITNESS» discussion. Apart from the artist himself and Andrey Egorov, co-curator of the exhibition, participants of the second event were Alexander Bikbov, Irina Scherbakova and Stepan Vaneyan. These questions were examined during discussion: How is «testimony» arranged in Haim Sokol’s practice? Where is the border between document, relic and artifact, between the memory of a witness and artistic interpretation, lastly, between knowledge and understanding? What are the methods of comprehension of traumatic experience in art after the Holocaust?

How do artists cope and work with traumatic experience and anxiety provoked by contemporaneity today? This question became crucial for participants of the third discussion «ARTIST AS MIGRANT MIGRANT AS ARTIST,» that took place after the end of the exhibition. Conversation between the artist Haim Sokol, Andrey Egorov, co-curator of the exhibition, and Viktor Misiano revealed how the process of artist’s everyday life turns into the quotidian struggle with entropy and comprehension of every possible boundaries that (s)he needs to designate and cross hereafter.

10th May

Participants: Irina Gorlova (Head of the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Tretyakov Gallery), Andrey Egorov (Head of the MMOMA Research Department, co-curator of the «Testimony» exhibition), Haim Sokol

17th May

Participants: Alexander Bikbov (The Logos Journal), Andrey Egorov (MMOMA), Irina Sherbakova (Memorial), Haim Sokol, Stepan Vaneyan (MSU)

14th June

Participants: Viktor Misiano (Curator, Chief Editor of Moscow Art Magazine, Artistic Director of the Human Condition Project), Andrey Egorov (Co-curator of the «Testimony» exhibition, Head of MMOMA Research Department), Haim Sokol

Exhibition «Testimony» was held at Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Gogolevsky blvd., 10/2) from 17th April to 20th May 2018. Further information on the project.

MAY 19, Saturday, 2 — 7:20 pm
MMOMA EDUCATION CENTER (Ermolaevsky line, 17)

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Center for Russian and French Studies (CEFR), German Historical Institute in Moscow (DHI), French Institute in Paris (Fonds d’Alembert), French Institute in Russia

Knud Andresen, Christine Fauré, Dima Fillipov, Pavel Mitenko,
Ilya Budraitskis, Jean-Marc Salmon, Natalia Smolianskaia

Admission is free, registration is required.

By reviewing the events of May 1968, the 50th anniversary of which we are celebrating this year, we aim to compare different types of protest movements that take place in the public space and trace their origins and development paths. The May 1968 protests emerged as a new form of civil movement and self-organization characterized by the absence of a visible leader. We aim to explore the causes, triggers and impact of this new type of collective action and analyze in what ways contemporary protest movements in Russia, Europe and other parts of the world draw on the May 1968 events. Issues connected with critical public debate will be considered in relation to contemporary urban, socio-political, feminist and cultural agendas.

The round table will be held as part of the regular seminar titled Espace public: mobilisations, engagements, appurtenances organized by the Center for Russian and French Studies (CEFR). Bringing together researchers from Russia and France, the seminar aims to trace the evolution of the public space across various political systems by reconsidering Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere as a social space where individuals come together to critically and rationally discuss topics connected with the state and political practice.

The round table will launch a series of events that are dedicated to the 1968 events and their influence on contemporary culture and society and will be held in the course of 2018 at the MMOMA Education Center. Centered around a two-part exhibition (Forbidden to Forbid and Overcoming Art), the program will also include screenings and lectures.

Covering social, artistic and historical themes the round table program includes two sections. Drawing on the 1968 events, the first section titled «Philosophy on the Streets» will discuss the liberation of speech and action in the urban space. This section will also consider student movements in France and Germany and the influence of the 1968 events on feminism and young workers’ movements. The section endeavors to trace in what ways contemporary events in France such as strikes of railway workers and protests of teachers and students against the higher education reform can be traced back to the events of 1968.

Considering art as part of other social practices the second section will focus on its response to social change. In 1968, in their performances, Daniel Buren, Gérard Fromanger, Guy Debord and the GRAV group brought art out into the streets to revolutionize the public space. In what ways do these art movements that were actively shaping the public space at the time influence art practice today?
The round table will be held with simultaneous interpretation from French and English languages. As part of the round table film screenings (Cinema Leaflets, 1968; Grenelle Agreements, Learning Group Film, 2009; Philosophy on the Streets, Natalia Smolianskaia, 2015) will be held.

The round table is moderated by Natalia Smolianskaia, artist, curator, and theorist of contemporary art.

