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- Lost Vanguard Found: Synthesis of Architecture and Art in Russia (1915-1935)- Thessaloniki (Greece)
- May 9 - September 28, 2008
- Moni Lazariston
- The exhibition presents for the first time in Greece the history and reception of Russian constructivist architecture as well as the correlation of painting and architecture through the prism of new visual aesthetics, aiming at its application to architecture. Thus, the artists’ drawings fit organically in their natural urban environment.
http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/
- Five Seasons of the Russian Avant-garde - Athens
- May 14 - October 20, 2008
- Museum of Cycladic Art
- Ninety works from the famous Costakis Collection in the State Museum of Modern Art in Thessaloniki will be displayed in the Museum of Cycladic Art from 14 May to 20 October 2008. These are important items (paintings, drawings, three-dimensional artefacts) representing all the groups and movements of the Russian avant-guard (1900s-1930s). The exhibition is entitled Five Seasons of the Russian Avant-garde and includes some of the most significant works of the collection by artists such as Malevich, Popva, Tatlin, Rochenko, Nikritin, Lissitzky etc. It is divided into five units devoted to the bold pioneering aesthetic experiments that took place in Russia and, through their dynamism and boldness, transformed the history of 20th-century art.
http://www.cycladic.gr/
- Futurism: Russia and Italy - Moscow
- June 17 - August 31, 2008
- Pushkin State Art Museum
- The central museum of Moscow has completely changed its interiors to create a pastiche that toys with the Futurist ideas. Its luxurious grand staircase is covered with a fabric mottled with Futurist texts, while marble walls of side galleries are hidden under graphics and poetry. About 30 museums of Russia, Israel, Italy, Switzerland and the United States provided showpieces for this exposition that boasts sculptures and canvasses by Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni and legendary noise machines by Luigi Russolo.
- Malevich and his Influence - Vaduz (Lichtenstein)
- May 17 - September 07, 2008
- Kustmuseum Lichtenstein
- The exhibition presents this outstanding artist through a selection of major works from all phases of his artistic development between 1915, the official birth of Suprematism, and the artist's death twenty years later. It also documents the influence Malevich had during his life-time on his fellow artists and how these integrated Suprematism into their own work while at the same time taking their very own directions.
Also on show, in addition to famous Malevich paintings like the Black Square, will be works by Gustav Klucis, El Lissitzky, Liubov Popova, Alexander Rodtchenko and Warwara Stepanova. A large number of these works are on loan from Russian museums and many of them are being shown in western Europe for the very first time.
http://www.kunstmuseum.li/
- La Partie de Campagne, Fernand Léger et ses amis photographes - Biot (France)
- June 21 - September 29, 2008
- Musée national Fernand Léger
http://www.musee-fernandleger.fr/
- Fernand Léger, Paris-New York - Basel (Switzerland)
- June 1 - September 7, 2008
- Fondation Beyeler
- The Fondation Beyeler is devoting a concentrated
retrospective to Fernand Léger (1881-1955), providing a long-overdue
review of the key phases of his career. The exhibition opens with the
Cubist early work, done in Paris, followed by the legendary series of
paintings on big-city themes from the years after 1918. From the formally
highly developed still lifes and figures of the 1920s and 30s, the presentation
continues with the joie de vivre of the monumental Divers, then concludes
with the late work and its revelling in color. Special attention is
paid to the American aspects of Léger’s oeuvre.
http://www.beyeler.com/
- The Springtime of Russian Avant-Garde _ From Chagall to Malevich - Tokyo
- June 21 - August 17, 2008
- Bunkamura Museum of Art
- For the first time ever, Moscow Museum of Modern
Art presents works from the permanent collection in a large-scale exhibition
in Japan. The Spring-Time of Russian Avant-garde project brings together
70 paintings and sculptures by the leading artists of the first decades
of the 20th century. Among these masters are Kazimir Malevich, Natalia
Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Archipenko, Pavel Filonov, Marc
Chagall, Niko Pirosmani, and many others. The show investigates key
issues in the evolution of the avant-garde in the 1910s-1020s, such
as Western influences, abstraction, and neo-primitivism.
http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/
- Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - Edinburgh
- June 7 - August 31, 2008
- The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- http://www.natgalscot.ac.uk/
- Alekander Rodchenko : Revolution in Photography - Berlin
- June 12- August 18, 2008
- Martin-Gropius-Bau
- Featuring approximately 120 original prints and
photomontages, this exhibition traces the development of Rodchenko's
photography over two decades when he created many classic works. The
exhibition is organised by The Museum Moscow House of Photography and
curated by its Director, Olga Sviblova.
