The 15th International "Autumn Salon of Author's Dolls" on Tishinka is rightfully considered the most anticipated event in the world of author's dolls. More than 500 authors from all over the world, 10,000 spectators and almost 3,000 exhibits will gather at the exhibition complex on Tishinka from October 4 to 6, 2021.
At the exhibition you can meet characters from your favorite fairy tales and cartoons, familiar from childhood, heroes from cinema and literature, funny teddy bears, and get acquainted with new characters invented and brought to life by master puppeteers. Also at the exhibition will be presented a large assortment for creating dolls and thematic literature. And most importantly, the “ Autumn Salon ” is an exhibition and sale where you can purchase any piece you like for yourself or as a gift.
Reports, photo reports: exhibitions of the International Doll Salon in Moscow
The organizer of the “Autumn Salon of Author's Dolls” Svetlana Pchelnikova 15 years ago conceived and implemented the first exhibition in Moscow, which to this day does not lose its popularity, but on the contrary, attracts and gathers the most famous artists, collectors and a large audience on one site. Each exhibition of Svetlana is always distinguished by its sincerity and unforgettable atmosphere. And this is no coincidence, because dolls are not just toys. As Svetlana notes: “An author’s doll is a synthesis of several types of art: painting, sculpture and costume design.”
Traditionally, at the Autumn Salon, everyone can take part in Svetlana Pchelnikova’s charity project “Doll Parade for Children”. Funds from the sale of designer dolls and toys from the Parade’s special stand will go directly to treatment for children, as well as to funds with which the exhibition has been cooperating for many years.
Annual doll exhibitions abroad and in Russian capitals
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The main exhibition events are important events in the world of the doll industry; they are a meeting place for experts and manufacturers, as well as just doll lovers. Significant events take place at some of them, such as the announcement of new collections and the presentation of international awards. The exhibition is an open platform for exchanging information and experience, improving skills; here you can take part in competitions, listen to original seminars or lectures, and simply enjoy the atmosphere.
In the article we tried to list the largest exhibition events in the doll industry.
Toy Fair New York , LINK
Venue: New York, USA
First exhibition: 1902
Frequency: Annual
Dates: 10.02.2013 — 13.02.2013, 16.02.2014 – 19.02.2014
Sections: toys, games, dolls, plush toys, books, bicycles, software, party supplies, video games, puzzles, baby products, modeling
Event characteristics:
Toy Fair is one of the largest international toy fairs in the Eastern Hemisphere, showcasing the latest innovations in the children's entertainment industry. It is one of the main meeting places for manufacturers, traders, importers and sales representatives from all over the world.
The range of the exhibition is very wide - from classic toys to interactive entertainment. Here you will find designer dolls, board games, puzzles and educational games, science and exploration kits, interactive games and robots, sports equipment and playground equipment, party supplies, products for babies and preschool children, electronic and radio-controlled toys, computer programs and video games and much more.
The scale of the event can be assessed from the video from the 2013 exhibition:
IDEX , LINK
Venue: Orlando, Florida, USA
First exhibition: 1990
Frequency: Annual
Dates: 11.04.2013 – 14.04.2013
Sections:
Event characteristics:
IDEX is one of the most influential exhibitions in the world of dolls. The exhibition brings together doll industry experts, doll manufacturers, collectors and sellers. At this exhibition you can see announcements of new products in the world of dolls for the coming year, as well as improve your skills by taking part in master classes. You can also take part in various competitions, seminars and lectures.
One of the important events at the exhibition every year is the presentation of international awards from Dolls magazine: DOTY Award; in 2013, the DAE Industry Award was presented.