Program

2 — 2. 20. pm Introduction of the participants and greetings from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, French Institute in Russia, German Historical Institute in Moscow (DHI), Center for Russian and French Studies (CEFR)

2.20 — 2.50. pm Screenings

• Cinema Leaflets, a compilation edited from collective documentary and experimental films, 1968
• Philosophy on the Streets, interviews with participants of the May 1968 events, Natalia Smolianskaia, 2015

Section 1. Speech and Action in the Public Space in 1968

2.50 — 3. 05 pm Natalia Smolianskaia (RSUH)
Wrong Way Down A One Way Street: Opportunity Space

3.05 — 3. 25 pm Christine Fauré (Honorary head of research at CNRS (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Triangle Lab, École normale supérieure de Lyon)
Universal and Poetic Strike of the Street

3.25 — 3.50 pm Knud Andresen (University of Hamburg, Research Center for Contemporary History) Challenging the Authoritarian Society? — ’1968′ in West Germany

3.50 — 4.15 pm Jean-Marc Salmon (Professor, research group Ethos at the National Institute of Telecommunication, Paris)
Tunisian Uprising: Liberation of Speech and Power of Action

4.15 — 4.45 pm Discussion

4.45 — 5. 05 pm Coffee-break

5.05 — 5. 30 pm Screening of Grenelle Agreements, Learning Group Film, 2009

Section 2. Art as a Form of Protest, Mobilization and Critique

5. 30 — 5.45 pm Natalia Smolianskaia. Art Goes out into the City: Artistic Practices of 1968 and Reenactments of the 1968 Actions in Russian Art: Practices and Symbols

5.45 — 6.05 pm Ilya Budraitskis (political and cultural theorist, teaches at the Moscow school of social and economic sciences, member of editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine)
The Revolution, Which is Too Early to Judge. What is Left of Global 1968 ?

6. 05 — 6. 25 pm Pavel Mitenko (artist, activist, researcher, member of working group of MediaUdar festival, working on PhD about actionism)
The Situationist International and Moscow Actionism. Revolutionary Agitation without Ideology

6. 25 — 6. 45 pm Dima Fillipov (artist, curator, organizer of the artist-run space Elektrozavod)
From Matchbox to the Scale of the Country. Experience of Nonexistent Group

6.45 — 7.10 pm Discussion

May 19-20, 13:00 — 18:00
Applications are accepted until May 17, 11 PM

How to work together in self-organised groups? What inner processes, values and changes a group has to deal with? Are self-organised groups able to gain sustainability?

Related to the project Space for Art co-organized by MMOMA and the Goethe Institute, this Open Call for Participation cordially invites you to the workshop Group pictures to take place on 19th & 20th of May 2018 at MMOMA Education Centre from 1 pm till 6 pm.

The workshop is part of the exhibition Based on These New Dependencies, We Define Five Normal Forms (17.05 — 26.08.2018) curated by D21 Kunstraum, a non-profit space for contemporary art in Leipzig, and in particular, a platform for topics relevant to society to be communicated and discussed through the medium of art.

D21 has been invited by the Goethe Institute and MMOMA to curate an exhibition that reflects their own organisational situation: D21 is administered by a self-organized association of volunteers. The exhibition reflects and nudges the evolution of social relationships, articulating unarticulated desires towards new relations, and fostering propositions about how we can live together. Looking back to the historic Proletkult movement, the exhibition and the accompanying program of performances, lectures, readings and workshops open a processual, participatory project.

Constanze Müller, German curator and pedagogue, will lead an interdisciplinary workshop questioning and practising methods of self-organisation. Members of D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, the artist Anne Krönker and participants from Moscow are invited and welcomed to participate. Over the course of days, the group will form a temporary community to discuss questions on self-organisation, inner processes, values and changes a group has to deal with, and questions of sustainability. The aim is to exchange experiences as well as to create ideas and solutions.

If you are interested to participate and have some experiences in self-organisation, please submit your application to: office@d21-leipzig.de and a.zhurba@mmoma.ru

Workshop communication language is English. Please make sure to be able to attend the workshop on both days.

9 December 2017 | 2 p.m.
Petrovka st., 25, Ball room (2nd floor)

Free enter. Register is necessary.

The aim of the programme is to help young Russian curators acquire experience, share their knowledge and create networks whilst working in leading European cultural institutions. For the past five years Russian curators have had experience of working with some of the most interesting and active European art. After the internships, curators develop their own independent curatorial projects, which are to be presented at the final event.

