PROVMYZA (Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov) is an art group from Nizhny Novgorod that works freely with various contemporary artistic practices: video art, art house cinema, photography, graphics, installation, performance and theatre. In their work, they follow the trend of erasing the boundaries between types and genres of art.

Interdisciplinary approach allows them, in their own words, "to jump from one roof to another". But at the same time, there seems to be one constant, a reproduction of strong empathetic images in each work, presenting the temporality of their works as an endlessly experienced time. Often, the affect turns out to be that stunning anthropological optics in the works of artists, leaving no hope of remaining an outside observer.

As part of the 13th edition of the Cosmoscow fair, PROVMYZA presents the "Seeds" project. It welcomes viewers to explore such a specific and little-studied form of contemporary art as ‘performative sculpture', which, on the one hand, refers to classical forms and concepts of sculpture (composition, volume, plasticity), and on the other, to ultra-modern performance practices and media technologies. Behind this search for a new visuality of the plastic system lies a rethinking of the understanding of monumentality and frailty.

The Ploschad Mira Museum Center (Krasnoyarsk) is the largest exhibition and presentation venue for contemporary art in Siberia. The museum was created in 1987 as the 13th branch of the Central Lenin Museum, but in the early 1990s it refocused on contemporary art practices: during this time, it managed to gather an impressive collection. It was the first in Russia to launch such formats as the Biennale (1995) and Museum Night (2002). The museum building is a monument to Soviet modernism with many halls and levels, built on the banks of the Yenisei River. The exhibition space is almost 5,000 square meters.

"The future is but the obsolete in reverse" (Vladimir Nabokov).

Alexandra Gart gained fame thanks to printed graphics as a co-founder of the New Print Studio, curator of the Graphic Cabinet in the Maly Manezh, and the author of disturbingly melancholic and visually meager works that ratte like entrance windows. Like Alice falling into a rabbit hole, the viewer is completely immersed in the liminal spaces of the works abandoned by man, assembled by the artist from drastically broken lines and black and gray spots in the windows and doors of typical high-rise buildings, details of the urban landscape, forests, chain-link fencing, blank fences and courtyard walls, lamp posts, and frames of destroyed or never completed buildings. Despite the recognizability of the details, the nature of these spaces remained unclear, transitional, elusive, and oscillating between extremes: between calm and anxiety, stability and instability, relaxation and tension, past and future.

A strange hypnotic state of being in limbo, a feeling of surreal dreamlike suspension in timelessness and inaction, is reflected in the work "The Constancy of Fun and Dirt" exhibited at Cosmoscow. The title is borrowed from Daniil Kharms. His poem of the same name is a poetic text about the slipping away of time, its annihilation under the influence of two energies: carefree fun and undivided despair from contact with the darkest sides of life and the human soul, which occurs with the constancy of a single figure — a spy, a god, a demiurge.

The Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal) represents today’s artistic process in combination with classical art, working with the unique identity of the territory. The institution was founded in 1997, and in 2020 it became part of the network of branches of the Pushkin State Museum. Arsenal is located on the premises of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, in the arsenal building of the 19th century. It hosts exhibition and interdisciplinary projects, educational, children’s and inclusive programs. The branch is constantly expanding its specialized library, which includes more than 12,000 publications on the history of art and culture.

Visitors to the fair got acquainted with the publishing program of the Pushkin State Museum and with book recommendations from museum staff from different cities. The interactive installation was dedicated to the Arsenal library, which will undergo transformation in the near future. The artists taking part in the project were Sergey Boyarintsev, Vatsa, Lev Kais, Egor Plotnikov, Katya Ryblova, Blue Pencil, Alexey Starkov, Rostan Tavasiev, Katya Chervonnykh, as well as the [MISH] studio bureau (Elena Evstratova, Misha Maslov) and 3D designers Alexander Krasilnikov, Olga Mikhailova, Arthur Sofin.

