PROJECTS 2024
Alexandra Gart
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.
City Culture Center (Perm)
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."
Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin (Arsenal)
Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin (Arsenal) represents the modern 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 Museum. Located in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin in the arsenal building of the 19th century. Implements exhibition and interdisciplinary projects, educational, children’s and inclusive programs. The branch is constantly expanding its specialized library, which includes more than 12 thousand publications on the history of art and culture.

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