"Catherine the Great in the Country and the World"
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, February 15 - May 28
www.rusmuseum.ru
A huge exhibition at the Russian Museum will be dedicated not only to the legendary empress, but also to the renaissance in Russian art and culture during her reign. Curators will collect more than five hundred exhibits from Russian museums and private collections, including paintings, sculpture and objects of decorative and applied art.
Stefano Torelli “Portrait of Empress Catherine II” fragment 1763–1766
“Vladimir Yankilevsky. Existential box"
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, March 1 - April 29
www.mmoma.ru
Vladimir Yankilevsky, one of the central figures of the era of nonconformism, has lived in Paris for a long time, and his exhibitions can be seen more often in Europe than in Russia. MMOMA is rectifying the situation and organizing a large-scale retrospective in honor of the artist’s 80th birthday. More than two hundred works will be collected in space on Gogolevsky Boulevard from Russian collections, the Pompidou Center and the collection of the author himself.
Vladimir Yankilevsky “Portrait of a young man” 1984
Festival of Design and Interior: November 1-30
Photo: Expostroy Where: “Expostroy on Nakhimovsky” Cost: free
Throughout November, interesting and useful thematic events will be held at the design and interior center “Expostroy on Nakhimovsky”. Open seminars (only online registration is required to participate) will focus on home renovation and room design topics. “Smart” home, heated floors, room redesign, storage systems in the house, working with decorative paints, textile decor - you can improve your knowledge and skills in these and many other topics. Schedule of events - follow the link. At the same time, new interior collections will be presented at the expo center and discounts will apply on the existing range (finishing materials, lighting, plumbing, kitchens, furniture).
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"Vasily Vereshchagin"
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, March 6 - July 15
www.tretyakovgallery.ru
The Tretyakov Gallery will celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Russian classic of painting Vasily Vereshchagin with a slightly belated (the artist was born on October 26, 1842) retrospective of his works on Krymsky Val. They promise to exhibit the works in series, the way Vereshchagin himself liked: for example, paintings and drawings dedicated to Japan will be collected separately, and India separately.
V. B. Vereshchagin “Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal near Agra” 1874
“The era of Rembrandt and Vermeer. Masterpieces of the Leiden Collection."
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, March 26 - July 22
www.arts-museum.ru
A year after the exhibition in the Louvre, the so-called Leiden Collection will go on tour to Russia. Over the past fifteen years, it has been collected by the American billionaire Thomas Kaplan, who is sensitive to every appearance on the market of works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Steen, Jan Lievens and other representatives of the golden age of Dutch painting. After Moscow, the exhibition will go to the Hermitage, where it will be on display from September 5.
Rembrandt "Minerva" 1635 © Leiden Collection Image courtesy of the Leiden Collection, New York
Advertising and Design Festival “Wednesday 2019”: November 9-10
Photo: Brainona Where: exhibition Cost: 2500 rubles.
The “Sreda” festival of “new design” is a competition for young designers and architects. They present projects to a professional jury that should transform the surrounding space and change it for the better. The festival takes place in several stages (accepting applications, selecting contestants, summing up the results) and ends with an award ceremony for the winners. This November weekend, guests of the event will have the opportunity to see the work of the competitors with their own eyes, learn a lot of new information in the lecture hall (speakers are leading domestic industry experts), recharge themselves through live communication with design industry leaders, and make new acquaintances and contacts. The first day of the festival will end with the intellectual game “Brand Ring” - a quiz with questions on brands, design, and advertising. To participate in the game, you need to sign up for the team of one of the “star” captains - heads of advertising and branding agencies - on the opening day of the festival, November 9, at the guest registration desk. The game will be conducted by the master of the elite club “What? Where? When?" Elizaveta Ovdeenko. Tickets for the festival (2 lecture days) can be purchased online.
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“Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Not everyone will be taken into the future"
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, April 21 - July 29
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After London's Tate Modern, this retrospective of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, as announced, comes to Russia. First, this unprecedented concentration of nostalgic installations will be exhibited in the Hermitage, and later will go to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov “Not everyone will be taken into the future” 2001 MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna © Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Flamenco Festival Viva España!: November 19-20
Photo: Festival Flamenco Where: Russian Song Theater Cost: 1000-5000 rubles.