The Center was launched on May 18, 2016 as an initiative of the New Collection Cultural Projects Support Foundation, and over the eight years of its existence, it has hosted hundreds of different events such as festivals, exhibition projects, lecture programs, conferences, round tables, seminars, public meetings and much more. The Center is a fundamentally new independent platform for Perm, created to support local cultural, social and educational initiatives. The main goal is to open them up to each other and to the city, to give communities and specific people a platform for expression and active action. To do this, the Center uses different methods and formats united by a common and main value — partnerships. This is the mission of the center: to identify, unite and present the entire diversity of urban practices.

At the Cosmoscow, the Center is represented with an expressive architectural solution in the form of a rotunda. It is neither a presentation space nor a special project. This is the Center itself, packaged in a special way. Over the years, the Center has accumulated a large archive, a lot of material evidence, traces, and results, which are shown with the help of a special architectural detail. Cosmoscow visitors are only invited to unpack this immaterial "archive."

Artist of the Year Cosmoscow 2023 Artyom Filatov is an artist, founder of the Tikhaya studio in Nizhny Novgorod, the author of objects, installations and curatorial projects based on interaction with Nizhny Novgorod history and cultural landscape. In his studio work, he reconstructs absurd mistakes spotted in real life. He looks for the "banality of evil" in everyday objects that break, lose function, or begin to take on a life of their own. Lives and works in Nizhny Novgorod.

Artist of the Year Cosmoscow 2023 Artem Filatov will present the project "Everything will disappear!" - a series of hand-drawn graphics drawn using brilliant green, a dye better known as "zelenka". Thanks to its properties, every time a folder containing a sheet of graphics is opened, the image is exposed to light and fades, shortening the life of the work with each viewing. The future owner of the graphics directly influences its condition by deciding whether to display it or not.

The sculptures for various sheets of graphics drawn in green paint are conceived as paradoxical repositories, archives and time capsules. Due to the fragility of the pattern, it requires special conditions. Sculptures become such storage units, simultaneously protecting what is placed in them, and on the other hand, creating a volumetric continuation of the graphic sheet in space. Reinforcing the paradox of the work (the work exists, but it cannot be seen in person), metal sculptures are strange mechanisms and devices, in a twisted form, serving only one thing — to preserve what is in them.

"Institutions of the Year" Cosmoscow 2023 ZAMAN is a museum of contemporary art that is being created in Ufa. The focus is on contemporary art by artists from the Volga, Kama and Ural regions (Kazan, Cheboksary, Yoshkar-Ola, Izhevsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg and Samara). Currently, it adheres to the concept of a "Museum without Walls" and began its work in the format of an Embassy, which lives and works according to the principles of an institution of contemporary art. The opening of its own building is planned in 2027.

"Institutions of the Year" Cosmoscow 2023, the ZAMAN museum will talk about its research and exhibition projects created over the past two years and focused on the territory of the national republics — Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Mari-El and neighboring regions — Perm Territory, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk and Samara regions. Translated from the Turkic languages, ZAMAN means "time", "era", which is why at its stand the institution will present an understanding of its time — measured time ("vakyt") and countable time ("sәғәt"), time of the unpredictable future ("kilәsәk") and a future time that we have yet to come up with ("zamanalar").

"Museum of the Year" 2023 PERMM presented a project dedicated to the unique renovation of the former automobile center building into a new museum space. The main task of the stand is to present a unique initiative on a national scale — for the first time, a museum of modern art is moving into a ready-made exhibition space, originally designed for the needs of the automotive business. The pavilion is being designed by the PERMM team with the participation of the artist Vasily Kononov-Gredin; this collaboration was the first experience of interaction between the museum and the artist. Vasily Kononov-Gredin meaningfully rethinks the transformation of the car showroom space and creates a total installation, turning to various artistic means and mediums.

As part of the Museum of the Year program, the Cosmoscow Foundation allocated 1.8 million rubles to expand the PERMM collection. The museum selected 23 works by Russian female artists and one artistic duo.

The list of artists whose works were purchased and donated to the PERMM Museum’s permanent collection includes: Olga Subbotina and Mikhail Pavlyukevich, Elena Slobtseva, Liza Nesterova, Leila Aslanova, Tender Women Art Group, Asya Marakulina.