Toy Fair Nuremberg , LINK
Venue: Nuremberg, Germany
First exhibition: 1949
Frequency: Annual
Dates: 30.01.2014 – 04.02.2014, 29.01.2014 – 03.02.2014
Sections: Construction sets and hobbies, model railways, accessories, dolls, soft toys
books, video games, entertainment software, carnival costumes, everything for the holidays, toys, art kits, crafts, drawing, creativity
goods for sports and active recreation, school supplies, stationery for children, toys for newborns, multi-product group - various products for children
Event characteristics:
The International Toy Fair in Nuremberg is one of the largest exhibitions in the world of goods for play, hobbies and leisure. Businessmen, journalists, developers and other specialists in the children's entertainment industry come here. More than a million products are exhibited here every year (70 thousand of them are new products).
The scale of the event can be assessed from the video from the 2013 exhibition:
International Doll Salon , LINK
Venue: Moscow, Russia
First exhibition: 2005
Frequency: Annual
Dates: 03.10.2013 – 06.10.2013
Sections: modern art dolls, antique dolls, miniatures and doll houses, materials, equipment, accessories, doll associations, puppetry courses, bears and their friends
Event characteristics:
One of the first major doll exhibitions in Russia, which gives the authors the opportunity to meet collectors and other dedicated connoisseurs of this art form.
As part of the event, a charity project “Parade of Star Dolls for Children” is taking place.
Moscow international exhibition-fair of dolls and Teddy bears, Moscow Fair , LINK
Venue: Moscow, Russia
First exhibition: 2007
Frequency: Annual
Dates: 04.04.2013 – 07.04.2013
Sections: antique, textile, felted, classic mohair Teddy bears, porcelain, felted, mechanical, antique dolls, BJD jointed dolls, textile dolls, fashion dolls
Event characteristics:
The exhibition features dolls of the most beloved and famous genres, as well as Teddy bears made using traditional techniques.
Guests of the exhibition will be able to learn the secrets of Teddy bears - the craftsmanship and secrets of creating designer dolls, buy goods for the most exciting types of hobbies, take training courses and master classes.
For collectors, Moscow Fair is an opportunity to discover new names of masters and expand their collections. For lovers of designer dolls and Teddy bears, this is a real holiday where you can see and purchase your favorite works and learn something new.
International Salon of Author's Dolls "Kiev Fairy Tale" , LINK LINK
Venue: Kiev, Ukraine
First exhibition: 2010
Frequency: Annual
Dates:
Sections: designer dolls, Teddy bears, miniatures
Event characteristics:
“Kiev Fairy Tale” is an international Salon of designer dolls in Kyiv. One of the largest exhibitions in Europe dedicated to designer dolls, Teddy bears and miniatures. This is the largest exhibition of dolls in Ukraine, bringing together more than 400 artists from around the world, which highlights the main trends in the development of art, introduces collectors and doll lovers to new materials and techniques for creating doll masterpieces.
Doll Art , LINK
Venue: Moscow, Russia
First exhibition: 2010
Frequency: Annual
Dates: 12.12.2103 – 15.12.2013
Sections: antique dolls, theatrical dolls, cartoon dolls, life-size dolls, fashion dolls, archaic dolls, avant-garde dolls
Event characteristics:
In 2013, the DOLLS OF THE WORLD Foundation will present unique, difficult-to-implement projects and installations, premieres by famous artists of the world, new names and collections of puppetry stars from Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, the USA, Belgium, Indonesia, China and 20 other countries.
The exhibition showcases a wide variety of dolls and will be of interest to any viewer: a collector, a sophisticated connoisseur, an artist waiting to be appreciated by the public - professional and simply in love with dolls.
The fair sector of the exhibition will present everything necessary for those who make dolls. During the exhibition, master classes by famous artists from all over the world will be held.
Doll Time , LINK
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
First exhibition: 2008
Frequency: 2 times a year
Dates: 29.05.2013 – 02.06.2013
Sections: Collectible dolls, antique dolls, jointed dolls, Teddy bears
Event characteristics:
The exhibition has secured its status as a significant event in the cultural life of St. Petersburg. The works of the best masters of artistic and collectible dolls are presented on one site, and a unique educational forum for artists is also held.
