Love me like I do

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents a new project within the framework of the Collection. Vantage Point Programme titled Love me like I do. This exhibition addresses the eternal themes of love, family and fidelity, which, despite dramatic changes and revolutions of the XX and XXI centuries, continue to inspire artists and become the subject of their explorations.

The exhibition brings together works from the MMOMA collection in which artists reflect on relationships between men and women against the background of history and social life. The exhibition presents a wide variety of works: from classical paintings and sculptures to photography, video art and object art. Many exhibits are small format and resonate with the general nature of this 'private' theme. Design of the main exhibition space uses motifs and images of 1950s Samizdat postcards.

The exhibition will feature works by Vladimir Yankilevsky, Lev Tabenkin, Ekaterina Grigorieva, Aidan Salakhova, Vadim Sidur, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Andrey Bartenev, Galina Edelman, among others. It will also represent artists Roman Mokrov and Yuri Grigoryan (Jr.), who have created their works specifically for the project.

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

Collection. Vantage Point is a long-term exhibition programme developed specifically for the MMOMA Educational Centre in addition to the series of large-scale thematic exhibitions that have become a highlight of the Museum. It is characterized by a different, focused and intimate approach to the study and presentation of the Museum collections, as well as a much more dynamic rhythm of display. The programme brings together exhibitions of various types: from monographic and archival to interdisciplinary. With the aim of exploring fragments of the collection, these essentially laboratory projects often turn to private, non-magisterial, artistic subjects and allow for the testing of new exhibition solutions. The programme provides an opportunity to examine from different perspectives a wide range of phenomena, names, trends, images and ideas in Russian art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Museum collection as a unique resource becomes a convenient vantage point for discussing art, history, science and culture in general.

The programme was launched at the end of 2017 and is supervised by the curatorial staff of MMOMA Research Department. The programme was initiated by Andrey Egorov and Anna Harutyunyan.