http://www.gropiusbau.de/
Future
- The Springtime of Russian Avant-Garde _ From Chagall to Malevich - Saitama (Japan)
- February 7 - March 22, 2009
- The Museum of Modern Art
- http://www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/pref/s27213/
- The Springtime of Russian Avant-Garde _ From Chagall to Malevich - Gifu (Japan)
- November 11 - December 25, 2008
- The Museum of Fine Arts
- http://www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/pref/s27213/
- The Springtime of Russian Avant-Garde _ From Chagall to Malevich - Osaka (Japan)
- September 25 - November 3, 2008
- Suntory Museum
- http://www.suntory.com/
- Sonia Delaunay _ 1958-2008 - Bielefeld (Germany)
- November 30, 2008 - February 22, 2009
- Kunsthalle Bielefeld
- http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/
Past
- Giacomo Balla - Milano (Italy)
- February 14 - May 18, 2008
- Palazzo Reale
- http://www.artpalazzoreale.it/
- Futurismo, Prodomo del Centenario - Marcon (Italy)
- April 21 - June 23, 2008
- Galleria Spazioeventi-Orler
- With more than 250 works by 71 artists, dated
between the first ten years and half of the Forties, the event aims
to present Futurism in all its extension and temporal issue.
http://www.orler.it/
- Alekander Rodchenko : Revolution in Photography - London
- February 7- April 27, 2008
- The Hayward Gallery
- Featuring approximately 120 original prints and photomontages, this exhibition traces the development of Rodchenko's photography over two decades when he created many classic works. The exhibition is organised by The Museum Moscow House of Photography and curated by its Director, Olga Sviblova. The Hayward's presentation of this exhibition is made possible with the support of Roman Abramovich.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/
- Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - Milwaukee
- February 2 - April 27, 2008
- The Milwaukee Art Museum,
- In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. It fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists, provided a creative outlet for thousands of devoted amateurs, and became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising, and books. It was in interwar central Europe as well that an art history for all photography was first established. Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918 1945 aims to recover the crucial role played by photography in this period, and in so doing to delineate a central European model of modernity.
http://www.mam.org/
- Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné - Moscow
- December 19, 2007 - April 21, 2008
- State Russian Museum
- Exhibition of Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné,
famous Russian artist and inventor, one of the founders of colour-musical
kinetism in the avant-garde art. His works reveal gradual change of
his artistic predilections from Cezanneism to Cubism, Orphism, abstractionism
and surrealism.
The exhibition comprises circa 60 works of art from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Volsk Regional Museum of the Saratov Region, Alexander Radishchev State Art Museum in Saratov, Tambov Regional Picture Gallery, Davitson International S.A. company (Switzerland), collections of V. Tsarenkov (Paris), M. Mkrticheva (Moscow), A. Tselovalnikov (Moscow).
http://rusmuseum.ru/
- Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937 - London
- November 9, 2007 - March 30, 2008
- British Library
- Explore Europe's creative revolution of the early
20th century – one that ripped up the rule books of visual art,
design, photography, literature, theatre, music and architecture, and
whose effects are still felt, heard and seen today.
Mainly through the medium of print, Breaking the Rules throws new light on Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Surrealism and other movements; on the artists who changed the face of modern culture for ever; and on the cities that experienced their work, from Brussels to Budapest, Vienna to Vitebsk.
http://www.bl.uk/
- The Future of Futurism - Bergamo (Italia)
- September 21, 2007 - February 24, 2008
- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
- It features 200 works by 120 artists, including paintings by Futurism's
main protagonists, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra', Gino
Severini and Luigi Russolo.
There are also pieces by an array of modern and contemporary artists influenced by the Futurists, like Britain's Damien Hirst and Gilbert and George. "The Futurists believed in the need to radically re-design the universe," explained curators Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini.
http://www.gamec.it/
- Deperopubblicitario. From auto-réclame to advertising architecture - Rovereto (Italy)
- October 13, 2007 - February 3, 2008
- Mart
- From the 1920s onwards, Fortunato Depero explored
the expectations of novelty and originality provoked by the new sector
of visual advertising.
Depero’s production immediately achieved its aims, with a rich repertoire of posters, bills, drawings and sketches, which the exhibition now presents to the museum’s public for the first time in its en-tirety.
http://english.mart.trento.it
- Collage/Collages From Cubism to Dada - Torino (Italy)
- October 9, 2007 - January 6, 2008
- GAM
- The Exhibition will present the public a historical
interpretation of the collage technique, originated from experiments
by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and widely accepted by other vanguards,
from Italian Futurists to Dadaists, as the most immediate and coherent
way to take part in contemporary contentious tensions. Starting off
from this premise, the path will make its way through the artistic events
of the Twentieth Century, from 1910 to the early Sixties, to evaluate
the fecundity and expressive endurance of an apparently banal and fragile
technique that, in actual fact, lends itself to sophisticated diffractions
of meanings: from Dadaist provocations to Surrealist impertinencies,
up to the latest linguistic contaminations, in a scenario that has progressively
extended from Europe to the United States.