The project of the Artist of the Year Valery Chtak included more than 20 paintings in the artist's recognizable style, reflecting his ironic reaction to the often heard criticism that he constantly does the same thing. “You say I make pictures that are all the same? Okay then, here’s an exhibition of identical paintings,” argues the artist. Chtak’s artistic language is distinguished by a desire for simplicity and minimalism. Most often, his characters are depicted in a simplified manner, and the space in which they act is practically absent: their silhouettes seem to be pinned to the plane of the picture, divided into rectangular cells. His compositions contain attributes of the artist's personal freedom, such as references to skater and musical subcultures, as well as stylistically rhyming with street art (while Chtak himself emphasizes that he has nothing to do with it). Among the constant figures of his iconography are birds, cats, the cityscape, and, of course, text. Combining the semiotic verbal and visual planes of the language, the artist translates the text into the category of image, pattern, or ornament.

The STATION art platform, noted for its interdisciplinary activities, combines contemporary dance, theater, cinema, music, and fine arts. It was founded in 2009 by Evgeny Kulagin and Ivan Estegneev. In recent years, one of the key areas of the platform has been the residency program, which gives Russian choreographers the opportunity to carry out their research and artistic practice on the stage. As part of the fair, one of the permanent residents of the platform, Tarik Burnash (Ohne Zucker Project) presented a choreographic performance called “Several Ways to Start a Conversation”.

At the fair, the State Hermitage, together with the European University at St. Petersburg, presented the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. This innovative educational program combines knowledge of art history, museum work, and curation with modern technologies. The school was established in 2022 on the basis of the Faculty of Arts. Master’s programs “Word and Image: Literature among other Arts” and “Languages of Art in Culture: Problems of Interaction”, postgraduate studies “Theory and History of Culture, Art” are currently running, and admission has been announced for the annual program of additional professional education “Modern Museum”, which starts on October 14 (applications are open until September 30, 2022). The booth will include a presentation of the project with glass windows, light boxes, videos, and interactive panels, allowing the viewers to immerse in research cases conducted by experts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and paleogenetics, as well as museum specialists and art history practitioners. The results of the work of the two institutions will be available in book format.

Collector’s Eye is an annual special project of Cosmoscow devoted to private collections. The exhibition stand of the project is an important part of the noncommercial program of the fair, and this year it hosted the exhibition “… — and away, and near — // it was up to us. And what will happen after” (a quote from Joseph Brodsky’s poem). The exhibition presented selected works from the collections of Sergey Limonov and Denis Khimilyayne, acquired by them after February 24. The project highlighted not only the artistic value of the works, but also the social significance of the practice of collecting as a form of support for the art system in its individual and institutional dimensions. The exhibition featured works by Yuri Albert, Rinat Voligamsi, Ivan Gorshkov, Varvara Grankova, Alexander Gronsky, Polina Kanis, Pyotr Kiryusha, Andrey Kuzkin, Vadim Mikhailov, Boris Sveshnikov, Vadim Sidur, Khaim Sokol and Olga Tatarintseva.

A crisis is a delayed or extended catastrophe. The “Pompeya” project reflects the artists’ thoughts on how the body reflects the catastrophic density of time. The project consists of detailed personal histories presented through the fixation of bodily states. It is a search for almost sculptural plasticity, which becomes a description of the death of modernity that we knew only yesterday.

Each year, the best teachers and artists take part in the Cosmoscow Kids program, allowing the children to get acquainted with contemporary art in a playful manner. This year’s program includes educational and creative activities created in collaboration with Artist of the Year Valery Chtak and Algorithm International School. The program, titled “Where is the artist?”, will help children get to know contemporary art better by dissecting, repeating, and rethinking the work of the artist Valery Chtak according to his own instructions. Kids will also be able to attend architectural and ceramic workshops.