It will be hot in Moscow in the fall: for a couple of days the capital will be at the mercy of the sultry Spanish rhythms of the XVIII International Flamenco Festival Viva España! Two musical performances will take place on the Moscow stage - “The Hours with You” (produced by the director of the National Ballet of Spain, winner of the Spanish National Dance Prize Ruben Olmo) and “Descended from Heaven” (produced by Rocío Molina, winner of the Spanish National Dance Prize) . “Hours with You” presents Spanish dance in all its forms: flamenco, Spanish classical dance, folk dance and bolero. The performance does not have a literary plot, but is united by the common theme of dance as a passion that fills the life of the main dancer. Ruben Olmo dances in an original manner, and together with him in the production are talented performers Patricia Guerrero and Eduardo Leal, who specially created the choreography for this performance. The play “Who Descended from Heaven” tells about a woman’s path to absolute freedom, about a woman who begins to move through the world of light and shadows, silence and music towards the unknown. Flamenco by Rocío Molina is an expression of supreme freedom. It is deeply rooted in tradition and at the same time freely interacts with other stage genres. Exclusive: On November 21, Rocío Molina will give a one-day master class at the flamenco house “Flamenquería”! Details and tickets are on the website.
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"Dress rehearsal"
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, April 25 - September 16
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The joint project of MMOMA, the VAC and KADIST foundations is almost a theatrical production, the main characters of which will be works of art by such authors as Mariana Castillo Debal, Phil Collins, Ryan Gander, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Ian Waugh, Arseny Zhilyaev. The action will take place on several floors of the museum's mansion on Petrovka.
Ian Waugh “We the People” 2011 KADIST Collection Photo: Matthew Booth
Museum "Collection"
Moscow, spring-summer 2018
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They have been talking about David Yakobashvili’s private museum for several years now: everyone knows about his collecting passions (from time to time he exhibits items from his collection at the Museum of Decorative Arts), and they have also heard about the building on Kitai-Gorod. And only recently he invited journalists to look at the not yet completed exhibition in the building at Solyanka Street, 16. Everything here is literally bursting with treasures from all over the world - automata, magic watches, gramophones, music boxes and other miraculous things collected by the collector. And there is hope that the new institution will finally open its doors for the FIFA World Cup in the spring-summer of next year.
Cocchi, Bacigalupo & Graffigna Organ organ model "Harmonipan" 1891–1896
Toguchi Cosplay Festival: November 3
Photo: Dmitry Isaev Where: House of Culture RUT (MIIT) Cost: from 700 rubles.
“Toguchi” is a festival that brings together lovers of transforming into their favorite characters. Anime, manga, j-rock, Japanese street fashion, comics, historical characters, films and books - there are no restrictions here. The festival's stage program is a mix of theatrical skits, dance and karaoke numbers, and performances. To be able to go on stage, you need to submit an application to the organizers and pass the selection. Spectators can come in costume without prior approval - a free professional “photo corner” will be available for them. Photos, emotions, new acquaintances and inspiration for future reincarnations - this is what you can take with you from the cosplay festival (and also a souvenir badge). “Toguchi” has no age restrictions - neither for spectators nor for participants. You can buy a ticket on the festival website.
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"Banksy"
Central House of Artists, Moscow, summer 2018
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A large exhibition of graffiti artist No. 1 was promised by Marina Loshak when she was the art director of Manege, but in 2014 it was announced that it would be cancelled. Today, Banksy, the author of expressive political and social statements, is promised to be brought to the Central House of Artists and given to him in the summer of 2021, an entire floor of the building.
Banksy "Maid in London" 2006
"Mikhail Larionov"
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, September 18 - January 20, 2019
www.tretyakovgallery.ru
The Paris Pompidou Center, Cologne's Ludwig Museum, London's Tate Modern, Vienna's Albertina and other museums will chip in for a large exhibition dedicated to the famous avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. His Russian and French periods will be exhibited, and the artist will also be presented as a collector of Russian folk art.
Mikhail Larionov “Nocturne” 1913–1914 Tate Modern © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2017
Moscow: exhibition “Teatr.RUS”
02.11.2019 — 08.01.2020
An exhibition dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Theater Museum has been prepared in the New Manege. A.A. Bakhrushin. Visitors will see a collection of exhibits telling about the development of Russian theater since the 17th century. The exhibition will include presentations of theatrical projects and lectures “Lessons of the Profession”, in which critic Grigory Zaslavsky, theater critic Vadim Shcherbakov, theater historian Rimma Krechetova and other experts will participate.
The exhibition is divided into thematic zones: “Fortress Theatre”, “Imperial Theatres”, “Moscow Art Theater - Meyerhold - Tairov - Russian Avant-Garde”, “Theater during the Great Patriotic War” and others. The exhibition presents costumes, posters, photographs, audio and video recordings, as well as paintings, graphic and sculptural works. Among them are Konstantin Korovin’s scenery for the opera “The Golden Cockerel” from the Bakhrushin Museum, rare masks of buffoons from the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, prints - paper copies of reliefs, rock paintings depicting dancing figures from the Khakass National Museum of Local Lore.
Read more about the exhibition "Teatr.RUS".
