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The most interesting exhibitions in Moscow in 2017 according to the editors

The year 2017 is coming to an end, which has become very eventful in the field of culture. In 2017, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the Austria-Russia Cross Year of Tourism, the 19th International Festival of Youth and Students, the Year of Japan in Russia, the 130th anniversary of the birth of Marc Chagall, the 140th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and other anniversaries dates. This year, such important events as the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the 5th anniversary fair of contemporary art Cosmoscow, the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art took place.

2017 turned out to be a year of large-scale and retrospective exhibitions of great artists. For the first time, such famous artists as Chaim Soutine, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Takashi Murakami, Cai Guoqiang were brought to Moscow.

art tube compiled a list of the best Moscow exhibitions of the outgoing year. Some of them can be visited in the new 2018!

1. Constantin Brancusi. Sculptures, drawings, photographs, films from the Pompidou Center collection

This exhibition is the first attempt to show most fully the phenomenon of Constantin Brancusi (Brâncuși) and all aspects of his heritage: sculpture, drawings, photographs and films. The works of Constantin Brancusi have become a symbol of the new modernist approach in art.

An important part of the project is the author's drawings, including the famous portraits of James Joyce, as well as sketches of animals, pencil sketches of sculptures, portraits and self-portraits. In addition, Brancusi was a photographer and filmmaker. Photography occupied a huge place in his work. Beginning in 1914, he took several thousand photographs, many of which showed his sculptures and workshop.

Shortly before his death, Constantine Brancusi expressed a desire to donate his heritage to France, the country that became his second home. At the exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum, the artist's works from the collection of the Pompidou Center will be shown abroad for the first time.

Constantin Brancusi. Sleeping Muse, 1910

1. Gustav Klimt. Egon Schiele. Drawings from the Albertina Museum (Vienna)

The exhibition of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, which opened in autumn, is a joint large-scale project of the Russian Pushkin Museum and the Vienna Albertina. Fruitful cooperation between Albertina and the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin made it possible for the first time to present to the Russians about 100 works: sketches, sketches for paintings, self-portraits, nudes.

Gustav Klimt, the main artist of the Viennese Art Nouveau, had the talent of an excellent draftsman, thanks to which he became a world classic. His graphic style had a huge impact on subsequent generations, including Egon Schiele, who began his career when Klimt was already a leading figure in modernity. Schiele learned from the experience of his famous teacher and soon acquired his own inimitable and unique style, which marked the transition from Art Nouveau to Expressionism.

The artists' works were included in the Albertina collection during their lifetime. Subsequent receipts were carried out through donations and bequests of collectors such as August Lederer, Arthur Rössler, Heinrich Benes and others. Over the next hundred years, the total number of works by Klimt and Schiele amounted to about 350.

The exhibition gives the viewer the opportunity to trace the stylistic evolution in the graphics of both artists, as well as to understand how strongly art strove for its own emancipation.

Exhibition of drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele from the collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna) © ArtTube

1. Someone 1917

The name of the exhibition was the words with which Velimir Khlebnikov ended his calculations about the time of the fall of states, published in 1912 in the collection Slap in the Face of Public Taste.

This exhibition, dedicated to the anniversary of the revolution, the Tretyakov Gallery has been preparing for three years! Here are mainly works created just in 1917. The exhibition raises the question of the place of art in a critical era. The purpose of this large-scale project is an attempt to get closer to understanding the whole complex situation, the overall picture of this important time in the history of Russia. “Art in front of an unknown reality” is the motto of the project chosen by the curators.

In the spirit of the spring project about the thaw, “Someone 1917” is divided into structuralist sections: “Myths about the people”, “City and citizens”, “Era in faces”, “Away from this reality!”, “Troubled”, “Utopia of the new world” , "Chagall and the Jewish Question". Among 147 exhibits there are big names: Petrov-Vodkin, Serebryakova, Rodchenko, Popova, Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall, Altman, Yuon and others. The creators of the exhibition show the whole cut of that time, how representatives of different directions reacted to changes in the world. It was this polyphony that was characteristic and one of the main features of this era.

Exhibition “Someone 1917” at the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

1. Chaim Soutine. retrospective

Exhibition “Chaim Soutine. Retrospective” is the first in Russia that fully represents the artist’s work. “Soutine is an artist of both happy and extremely difficult fate. The master's work was highly valued during his lifetime, he was not forgotten even after his early departure. Every year the name of Soutine attracts more and more attention of both researchers and collectors", - says the director of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin Marina Loshak.

This exhibition has become an example of fruitful Russian-French inter-museum cooperation in recent years. Although the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin and the Musée d'Orsay have a long-standing friendship; for the Moscow and Paris museums, the Soutine exhibition is the first large-scale joint project.

The uniqueness of the project lies in the fact that the organizers presented to the public not only the works of Chaim Soutine, but also the works of old masters who influenced his artistic genius, and contemporary artists who were influenced by him - in total, more than 60 works. According to the curator of the exhibition, Suriya Sadekova, Soutine had a unique ability to select the most revolutionary in each of the eras and each of the schools. The incredible expressiveness of Soutine's painting and the dramatic nature of his color palette inspired artists of subsequent generations of the American and British schools.

Russian viewers have the opportunity to see masterpieces of classical, modern and contemporary art from major French museums: the Musée de l'Orangerie, the Center Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, the Louvre Museum, the Picardy Museum.

Exhibition “Chaim Soutine. Retrospective” in the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin © kudamoscow.ru

1. "There Will Be Gentle Rain" Takashi Murakami

A hooligan and representative of the neo-pop style Takashi Murakami presented his large-scale project for the first time in our country. The exhibition covers several periods of his work - from the early 1990s to the present day. By placing Murakami's work within the broader context of Japanese culture for the first time, the exhibition pays tribute to the artist's years of work as he reinterprets and integrates the artistic traditions of East and West.

The exhibition consists of five sections, each of which is dedicated to one of the phenomena of Japanese culture, mastered in the artistic practice of Murakami. The project demonstrates the results of the artist’s study of some features of national culture and collective consciousness: in his works, the boundaries between “high” and “low”, “elitist” and “mass” are erased, and various media exist in a single stream of images.

In total, the exhibition presents more than 80 works by the artist - paintings, graphics, feature films and animation from the museums of Tokyo and Kanazawa, Japanese engravings and paintings from the collection of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, various artifacts from the Murakami studio, and photographs and manga from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Opening of the exhibition “There will be gentle rain” by Takashi Murakami at the Garage Center for Contemporary Art © The Art Newspaper Russia

1. Thaw: facing the future. Art of Europe 1945–1968

This exhibition was timed to coincide with the Thaw festival, within the framework of which exhibitions were organized at the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Moscow. The curators presented a colossal traveling exhibition that came to Russia from Germany, where it was created by renowned curators Peter Weibel and Eckhart Gillen. It was thanks to this exhibition that a long-awaited event took place - the recognition of Soviet underground art as European. The exhibition arrived in Russia in a slightly modified form, the number of exhibits decreased, but nevertheless, more than 200 works by leading artists who worked in the 1940s-1960s were collected under the roof of Pushkinsky. – Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Marc Chagall, Alexander Deineka, Pablo Picasso, Yves Klein, Lucian Freud, Fernand Léger, Otto Dix, Vadim Sidur, Otto Muhl, Eliya Belyutin, the Zero Group, Hans Richter, Armand, Max Beckmann, Henri Matisse and etc.

The exhibition was dedicated to one of the most complex and eventful milestones in world history - the first decades after World War II. The exposition was divided into seven sections that reveal the main stages in the development of post-war art: "The End of the War", "Sorrow and Memory", "Cold War", "Struggle for Peace", "New Realism", "New Idealism", "The End of Utopia". ?

Exhibition "Facing the Future" in the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin © Daily.afisha.ru

1. El Lissitzky. retrospective

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center + State Tretyakov Gallery / November 16, 2017 – February 18, 2018

The exhibition "El Lissitzky" is the first large-scale retrospective of the artist in Russia and a joint project of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center and the State Tretyakov Gallery. El Lissitzky is one of the leading artists of the Russian and European avant-garde, who largely determined the development of architecture and design of the 20th century, the inventor of a new direction in art, which he called “prouns” (proun - New Approval Project). The exhibition project consists of two parts and takes place simultaneously at two venues - the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center and the New Tretyakov Gallery. The audience is presented with about 400 exhibits from the collections of Russian and foreign museums, private collections. The exhibition recreates the creative path of the artist and introduces all the stages and directions in the work of Lissitzky.

The pre-avant-garde period of Lissitzky's work and works related to his activities in the Kultur-League are presented in the Jewish Museum. In addition to them, it included his graphic works, for example, the famous poster “Beat the whites with a red wedge”, as well as prouns, photo collages, typography, photomontages, manuscripts and documentary photographs.

About 200 works are exhibited in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, including prouns and architectural projects, sketches of exhibition design projects, and photographs from the gallery's collection. Here, for the first time in Russia, six paintings by Lissitzky from the largest foreign collections are shown - in domestic museums there is not a single painting by the artist. Lissitzky created these works in Germany in the early 1920s, where he was sent to establish artistic contacts, where, by the way, he became friends with the Dadaist Kurt Schwitter, who created similar three-dimensional collages.

The two-venue exhibition presents Lissitzky as an artist-universe, combining a painter, book graphic artist, designer, architect, typographer and photographer.

Exhibition “El Lissitzky. Retrospective” © Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

1. Design system in the USSR

Now the topic of Soviet design is very relevant, and one of the popularizers of this topic in Russia and abroad is the Moscow Design Museum, headed by Alexandra Sankova. On November 22, the exhibition "Design System in the USSR" opened at the Fashion and Design Center. The exposition tells visitors about the activities of various design bureaus and design services in the 1960s-1980s. The exposition included rare photographs from the archive of the MIA “Russia Today”, which acted as the general information partner of the event.

This is the first exhibition that shows how the design system functioned in the USSR in the 1960s-1980s, tells about the activities of the most important institutes, design bureaus and design services at plants and factories that worked in the field of artistic design and technical aesthetics, their interaction and role in the development of industrial production.

The exhibition presents more than 500 exhibits: furniture, dishes, clothes, books, drawings, posters, postcards, albums, labels created by well-known enterprises - Zenit, ZIL, VAZ, LOMO and many others, as well as archival materials (photo, video chronicle, manuscripts, autographs).

Exhibition “Design System in the USSR” © MIA “Russia Today”

1. Cai Guoqiang. October

The Pushkin Museum this year was very generous with large-scale projects. The exhibition of the Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang is no exception. Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the Great Revolution, Cai Guoqiang created a series of works especially for the Pushkin Museum. In them, the artist reflected on the role of the personality of an individual in world history, as well as on the relationship between personal dreams and collective ideals. This project turned out to be really very grandiose, and not only because the artist presented his “gunpowder” art for the first time in Russia. The reason is different - the academic museum allowed the artist to spread his art throughout the exhibition space, but also, in the literal sense, outside of it. The installation "Autumn" is the first thing that the visitor of the exhibition saw. It was located at the entrance to the museum. This is a metaphorical mountain, the basis of which is cribs and strollers, from which dozens of young birch trees sprout. The museum grew trees in a nursery especially for the exhibition, and residents of Moscow donated beds and strollers to the museum. “These prams symbolize dreams, childhood, socialist utopia in the hearts of people,” said the artist. It was a kind of experiment and very bold, which went to the leadership of the museum.

Above the main staircase of the museum, Cai Guoqiang stretched a silk canvas on which a quote from The Internationale was drawn with gunpowder: "No one will give us deliverance: neither God, nor the king, nor a hero." Then the artist presented the installation "Earth", which was created from dry plants. Soviet symbols were hidden among the ears, but they were reflected in the mirror surface above them. This installation symbolized the Russian field, the artist wanted to recreate the feeling of mystery that he had in his childhood when watching Soviet films.

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The culmination of the exhibition is the video project “October. Daytime fireworks on Red Square”: in the sky above the main square of the country, fires explode one after another to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The performance ended with 100 seconds of volleys, which left behind a huge white cloud, slowly carried away by the wind.

Exhibition “Cai Guoqiang. October” at the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin © Vedomosti

Text: Anastasia Boye

Big names and anniversary celebrations, space expansion and attraction installations - all this became the key to the success of the world's largest museums and the most popular exhibitions in 2017

Exhibition “Masterpieces of New Art. The Shchukin Collection” at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Photo: Manuel Lagos Cid/Getty Images

The four-year anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton Museum in Paris made a huge leap last year, welcoming more than 1.2 million people who came to see French Impressionist and Modernist works collected by Russian industrialist Sergei Shchukin between 1898 and 1914.

Ancient sculptures in Tokyo against modernists in Paris

At the exhibition “Masterpieces of New Art. Shchukin Collection” Russian museums, primarily the State Hermitage Museum and the State Museum of Fine Arts. A. S. Pushkin, provided a first-class selection of works by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, not to mention other masters of European modernism, as well as masterpieces of the Russian avant-garde from the State Tretyakov Gallery. Thus, the exhibition in the Parisian private museum, founded by the French billionaire Bernard Arnault, set a world attendance record.

Exhibition "Isamu Noguchi, Archaic, Modern" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photo: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Although the exhibition of the Shchukin collection outperformed all others in terms of total number of visitors, we still evaluate and compare exhibitions by the average number of visitors per day, and not by the absolute result (see calculation methodology). That is why, despite the fact that 8926 people came to the Louis Vuitton Foundation per day (hereinafter - b / d), the exhibition in Paris takes second place after the exhibition of 22 Buddhist sculptures by the Japanese artist Unkei (1150-1223) in the Tokyo National Museum. This retrospective gathered about 11.3 thousand people a day.

Brazil, the UK and Taiwan have traditionally dominated the list of the world's 20 most popular exhibitions, but in 2017 Australia, Spain and France also made the list. Many exhibitions at the Taipei Imperial Palace Museum this year have moved to the General Ticket category (exhibitions that do not sell a separate ticket or where admission to the permanent exhibition is included in the ticket price). French museums that did not make the top 20 in 2016 are now in four places. And here is a free traveling exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Dutch group De Stijl (“Mondrian and De Stijl”, 6700 h / d), at the Cultural Center of the Bank of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro - the only one from Brazil in the top 20. In 2016 there were six.

Gerrit Rietveld. Red and blue armchair. 1919-1950. At the exhibition "Mondrian and the group
De Stijl" at the cultural center of the Bank of Brazil. Photo: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Anniversaries or renewals are a good reason to visit a museum

Anniversaries always help to increase the number of visitors, and last year was no exception. Programs dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ensured the appearance of Spain in our ranking. A retrospective by video artist Bill Viola, works created by Georg Baselitz around the age of 20, and a film by American experimental film director Ken Jacobs, which includes footage from the 19th century by the Lumière brothers, each attracted over 6,100 h/d. The celebration also boosted overall Guggenheim attendance by more than 150,000 to 1.3 million, the second-highest in its history. Another anniversary lifted the Reina Sofia Center of the Arts in Madrid to the top: 5200 h / d saw Picasso's Guernica in honor of the 80th anniversary of its creation.

Among the museums that benefited from the anniversary celebrations are the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel, which celebrated its 20th anniversary with a Monet exhibition (2300 h/d), which became the second most popular in its history, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago, where the 50th anniversary was celebrated with an increase an audience of 125,000. In Australia, the Sugar Spiral exhibition (4,700 h/d) at the Art Gallery of Queensland in Brisbane easily made it into the top 20. A group exhibition of contemporary artists, in which museum visitors were given the opportunity to glide between floors thanks to Carsten Heller's Left/Right Slide attraction installation, was among the museum's tenth anniversary events. In 2017, it had a record number of visitors - 1.4 million, which is 760 thousand people more than in 2016. Another big jump in visitor numbers in Australia and New Zealand was at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, which saw 540,000 more visitors in 2017, driven by record-breaking 6,100 h/d for Vincent van Gogh and fashion house Dior ( 3800 h/d).

Ken Jacobs. "Guests". Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Photo: Guggenheim museum Bilbao

For years now, the crowds have gone crazy for Yayoi Kusama (the Japanese artist's traveling exhibition topped our list in 2014), so the National Art Center in Tokyo hit the bull's-eye with 270 of her works for its tenth anniversary. This exposition (6700 h/d) is the fifth most popular in our rating and the most popular exhibition of the living artist. Kusama also helped nearly double attendance at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington from 659,000 to 1.1 million. But at that museum, she was overtaken by Yoko Ono's interactive show (3,000 h/d), where viewers could add their wishes to the artist's Wishing Tree.

Another Washington-based museum, the National Gallery of Art, saw a 1 million increase in attendance last year, a success it owes to the expansion of the East Building with a collection of 750 contemporary art in the fall of 2016. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) also benefited from a $305 million expansion, with 1.1 million people showing up to see the museum's new wing, designed by Swedish firm Snøhetta.

Pablo Picasso. "Guernica". 1937. Exhibition "Pity and Terror" at the Reina Sofia Art Center, Madrid. Photo: Succession Picasso

America's Golden Throne

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City is an unexpected hit with Maurizio Cattelan's golden toilet bowl installed in the closet. A well-functioning toilet caused a buzz when the museum's chief curator, Nancy Spector, offered it to the White House in place of a van Gogh painting requested by the Donald Trump administration. The golden sanitary ware fell into our “General Ticket” category, as it is difficult to determine which of the museum's 3,000 visitors a day just came to look at Cattelan's creation, and who used it for its intended purpose. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) remains the leader in New York: the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective (5500 h/d) was the most popular exhibition in the city, and it is interesting that in New York Rauschenberg received almost four times as many visitors as the same exhibition in London (1500 h/d).

Plywood by Pink Floyd

For London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), 2017 was the most successful year in its history with just under 3.8 million visitors thanks to an eclectic program that included an exhibition on lingerie, the unknown history of plywood and a psychedelic exploration of the British music group Pink Floyd. Surprisingly, more people came to see the plywood (2324 h/d) than Pink Floyd (2258 h/d). Probably because the former was free and the latter were some of the most expensive tickets in London.

Museums of the Vatican. Photo: TASS / Alamy

Overall, it has been a mixed year for museums in London. Fewer blockbusters and fewer tourists, which means fewer audiences. Attendance at the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum fell by 677,000 and 514,000 respectively. But the National Gallery received the heaviest blow: the number of its visitors decreased by more than 1 million - and this despite the exhibition “After Caravaggio” (2100 h / d) about the influence of the Italian genius on contemporaries, which became the most popular in the museum and the sixth among the most successful paid exhibitions in London.

The number of visitors to Tate Modern in 2017 decreased by 183 thousand. Meanwhile, located on the other side of the Thames, Tate Britain broke its own record, receiving almost 1.8 million people. A 4,300 hr/d retrospective of British star David Hockney (4,300 hr/d) helped boost audiences by as much as 2,900 hr/d by a living artist across the Tate Gallery (the previous record was held by Damien Hirst at the Tate Modern in 2012). ). But despite Hockney's success at home, even more people lined up to see his exhibition in Paris (5,800 h/d), making the Center Pompidou the second most visited in the French capital last year.

National Museum of China in Beijing. Photo: TASS

New hero from China

In the ranking of the most visited museums, there was a noticeable castling and a new hero appeared. The National Museum of China, the behemoth on Tiananmen Square, which boasts a collection of more than 1 million works of art, first appears in our ranking in second place (8.06 million visitors a year) and just falls short of the first, long occupied by the Louvre , which is still recovering from a drop in attendance in 2016 after the attacks in Paris (from 8.6 million in 2015 to 7.4 million in 2016). Last year, 8.1 million people came to the Louvre, and so far it remains the most popular museum in the world.

Methodology

The average number of visitors per day (h/d) is calculated automatically by the database. The number of days the exhibition has been open, taking into account unexpected closures, is calculated, and then the total attendance figure is divided by the number of days.

All data used is provided by museums and galleries.

Some museums offer multiple exhibitions on one ticket - they are shown as one visit.

Exhibitions that were free to visit, whether it was the entire museum or an individual exhibition, are marked with an asterisk (*).

Painting by Vincent van Gogh on display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Photo: National Gallery of Victoria

The most visited art museums in the world. Top 50

* Excluding Metropolitan Breuer attendance (398,922), but including Cloisters attendance.

** Institutions located in several buildings are marked with an asterisk. This year, we have separated different sites to get more accurate traffic data for each of them. Additional venues and overall attendance figures are: National Gallery of Victoria (Australian National Gallery of Victoria 613,801; total attendance 3,136,497); National Galleries of Scotland (National Gallery of Modern Art Scotland - 605,766; National Portrait Gallery of Scotland - 358,199; total attendance - 2,564,726); Getty Center (Getty Villa - 379,214; total attendance - 1,831,015); Queensland Art Gallery of Contemporary Art (Art Gallery of Queensland - 751,406; total attendance - 2,177,232).

Exhibition "Sugar Spiral" at the Art Gallery of Queensland. Photo: Natasha Harth

50 most visited art exhibitions in the world

Maurice Denis. "Procession under the trees." 1893. Exhibition "Mystical Landscape from Monet to Kandinsky" at the Musée d'Orsay. Photo: Musee d'Orsay/Henry Lewandowski

The most visited free exhibitions and visits in the "General ticket" format. Top 15

This year's General Ticket category is led by Art Night, a free festival that took place over one night at various venues in London and included more than 50 events: installations, performances, film screenings. One of the most popular was a work by London-based German artist Melanie Manchaux titled "Dancing" ("All Night London"). The artist made it in collaboration with ten different dance schools, which marched through the streets of the city in the rhythm of tango or Cuban rueda, and then gathered in the square in the Broadgate area, where they invited everyone to join the dance until the morning. The General Ticket (or Big Ticket) category includes events that cannot be classified as regular museum exhibitions. These include exhibitions, the ticket for which gives access to other attractions, as, for example, in the case of the Palace of Versailles; exhibitions located on the territory of other cultural sites, as in the case of the Beijing Palace Museum in the Forbidden City; exhibitions in the lobbies of museums like the Turbine Hall and the Oil Storages at the Tate Modern; exhibitions taking place at several venues simultaneously, including biennials and festivals. Despite the fact that the next Venice Biennale was held in 2017, it did not make it into the top 10 with a figure of 3709 visitors per day. However, it is worth noting that, unlike other biennials, including the Korean Busan, as well as festivals such as ArtPrize and Scape, the entrance to the Venice Biennale is paid.

David Hockney. "Pool with two figures". 1971. Exhibition at Tate Britain and the Pompidou Center. Photo: Art Gallery of New South Wales / Jenni Carter

* An asterisk marks free admission to the exhibition and the museum.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
22.10.2016 - 05.03.2017
_ If you are in Paris before March 5, be sure to visit the Louis Vuitton Foundation, a project by architect Frank Gehry (author of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao), located in the Bois de Boulogne. The exhibition Icons of Modern Art brings together works from the collection of Sergei Shchukin, a Russian collector and patron of the 20th century. He was a great admirer of French painting, but after the revolution he emigrated, and in 1948 his collection was disbanded and has not been exhibited as a whole since. Visitors are invited to take a trip through the recreated Shchukin mansion - before seeing the works themselves, they enter a hall with photographs of the Shchukin house in Moscow, and on the ground floor there are even arched vaults, like in its lobby. The exhibition occupies all four floors of the Foundation, it begins with the First Collection hall with works of the 19th century. Pre-Raphaelites, English artists and even one of the first French realists, Gustave Courbet, are gathered here. The main halls are centered around the main names: “Pink Living Room. Henri Matisse", "Picasso's Study", "Large Iconostasis" with works by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. In the rest of the halls, works are arranged by genre, including landscapes and portraits. So the viewer can trace the development of painting at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries - a time of great changes in art. But that's not all: several halls are dedicated to Russian artists of the early 20th century and their dialogue with French painters. Malevich is next to Matisse, and Tatlin's works are placed next to Picasso. In 1911, a gallery was opened in Shchukin's house, and many Russian artists were inspired by the works of the French Impressionists there. Especially for the exhibition, a video installation by Peter Greenway and Saskia Boddeke "Shchukin - Matisse: dance and music" was prepared - a story about the interaction of Russian and French art. And after viewing all the halls, the pleasant end of the exhibition will be a walk along the open terraces, from where you can admire the views of the Eiffel Tower, the modern Défense district and the Bois de Boulogne itself.

The exhibition will appeal to those who are interested in Russian painting and the work of post-impressionists. We recommend reading “Post-Impressionism. From Van Gogh to Gauguin" by John Rewald. And in order to better understand the Russian art of the early twentieth century, it is worth paying attention to the book by Ekaterina Bobrinskaya "Russian avant-garde: the boundaries of art" - the author takes into account the role of Russian artists not only in the formation of domestic art, but also in the foreign artistic process. Website: fondationlouisvuitton.fr

Visions of the Hispanic World

National Prado Museum, Madrid
04.04.2017 - 10.09.2017
_ In April, the Prado Museum will open an exhibition of the collection of the Spanish Society of America, which will bring together works of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American art collected outside the Iberian Peninsula. The exposition will include the most significant art objects: archaeological finds, works of Islamic and medieval art of Spain, masterpieces of the Golden Age - the period from the 16th to the 17th century, when the country experienced a great cultural flourishing, painting of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the art of Latin America since colonization until the 20th century. The exhibition is divided into sections, the first two will house the art of Spain and Latin America - Roman sculpture, ceramics and glass, fabrics and jewelry (both Christian and Islamic), as well as works of the Renaissance and Baroque. Particular attention will be paid to Spanish and colonial painting. The floor above will house a hall with Spanish paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries and a large portrait gallery. The Spanish Society of America was founded in 1904 in New York by Archer Huntington, a collector and admirer of Spanish culture. It was at the same time a public library, a museum and an educational institution, and its task was to spread the Spanish and Portuguese culture, the study of languages, history, literature and art.

This exhibition is a great opportunity to get acquainted with Spanish art from antiquity to the present day. And of course, in order to understand it, you need to repeat history, because it was on the Iberian Peninsula that the Greek, Roman and Byzantine heritage came into conflict with Arab traditions, and as a result, a bright and original art was formed. Website: www.museodelprado.es

Opening of the Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi

This year, Abu Dhabi will open its own Louvre - a real museum city on the water. It consists of 55 small sectors under a dome with shining illumination. The “city-museum” of the architect Jean Nouvel is streets, squares and canals, and the exhibition space is located not only inside, but also outside the pavilions. The collection for the museum has been collected since 2012 and includes not only objects of Arabic art, but also classical European paintings. The cooperation of French museums with the emirate has created a new center of cultural attraction, which will be open to all. The Louvre will become a place of discovery and education in the United Arab Emirates, and will also play an important social role. The dialogue between art objects, sculpture and painting will allow visitors to find historical connections between cultures around the globe. And at the first exhibitions in the museum will show the collections of Piet Mondrian, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger and others.

So those who are going on vacation in the UAE will have a great opportunity to combine a relaxing holiday on the beach and getting to know the latest trends in the art world. Website: louvreabudhabi.ae

"Beyond the stars. Mystical landscape from Monet to Kandinsky

Musee d'Orsay, Paris
14.03.2017 - 25.06.2017
_ Artists throughout history have tried to escape reality and get closer to the mysteries of the universe. The phenomenon of mysticism existed in all religions and united people of all continents. The turn of the 19th-20th centuries was marked by the growth of urbanization and the popularity of materialism, so many artists, disappointed in traditional religion, turned to mysticism, and European symbolic painting was formed at that time. The exhibition includes works from Europe, Scandinavia and North America. One of the main and famous paintings is "Starry Night in Arles" by Vincent van Gogh. Also gathered here are other European artists of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries (Gauguin, Denis, Hodler, Munch, Klimt and van Gogh) and masters of the Canadian school of the 1920s-1930s (Lauren Harris, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr and even Georgia O'Keeffe) .

Before visiting, you can read French symbolists such as Charles Baudelaire and Lautreamont. Like any art, Symbolist painting is a message that can be very exciting to decipher. Website: musee-orsay.fr

"De Chirico. Nostalgia for infinity"

Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
19.04.2017 - 23.07.2017
_ Giorgio de Chirico's exhibition in Moscow will be his first large-scale retrospective in Russia. De Chirico is one of the brightest artists of the Italian avant-garde and the inventor of metaphysical painting, a forerunner of surrealism. The artist placed everyday objects in an unreal space, creating a contrast between a realistic image, a distorted perspective and a fictional world. It was his work that inspired Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. About 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures and theatrical costumes, which the artist created for Sergei Diaghilev's production of Ball in 1929, will be brought to Moscow. The exposition will also include archival materials and photographs. The Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and others shared their exhibits.

Takashi Murakami retrospective

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
September 2017
_ In autumn, the first retrospective of Takashi Murakami, one of the most famous contemporary Japanese artists, will be brought to Moscow. Takashi studied traditional Japanese nihonga painting at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts. In his work, he turns to more modern products of Japanese pop culture - anime and manga. It was he who invented the Superflat style - Japanese painting is characterized by flatness, and he uses this feature. The exposition will also include traditional Japanese paintings and drawings from the collections of the Pushkin Museum and the Museum of Oriental Art. The Garage will feature Murakami's works from the 1990s, and the exhibition itself will leave the museum and be located on the Arts Square in Gorky Park.

Before visiting, it is worth reading about classical Japanese art in order to see much more meaning behind the bright art objects. We also recommend getting acquainted with Japanese literature - for example, "Praise of the Shadow" by Junichiro Tanizaki, where the author compares Japanese and European cultures.

Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art

13.05.2017 - 26.11.2017
_ The theme of the 57th Venice Biennale will be “Viva Arte Viva” (“Long live living art”). The exhibition sequentially reveals itself to the viewer and takes him on a journey, where each pavilion tells its own story. Russia will be represented here by artists Grisha Bruskin, Sasha Pirogova and the art group Recycle. The theme of the pavilion is "The Theater of Life and Death". Recycle skillfully play with the "garbage" of civilization, turning it into works of art. They also work with brands and symbols, for example, in Paradise Network, the letter F (from Facebook) becomes a cross-shaped statue, and various bas-reliefs are reminiscent of Ancient Greece, only they have a different theme - the consumer society. Recycle artists combine classic techniques and provocative themes in their work and are sure to surprise even the most sophisticated viewer.

Before traveling to Venice, in addition to guidebooks, we recommend reading the History of Art by Ernst Gombrich - it explains the most complex topics of fine art in a very simple and fascinating language. Also noteworthy is the book “Isms. How to Understand Contemporary Art by Sam Phillips, which puts the works in the right context and thus provides the key to understanding them. The Biennale is definitely worth a visit at least once to become a participant in the most topical discussion. And there will also be “open tables” where everyone can learn more about the work of artists and share lunch with friends. Website: labiennale.org

Christian Dior

Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
06.07.2017 - 07.01.2018
_ 70th Anniversary Celebrations continue at Dior House and one of the highlights of 2017 will be the Christian Dior retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. It will be built according to the classical principle: the main themes will be the life and work of one of the last great fashion designers of the 20th century. Over the years, Christian Dior raised fashion to the rank of art, became a real artist and collaborated and made friends with the most talented contemporaries, among whom were Man Ray and Jean Cocteau. Dior began his career as an illustrator for fashion magazines - after the crisis of 1929, the young gallery owner was left without funds. The first collection made a splash in 1947. The audience seemed to be back in the Belle Époque, forgetting about the post-war economy and the shortage of fabrics. The revival of already familiar silhouettes and a completely new, architectural approach to the cut made the fashion designer famous throughout the world, and the new look invented by him is still popular.

The exhibition will appeal to all fans of fashion and those who are interested in its history. It promises to be one of the most detailed this year. Before visiting, we recommend looking through Dior albums for inspiration, as well as reading about it - for example, the book "Dior: The New Look Revolution" or "Christian Dior" by Charlotte Sinclair.

Goya, Dali, Klimt, Schiele, Titian, Gaudi, Murakami, Cattelan: The Art Newspaper Russia editors have chosen the most interesting exhibitions of the new year in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which you probably won't want to miss

Salvador Dali. "Caprichos" by Goya. Series of 80 engravings. "Not". 1977. From the collection of Boris Fridman. Photo courtesy of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin

"Caprichos". Goya and Dali
The main building of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
From January 24 to March 12

An exhibition of engravings will open the year Francisco Goya and Salvador Dali, on which 41 etchings by a 19th-century artist are adjacent to 41 engravings created 180 years later. Hypocrisy, injustice, laziness, sleeping human consciousness, fear - a gallery of vices dressed in fantastic images by Spanish geniuses, differs little from today. But the museum warns against hasty conclusions: Dali himself, on one of the etchings of the exposition, depicted his predecessor in the form of a mysterious sphinx lying against the backdrop of the desert. An impressive lecture program is devoted to interpretations of works in the exposition. But besides it, each pair of “caprichos” is preceded by a literary commentary by Goya himself, explaining, along with satirical overtones, the mystical origins of his characters. The etchings arranged in pairs draw in an additional game: sometimes Salvador Dali simply follows his predecessor without intruding into the image, but often takes the plots to another plane, introducing additional characters and new details.

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"Double engagement". Stained glass from the Sainte-Chapelle. France, 1230-1248. Patrick Cadet / Center des monuments nationaux

"Saint Louis and the relics of the Sainte-Chapelle"
Patriarchal Palace of the Kremlin Museum
March 2 to June 4

The French king, whose name is associated with the heyday of the Gothic style in France, was a keen collector of Christian relics. Starting with the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ, he collected more than 20 sacred objects: from a particle of the Cross of the Lord to the Spear of Destiny. All of them were kept in the Sainte-Chapelle - the chapel-reliquary, which also has the most complete ensemble of stained-glass windows of the 13th century. Some of them were dismantled six centuries later. Now, thanks to the Center of National Monuments of France, stained glass windows, along with other masterpieces of French Gothic art from the Louvre, the Cluny Museum, the National Libraries and Archives of France, can be seen in Moscow.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Triennial of Contemporary Art
Garage Museum
March

Garage curators scoured Russia's cities from Kaliningrad to Vladikavkaz to find the most notable regional artists and the art that best captures the zeitgeist. The exposition will highlight seven areas that reflect the same artistic trends in different territories of the vast country. The exposition, in addition to the museum, will also be located in Gorky Park, and all selected artists, who turned out to be more than 60, will be invited to the opening.

Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch. 1920. Paper, watercolor, ink, brush. Yaroslavl Art Museum

"Poste restante. Collections of the Russian avant-garde from regional museums. Part II
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
March 30 to May 28

The project, the first part of which was included in the rating of the best exhibitions of the year by our newspaper, in the new year will present about 100 works of Russian avant-garde from the time of the Civil War, the transition to the NEP and collectivization. From curator Andrey Sarabyanov again expect unknown works, never before exhibited in Moscow.

Zinaida Serebryakova. "Behind the toilet" ("Self-portrait"). 1909. State Tretyakov Gallery

Retrospective of Zinaida Serebryakova
State Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane
April 4 to July 30

The Tretyakov Gallery, as well as the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, already hosted exhibitions of the artist a couple of years ago. Now the visitors will have a retrospective with an exhaustive set of paintings not only from Russian museums, but also from the Parisian fund of the artist, private English and French collections. For the first time the viewer will get acquainted with decorative panels Zinaida Serebryakova for the Belgian baron's villa Jean Brower who were considered dead during the Second World War, but miraculously survived and were found in 2007 in the basement of that very villa. A large gallery of portraits will be diluted with a series of paintings dedicated to the behind-the-scenes life of the Mariinsky Theatre, as well as landscapes and sketches for the murals of the Kazan Station.

Giorgio De Chirico. "Nostalgia for Infinity". Piazza d'Italia

"De Chirico. Nostalgia for infinity"

April 19 to July 23

For the exhibition of the founder of metaphysical painting and forerunner of surrealism Giorgio De Chirico exhibits were provided by the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Foundation Giorgio and Isa De Chirico, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The artist's work will be presented very widely: about 100 works of art from painting and sculpture to theatrical costumes. The audience will also be reminded of the Russian trace in the work of the avant-garde master. Living in Paris with a Russian actress Raisa Gurevich-Krol, de Chirico created the costumes for Diaghilev's performance "Ball" - they, as well as archival photographs and materials, will become an additional decoration of the exposition.

Vasily Vereshchagin. "Walking on Water" 1903. State Russian Museum

Vasily Vereshchagin. To the 175th anniversary of the birth"
Russian Museum
April - July

Historians joke that the only accepted ever Vereshchagin the award was the Order of St. George for the defense of the Samarkand fortress. The impulsive, self-centered, freedom-loving battle painter loved to travel and took part in all the hostilities that fell in his fate. The retrospective exhibition of the artist will show 220 works by the master, including the famous Balkan and Turkestan series, many landscapes, as well as ethnographic sketches and graphics. The exposition will be decorated with items from the Ethnographic Museum associated with Vereshchagin's numerous trips.

Anselm Kiefer. "Velimir Khlebnikov". 2004-2010 Phillips

Anselm Kiefer to Velimir Khlebnikov
State Hermitage
May 31 to September 3

That the "Chairman of the Globe" Velimir Khlebnikov inspires the cabalist Anselm Kiefer, the world community learned when Kiefer's work “To Velimir Khlebnikov. The Doctrine of War: Battles was sold at a Phillips summer auction for £2.4 million in 2016. It turned out that Kiefer constantly rereads the poems of the futurist translated into German. In his fantastic retrospective installation in Paris and London, he illustrated Velimir Khlebnikov's mathematical theory of civilizational clashes in history. It can be seen in the Hermitage, where 18 more large-scale works will be added to it.

Sagrada Familia. Photo by Bernard Gagnon

"Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona"
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 22 to September 10

Instead of reading a guide to Barcelona, ​​at the end of spring it will be possible to come to the exhibition. Sketches and models of the most outstanding buildings of the Art Nouveau master, as well as a collection of photographs from the archives of the Catalan College of Architecture, will be shown at MMOMA. The architect left behind 18 buildings, and 12 of them are in Barcelona. First of all, this is the famous Sagrada Familia Cathedral, on which the architect worked for 43 years and to which a separate section will be devoted to the exposition. Four others will focus on his residential buildings, the creation of the Guell Palace, the history of collaboration with the main customer, the industrialist Eusebi Güell, and furniture, the author of which was also an architect. The exposition will end with the documentary "Dali and Gaudí" from the Spanish Film Archive, which is natural, if we remember that Salvador Dali called the architecture that inspired the Surrealists "the most original phenomenon in the history of art."

Johann Groot. "Owl sitting on a bough." 1750s From the collection of the State Museum Reserve "Tsarskoe Selo"

The Groot brothers: portrait painter and animal painter. German Artists at the Russian Court"
Bread House of the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"
From June 1st to September 17th

The summer exhibition at Tsaritsyno is dedicated to the German portrait painters of the 18th century, who connected their lives with Russia and played a huge role in the development of Russian painting. Georg Groot best known for his fine portraits Elizabeth Petrovna(for example, in the form of Flora) and her courtiers, and his brother Johann turned out to be the very first animal painter at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, giving the basis for an entire school of animal painters. The workshop of Johann Groot was visited in admiration by the whole court - the animals and birds depicted by him were so realistic. The exhibition in Tsaritsyno, which will show about 60 works collected from museums in both capitals and private collections, will open the amazing and touching world of wild animals of the 18th century and pets at the court of the first Russian empresses.

Paolo Veronese. Apollo and Marsyas. Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin

Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. The Golden Age of Venetian Painting"
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
June - end of August

The legacy of the Venetian school of painting is one of the brightest pages in the history of the Italian Renaissance. The Venetians, who found themselves aloof from the Italian mainland feudal wars, experienced the joy of life extremely fully, transferring the sensual beauty of the world and bright color into their works. So far, it has not been reported which masterpieces the viewer will see at the exhibition opening the summer season, it is only clear that they will reflect the period from the heyday of the school to its extinction in creativity. Tintoretto. Another distinguishing feature will be the genre diversity of canvases, of which there will be about 40 in the exhibition - from the portrait beloved by Venetian masters to religious and mythological subjects. Tickets, apparently, should take care of in advance.

Aristarkh Lentulov. "Call". ("Ivan the Great belltower"). 1915. Photo: Tretyakov Gallery

Aristarkh Lentulov. To the 135th anniversary of the birth"
Theater Museum. A.A. Bakhrushina. main building
Summer

Aristarkh Lentulov was a tireless experimenter. He wrote both in the spirit of expressionism and in the style Cezanne, after a trip to France, he switched to cubo-futurism, creating one of his most famous paintings - St. Basil's Cathedral. One of the founders "Jack of Diamonds", the artist was afraid of repetition, which the upcoming exhibition should tell about. Her museum plans to make it quite large-scale and promises to show the audience 24 works of the period 1910-1920s.

Pavel Filonov. "Cows". 1914. Russian Museum

"Dreams of World Bloom"
Russian Museum
August - November

The centenary of the October Revolution was reflected in the programs of most museums and galleries, which we have already discussed. The St. Petersburg Russian Museum also decided to comprehend the consequences of the events of 1917 in the history of art. The exposition of the exhibition "Dreams of World Heyday" will include a large number of works Paul Filonova, who devoted the whole poetic hymn "Sermon on the sprouting of the world" to the "world flowering" - the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bsymbolic flowering and germination both in society and in painting. In addition to him, the exhibition will feature works Kazemir Malevich, Alexander Deineka, Alexander Samokhvalov and other artists from the museum's collection, who, despite differences in manner and political views, shared their views on the post-revolutionary future with equal enthusiasm.

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. "1918 in Petrograd". State Tretyakov Gallery

"Someone 1917"
State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
September 27 — January 14, 2018

The exhibition should not only show the iconography of the images of the revolution, but also reflect the internal discussions, the intense struggle of artistic movements and ideas of the early 20th century. The exposition is conceived as a large-scale one: it will be possible to learn about the thoughts and feelings with which the artists met the revolution, using the example of 120 works, including canvases Nesterov, Petrov-Vodkin, Serebryakova, as well as Filonov, Rodchenko, Kandinsky, Malevich. To show the contrast between painting and the real life of exhausted and starving people, the exhibition will be supplemented with photographs and newsreels of those years. To tell about one of the most significant events in recent history, the revolution of 1917, the Tretyakov Gallery selected exhibits not only in the regions of Russia, but also abroad: in the Pompidou Center, the Tate Gallery, the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, museums in Spain, Greece, Israel.

Takashi Murakami. "Kaikai". 2000-2005. 2000-2005 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Private collection. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin

Takashi Murakami retrospective
Garage Museum
September

In the fall, Garage will offer an opportunity to get acquainted with the art of one of the most expensive and fun contemporary Japanese authors — Takashi Murakami. This is the first Russian retrospective of a pop art artist who combines manga with contemporary art and design in an original way. Jobs with Eared Mr. Dobom- the alter ego of the 54-year-old "scammer", posters with the most incredible cartoons and sculptures in neon colors - just what you need in the autumn season. They decided to strengthen the impact of such art many times over by playing on contrasts: the exhibition will include ancient Japanese paintings and engravings from the collection of the Museum of Art of the Peoples of the East and the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. According to the already established tradition, the exhibition will leave the museum to the adjacent Arts Square, where a monumental sculpture by Murakami will appear. Its name is still kept secret.

TV Lambert ("Lambert") 21-S-502 stationary kinescope. Polytechnical Museum

"Encyclopedia of Television"
VDNH, Pavilion No. 64 "Optics"
September-October – January 2018

Guests of the autumn exhibition at VDNKh will be offered to learn all the secrets of television - from Soviet broadcasting to the most rated modern programs. It will show the equipment used by the first Russian television people: from cameras to recording and projection installations from the collections of Russian museums, television studios and TV channels. It has not yet been announced whether the exposition will be interactive, but what can be seen and heard for sure is archival footage from the filming, mock-ups of studio scenery, as well as costumes, props, funny fragments from TV programs and musical themes for them.

Egon Schille. "Klimt in a blue coat". Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin

Drawings by Klimt and Schiele from the collection of the Albertina Museum
Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin
Mid October - mid January 2018

The Albertina Museum in Vienna, in exchange for Impressionist paintings, provided the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin 120 graphic works Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. The latter considered himself a student of Klimt, and it is known that during their first meeting, Klimt not only agreed to exchange his work for a drawing by an artist 28 years younger, but also bought several works, noting: “Why do you want to exchange with me? You still draw better." Subsequently, Klimt patronized the artist, introducing him to profitable buyers and exhibiting his works along with his own. A grateful student made his portraits and drawings, one of them - "Klimt in a blue robe" - will most likely be seen in the exhibition.

Maurizio Cattelan. Installation at the Frieze Art Fair. Photo: Timothy Schenck; courtesy of Frieze Projects

Maurizio Cattelan exhibition
Multimedia Art Museum
From October 30 to December 17

The exhibition of the brawler has been long awaited in Russia since the artist, breaking the word that he was leaving art forever, exhibited his works at the Paris Mint last year. It is unlikely that the Multimedia Art Museum will allocate a special room for a selfie with a golden toilet bowl - a recent masterpiece cattelana which is now in New York's Guggenheim Museum. But you can definitely count on the famous stuffed animals with their heads stuck in the wall, and provocative wax sculptures. Who knows, maybe the Italian will create a piece specifically for the Russian exhibition.

UPD:project canceled

Sergei Eisenstein on the set of the film "Old and New" ("General Line"). 1929 Gelatin silver print. State Central Museum of Cinema

"Eisenstein. Revolution in art"
State Hermitage
November 7 - March 5

In the past year, Moscow museums devoted several projects to the personality of an eccentric director, artist and teacher. The Garage Museum compared the works Eisenstein with creativity Francisco Goya and Robert Longo, and in the Multimedia Art Museum a large project with fragments from films, posters, scenery sketches and drawings by the author opened the celebration of the anniversary season. Little is known about what exactly will be shown at the exhibition in St. Petersburg. On the one hand, this may be another project under the sign of the Great Revolution with the demonstration of the film "October" and the study of the director's influence on revolutionary Soviet cinema. On the other hand, the project can reveal Eisenstein with his graphics, visual and theatrical solutions as an innovator, “revolutionizing” art as such. “If it weren’t for the revolution, I would never have ‘split’ the traditions, only the revolutionary whirlwind gave me the main thing - the freedom of self-determination,” he wrote in his autobiography.

Chaim Soutine. "View of Sere". 1921

Retrospective of Chaim Soutine
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
November 11 — February 19, 2018

Painting by one of the brightest representatives of the Paris School Chaimy Soutine the Moscow audience could see in 2011, at an exhibition of artists of the Paris School. On it, he was represented by the largest number of works. This year, the Pushkin Museum, together with the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, is preparing a retrospective of an expressionist who painted naked so as not to wear out his clothes and starved himself until he painted still lifes with herrings or bloodied bull carcasses.

Lazar Lissitzky

El Lissitzky
Jewish Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
November 16 — February 4, 2018 Popular materials