http://www.gamtorino.it/
- 1937, Perfection and Destruction - Bielefeld (Germany)
- September 30, 2007 - January 13, 2008
- Kunsthalle Bielefeld
- 1937 is the year in which the exhibition titled Entartete Kunst (Degenerate art) opened in Munich, and the National Socialist campaign against modernism reached its sad apex. On a political level, the bombing of Guernica had shocked the world. The Kunsthalle Bielefeldâs synopsis of art produced from 1936 to 1938 ranges from Italy and Spain to the Soviet Union, from Poland and the Czech Republic to Germany, from France and England to the United States. 10 themes, almost 180 artists, about 400 works are on loan. Major works by: Hans Arp, Max Beckmann, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky, Kathe Kollwitz, RenÚ Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Ossip Zadkine etc.
http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/
- Bonjour Russia - Düsseldorf (Germany)
- September 15, 2007 - January 6, 2008
- Museum Kunst Palast
- For this exhibition, more than 120 masterpieces
from the collections of four principal Russian museums - the State Hermitage
and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as the State
Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow - will be shown
together for the first time in Germany.
The exhibition, whose only venue in Germany is Düsseldorf, will be devoted to the years from 1860 to 1925 in Russia and France, not only uncovering parallels and reciprocal influences, but also the different developments in both countries. The spectrum of the Russian works on display will range from the realism of Ilya Repin and Serov to Cézannism, Fauvism, Neo-primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and the groundbreaking experiments in abstraction culminating in the Suprematism of Malevich and others.
http://www.bonjour-russland.com
- Theateroktober - Vienna
- October 10, 2007 - February 10, 2008
- Ostereichisches Theatermuseum
- http://www.theatermuseum.at
- Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - New York
- October 5, 2007 - January 2, 2008
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- http://www.guggenheim.org/
- Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - Washington, DC
- June 10 - September 3, 2007
- National Gallery of Art
- This groundbreaking exhibition of some 150 photographs,
artists' books, and illustrated magazines examines how photography developed
into an immense phenomenon in central Europe during the 1920s and 1930s.
It is the first exhibition to pair recognized masters like László
Moholy-Nagy or Hannah Höch (active in Germany) with their immediate
contemporaries, such as Karel Teige and Jaromír Funke (Czechoslovakia),
Kazimierz Podsadecki (Poland), Károly Escher (Hungary), and Trude
Fleischmann (Austria), who are less well known today. Organized thematically,
the exhibition explores such topics as photomontage and war, gender
identity, modern living, and the spread of surrealism. This major loan
exhibition, which draws on several dozen American and international
collections, is unprecedented in its focus and scope.
http://www.nga.gov/
- Rodchenko : An Artist With An Eye For Revolution - Paris
- June 20 - September 16, 2007
- Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- The exhibition consists of more than 300 works
in a wide range of mediums. The exhibition is organized around themes-photomontage,
experimental, portraits, reportage and illustration- that follow more
or less the chronology of Rodtchenko's evolution as an artist-photographer.
Most of these pictures have never been seen in Europe.
http://www.mam.paris.fr/
- Jan Tschichold : Posters of the Avant-Garde - Munich
- June 21 - September 16, 2007
- Villa Stuck
http://www.villastuck.de/
- Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32 - New York
- July 18 - October 29, 2007
- MoMA
- This exhibition examines Soviet avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period. Although they are integral to the history of modern architecture, the featured projects have seldom been published and remain largely unknown. Examples of this avant-garde architecture abound, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg but throughout the former U.S.S.R., in cities such as Kiev, Baku, Ivanovo, and Sochi. The exhibition highlights some eighty photographs by architectural photographer Richard Pare, who made eight extensive trips between 1992 and 2002, and created nearly ten thousand images to compile a timely documentation of these structures, many of which are now in various states of decay, transformation, and peril. Pare's images are supplemented by Soviet periodicals to provide historical context for an exploration of this extraordinary architecture.
http://moma.org/ - This exhibition examines Soviet avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period. Although they are integral to the history of modern architecture, the featured projects have seldom been published and remain largely unknown. Examples of this avant-garde architecture abound, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg but throughout the former U.S.S.R., in cities such as Kiev, Baku, Ivanovo, and Sochi. The exhibition highlights some eighty photographs by architectural photographer Richard Pare, who made eight extensive trips between 1992 and 2002, and created nearly ten thousand images to compile a timely documentation of these structures, many of which are now in various states of decay, transformation, and peril. Pare's images are supplemented by Soviet periodicals to provide historical context for an exploration of this extraordinary architecture.
- Black Square. Hommage à Malevich - Hamburg (Germany)
- March 23 - June 10, 2007
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square is regarded
as a pivotal work in the history of abstract painting. In 1915, the
Russian artist created this radical image in an attempt to "free
art from the ballast of objectivity". Reduced to a black square
on a white background, it formed the basis of Suprematism. Major pieces
by El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova and Ivan Puni are
therefore being presented alongside more than forty works by Malevich.
