From December 7 to 14, the exhibition “Postcards from artists” will be held in the Ruin outbuilding of the State Museum of Architecture named after A. V. Shchusev, which will include more than 100 works by contemporary Russian artists and architects.

The traditional New Year exhibition project by curator Vera Pogodina “Postcards from artists” celebrates its 10th anniversary with an anniversary exhibition at the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture. Over the years of its existence, the exhibition, conceived as a chamber festive event “for its own”, has been transformed into large-scale museum expositions

level in which at different times took part more than 100 contemporary artists. Today, "Postcards from artists" is a unique project that allows you to combine leading representatives of contemporary art of different generations in the format of a group exhibition.

Fashion for Christmas and New Year cards came to Russia in the last quarter of the 19th century. From the very beginning, the idea of an original miniature gift attracted the attention of famous Russian artists. Unique copies for relatives and drawings intended for further reproduction in circulation cards were performed by Elizabeth Boehm, Alexander Benois, Ivan Bilibin, Igor Grabar, Boris Zvorykin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Ilya Repin and others. A special artistic style of the classic New Year’s card existed until the middle of the last century. surviving war and revolution.

In the second half of the twentieth century, the concept of an author’s postcard actually came to naught, giving way to monotonous stencils and endless photo landscapes. Thanks to the participation of contemporary artists, the project of Vera Pogodina not only allowed to bring this half-forgotten genre back to life, but also brought it to a whole new level.

The festive and non-strict nature of the project gives authors great freedom in choosing themes and subjects, however, in each case, a small-format postcard is a projection of the author’s main and always recognizable style.

This year, taking into account the profile of the exhibition venue, the project involves well-known Moscow architects Mikhail Filippov, Alexander Brodsky and Evgeny Ass, representatives of the Icing Architects group, as well as young architects, including students of art universities.

“I try to attract more youth, so it turns out to show a slice of contemporary Russian culture from the classics of pop art and conceptualism, such as Alexander Kosolapov and Igor Makarevich, to beginning authors,” Vera Pogodina explains. “I am very pleased that well-known and commercially successful artists are ready to turn to the small-format postcard genre again and again for the sake of being able to support the tradition of the New Year holiday.”

In 2017, the project involved:

Semen Agroskin / Nikita Alekseev / Tatyana Antoshina / Natasha Arendt / Maria Arendt / Vladimir Arkhipov / Evgeny Ass / Konstantin Batynkov / Marina Belova and Alexei Politov / Boris Bendikov / Olga Bozhko / Tatyana Brodach / Alexander Brodsky / Annushka Broche / Evgenia Buravleva / Irina Valdron / Alexander Vinogradov / German Vinogradov / Ilya Voznesensky / Sergey Volkov / Arina Grantseva / Dima Verde / Ksenia Dranysh / Vladimir Dubosarsky / Elena Elagina / EliKuka / Natalya Zhernovskaya / Alexander Zakharov / Konstantin Zvezdochotov / Larisa Zvezdochetova / Sofia Israel / Alisa Yoffe / Sergey Kalinin / Alexey Kallima / Katya Kameneva / Valery Katsuba / George Kizevalter / Alexey Kononenko / Alexander Konstantinov / Lyudmila Konstantinova / Irina Korina / Taisiya Korotkova / Irina Korsakova / Alexander Kosolapov / Nina Kotel / Ivan Kochkarev / Tatyana K Maxim Ksuta / Kirill Who / Andrey Kuzkin / Oleg Kulik / Konstantin Latyshev / Andrey Logvin / Ivan Lungin / Igor Makarevich / Sergey Maksyutin / Boris Matrosov / Sergey Mironenko / Mikhail Molochnikov / MishMash / Misha Most / Arkady Nasonov / Evgeny Nesterov / Niko la Ovchinnikov / Gosha Ostretsov / Alexandra Paperno / Pakhom (Sergei Pakhomov) / Alexey Pepl / Pavel Pepperstein / Alexander Petrelli / Elizaveta Plavinskaya / Egor Plotnikov / Alexander Povzner / Alexander Pogorzhelsky / Maria Pogorzhelskaya / Ivan Razumov / Anna Ratafieva / Dima Rebus / Kirill Rubtsov / Muriel Russo / Alexander Savko / Roman Sakin / Aidan Salakhova / Evgeny Semenov / Alexander Sigutin / Alexander Sidorov / Vasily Slonov / Haim Sokol / Olga Soldatova / Sergey Sonin and Elena Samorodova / Boris Spiridonov / Vitas Stasyunas / Ek Terina Sysoeva / Rostan Tavasiev / Olga Tobreluts / Georgy Totibadze / Irina Totibadze / Margot Trushina / Andrey Filippov / Katya Filippova / Mikhail Filippov / Katya Hestanova / Valery Chtak / Maria Chuikova / Yuri Shabelnikov / Sergey Shekhovtsov / Alexander Shirnin / Dmitry Shorin / Vasiliy / Vasiliy / Vasiliy / Vasiliy / Stas Shuripa / Sergey Shutov / Aristarch Chernyshev.

Curator: Vera Pogodina (VP-Studio Gallery).

Konstantin Batynkov