During large-scale upheavals, the issue of value orientations, which serve as the basis for our interaction with the outside world, is especially urgent. It is no coincidence that the word “value” is extremely in demand today in political and sociocultural journalism and rhetoric. It also acts as a trigger for the Cosmoscow Talks program, which proposes to consider it in terms of the issues of value and price, which are the most important for art. The activities of the program look at prominent phenomena and trends in public life and the arts (NFT art, new educational approaches, inclusion, and so on) to find out how they redefine the concepts of price and value and form complex relationships between them. They also show that these trends bring their own value systems to our understanding of art, which are not reducible to the traditional art model but enrich it with new knowledge and relevant ideas, the diversity of which makes the cultural landscape interesting and meaningful.

Irina Korina is an artist, set designer, author of objects made of textured materials and fabrics, as well as total installations. Graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, Faculty of Scenography (2000), courses "New artistic strategies" of the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Center for Contemporary Art of George Soros (1999-2000). She studied at the Valand Academy of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (2000) and in the media class of the Vienna Academy of Arts (2002-2005). The author's strategy is to draw the viewer into their own reality, similar to the abstract scenery of an imaginary theater, where artistic material plays the leading role. Laureate of the Debut Theater Award (1999), three times laureate of the Companion Award (2006, 2009, 2012), laureate of the Innovation Prize in the New Generation nomination (2007). In 2009, Irina was included in the long list of the Kandinsky Prize in the "Project of the Year" category. Nominee for the 2010 Innovation Prize and finalist for the 2011 Kandinsky Prize. Participant of the Venice Biennale (2009, 2017).

Vyksa Art Residence was founded in 2017 by the OMK-Uchastiye Charitable Foundation. More than 30 artists visited it, including Haim Sokol, SASHAPASHA, Tatiana Efrussi, Dmitry Morozov Vtol, Ikuru Kuwadjima, Kirill Makarov, Ustina Yakovleva, Ivan Gorshkov, Dmitry Bulnygin, Elena Kovylina, Victoria Begalskaya and others. Vyksa Art Residence is a year-round platform for cultural professionals that allows residents to implement projects or conduct research in the city of Vyksa. The purpose of the residence is to support contemporary artists who are not limited by age, genre, country of residence or origin. The work of residents can be associated with the study of the local context and territory, or be autonomous. For Vyksa, the art residence is one of the few open city sites where art professionals and the local community gather together. The art residence makes a significant contribution to the development of the city, makes the cultural landscape of Vyksa more dynamic and diverse, and helps form new connections between artists and urban communities.

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow is the first museum of photography and contemporary art in Russia. It celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. MAMM has founded and holds two major international festivals every spring: Moscow Photobiennale (since 1996) and Fashion and Style in Photography Biennale (since 1999). These biennials and exhibitions of photography at MAMM have turned Moscow into one of the capitals of world photography.

Exhibition projects of the museum are constantly replacing each other. MAMM exhibits the history of foreign and domestic contemporary art, projects of international and Russian photography stars, as well as young artists, video art, VR, art associated with new technologies, performances and other types and genres of art. In addition to exhibitions, the museum hosts various educational programs for children and adults related to the practice and theory of art. The stars of the art world give lectures and master classes at MAMM. On a regular basis, MAMM hosts such programs as: MAMMcinema, MAMMusic, MAMMdiscussions. MAMM is one of the most visited museums not only in Moscow, but also in Russia.

Cosmoscow Foundation's Board of Trustees includes Marina Andreeva, Elena Lukovnikova, Simon Mraz, Valeria Rodnyanskaya, Vladimir Smirnov. This year, they were joined by Yulia Chernova and Ksenia Tarakanova.

The winner of the Ruinart Art Patronat competition Misha Buryj now has an opportunity to present his works at the 9th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair. The new works will become a continuation of the artist's large-scale series "Clot", made from advertisement waste and dedicated to ecological problems, consumer- and mass culture and propaganda.

The theme of Misha Buryj's works is consonant with the values of the Ruinart brand, which actively supports the eco-direction, which became a key factor in choosing the winner of the competition.

Misha Buryj is a Russian artist, author of assemblages, objects and installations. A decisive role in the artist's work is played by his use and search for materials left behind after cultural industry production. He is a resident of the Open Studios at Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (2019) and Garage Museum's Workshops and Art Residences program (Moscow, 2020). His works are in present in collections of Ruarts Foundation (Moscow) and Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation (Moscow). He lives and works in Moscow.