The exhibition also focuses on the numerous and varied responses to
Black Square that have emerged in western European and American art
since 1945. The display includes more than 100 artworks, ranging from
paintings and graphic art to architectural models, sculptures, videos
and installations.
http://www.das-schwarze-quadrat.de/
- Modernism: Designing a new world 1914-1939 - Washington DC
- March 17 - July 29, 2007
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- At the beginning of the twenty-first century
our relationship to Modernism is complex. The built environment that
we live in today was largely shaped by Modernism. The buildings we inhabit,
the chairs we sit on, the graphic design that surrounds us have all
been created by the aesthetics and the ideology of Modernist design.
We live in an era that still identifies itself in terms of Modernism,
as post-Modernist or even post-post-Modernist.
Modernism: Designing A New World is the first exhibition to explore the concept of Modernism in depth, rather than restricting itself, as previous exhibitions have, to particular geographical centres or to individual decades. Many forms of art and design are represented in the show. But as befits a period when the debates surrounding how people should live took centre stage, the exhibition focuses on architecture and design. The exhibition concentrates on the years 1914-39. Europe and, to a lesser extent, America are the focus but the reach of Modernism is demonstrated by selected exhibits or projects from different parts of the world.
http://www.corcoran.org/
- A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia - London
- March 28 - June 10, 2007
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
- The exhibition’s title refers to the Russian
Futurist manifesto ‘A Slap in the Face of Public Taste’ published
in 1912 and the exhibition takes a long overdue look at the Futurist
movement in Russia, comparing and contrasting the Russian protagonists
with their Italian contemporaries. Featured artists include Chagall,
Goncharova, Larinov, Malevich, Popova and Rosanova in addition to Italian
Futurists such as Balla, Boccioni and Severini.
http://www.estorickcollection.com/
- Early Soviet Photography - State College (USA)
- February 6, 2007 - May 6, 2007
- Palmer Museum of Art
- This exhibition focuses on photography in the
Soviet Union during the 1920s and 30s, a period during which sanctioned
photographers were asked to discard their traditional aesthetics and
instead create portraits of an idealized collective state, with well-fed
workers laboring in pristine factories and content farmers managing
productive farms. Chief among these artists is Alexander Rodchenko,
who in an effort to wed his work to Communist ideology, turned to photography
as a model for shifting Constructivism toward a more utilitarian and
political design. Also included are images by Arkadii Shaikhet, who
faithfully captured the progress of Soviet industry, and Max Alpert,
who was known for his photo documentary series on family life and factory
work.
http://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/exhibitions.html
- Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930 - New York
- November, 5 2006 - April 29, 2007
- The Ukrainian Museum
- Featuring
the best of high modernism from Ukraine, the exhibition includes more
than 70 rarely seen works by 21 Ukrainian artists; each of the works is
being shown for the first time in the United States. Examples from the
Avant-Garde, Art Nouveau, Impressionism, Expressionism, Futurism and
Constructivism movements are presented in a fresh, new light.
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/
- Classic Soviet Modernist Photographer Max Penson and the Soviet Modernisation of Uzbekistan 1920-1930s - London
- November 26, 2006 - February 24, 2007
- Gilbert Collection
- Over
200 photographs by Max Penson (1893-1959) documenting the radical
transformation of Uzbekistan from a highly traditional feudal society
into a modern Soviet republic taken between 1920 and 1940 will be
exhibited for the first time in the UK.
http://www.gilbert-collection.org.uk/
- Boccioni - Futurist Painter & Sculptor - Milan
- October 6, 2006 - February 25, 2007
- Palazzo Reale
- http://www.mostraboccioni.it/ (in Italian)
- El Lissitzky - Sieg Über die Sonne - Essen (Germany)
- November 4, 2006 - January 28, 2007
- Museum Folkwang
- The Museum Folkwang Essen shows in a special representation
the re-aquisition of "victory over the sun" by El Lissitzky. The well
known prints of this map was embezzeled as degenerated art by the Nazis
in 1937. In 1938 it was bought by the art dealer Karl Bucholz in Berlin
and Bogota and in 1998 this map was sold in an aucition by Christies
in London under Lot.Nr. 133.
The plastic formation of the electro mechanic show of El Lissitzky goes back to the opera "victory over the sun" by Michael Matjuschin in 1913. The libretto wrote Alexej Krutschonych. The firt performance has been made by Kasimir Malewitsch in 1913. Ten years later it was modernised by Lissitzky. The figures were no longer equal to human anatomy but free movements of mechanical figures, who could be moved by electro-mechanical energy. http://www.museum-folkwang.de/lissitz.htm (in German)
- Merz-Places: Kurt Schwitters and his Circle - Hannover
- October 8, 2006 - February 4, 2007
- Sprengel Museum
- This comprehensive show will present, for the
first time ever, the full scope of work by this artist from Hannover.
It is shown in the context of his contemporaries of the European "avant-garde".
