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As you've probably understood I try to show you that there're a lot of remarkable places to visit in Moscow. Not only the Kremlin and Red Square. If you're going to Russia soon this Moscow exhibitions schedule can be useful for you. By the way pay the particular attention to the first one. It should be very interesting for art tourism fanciers.
Day of Open Doors: mansion – gymnasium – clinic – museum
16.12.2009 - 14.03.2010
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Paintings, graphics, sculpture, installations
Definitely the main exhibition of Moscow art winter. The curator Yuri Avvakumov has selected the significant works of the last 20 years created by Russian contemporary artists. The spaces which used to be private chambers, classrooms and hospital halls have now become halls of the museum. So the doors have been taken off to symbolize the absolute openness of the current artistic process.
Mirrors
23.12.2009 - 21.02.2010
New Tretyakov Gallery
graphics, paintings
There are reflections, mirrors and all sorts of optical tricks: the reflection in the bathroom, in glasses, in someone's eyes, in the workshops of artists. There are works by Elkonin, Infante, Koleychuk. This exhibition in New Tretyakov Gallery is devoted to the theme of the mirrors in Russian fine art (from the end of XVIII to XX centuries).
Nude. ХХ centure
09.12.2009 - 08.03.2010
Naschokin House Gallery
paintings, graphics, sculpture
Works in the nude genre by the hundred of masters of the twentieth century. The sensational exhibition includes paintings and sculptures. The large-scale (3,5 to 4,5 meters) canvas by Petr Konchalovsky named «Bathing of the Red Cavalry» opens the exhibition. It was painted in 1928 for the tenth anniversary of the Red Army and has never exhibited or published for more than 80 years!
Turkestan Avant-Garde
05.02.2010 - 18.04.2010
Museum of Oriental Arts
Paintings, graphics
The exhibitions is based on the works by masters that in 1920th-1930th years linked their lives with Turkestan.
Propaganda posters and the war photographs of 1941-1945
20.02.2010 - 14.03.2010
Central House of Artists
Photos, graphics, installations
The exhibition is devoted to the 65th anniversary of victory in WWII.
Up to middle of February one can look at video art program in Winzavod Contemporary Art Center. In the program there are "Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz", "The Title Exhibition" by the Institute of Contemporary Art KW (you could see it in Berlin last year) and curator project by Vardi Gross "Calm before the storm" - a collection of the best Israeli video art.
Anatoly Zverev. Sit down baby I'll immortalize you
04.12.2009 - 14.02.2010
Chekhov’s House
Paintings, video art
It’s a quite small exhibition and mostly it pays attention to the person of artist. Anatoly Zverev that was not involved in any associations of artists and always kept apart.
A retrospective show of Moscow artist Leonid Tishkov. A total installation, presenting the imaginary worlds of creatures that the artist was inventing within 30 years of his art life. His works combine folklore and surrealism.
Grigory Inger and his heroes
30.01.2010—20.03.2010
Cultproject Gallery
Graphics
This exhibition is dedicated to the 100 years anniversary of the artist birth day. The graphics.
Vagrich Bakhchanyan
23.01.2010 - 09.04.2010
Stella Art Foundation at Mytnaya Street
Graphics
The works of Vagrich Bakhchanyan, a classic of the Russian contemporary art, from its own collection. The exhibition comprises 80 graphics from the almost infinite array of works produced by the artist who passed away in New York on November 2009.
Vladislav Efimov. A Fearful Collection
24.12.2009 - 14.02.2010
Stella Art Foundation in Skaryatinsky Lane
Installations, new media
The collection is fearful because the installations are material and interactive. The objects react to a visitor’s presence. If you touch the box which is the dwelling place of the object, its inhabitant will shriek, hide or sing. Some of them become scared and run away)
Semyon Faibisovich. Evidence
29.01.2010 - 28.02.2010
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Paintings
MMOMA in collaboration with Regina Gallery opens a large-scale exhibition by Semen Faibisovich. It shows two latest periods of the artist’s career: the «Evidence» project of the first half of the 90s, and a newly created after a 12-year break «Razgulyay» cycle.
Sergey Anufriev is the former member of Medgermenevtika and Cloudy Comission groups. Now he seeks for new art language - patternism using the series of art works as an ABC book.
Retrospective of Vladimir Ilyuschenko
16.12.2009 - 18.04.2010
New Tretyakov Gallery
graphics
Exhibition of Vladimir Iljuschenko graphics is a tribute to the deceased artist. The retrospective covers all the significant periods of the master that belongs to the generation of 1960-1970-x. Unique colored monoprints-etchings, drawings of Polenovo and its environs, 80 watercolors and abstract works of the late period of "zero" years.
Anya has turned the white space of Aidan Gallery in the copy of her own workshop in surbubian house - rods, metal, concrete.
Moscow of Naum Granovsky
29.01.2010 to 18.02.2010
Lumiere Brothers Gallery
Photos
Jubilee exhibition of one of the greatest Moscow photographer Naum Granovsky. He had been working for ITAR-TASS (national news agency) for more than 50 years and shot almost all the Moscow history of XX centure.
Irma Sharikadze
30.01.2010 - 23.02.2010
GMG Gallery
Photos, installations, new media
Georgian artist Irma Sharikadze investigates the image of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
