Exhibition of Alexei Ryumin "Permanent Exhibition" Automatic translate

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" present the exhibition "Permanent Exhibition" by Alexei Ryumin. The exhibition is part of the MMOMA Young Art Support Program.

The project is based on a ready-made installation of the built-in technical equipment of the exhibition halls, accessible to the visitor. The subject of research by Alexei Ryumin is closed service doors, ventilation grills and shafts, radiators or their protective screens, surveillance cameras, fire and conventional alarms, climate control installations, rails for hanging on walls, ceiling hooks, wiring boxes, electrical sockets and switches Sveta. Basically, these are elements that the visitor does not directly interact with - their functions are less tangible and more declarative. Often they are accompanied by text, direct warnings or instructions. The series can be continued with less constant, but such familiar phenomena as electric light or the caretaker of the halls, whose role the visitor is invited to try on in a text quest, taking the place of the text about the exhibition. All of these elements focus on a special kind of artist’s anxiety, which he calls institutional resentment.

About the artist

Alexei Ryumin is a contemporary Russian artist who works with themes of institutional violence and censorship. Practice includes sculpture, video and installations. The main mediums involved are 3D printing, animation and graphics. He has exhibited at the HSE Art Gallery, the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, MMOMA, the Iragi Gallery and other venues. Born in 1983, lives and works in Moscow.

About MMOMA’s Young Art Support Program

The MMOMA Young Art Support Program presents a cycle of small personal or group projects by young artists. Not only students and graduates of the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art are selected for it, but also young artists who somehow proved themselves at large exhibitions or received an invitation from the project curators. The program provides an opportunity to show your first works at the MMOMA site. Over the years of work, dozens of young artists have gone through the project, the names of many of them now appear among the active participants in the contemporary art scene. The Program was attended by artists such as Ekaterina Muromtseva, Varvara Grankova, Anna Rotaenko, Anton Kuznetsov, Roman Mokrov.

About the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art

The Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art is the educational platform of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for young artists and curators. The school was founded in 1992 by a group of artists and art critics, including Alexander Ponomarev, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Vladimir Nasedkin, professors of Moscow State University Vera Dazhina and Valery Turchin. At the School, students have the opportunity to learn from the best teachers, successful cultural figures, famous philosophers and theorists of contemporary art. During the training, young artists and curators immerse themselves in the artistic world by participating in master classes, group exhibitions, and festivals. As part of the Museum, the Free Workshops offer students a unique opportunity to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary art from its epicenter.