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Performance night 
Performance titled The spring that we have been waiting for, performed collectively by the artists, took place on 20 April. Reading out Strugatsky brothers quotes...
 
A Joyful Archipelago publication 
A limited-edition 100-pages publication has published on the occasion of the exhibition that features artist's special projects alongside the essays by the new...
 
Exhibition photographs 
 
Ariadne Aivazovsky 
In her playful sculptures titled Men in jars Ariadne Aivazovsky places notable figures of Russian history, science and literature into small household jars, each...
 
Maria Gruzdeva 
Maria Gruzdeva’s photographs of VDNKh presents the viewer with vivid images of once grand but now semi-derelict All-Russia Exhibition centre. This massive complex...
 
Olga Grotova 
Olga Grotova’s project A Joyful Archipelago presents a semi-fictional archive from a closed town N. Aged photographs are accompanied by the notes of a reporter...
 
Taus Makhacheva 
Taus Makhacheva’s videos By the Lake and Fruits look at the imagery often present in everyday Soviet interiors – table cloths and photographic wallpaper....
 
Daria Irincheeva 
Daria Irincheeva engages with an idea of a closed city by rethinking the very basic means of communications between the two people. Her structure, consisting of two...
 
Yelena Popova 
Yelena Popova’s Nuclear Utopia, Part 2 is a continuation of highly acclaimed video work shown at Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2011. Yelena continues...
 
"Beautiful is the Russian forest" 
Performance by Tatiana Baskakova as a part of A Joyful Archipelago exhibition.
 
Maria Kapajeva 
Maria Kapajeva uses the controversial image of the “Russian bride” as a metaphor for a life in a closed society. Her work I am usual woman consists of surreal...
 
Tatiana Baskakova 
Tatiana Baskakova’s work Cement shoes presents an improbable collage of historical and contemporary imagery. Childlike star with Lenin’s portrait and the dove...
 
Elena Gavrisch 
Elena Gavrisch is interested in the role of hypnosis and extra-sensory healing in the USSR and shortly after its decay when masses of people turned to so-called...
 
Natalia Skobeeva 
Natalia Skobeeva in her minimalist video titled On the Art of Communication attempts to decompose Russian political voting system and present it as a set of simple...