Pavel Otdelnov named the "Artist of the Year". In September, at the 8th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, Pavel Otdelnov will present his new art project, which will be specially created for the upcoming art fair.

Pavel Otdelnov born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia. Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academy. Later he took up contemporary art and entered the Institute Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA).

In 2015 and 2017, he was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize ("Project of the Year"); in 2017 - became the laureate of the prize in the field of contemporary art named after Sergey Kuryokhin (special prize of the French Institute). And this year, Pavel entered the short list of the State Prize "Innovation" - in the nomination "Artist of the Year".

The works of Pavel Otdelnov are in the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, as well as in other public and private collections.

Zheleznogorsk Center for Contemporary Art is a self-proclaimed institution that exists in the field of contemporary art and culture in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Region.

Zheleznogorsk Center for Contemporary Art was created by the art association (art group) "Chicory", whose main current task is infrastructure construction in their city (Zheleznogorsk) and the region (Kursk region). Zheleznogorsk Center for Contemporary Art as an Institute distributes its activities along three axes: space (performative, exhibition and city practices), participation (from creating a social environment to meeting practices, relational aesthetics) and semiotics (searches \ creation of symbolic systems using technical and social and engineering methods).

In the fall of 2020, the Garage Museum will be presented at the Cosmoscow Fair in the status of the Museum of the Year as part of the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art initiatives. This was announced by the founder of Cosmoscow Margarita Pushkina and the director of the Garage Anton Belov at a press conference in February.

Throughout the year, the Cosmoscow Foundation for contemporary art and the Garage Museum will implement a number of joint projects. Anton Belov will take a place on the Collectors' Board of the Fair. The Foundation will acquire for the Museum's archive collection, which is the largest repository on the history of Russian modern and contemporary art, three important archives: the archive of the St. Petersburg gallery Navicula Artis; handwritten and illustrated catalogues of Eugene and Leo Kropiwnicki; and the archive of Andrey Chirkov (Remizova), which contains letters of Andrei Sinyavsky. The Museum's stand will be presented at the Cosmoscow Art Fair, which will be held on September 11-13, 2020.

Additionally, and following on from 2019, a percentage of proceeds from entrance tickets to the fair will be transferred to the Garage Endowment Fund.

Maison Ruinart and the Cosmoscow Foundation have announced the winner of the Ruinart Art Patronat grant competition: Margo Trushina.

The artist received a European education in the field of contemporary art (Royal College of Arts, London Chelsea College of Art and Design), and also studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and at the Journalis department of the Moscow State University. In 2015, the artist became a finalist of the UK National Sculpture Prize – Broomhill National Sculpture Prize.

Within the framework of Cosmoscow 2020, Margo Trushina will present the 'Living Corner' project – an interactive site-specific installation that will become a metaphor for the contemporary world, with its radical climate changes and migration flows.

The project will be implemented as part of the Ruinart Art Patronat grant program with the support of the Cosmoscow Foundation at the Art Fair in September, 2020.

Audi, together with Cosmoscow Foundation for Support of Contemporary Art, has launched the Audi Born-Digital Award competition aimed at supporting Russian media artists. The winner's work was presented in Audi City Moscow innovation space in September, on the Eighth Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair eve, as well as on Cosmoscow Foundation website.

Pavel Seldemirov is an art theorist and artist actively working with digital media. In his artistic practice, he is engaged in construction of experiences and impressions, photography and semiotics of the image. Born in 1988 in Volgograd, he now lives and works in Moscow. He studied philosophy of art at the Jewish Museum/ as well as image anthropology in Research Institute of Russian Academy of Arts. He is also a graduate of Rodchenko Art School.

"The Becoming" project is a total installation that recreates the space of a poetically interpreted forest, filled with plants and portal displays. Visitors are able to go on a journey where cultural artifacts and traces of 2020, which has already become an important milestone for all mankind, will appear among the virtual trees. A stone connected to a ventilator; a lake the surface of which splits like a glass showcase; coronavirus trapped in the river like deep-sea mines; a graph of stock market crash in shape of mountains on the horizon - the artist collects our collective dream from these images, reminiscent of events on a planetary scale.

