Out from Insight. Exhibition of works by Alexandra Mitlyanskaya

About the exhibition

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Alexandra Mitlyanskaya's solo exhibition From the Inside that explores the fine boundary between the inner world and external reality. Here, the boundary that separates the inner and outer worlds runs between the two rooms. The first one hosts the series When I'm Home Alone that tells the artist's story through objects. Every item, whether it's a travel souvenir, a family heirloom, or a gift from a loved one, becomes part of her autobiography. These objects, all created at different times, come together into a single visual poem about Alexandra Mitlyanskaya's personal space. Three video art works featured in the other room, The Moscow River, A Road in the Dunes and A Grain Pipe, look into our perception of the reality around us. They are woven from the sense of the vastness and impermanence of the world that one feels trying to capture elusive illusions. In a skyline, the movement of natural elements or the play of light and shadow, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya documents moments of everyday reality associated with pure sensations.

The exhibition From the Inside invites the audience on a journey: from the intimate world of Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, filled with her personal belongings, to the boundless space shown through the eyes of the artist.

Curator

Nina Lavrishcheva

About the artist

Alexandra Mitlyanskaya (born in 1958) graduated from the Art Department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (1981). A member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1989. In 1995, she received a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts. She has hosted workshops at Tufts University, Harvard University, and the Parsons School of Design (USA). Winner of the Now and Then video festival. Nominee of the 2017 Kandinsky Prize.

Her works have been featured at solo exhibitions at the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Saratov Radishchev State Art Museum, the ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre (St. Petersburg), the Generations Foundation Khanty-Mansiysk State Art Gallery, the Era Foundation for the Support of Visual Arts (Moscow), the Spider&Mouse Gallery (Moscow), and the Krokin Gallery (Moscow). Alexandra Mitlyanskaya's works are part of the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Centre for Contemporary Art, the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO, regional museums and art galleries in Russia and abroad.

Images:

1. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya. «When I'm Home Alone». 2020. Donated by the artist to the Museum

2. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya. «Performance». 2023. Donated by the artist to the Museum

3. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya .«An Epiphany». 2021. Donated by the artist to the Museum

4. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya. «Mirror». 2021. Donated by the artist to the Museum

5. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya. «Memory». 2021. Donated by the artist to the Museum

6. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya. «Rain. New Athos». 2024. Courtesy of the author