The main part of the exhibition is the exhibition of artists who will present new collections of dolls made from various materials: porcelain, textiles, polymer clays and papier-mâché. Geography of exhibition participants: Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland, USA, Germany, etc. Guests of the exhibition will see collectible dolls and Teddy bears: antique and modern, articulated and porcelain.
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XV International Autumn Salon of Author's Dolls 2021. Moscow, Tishinka
Date : October 4 - 6, 2021
Place : Moscow, Tishinskaya Square, 1 CC T-moduleMetro : Belorusskaya, Mayakovskaya Exhibition area: 1500 m2
Schedule opening hours : Day 1 12.00-20.00 Day 2 11.00-20.00 Day 3 11.00-19.00
Ticket price : Standard - 400 rubles Reduced - 200 rubles (for teenagers, students and pensioners) Children under 7 years old - free
Celebrations to mark the opening of the 15th anniversary exhibition will take place all day on October 4. At 12 o'clock there will be a presentation of new products from regular participants of the Autumn Doll Salon. At 18:00 on the same day there will be a VIP opening with celebrity guests and a special program, gifts and drawings of valuable prizes.
Contact information: Project manager: Svetlana Pchelnikova +7 [email protected] Exhibition website: dollsalon.ru
XI Moscow International Exhibition “Doll Art”
The long-awaited exhibition “Doll Art” will take place this time in February – February 19-22, 2021.
For the first time, the exhibition will be held for 4 days!
The 11th exhibition of designer art collectible dolls and Teddy bears in Gostiny Dvor is a large-scale event where hundreds of artists come and bring their best and newest works.
Every journalist asks: “How many dolls will there be at the exhibition?” The number of works cannot be counted. These are tens of thousands of art objects, from miniature dolls and bears measuring 1 cm to full-length exhibits. The scale and composition of the exhibitions of the works presented is impressive - all types and trends of modern and antique dolls, designer toys and Teddy bears.
Spectators will see ancient puppets of the Khiva Puppet Theater and articulated “puppet glamors” of the 21st century; industrial toys of our childhood and avant-garde art objects in which doll elements are already present quite conventionally.
author of the doll: Alexandra Kukinova
Alena doll // author: Anastasia and Sergey Lutsenko
Porcelain luxurious beauties will be presented - an absolute ideal classic - and ironic characteristic characters, like frozen moments of our lives in dolls; viewers will see interior, theatrical and cartoon dolls.
authors: "AnyaManya"
“DOLL ART” is an event where the loudest discoveries, the most sensational sales, and the most important meetings of the year take place.
Traditionally, organizers zone the exhibition space into art projects, an art exhibition-fair, and an area of goodness: a charity event.
This year's thematic projects include:
– Dolls of Baroness Sylvia Weser. A unique collection of porcelain dolls by the German artist-baroness, who passed away in 2021, which will be shown to admirers of her talent by a Moscow collector. Sylvia Weser's dolls are made of precious Limoges porcelain; they are valued all over the world and are in private collections, where they are practically inaccessible to the general public.
- “Architikdolls.” Another premiere of the exhibition. Evgenia Bet from Moscow has prepared a series of puppet objects that are played not with hands, but with meaning. This is a naive fantasy about animating real-life architectural objects, endowing them with the ability to feel and perceive. Each object is an allusion to a specific historical building in the capitals of the world.
– “Porcelain masterpieces.” A project of the legendary Vakhtanov Puppet Gallery by Irina Myzina, who stands at the origins of all puppetry art in Russia. This time the gallery will present a collection of luxurious and rare porcelain dolls, the most valuable and unique works collected over the past 25 years.
– The School of Puppet Design is 20 years old and its founder Lana Letta, together with artist-teachers and artist-graduates, have prepared several exhibitions for the anniversary.
– “Procession of the Magi”, a multi-figure puppet composition – the author’s project of Lyubov Lukyanchuk and the creative studio “Coast of the Winds”. Spectators come to the exhibition of L. Lukyanchuk on purpose - as if they were attending an independent exhibition. This year, a team of authors has prepared a new project based on the fresco of the same name by Benozzo Gozzoli from the Chapel of the Magi in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence. Work on a multi-figure project was organized as a learning process. Under the leadership of L. Lukyanchuk, almost 30 authors, both beginners and accomplished masters, worked on creating the project for a year.
