Nikolay Shumakov. Singularity

About the exhibition

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Singularity, timed to the anniversary of Nikolay Shumakov, People's Architect of the Russian Federation.

The project comprehensively presents all facets of Nikolay Shumakov’s talent. The works will be grouped by genres: architecture, painting, and sculpture. These exhibits are the product of almost half a century of continuous, daily work, venturous impulses, and an ironic worldview.

The Architecture section showcases Shumakov’s urban planning projects which have shaped today’s landscape of the Russian capital: from the Moscow Metro and the Vnukovo Airport complex to the delicate outlines of the Zhivopisny Bridge in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki.

The most spectacular part of the Painting section are portraits of the artist's friends and acquaintances, with a lot of famous culture professionals and public figures that the audience will find familiar. They include animator Yuri Norstein, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Vladimir Mashkov, sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov, singer and composer Peter Nalitch, among others. However, the artist does not settle for the portrait genre exclusively, and the show will be complemented by interior motifs, still lifes, as well as variations of iconographic compositions. Shumakov draws inspiration from them and finds new design solutions that evolve into future architectural projects.

The most unconventional section of the exhibition is Sculpture: Shumakov's experiments with this art form will be presented to the public for the first time.

The show will feature his animalistic objects which merge the images from the animal world and urban motifs. The show will be complemented by Nikolay Shumakov's graphic and digital works, with more than 100 exhibits in total. The project will include publishing an album with photographs of Shumakov’s architectural projects and paintings.

Age limit

12+

except for one 18+ room

About the artist

Nikolay Shumakov is a famous Russian architect and artist, People's Architect of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Chief Architect of the Mosinzhproekt Institute, President of the Union of Architects of Russia and the Union of Moscow Architects, member of Council for Culture and the Arts under the President of the Russian Federation. Nikolay designed more than 40 stations of the Moscow Metro, an airport complex (the Vnukovo Airport), the Western River Port (Moscow), Omsk and Chelyabinsk metro lines (currently under construction) and the biggest European cable-stayed bridge (Zhivopisny Bridge) in Moscow.