It will contain approx. 300 works of art realised in the 1920s, 1930s
and 1940s, and illustrates the parallels and relations between Schwitters
and his artist friends, as for instance Hans Arp, El Lissitzy, Theo
van Doesburg.
http://www.sprengel-museum.de/
- El Lissitzky: Constructs for a Brave New World - Washington
- October 14, 2006 - January 21, 2007
- The Phillips Collection
- Nineteen prints by Russian artist El Lissitzky
comprising two complete lithographic portfolios will be shown in conjunction
with the Société Anonyme exhibition. Lissitzky (1890–1941), also an
architect and theorist, created the Victory over the Sun portfolio as
designs for a futurist opera, and the Proun portfolio (Project for the
Affirmation of the New) to embrace utopian ideals through the use of
abstract architectural forms. A gallery will be designed as a Proun
room to convey some of Lissitzky's concepts in three dimensions.
http://www.phillipscollection.org/
- Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World - New-York
- November 2, 2006 - January 21, 2007
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- This visually stunning exhibition is a long overdue
opportunity to rediscover two pioneers of Modernism: German-born Josef
Albers and Hungarian-born Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Though their careers overlapped
for barely five years, when both taught at the Bauhaus, their creative
visions shared a number of concerns. These include an emphasis on experimentation,
the subversion of traditional boundaries between high and applied art
and a Utopian belief in art as a force for positive social change.
http://www.whitney.org/
- Modernism: Designing a new world 1914-1939 - Herford (Germany)
- September 16, 2006 - January 7, 2007
- MARTa Herford
- Modernism: Designing A New World is the
first exhibition to explore the concept of Modernism in depth, rather
than restricting itself, as previous exhibitions have, to particular
geographical centres or to individual decades. Many forms of art and
design are represented in the show. But as befits a period when the
debates surrounding how people should live took centre stage, the exhibition
focuses on architecture and design. The exhibition concentrates on the
years 1914-39. Europe and, to a lesser extent, America are the focus
but the reach of Modernism is demonstrated by selected exhibits or projects
from different parts of the world.
http://www.martaherford.de
- A visual weapon : the soviet photomontage 1917/1953 - Paris
- October 25, 2006 - January 7, 2007
- Passage de Retz
- Exhibition with works from Klucis, Rodchenko, Stepanova, Senkin...
http://www.passagederetz.com/
- Russia & URSS - Art, Literature, theatre 1905 - 1940 - Genova
- October 26, 2006 - January 14, 2007
- Palazzo Ducale
- Curated by Giuseppe Marcenaro and Piero Boragina,
this exhibition is the most important event on the Genoese calendar
this coming autumn. It is dedicated to the aesthetic processes that
were going on in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century and
includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, literary manuscripts and
stage sets to highlight the various creative forces which formed the
artistic panorama of the time and which collectively represent its aesthetic,
social and political evolution.
http://www.palazzoducale.genova.it/
- Malevich: Spirituality and Form - Espoo (Finland)
- October 10, 2006 - January 7, 2007
- Espoo Museum of Modern Art
- EMMA’s exhibition, comprising more than
one hundred works, presents a versatile overview of Malevich’s
oeuvre which covered many fields. The exhibition, which is the largest
of its kind ever to be shown in the Nordic region, contains many rare
works as well as works on public display for the first time. Besides
key works of Suprematism – several versions of the black square
– the exhibition broadens our knowledge of Malevich by showing
paintings spanning almost thirty years. Besides paintings and drawings
architectons are shown, small three-dimensional plaster structures and
architectural sketches, which present the artist’s vision of urban
space of the future, a socialist Utopia. The exhibition also contains
Malevich’s futurist book illustrations and costume designs for
the opera Victory over the Sun, as well as actual versions of the costumes.
On show too are dishes designed by Malevich, photographs and documents.
http://www.emma.museum/
- Alexander Rodchenko: Photography Is Art - Moscow
- November 3 - November 29, 2006
- Central Manezh Exhibition Hall
- The exhibition includes such well-known works
as his photo collage of Vladimir Mayakovsky and posters for the 1924
documentary "Kino-Eye." But it also includes less prominent
works that his grandson, Alexander Lavrentyev, hopes will offer a fresh
look at the man behind the lens.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/11/03/102.html
- Kasimir Malevich - Barcelona
- March 3 - June 25, 2006
- La Pedrera
- http://www.lapedreraeducacio.org/
- Kasimir Malevich - Bilbao
- July 10 - September 10, 2006
- Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
- For the first time in Spain, the exhibition gathers
over one hundred works by Kasimir Malevich (Kiev, 1879–Saint Petersburg,
1935), the founder of suprematism and one of the key figures in the
European avant-garde. Among the institutions which have collaborated
on the project are the Russian State Museum of Saint Petersburg, the
Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow and the National Museum of Modern Art -
the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris.