The installation is conceived by the artist as a mechanism that involves the viewer in crossing the border between real and virtual worlds, referring to ritual practices in which the participant in action crosses a certain line and, as a result, is unable to come back. Armed with VR devices, several viewers will be able to plunge into the virtual space at once, where everyone will look like a vortex or a bunch of circulating elements. A multiplayer VR game made using the Unity game engine will become the core of the installation. Thanks to the game being available online, it will be possible to "enter" the artwork from anywhere in the world.

Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art has launched Series, a new program in order to support young Russian artists, aimed at exploring serial thinking. The program supports graphic series, novels and comics created specifically for the Foundation's Instagram account and published on weekends every two weeks during the summer of 2020.

Series have become not only an important part of the day of a modern person, but also led to the creation and dissemination of their own type of thinking in the mass consciousness, which, moreover, relies very heavily on visual communication, in contrast to past types of thinking that relied on verbal communication. Serial thinking is characterized by strong consistency, in many respects similar to the consistency of pre-clip thinking and built not on a rational, but on an emotional basis. And if modern series are some kind of a cast of the currently dominant form of social consciousness, then the study and interpretation of serial logic by means of contemporary art can reveal unexpected perspectives of our views on the world and social moods.

The program was attended by: Vladimir Kartashov, Ulyana Podkorytova, Sarah Kuhlmann, Katya Khasina, Artyom Goloshchapov, Nikita Seleznev, Vika Begalskaya and Alexander Vilkin.

Starting October 20 and lasting till November 15, 2020 the exhibition project "20:20. Time has stopped" is dedicated to the study of new rituals and habits that appeared or were exacerbated in 2020 - during a pandemic and general social instability. The exhibition is a part of the annual cross-cultural festival BURO. ИEW COOГ, organized by BURO online publication, at MMOMA Educational Center in Ermolaevsky Lane with support of Cosmoscow Foundation and Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Cosmoscow Foundation curator Alexander Burenkov invited 10 young Russian artists to establish a dialogue, and who created their new projects specifically for the exhibition and charity auction scheduled for December 2020. The exhibition was included in Parallel Program of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.

Participating artists: Artem Go, Dagnini, Vladimir Kartashov, Kirill Makarov, Albina Mokhryakova, Anna Rotayenko, Igor Samolet, Nikita Seleznev, Sofa Skidan, Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva.

"20:20. Time has stopped" received it's name in honour of one of Igor Samolet's projects. The artist ironically interprets the habit of taking screenshots of the iphone screen when double numbers appear on the clock in his textile sculptures, called "content-forms". Creating a new "content form" at the end of 2020, dedicated not only to a specific ritual of making wishes, but also to the dynamics of the past year, which exacerbated all the contradictions of social relations, the artist seems to be trying to stop the time itself, inevitably moving towards the next wave of COVID-19 and new social and economic shocks.

MishMash is an art group consisting of artists Misha Leykin and Masha Sumnina.

Misha Leykin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1994, was a member of the Obledenenie Arkhitektorov group (1997–2001). Masha Sumnina graduated from the Institute of Printwork in 2001 The art of MishMash is distinguished by close study of art boundaries inherited from the representatives of Moscow romantic conceptualism movement. Their "peculiar lyricism and humanity of art" is fueled by trust in random elements and sympathy towards purely private material. "Our names combined together - mishmash - in many languages means jumble, confusion. We bring uncontrollable forces into our works - wind, mold, water, spectator, coincidence, found art, etc., exploring the relationship between chaos and order. We do not create a recognizable visual style, because the task, the concept — is essential, and for each we find its own material," – comment the artists.

As part of Cosmoscow 2019, MishMash has presented a total microspective of their work.

One in many images, it is nowhere and everywhere: it grows under the baseboard and makes its way at the joints, settles in the narrow passages of the end walls and lives in mismatches between the literal and metaphysical, personal and collective, material and elusive, known and mysterious, microscopic and immense, future technology and hideoism*.

