Exhibition-experiment "Dreams of Moscow" Automatic translate

Starting November 21, 2018, the most unusual exhibition of the year, “Dreams of Moscow,” will open at the Museum of Moscow. It will be a kind of immersive theater, where museum objects will play the main roles. Things will become heroes of stories, they will joke and talk about their lives, involving guests in their stories. For the museum, the exhibition will be a great creative experiment, for visitors - an unexpected journey at the intersection of history and culture into an unreal world filled with familiar things.

“The collection of the Museum of Moscow is special: it contains a lot of objects showing Moscow life in different eras - furniture, clothes, toys, tools, photographs, documents and much more. The museum is constantly looking for ways to demonstrate them, realizing that the modern audience wants to get a voluminous, imaginative view of the past. The Moscow Dreams exhibition is the embodiment of a creative approach to the collection and an experiment that we have been going for a long time. At the exhibition, things will not show their time and purpose, but will appear in new circumstances and contexts, unrealistic, like dreams, where everything is possible, ”says Alina Saprykina, director of the Museum of Moscow.

There are 13 installations in the exhibition space, each with its own plot, based on the laws of dreams, the unconscious and sometimes even television series. At the exhibition, spectators are waiting for a dream detective, a dream melodrama, a sleep disco, a sleep discussion, a dream for a selfie. You can find out what song is spinning in the head of a toy crocodile from the 1980s or what the lace shirt of the beginning of the 20th century dreams of, how to get transported to the 1960s, just picking up the phone in a telephone booth, or what an old coffee pot thinks about its owner.

Evgenia Kikodze, curator of the exhibition: “This exhibition shows the museum’s collection unusually - through contemporary art, figuratively, theatrically and a bit surrealistly. We place museum objects inside contemporary art, giving new things to the familiar, recognizable and sometimes even symbolic things of our time. This is a new level of work with the museum exposition, a more subtle and lively way to create it and surprise those who come to the museum. We combine the features of immersive theater, storytelling, multimedia with classics and tradition - exhibits from the museum’s funds. ”

Peter Kiryusha, artist, co-author of the exhibition: “At this exhibition we want to stop looking at familiar and familiar things as something ordinary, but, on the contrary, tear them out of this ordinary, give other properties, make it interesting for them watch. Imagine what will happen if a person disappears and things remain? In “Dreams of Moscow” we seem to find ourselves on their territory and spy on how things behave when there is no person nearby. ”

Nelly Vysotskaya, playwright, screenwriter, co-author of the exhibition: “All things at the exhibition are related to Moscow, so in our“ dreams ”the audience will feel a new connection with the city and with the familiar things that will appear before them in a new, sometimes unusual perspective. Our exhibition will become such a portal through which it will be possible to "climb" into the head of Moscow, where the past and present are intertwined, and the voices of memories and dreams sound simultaneously. "

The exhibition will include an accompanying program, including event and lecture parts. Modern Russian writers and cultural figures will hold readings and performances. Lectures will be devoted to the topic of dreams in art, literature, cinema, science.

The exhibition at the Museum of Moscow will last until March 20, 2019.

Project team: curatorial group of the Museum of Moscow - Evgeny Kikodze, Alexander Selivanov, Alina Fedorovich, artists Pyotr Kiryusha and Dmitry Bulnygin, playwright Nelly Vysotskaya.

Evgenia Kikodze - art critic, curator, art critic. Head of the Contemporary Moscow department of the Museum of Moscow, curator of exhibition projects related to contemporary art.

Alexandra Selivanova - Ph.D. in architecture, curator, senior researcher at the Moscow Museum, head of the Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka.

Alina Fedorovich - the main curator of the Museum of Moscow, curator of many exhibition projects of the museum.

Nelly Vysotskaya - playwright, screenwriter. Graduate of the A. Gorky Literary Institute and the Department of Cinema Dramaturgy, Faculty of Continuing Professional Education, VGIK. Author and co-author of scripts for films and television series.

Peter Kiryusha is an artist. Works with painting, video art, performance. Graduate of the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design (workshop of Boris Trofimov), Institute of Contemporary Art. Member of numerous exhibitions of young art, festivals, author of personal exhibitions in exhibition halls and museums in Moscow and other cities.

Dmitry Bulnygin is an artist. Mainly works with video: creates short films, video installations, flash animations. Personal exhibitions were held in Moscow, Perm, Kostroma, Kirov, Novosibirsk. Member of foreign group projects and festivals.

The exhibition was prepared jointly with the Museum of Industrial Culture.

Opening of the exhibition: November 20 at 19.00. Free admission.