The appeal of modern artists to the Early Renaissance is due not only to the beloved theme of the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem. The procession of the Magi to the star under which Jesus will be born and bring love, peace and prosperity to the world is not only a wonderful Christmas story. Amazing in its beauty and scale, Gozzoli’s work contains historical and mythological allusions and meanings that are relevant today.
– The Adams Family Doll House, artist Tatyana Ovchinnikova . Dimensions 1900x1620x820. The house is located on a high stand and viewers will be able to look into each of the 17 rooms, where 16 characters from the famous comic book and film will live their paradoxical lives, thanks to working mechanisms and lighting. A rotating wall, a “Peeping Portrait”, “Instruments of Torture”, a shooting catapult, an “Iron Maiden”, a miniature railway and many other wonders that both adults and children will be curious to see.
– “DollEdification” is a project of the collaboration of the Elena Gromova Gallery, the Art Doll Section of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, and the creative association DollArt.ru. Artists consider playing with a puppet in the literal sense (puppet), as playing with a doll, acting with a doll as an art, science, craft and even magic. In this project, the authors allowed themselves to play with dolls with all the seriousness characteristic of creative and carefree people, and try to give this game the features of a serious process, a “systematized miracle,” fully aware of the groundlessness of their claims and the impossibility of obtaining a real result.
– Premiere of a new festival – “PetrushkaFest” . A loud, bright fair with elements of a booth and puppet theater performances; folk dolls and toys, competition “Folk Doll 2021”.
The Territory of Good - the charity area of the exhibition "DOLL ART" is dedicated to the "DREAM LEAGUE" Program of Sergei and Natalia Belogolovtsev . This year, the All-Russian therapeutic sports program, renamed from “Dream Ski” to “Dream League,” has been helping children and adults with cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, genetic and autoimmune diseases to believe in themselves and start playing sports for 8 years.
The 20 projects of the art zone of the exhibition continue with a huge territory of creativity - an art fair of dolls and Teddy bears from all over the world. Yes Yes! Despite the closed borders, the exhibition will feature works from different countries - sent by mail, transferred by chance - so we have every right to call our exhibition this year INTERNATIONAL!
“Faith” // author: Mikhail Zaikov
Khabaray Khatan // author: Namdakov family
Guests of the exhibition will have the opportunity to buy works by artists of different levels and price ranges, educational literature, materials for creating dolls and bears, accessories, gifts for spring family holidays, take pictures with unique dolls, which after the exhibition will end up in private collections and disappear from view forever public.
The exhibition is addressed to a wide range of viewers, families with children of different ages.
Tickets can be purchased in advance on the art dolls.rf website.
Special flight from the USSR: Mishka Kosolapy will come to Tishinka to celebrate the New Year
Collectors are hunting for mechanical Soviet bears. These toys are especially highly valued: a bear with a pacifier, a bear with a spoon, a bear that eats ice cream, and a real star of its time - a bear playing the balalaika. In the 40-50s of the last century, these toys created a real sensation.
Soviet giant bear. Bears know how to surprise not only with their cost; at the exhibition there will be the largest representative of the Soviet plush family - the height of the clubfoot is 1.10 cm, everyone will be able to take a selfie with this brutal rarity.
Record holder for congratulations. Mishka Clubfoot is a gallant comrade, he most often became the hero of Soviet postcards and congratulated citizens of the USSR on them. The organizers could not ignore this fact and created an exhibition of antique postcards with a clubfoot.
Parade of Santa Claus toys. Mandatory and indispensable on any Soviet Christmas tree is a toy Santa Claus - made of wood, cotton wool or papier-mâché. As part of the Hello Teddy exhibition, you will be able to look at the evolution of the Soviet Father Frost.
