Exhibition "Soviet Inside-Out"

About exhibition

The striking and carefully considered Red Halls are a monument to late Soviet design thinking. Since the museum’s founding (1987) they remained unchanged. In 2017 the halls were renovated. In the exhibition “In the Gaps of Ideology” a new generation of designers used resources laid down by Soviet architects. The spatial constructions created another dimension – everything stays in its place but is changed and supplemented with material and artistic objects. For the “Soviet Inside-Out” exhibition a service corridor behind the Red Halls, which are dedicated to the history of the past, was cleared, and on the reverse side a space about everyday Soviet domestic life appeared. It can be accessed through many new entrances that lead the visitor onto the back “street” of that era. Here everything is literally packed with items; the display cases are a total installation of cabinets and wall units suspended above the floor, inside which artifacts of the era can be found. Krasnoyarsk residents actively took part in the project – more than 200 donors provided around 5,000 items and 333 photographs, and also shared stories connected with these objects. Young Krasnoyarsk artists played an important role.