"Pablo Picasso. Olga Khokhlova"
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, November 15 - February 3, 2019
www.arts-museum.ru
The exhibition, held at the Picasso Museum in Paris in the spring-summer of this year, became a real blockbuster in the French capital: for the first time, the institution assembled a powerful exhibition dedicated to the Russian dancer, wife and muse of the great artist. Paintings, graphics and sculpture from the museum itself and other collections depicting or inspired by Olga Picasso will occupy the halls of the main Pushkinsky building.
Pablo Picasso "Swimmer" 1929 © Succession Picasso, 2021 Crédit photo © RMN - Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso - Paris)
Moscow: exhibition “Transatlantic meetings: underground and new avant-garde”
26.10.2019 — 25.01.2020
House of Russian Abroad named after. Alexander Solzhenitsyn invites you to a photo exhibition dedicated to the latest Russian literature. It continues the exhibition “Listen to the Silence and Speak: Brodsky and the Leningrad Underground,” which was held at Columbia University in New York.
Various exhibition areas have been prepared for guests: “Akhmatov’s Orphans”, “St. Petersburg Metaphysicians”, “Philological School”, “Metaphysicists, Metarealists and Conceptualists”, “Petersburg at the End of the Leningrad Era”. Here are photographs taken by choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov, poet Joseph Brodsky, writer Eduard Limonov and journalist Natasha Sharymova. Among them are artistic photographs of Russian writers created in the 1960s–90s in Leningrad, Moscow and New York, footage from speeches and performances, as well as photographic portraits of the philologist Roman Jacobson, poets Robert Frost and Allen Ginsberg, and critic Susan Sontag.
Read more about the exhibition “Transatlantic Encounters: Underground and New Avant-garde.”
Retrospective of Marcel Broodthaers
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, autumn 2018
www.garagemca.org
The name Broodthaers is well known in Europe, but in Russia it is heard extremely rarely. Nowadays, not a single major exhibition dedicated to conceptualism or surrealism - the directions to which the famous Belgian devoted his life in art - can do without him. “Garage” will present for the first time a full-fledged retrospective of the master, collecting his works from different years.
Marcel Broodthaers “Conversations, texts, copies” 1972–1973 © Estate Marcel Broodthaers
Bvlgari
Moscow Kremlin Museums, September 7 - January 12, 2019
www.kreml.ru
Jewelry exhibitions have always been a hit at the Kremlin Museums and there is no doubt that vintage jewelry from the legendary Italian house from the 1950s to the 70s will also attract a large crowd. Moreover, almost all of them will be associated with Italian cinema, which was experiencing an unprecedented rise in those days. Here, among other things, they will show diamonds and other stones that belonged to world movie stars - Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani and others.
Ingrid Bergman on the set of The Visit, 1963 Claudia Cardinale wearing a platinum necklace with diamonds at the Bulgari exhibition at the Italian Embassy in Paris, 1962
Young Old Festival: New Old: November 3-4
Photo: Young Old Where: KTs ZIL Cost: free
Young Old is a festival for older citizens and their loved ones. This, however, does not mean that those who are younger will not be able to visit it. According to the idea of the organizers of the “New Seniors”, the format of the event assumes that young people will want to bring their parents here, and grandparents will want to take their grandchildren. There will be active sessions (dancing, sports activities) and intellectual master classes (IT literacy). The discussion program also promises to be very rich: at least a hundred speakers are planned to speak on a variety of problematic topics (health and relationships with doctors, self-discovery, self-realization and career in adulthood, volunteering, technology and the Internet in the life of the older generation, fashion and the image of a pensioner , finance). The list of speakers is available on the website. There will be a market and a cafe at the festival. Participation is free - upon registration.
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"Roberto Matta and the Fourth Dimension"
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,
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April 2 – June 30
2019
www.hermitagemuseum.org
The first major exhibition in Russia of the Chilean surrealist Roberto Matta is being organized by the Hermitage. His works, the prices of which today reach up to 5 million dollars, are not in Russian museums, but it is worth looking at them if only to open your way to other “dimensions” of the artist.
Roberto Matta “Embraces open eyes” 1954
Turtle Power Fest 2021: November 9-10
Photo: Turtle Power Fest Where: Bunker 703 Museum Cost: 900-5000 rubles.
A holiday for fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - two whole days entirely dedicated to the magnificent four. The Turtle Power Fest will be dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the turtle universe and will take place in a real ninja lair - a bunker located 43 meters underground. The special guest of the festival will be Chris Allan, the artist who had a hand in creating the first comics about turtles. He will hold a competition for the best drawing (anyone can draw a fantasy on the theme of the TMNT universe), and will also draw custom sketches for everyone. The festival will also host an exhibition of figurines of turtles and other comic book characters (more than 300 figurines are planned to be shown) and printed publications dedicated to turtle themes. Both days you will be able to play computer games based on the comic book about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as buy souvenirs (including vintage items). The detailed festival program is on the website. Tickets are available in different categories - from standard admission to VIP (gifts and the opportunity to take part in a drawing for memorable prizes are included).
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