http://www.museobilbao.com/
- From Kandinsky to Tatlin - Bonn (Germany)
- August 24 - October 29, 2006
- Kunst Museum [GoogleMaps]
- http://kunstmuseum.bonn.de/
- Avant-gardes from Poland - Le Cateau-Cambrésis (France)
- July 1st - October 1st, 2006
- Musée Matisse
- Relationship between polish artists (mainly Wladyslaw Strzeminski and his wife Katarzyna Kobro) from the 20s and Malevich.
http://wportail.cg59.fr/conseil59/annexe/matisse/actualites.htm#POLONAISES (in French)
- Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World - Bielefeld (Germany)
- June 25 - October 6, 2006
- Kunsthalle Bielefeld [GoogleMaps]
- This visually stunning exhibition is a long overdue
opportunity to rediscover two pioneers of Modernism: German-born Josef
Albers and Hungarian-born Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Though their careers overlapped
for barely five years, when both taught at the Bauhaus, their creative
visions shared a number of concerns. These include an emphasis on experimentation,
the subversion of traditional boundaries between high and applied art
and a Utopian belief in art as a force for positive social change.
http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/
- Writing and Photography in the Avant Garde Czech Republic - Valencia (Spain)
- July 27- September 24, 2006
- MUVIM
- The exhibition centres round the graphic works
that emerged in Czechoslovakia between the years 1918 and 1940. It was
not in vain that this new republic, after the First World War, arose
with an exemplary spirit and a vocation fully touched by modernity.
In this sense the artists and writers, dedicated to the researching
of the new artistic languages, in the most diverse fields of the formal
and communicative operating capacity, knew how to back up, with their
respective creative means, a democratic political philosophy, with a
solid opening of sights set towards industry, publicity, art or social
action.
http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/
- Theateroktober - Antwerp (Belgium)
- August 24 - September 24, 2006
- deSingel International Kunstcentrum
- In 1920 "Theatrical October!" was the
programmatic slogan of the newly appointed head of the Theatrical Department
at the People's Commissariat of Education, Vsevolod E. Meyerhold. He
not only demanded a revolution of the theatre, he also insisted on a
theatre of the revolution, that would overcome the borderlines between
art, life and politics. At the DŸsseldorf Theatre Museum the Theatre
Collection of Cologne University presents for the first time its exceptional
stock of objects reflecting the internationally celebrated postrevolutionary
Soviet theatre.
The core of the exibition is formed by twenty true-to-scale set-models, some of them even lighted. Due to a unique exchange of stage and fine arts the models' esthetical and technical appeal is still unbroken today. Alongside cubistic and constructivistic set-designs by avantgarde-artists like Liubov Popova, Alexander Vesnin or the Brothers Stenberg for productions by such widely constrating directors as Meyerhold, Alexander Y. Tairov or Evgeny B. Vachtangov there are also less famous sets from the agit-theatre and the Proletkult organization of the workers-, farmers- and soldiers-theatre on display.
The models are complemented by fifty theatre photographies, which give an impression of the newly found and implemented ways of dramatic expression such as Meyerhold's biomechanic or Tairov's emotional gesture.
http://www.desingel.be
- Kandinsky's Bauhaus Music Room - Strasbourg (France)
- June 16 - September 24, 2006
- Musée d'art moderne
- Kandinsky
created a large ceramic music room for the section showing the work of
the Bauhaus school at the "Grosse Berliner Bauaustellung" in March
1931. It was destroyed at the end of the exhibition, but reconstructed
in 1975 based on the original gouaches for the Artcurial Gallery
(founded by the L’Oréal group). It is now spectacularly represented in
the permanent collection rooms of the Strasbourg Musée d’Art Moderne et
Contemporain, to accompany the rooms celebrating the decor of the Café
de l'Aubette from 1928.
http://www.musees-strasbourg.org/F/musees/mamcs/mamcs.html
- M.H. Maxy, a Romanian avant-gardist - Rotterdam
- June 24 - September 24, 2006
- Kunsthal Rotterdam
- M.H. Maxy (1895 - 1971) is regarded as one of
the foremost representatives of the Romanian avant-garde. As part of
the Dada movement, he made his debut in 1916, going on to pursue a career
as a painter, a designer of book covers and stage designs as well as
a book illustrator, a theoretician and director of the Academy/Artelor
Decorative (similar to the Bauhaus) and the State Museum of Art in Bucharest.
He contributes both images and texts to Romanian magazines such as Contimporanul,
75 HP, Punct, Integral and Unu, and takes part in various key exhibitions.
His later work is constructivist and cubist in style.
http://www.kunsthal.nl/
- From Kandinsky to Tatlin - Schwerin (Germany)
- May 13 - August 13, 2006
- Staatliches Museum Schwerin [GoogleMaps]
- http://www.museum-schwerin.de/museum/aktuell/ausst.htm
- Canon of suprematism: Malevich, Suetin, Chashnik, Ermilov - Moscow
- July 19 - August 5, 2006
- Gary Tatintsian Gallery
- An exhibition of these works, which have long
become icons of Suprematism, provides an opportunity to establish the
role of each artist in the philosophical-artistic system they had created.
