Exhibition 'Cup of Resonances: Toward Rozanova'
Where: Moscow, GES-2 House of Culture
When: from November 10 to April 28, 2024
Olga Rozanova. Green Stripe. 1917
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of avant-garde artist Olga Rozanova and its echoes in Soviet unofficial art and in the works of contemporary women artists. Olga Rozanova's creative career lasted only about eight years and ended when she was just 32. During that time the artist created a number of works that largely determined the development of avant-garde painting. Rozanova radicalized Suprematism and created her own direction in painting — color painting, or 'transfigured color' — making a revolution with a single green stripe. A large body of Olga Rozanova's works at GES-2 is assembled from museums in various Russian cities — Arkhangelsk, Yekaterinburg, Kostroma, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Tagil, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Saratov, Slobodskoy, Totma, Tyumen, and Ulyanovsk. The work 'Green Stripe' is provided by the State Museum-Reserve 'Rostov Kremlin'.
Exhibition 'Punk Culture: Korol i Shut'
Where: Saint Petersburg, Sevkabel Port
When: from November 3 to January 8, 2024; ticket prices from 450 rubles
Saint Petersburg occupies a special place in the history of punk and the band Korol i Shut, and many exhibits at the Saint Petersburg show will be presented for the first time. Alongside artifacts about the band and personal items of Andrey Knyazev and Mikhail Gorshenev, the exhibition will include materials about the iconic Leningrad punk-rock club Tamtam, where the band performed its early concerts. Visitors will be able to watch several episodes of the eponymous series in a special cinema hall by Kinopoisk and visit a VR space for Yandex Plus subscribers featuring a 360° music video for the song 'Dead Anarchist', in which guests can be on the series' set and find themselves in a fantasy world with actors Konstantin Plotnikov, Vlad Konoplev and others. A unique addition to the Saint Petersburg exhibition will be a hall with works by Russian conceptualists and postmodernists: Oleg Kotelnikov, Yegor Letov, Igor Mezheritsky, Dmitry Alekseev, Grigory Yushchenko, and works by Sergey 'Pakhom' Pakhomov and others.
Exhibition 'The Galaxy and Its Inhabitants'
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Georgy Grechko Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium
When: from December 2 to January 28, 2024; ticket prices from 500 rubles
The Milky Way Galaxy
The Milky Way Galaxy is the star system we live in. Studying our own stellar system is not easy because we are inside it. Without seeing the Galaxy from the outside, it is hard to assess its size, shape, and the number of stars it contains. Nevertheless, over years of research scientists have managed to do this. The program covers not only the Galaxy's physical characteristics but also the components that make it up — stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. Special attention is paid to the Sun's position in the Galaxy and the influence of galactic processes on life on Earth. The program was developed taking into account the most recent scientific data, and viewers will learn about what Fermi bubbles, the Gould Belt, and the Radcliffe Wave are. This program can be recommended as an educational resource for high school students studying astronomy; however, it may be of interest not only to students but also to astronomy enthusiasts of all ages.
Exhibition 'O-Net: Experimental Aesthetics and New Media in the USSR'
Where: Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin Center
When: from November 24 to February 25, 2024; admission by gallery ticket
The exhibition 'O-Net: Experimental Aesthetics and New Media in the USSR' traces the connections between pioneering projects of the Thaw period in the fields of book, type, and sound design, as well as kinetic and synesthetic art. The main protagonists of the exhibition are scientists, typographers, designers, and artists — extraordinarily gifted 'sixtiers' who squeezed the maximum possible out of old and new media. These are figures who fundamentally conceived of culture and science as an open enterprise, participants who maintained ties with colleagues and like-minded people both inside and outside the Union. Practices that are fashionable today — decentralization, distributed work, and horizontal responsibility — were vitally important to them.
Exhibition 'What the Palaces Are Silent About'
Where: Alexandrov, Alexandrovskaya Sloboda Museum-Reserve
When: from November 28 to February 26, 2024; guided tours can be booked
Five centuries have passed, yet the palaces of the sloboda still 'tell' truthful stories about the first Russian tsar, his crowned parents, all the tsar's spouses, and their royal sons. They all lived here for extended periods — in this palace town remote from the capital. In the Alexandrov Kremlin, separate chambers were built for each family member: the tsar's halls, the queen's terem, the chambers of the tsareviches and their wives. Expressive images of that distant era on the exhibition are accurately complemented by paintings by artists Elena and Nikolai Komarov (Saint Petersburg). For the new museum project the painters specially created canvases in the style of Byzantine iconography and ancient Russian miniatures.
