"Contemporary Art: Instructions for Use" is a podcast about contemporary art on the "Podcast.Lab" program on Channel One. In the episodes, art historians, critics, and artists explore how to view and understand contemporary art. The host is Sofia Trotsenko, founder of the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art.

Listen to the "Contemporary Art: Instructions for Use" podcast on Yandex.Music and Apple Podcasts, and watch it on Channel One.

The first season of the podcast is structured chronologically, covering the period from post-war art to the present day. The episodes explore key events in 20th-century art from their witnesses and participants: the Picasso exhibition in Moscow and the American art exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Nikita Khrushchev's controversial destruction of the Manege exhibition and the Bulldozer Exhibition, the historic Sotheby's auction in Moscow, and much more.

The first episode featured curator and art theorist Viktor Misiano, founder of the Art Magazine, answering the most popular questions: why contemporary art seems complex and how to understand it. The second episode, featuring curator and former head of the Tretyakov Gallery's Department of Contemporary Art Irina Gorlova, explores the modernism of the 1950s and exhibitions of Matisse, Picasso, and Pollock in Moscow. In the third episode, Sretensky Boulevard group member Sergei Shablavin discusses the rise of unofficial art in the 1960s and the emergence of unofficial art.

Watch and listen to the new episode on April 16.