On April 14, the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art hosted an Evening of Vernissages. All 13 resident galleries presented new exhibitions.
The pop/off/art gallery hosted the opening of "Requiem for Modernism," an exhibition by Rostislav Lebedev, one of the founders of the Sots Art movement, dedicated to the artist's 80th birthday. The exhibition features approximately 30 new works, in which Lebedev, through direct quotation and irony, engages in a dialogue with the canons of Russian and international painting—fr om Malevich's Suprematism to Magritte and Lichtenstein.
The exhibition runs until May 21.
X El Gallery presented Anna Komarova's installation "Quiet Hour," dedicated to fog as a phenomenon. In her works, the artist explores the relationship between humans and the environment, memory and death, and the clash of the natural and the technological. With a background in theater, the artist works primarily with installations and sculpture, as well as 3D models and sound art, creating spaces in which the viewer can fully understand the artist's intent.
The exhibition runs until May 16th.
The 11.12 Gallery hosted the opening of Rinat Voligamsi's exhibition "Wind." The artist strips wind of its traditional role—visually, it is present, but it changes nothing and leads nowhere. Trees and poles bend to its wind, but on a metaphysical level, it changes nothing. This same principle applies to everything in his landscapes: the poles aren't quite poles, the birds aren't quite birds.
The exhibition runs until May 23rd.
Ovcharenko Gallery presented the exhibition "From Far Away, Long" by Krasil Makar. The exhibition's title alludes to the song of the same name and sets the tone for a continuous movement. The artist works with the language of Ural-Siberian house painting, treating it not as a legacy but as a living system—disassembling it into its elements and reassembling it. The exhibition's centerpiece is the steel sculpture "Rain and Apple Tree," created using hydroforming.
The exhibition runs until May 24.
The PiranesiLAB Print Art Gallery presented "Changes," a small exhibition by Igor Makarevich, an artist from the Moscow Conceptualist circle. A series of five photogravures (1978, 2019) explores transformation: from the 1978 series, in which the artist captured the disappearance of a face under layers of plaster and bandages, to photographs created forty years later using photogravure in the PiranesiLAB print room. The exhibition runs until May 23.
The a-c-t-p-a Gallery has opened Oleg Dou's exhibition "Cyber-Oedipus." The artist balances photography and simulation, his works captivating with their impeccable beauty and disturbing feelings of loss of authenticity. Addressing the myth of Oedipus, Dou reinterprets archetypal themes of desire and prohibition through the language of modern technology: digital images juxtapose with silicone sculptures, existing on the border between the organic and the artificial.
The exhibition runs until May 22.
The PENNLAB Gallery has opened "Structures," an exhibition by artist Vera Laponkina. The project explores human perception in the context of congested urban spaces and the smartphone screen. It is the phone that becomes the medium that records events, while memory loses its integrity and stability. The works are hand-printed using the C-print technique, but instead of a negative, a smartphone screen is used. Thus, the digital grid is literally embedded in the fabric of photography.
The exhibition runs until May 22.
The HSE Art and Design School Gallery presented the group exhibition "Electronarratives. What Algorithms Tell"—a project exploring how storytelling is ceasing to be an exclusively human function and is shifting to algorithms, interfaces, and network structures. The works demonstrate how stories are assembled from streams of data and screen images, and how the digital environment is reshaping everyday human experience. The exhibition includes multimedia installations, video art, computer games, and paintings by students, faculty, and invited artists.
The exhibition runs until May 19.
The Totibadze Gallery opened the exhibition "Paper Garden" by Sergei Makarov. The artist creates a world of contrasts, wh ere the childish and naive exist within the harsh present. The fragile space of this "garden" with its paper, almost childish drawings invites repeated return. Even harsh reality can't make the inner child serious, and it continues to live within us.
The exhibition runs until May 24th.
FINEART Gallery presents Anna Belan's exhibition "Happy Moments." The artist works in the style of documentary romanticism, carefully capturing the chronicle of a bygone era: quiet courtyards with swings, school classrooms, and scenes of everyday life fr om the 1960s to 1990s. The title alludes to the feeling of "quiet joy of recognition" when the viewer compares what they see with their own experiences or dreams.
The exhibition runs until May 24th.
BIZ ART Gallery has opened a group exhibition, "How Many Electric Sheep Does It Take to Be Happy?"—an invitation to dream of a future wh ere the line between the biological and the artificial is finally erased. The exhibition invites us to consider what other technologies humanity will invent to improve life, to turn every day into a celebration. The exhibition will run until April 28.
In the Excise Hall of the Vinzav Center for Contemporary Art Ekaterina Gerasimenko's exhibition "Navigation Season" continues to run as part of Winzavod.Experiment's program to support young artists.
Admission to the galleries is free.
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