Were Suetin and Chashnik only pupils and followers of “the great
guru and messiah”, however talented, or were they equal co-founders
and creators with their individual profiles and original talents? In
what way the ideas expressed by the Suprematists on paper influenced
their monumental forms?
This exhibition has become a visual demonstration of the influence exerted by the work of the Suprematists on the formation of the new artistic canon which revealed itself later in the American minimal art and the movement “neo-geo”. The echoes of Malevich’s Manifesto, such as “zero form”, “the great nothing”, “the end of the beginning”, are reflected in the works of Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Andy Warhol, in Gerhard Richter’s “Mirror” (pure canvases called “Suprematist Mirror” reflecting Nothing). Without a doubt such a powerful source will produce further results in the 21st century as well.
http://www.tatintsian.com/
- Velimir Chlebnikov - Ridgefield (USA)
- May 21 - July 20, 2006
- Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art
- http://www.aldrichart.org/
- Modernism: Designing a new world 1914-1939 - London
- April 6 - July 23, 2006
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- At the beginning of the twenty-first century
our relationship to Modernism is complex. The built environment that
we live in today was largely shaped by Modernism. The buildings we inhabit,
the chairs we sit on, the graphic design that surrounds us have all
been created by the aesthetics and the ideology of Modernist design.
We live in an era that still identifies itself in terms of Modernism,
as post-Modernist or even post-post-Modernist.
Modernism: Designing A New World is the first exhibition to explore the concept of Modernism in depth, rather than restricting itself, as previous exhibitions have, to particular geographical centres or to individual decades. Many forms of art and design are represented in the show. But as befits a period when the debates surrounding how people should live took centre stage, the exhibition focuses on architecture and design. The exhibition concentrates on the years 1914-39. Europe and, to a lesser extent, America are the focus but the reach of Modernism is demonstrated by selected exhibits or projects from different parts of the world.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
- Rodchenko and contemporaries - Russian Photography 1917-1945 - Rotterdam
- April 22 - July 2, 2006
- Kunsthal Rotterdam
- A survey of the development of Russian photography
with works from one of the largest private collections, ranging from
Rodchenko's pioneering avant-garde to social realism. Constructivist
shots and reports are displayed alongside propaganda photographs. Subjects
such as industrialisation, the collectivisation of agriculture, architecture,
politics, the development of new cities, parades and demonstrations,
preparations for war and World War Two present a comprehensive picture
of the far-reaching consequences of communism in the Soviet Union.
http://www.kunsthal.nl/
- Romagna Futurista - San Marino
- April 13 - June 18, 2006
- Museo di San Francesco
- A show on Futurism centred upon Umberto Boccioni. Hosting it is the Republic of San Marino in the freshly restored rooms of the Museo San Francesco, from April 13 to Jun 18, 2006. The exhibition Romagna Futurista will feature works by Boccioni and Balla, Ginna and Corra, Mario Guido Dal Monte, Giannetto Malmerendi, plus sculpture and ceramics by Leonardo Castellani and ceramics from the Gatti and Ortolani workshops, as well as literary manifestos, poems, books, original musical scores.
- Italia Nova - An Adventure in Italian Art, 1900-1950 - Paris
- April 5, 2006 - July 3rd, 2006
- Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
- Concentrating on Italian painting and sculpture
during the first half of the 20th century, Italia Nova invites
visitors to discover or rediscover a whole section of European art from
this period which is still little known in France. The exhibition is
well timed, coming after Melancholy. Genius and Madness in the West,
which included two works by de Chirico and one by Sironi, and during
the celebration of the centenary of the death of Cezanne, who was so
important to many artists in the Italian avant-garde movements (de Chirico
and Morandi in particular).
Some hundred and twenty works highlight the most significant Italian artistic movements: Futurism, Metaphysical Painting, Magical Realism and the Novecento movement, as well as the most conceptual works of the 50s. Alongside famous works by de Chirico, Morandi, Fontana or Burri are paintings and sculptures of artists much less often exhibited in France: Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Casorati, Campigli, Depero, Martini, Prampolini, Severini, Sironi, Savinio, … and special homage is paid to Morandi.
hhttp://www.rmn.fr/italia-nova/03anglais/index.html
- Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World - London
- March 9 - June 4, 2006
- Tate Modern
- This visually stunning exhibition is a long overdue
opportunity to rediscover two pioneers of Modernism: German-born Josef
Albers and Hungarian-born L‡szl— Moholy-Nagy. Though their careers overlapped
for barely five years, when both taught at the Bauhaus, their creative
visions shared a number of concerns. These include an emphasis on experimentation,
the subversion of traditional boundaries between high and applied art
and a Utopian belief in art as a force for positive social change.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
- Cosmos & Contruction. Works from the R. & H. Batliner Art Foundation - Salzburg (Austria)
- January 21 - July 9, 2006
- Museum der Moderne Salzburg
- With a focus on artistic works from Russian modern
art in the collection of the R. & H. Batliner Art Foundation images
from the dawn of the 20th century are shown which mark the awakening
of Russian art in its reflexion of the European avant-gardes as well
as its specific benefits in the development of abstract art.