The topic for 2017`s EUNIC curatorial programme is «Reaching Out». The main idea is to represent the curatorial statement further than usual representation. The aim is to move away from traditional institutions and create a broader output to a wider audience (including people with special needs and abilities), whereas art is introduced in unbounded ways and extensively spread in the unique fringe areas. A message suggests any form of media and occupies any kind of space, producing response, opinion or coexistence. The key point is to search, or invent, new instruments to collaborate with public areas and an unlimited number of individuals.

This year final round is going to take place at Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the jury includes Andrey Egorov (MMOMA), Alexey Maslyev (MMOMA), Margarita Osepyan (Solyanka VPA), Vera Trakhtenberg (CCA WINZAVOD), Marina Bobyleva (TRIUMPH Gallery), Alexander Godovanets (State Tretyakov Gallery). The best project will be implemented with financial support from EUNIC.

With the support of:

British Council Russia, Institut français de Russie, Ambassade de France en Russie, Embassy of Sweden in Russia Embassy of Finland in Russia, Goethe-Institut Moskau, The Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow.

16.12.16 19:30-21.30
ММОМА PETROVKA STREET 25

moderator: Igor Chubarov
speakers: Armen Avanessian, Yoel Regev

Theoretical knowledge strives to avoid affects — for example love — which doesn’t cancel the affect theory itself. Affective component of any theory is dubious. In this sense love theories rest on the gap between practice of loving and sexual relationship and its theoretical reflection, irreducible to love discourse, «lover’s discourse» (Barthes).

However, the gap itself cannot be eliminated, it defines the demand of continuous discussion on love, Lacan’s Demand, unconscious demand or demand of time. In the context of perceiving of love overdertemination, defined not only by its object but also by its language, multiple discourse of lovers of all time, the value of the theory is remarkably increasing on the front, that was called in USSR «love front».

It allows Yoel Regev to speak about love as an economic and even political revolutionary theory and theory of Marxism-Leninism as a theory of love and sexuality. As we are interested not in understanding what happens with us in love relations, but rather in the fact why these states, relations and feelings do not exist (Lacan) or why existence is not the most important in these things. As sex itself may not take place when it is actually replaced by goods and services — the images of sexual consumption and its conceptual ersatz — commercial discourse of Capital, which as Jakobson’s language is given in advance, and we cannot but shamefully shift its forms, playing an abstruse poet or a absurdist-troubadour.

It does not matter that love does not exist as a kind of essence, feeling, property or relation of objects — it is its absence that allows us to perceive it as a flash or constellation of subjects. Every new partner is a new task in sexual programming: intellectual love of such kind represents knowledge of a new type, knowledge of deblocking what is blocked and unlocking situations. Each partner is regarded as a new task for another one. The ontology of love must be discussed on absolutely new basis, criticizing its modern political, legal and bourgeoisie models — anarchical polyamory or menshevist adultery.

This basis is holding together separated things, based on the core thesis — the best way of thinking of other is to think of him less as possible, meanwhile admitting the right of the other to put us in his own storylines and coincidental rows. Sex turns out to be the sphere of coincidence as such — it is the sphere where ultimate autisticity of partners, their full self-absorption results in the emergence of resonance between monads with no windows and doors, whereas imperialist war between two subjects transforms into a civil one between the real and its shadow. Love as always new task of transforming reality but not a human denaturalizes and decapitalizes traditional sexual models at all levels — procreation, pleasure, etc. Only left kabbalistic promiscuity, only hardcore.

Nobody and nothing can vouch for love while talking about human being as he is on the suspicion because he always has what to say. His discourse is doubtful as it includes seduction and it is defined by seduction, which we are trying to leave, like Freud who was trying to abandon his first theory of neurosis. At this point we meet speculative realism — to understand love without anthropological basis and tips, to jump out of any anthropological circle and neurotic speech and not to lose the problem and concern — it is a paradoxical task that can be set for love in the open field of speculative experimentation. And the experience of such a Young Pope of accelerationism and speculative poetics as Armen Avanessian

About the participants:

Igor Chubarov — Russian philosopher, a specialist in the field of analytical anthropology phenomenology, critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the philosophy of literature. Winner of Andrey Bely Prize (2014), the award «Innovation» (NCCA 2015) in the category "Theory, criticism, art ’
Yoel Regev — Doctor of Science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a post-doctorate at the Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University in Leuven. The main sphere of scientific interest — the history of modern philosophy, speculative realism and materialist dialectics.
Armen Avanesyan — Austrian philosopher, political and literary theorist, a graduate of the Free University in Berlin.

The meeting will be held in the Ballroom of MMOMA at Petrovka 25 December 16, 19:30
Entrance — free, pre-registration is.

Supported by
Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow