Students of the Moscow School of Modern Art and BHSAD present their works in the CCA Winzavod.

On Thursday, 27 August, the exhibition Decentralisation, a diploma project of second year students of the program of additional professional education "Contemporary Art" of the Moscow School of Modern Art and British Higher School of Design, will open. The space will be open for journalists and guests from 19:00 to 22:00, the vernissage program will include a curatorial tour.

Reflecting on the modern man in search of himself and his place in life, the concept of the fragmentation of the individual, the splitting of the human personality, is increasingly emerging in the mind. This concerns not only the individual but also society as a whole. And now we see obvious signs of dissociation, a tendency to disintegration and fragmentation of previously formed entities.

A rather precise metaphor of what is going on is the notion of "decentralisation" - the process of redistribution, dispersion of functions, forces, power, people or things from a central location or a controlling mechanism.

And thinking further, we come to the notion of "localism" as a continuation and often an end point of decentralisation. That is, the aspiration to individualization of a person, society, region, any unit is quite a characteristic feature of our time, as a new cycle, which mankind enters in attempts to find ideas for further development. And the main straw that can be seen is in the transition from centripetal development to centrifugal, from globalism to localism.

The project is dedicated to finding possible answers to questions related to the current state of society and the world at large.

In their works, novice artists try to address the issues of personal and social identity, the flow of time and time sequences, growing fragmentation and trends towards fragmentation and decay, cyclicality and return to local phenomena, signs of substitution of meanings, the emergence of new simulacra and the like.

Moscow School of Contemporary Art is a project of Universal University and British Higher School of Art & Design. The graduates of the school are specialists of international level in the field of contemporary art: artists, photographers, curators, stage designers, gallery owners, art dealers and art managers. The school combines more than ten years of experience of the British Higher School of Design in the field of contemporary art, international education and interaction with key art institutions in Russia and other countries. MSCA educational programs: Bachelor's degree (3 years) in Fine Art and Photography in partnership with the University of Hertfordshire, UK (graduates receive 2 diplomas: Additional professional education and retraining in the areas of "Contemporary Art" (duration of the course of 2 years) and a new course "International strategies in art business" (duration of the course of 1 year) - the beginning of classes in October; Summer Intensives (4 days) in the areas of "Organization of exhibition project from A to Z", "Fundamentals of gallery business", "PR and marketing in contemporary art", etc. Course instructors - professors in contemporary art from Great Britain, Europe and USA, specialists from Christie's Education New York, VISA, GARAGE, VAC and other leading Russian and foreign functionaries. For more information, please visit msca.ru.

Artists: Victoria Ananyeva, Christina Dontsova, Renata Kukryakova, Anastasia Litvinova, Natalia Lokshina, Irina Nikulina, Igor Sever, Ksenia Poparenko, Svetlana Samoylova, Elena Smirnova, Anna Tyushkevich, Alexander Shameev.

Curator: Mikhail Levin, director of MSCA, artist, curator, graduate of Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (BA (Hons) Fine Art) and Royal Drawing School (Postgraduate Diploma) (UK).