*Hideoism is free from norms and regulations. It finds beauty in the ugly and perceives events as a sequence of obstacles and their overcoming by necessary means here and now. Hideoism is the ability to observe the amazing score of a virtuoso dance performed intentionally and randomly.

Alexey Maslyaev

As Cosmoscow 2019 Museum of the Year, the Moscow Museum Of Modern Art presents at the Fair a project celebrating the 20th anniversary of MMOMA and conducts an educational programme for children and adults.

MMOMA's pavilion at Cosmoscow is the prologue to an anniversary thematic exhibition titled MMOMA 99/19, which will open in December 2019 at the museum's venue at 25 Petrovka Street. The exhibition, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the first state museum of contemporary art in Russia, will bring together 20 professionals from various fields of science and culture — from film directors and musicians to doctors, scientists and restaurateurs — who under the guidance of the museum's curators will offer their personal perspectives on the museum's extensive collection of Russian art.

Temporary thematic shows displaying artworks from the museum's collection are the hallmark of MMOMA's exhibition program. The exhibitions of selected works from the collection have been held regularly since 2009, each time forming a fascinating narrative. While some of the exhibitions were curated by the museum's research department staff, others were developed by invited experts. To date, eight large-scale exhibition projects have been held as part this program, including Doors Open Day curated by the architect Yuri Avvakumov, "Fortune Museum" conceived by MMOMA's Executive Director Vasili Tsereteli and "Interaction" as part of which contemporary Russian artists offered their response to MMOMA's collection. With MMOMA 99/19, the ninth exhibition in a series, the museum endeavors to expand its interdisciplinary practices.

MMOMA' pavilion at the Fair is designed by Olga Treyvas (FORM Bureau) who is one of the guest curators of MMOMA 99/19. For 20 years, she has collaborated with the museum on several occasions and this time once again is be part of the museum's exhibition design team. As part of the Fair, Olga presents her perspective on MMOMA's history and provides a sneak peek at the design of the future exhibition.

The Zarya Center for Contemporary Art first opened its doors in Vladivostok in 2013. Zarya CCA is lo- cated within the Zarya creative cluster, in the space of the former sewing factory that gave the site its name. Zarya CCA sees its mission in presenting the Primorye region with the best of contemporary art and culture from Russia and beyond, while also supporting artists and the local art community. Over the years, Zarya has implemented dozens of projects with the participation of the local artistic com- munity, with a number of publications initiated; with the help of Zarya, works of Vladivostok artist toured around Russia and were shown in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the first time with some of them entering major collections (including works by Ilyas Zinatulin, Alexander Kiryakhno and Alexey Krutkin).

At Cosmoscow 2019, projects presented by Zarya was dedicated to those artists and art groups whose art became visible thanks to Zarya.

"This project is a symbolic representation of the realities of the art system which forces the artist to produce a product that meets consumerist expectations in order to obtain the support necessary for implementation of extensive ideas with no market potential. Taus Makhacheva has a number of such ambitious plans. One of them is the construction of a dual highway encircling the Dagestani mountain (Makhnot peak near the Bolshoy Gotsatl village) with no connection to the existing road network. Acting as a place intended for public use, this "highway" is a nonfunctional element of the landscape, the usefulness of which is grounded in the conceptual depth of the artistic message. Makhacheva uses the road as a metaphor for power, criticizing any claims for the territory according to which in order to establish authority over the space, it is necessary to reorganize it accordingly to the new rules and to pave the way.The winner will receive a grant, an additional prize of mentoring support from art experts and an art trip to Switzerland. The Credit Suisse Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artists aims to provide new international opportunities for Russian emerging talent as the winner can travel to Switzerland to explore the country's art scene, in addition to receiving mentorship support and a financial grant. During the fair Credit Suisse will also acquire a work by a Russian artist for the bank's Moscow office". - Alexey Maslyaev, curator of the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair NonCommercial Programme

The winner will receive a grant, an additional prize of mentoring support from art experts and an art trip to Switzerland. The Credit Suisse Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artists aims to provide new international opportunities for Russian emerging talent as the winner can travel to Switzerland to explore the country's art scene, in addition to receiving mentorship support and a financial grant. During the fair Credit Suisse will also acquire a work by a Russian artist for the bank's Moscow office.

The expert panel for the Credit Suisse Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artists 2018 includes such renowned art professionals as Sergey Bratkov, artist and professor at Rodchenko Art School, Olga Danilkina, art writer and editor-in-chief of the online magazine about contemporary art Aroundart.ru, Ilya Shipolovskih, Director of the Yeltsin Center art gallery, and Snejana Krsteva, curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Among the jury are André Rogger, head of Credit Suisse Collection, David Elliott, curator and writer, Olga Shishko, head of the Department of Film and Media Art at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Dmitry Ozerkov, Director of the Contemporary art department at the State Hermitage Museum, and Kati Kivinen, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA Helsinki.

The winner will receive a grant, an additional prize of mentoring support from art experts and an art trip to Switzerland. The Credit Suisse Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artists aims to provide new international opportunities for Russian emerging talent as the winner can travel to Switzerland to explore the country's art scene, in addition to receiving mentorship support and a financial grant. During the fair Credit Suisse will also acquire a work by a Russian artist for the bank's Moscow office.

The expert panel for the Credit Suisse Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artists 2018 includes such renowned art professionals as Sergey Bratkov, artist and professor at Rodchenko Art School, Olga Danilkina, art writer and editor-in-chief of the online magazine about contemporary art Aroundart.ru, Ilya Shipolovskih, Director of the Yeltsin Center art gallery, and Snejana Krsteva, curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Among the jury are André Rogger, head of Credit Suisse Collection, David Elliott, curator and writer, Olga Shishko, head of the Department of Film and Media Art at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Dmitry Ozerkov, Director of the Contemporary art department at the State Hermitage Museum, and Kati Kivinen, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA Helsinki.

Smena Center of Contemporary Culture is an independent project established in 2013. It regularly hosts contemporary art exhibitions, lectures by important art and science figures, screenings of programmes of international film festivals, presentations of books and public projects, concerts and major city events creating the focus of the cultural life of Kazan.

Smena is intensively promoting the subject of local history and new ways of representing the knowledge about it. This activity was launched by the Iskra festival in 2016 and later supported by the biannual intellectual literature festival and the Rudnik International Documentary Film Festival. The Center implements this mission by the activity of the independent publishing house of the same name which deals with little-known cultural and historical subjects connected with Kazan, Tatarstan and the Volga region. Books of the Smena publishing house are distinctive in the fact that they establish a balance between the local context and contemporary art practices. Local identity is reflected by means of contemporary art. Prominent and well-known Russian artists are welcomed to work on books. Among them are Irina Korina, Arseniy Zhilyaev, Anton Chernyak, Alexander Sigutin, Sveta Shuvaeva, Pachom, ZIP group, EliKuka and many others.

Russian artist Taus Makhacheva was named Cosmoscow 2018 Artist of the Year. As a result, Taus will present her specially commissioned project as part of the Fair's forthcoming edition; her art will also provide the basis for Cosmoscow 2018 visual identity. Taus Makhacheva (b. 1983) is the recipient of Kandinsky Prize (2016) and Innovation Prize (2011) among others. In 2017 her work was featured in the main project of the 57th Venice Biennale.

Russian artist Alexey Martins became the winner of the 2017 Ruinart Art Patronat grant. The grant will allow Martins to execute his proposed Black Diptych (Black Forest and Black Sky) project that will be exhibited for the first time at Cosmoscow in 2018. Martins will also get a chance to visit the House of Ruinart in the Champagne region in France. Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Alexey Martins, who was a nominee of the 2015 Kandinsky Prize (Young Artist – Project of the Year) and is currently collaborating with the Fragment Gallery, Moscow, was selected from a total of 22 artist applications to win the Ruinart Art Patronat grant.

The list of donated works include: All Ahead of You installation together with corresponding video documentation (2011); Around the Circle performance video documentation (2008), the Right to Life documentation of 2006-2015 actions, performances and projects.