- http://www.museumdermoderne.at/
- Metropolis - The Avant-Gardes’ Vision of the City 1910-1920 - Torino (Italia)
- February 4 - June 4, 2006
- GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
- The subject of the city, as interpreted in works by Pablo Picasso, Umberto Boccioni, Fernand Léger, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Paul Klee, Georg Grosz, Robert Delaunay, Max Weber, Mario Sironi, Albert Gleizes, August Macke, Ludwig Kirchner, Lyonel Feininger, Joseph Stella, John Marin, and Alexandra Exter, amongst others, is viewed in five sections which examine the various themes taken up by the Avant-garde movements in relation to city life in the early twentieth century. The vision of the Avant-gardes was modified by a perceptive experience which was as accelerated as it was fragmentary and manifold. Technological progress (the speed of transport with trams, cars and underground railways, the introduction of electric lighting, and the simultaneity of radio communications) gave rise to new artistic visions, ranging from the spatial dislocations of the Cubists to the simultaneity of dynamic interpenetration in the Futurists and the tensions and distortions of the Expressionists.
- http://www.gamtorino.it
- Natalia Goncharova: Mystical Images of War - Amherst (USA)
- February 10 - June 4, 2006
- Mead Art Museum
- One of the so-called “Amazons of the avant-garde,” Russian artist Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) combined folk art traditions, traditional religious imagery, and modernist abstraction in her pioneering art work. Her album of prints, The Mystical Images of War (1914) represents one of the first visual responses to the outbreak of the first World War in epic, religious, and apocalyptic terms. Following avant-garde artistic traditions, these are simple, direct images that invite viewer participation and response.
- http://www.amherst.edu/~mead/exhibitions/
- Theateroktober - Düsseldorf (Germany)
- April 2 - May 28, 2006
- TheaterMuseum
- In 1920 "Theatrical October!" was the programmatic
slogan of the newly appointed head of the Theatrical Department at the
People's Commissariat of Education, Vsevolod E. Meyerhold. He not only
demanded a revolution of the theatre, he also insisted on a theatre
of the revolution, that would overcome the borderlines between art,
life and politics. At the DŸsseldorf Theatre Museum the Theatre Collection
of Cologne University presents for the first time its exceptional stock
of objects reflecting the internationally celebrated postrevolutionary
Soviet theatre.
The core of the exibition is formed by twenty true-to-scale set-models, some of them even lighted. Due to a unique exchange of stage and fine arts the models' esthetical and technical appeal is still unbroken today. Alongside cubistic and constructivistic set-designs by avantgarde-artists like Liubov Popova, Alexander Vesnin or the Brothers Stenberg for productions by such widely constrating directors as Meyerhold, Alexander Y. Tairov or Evgeny B. Vachtangov there are also less famous sets from the agit-theatre and the Proletkult organization of the workers-, farmers- and soldiers-theatre on display.
The models are complemented by fifty theatre photographies, which give an impression of the newly found and implemented ways of dramatic expression such as Meyerhold's biomechanic or Tairov's emotional gesture.
http://www.duesseldorf.de/theatermuseum (in German)
- Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt - Harvard
- March 11 - May 21, 2006
- The Busch-Reisinger Museum
- Marianne Brandt (1893-1983) is celebrated for
her iconic metalwork designs for the Bauhaus, including teapots, ashtrays,
and bowls. Much less well known are her witty and incisive photomontages,
created in the mid-1920s and early 1930s, in which she drew on the vast
array of visual material made available by the period's burgeoning illustrated
press.
This pioneering exhibition of over 30 works from European and American public and private collections for the first time brings together all but a handful of Brandt's visually dynamic and intriguing investigations of technology, gender roles, and entertainment culture. Photomontage is increasingly recognized as a quintessentially modern medium, and this exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to discover, enjoy, and evaluate an overlooked body of work by one of Germany's leading artists during the Weimar Republic.
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/
- Russian Avant-gardes - Madrid
- February 14 - May 14, 2006
- Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
- During the early decades of the 20th century,
Imperial Russia – soon to become the Soviet Union – underwent
a profound social transformation. A series of poets and painters adopted
radically open viewpoints, formulating a totally new type of artistic
language with the intention of opening the way onto a new world. Exhibitions,
manifestos and theoretical declarations all passionately promoted their
new ideas, while the Russian art scene saw the successive rise of numerous
avant-garde movements, some based on foreign influence, such as Cubo-futurism
and Rayonnism, and others forged within the new, revolutionary Russia,
such as Suprematism and Constructivism. The present exhibition offers
an overall synthesis of this period, from 1907 to 1935, featuring a
broad and varied selection of works and artistic trends, from painting
and sculpture to photography, graphic design and the applied arts.
- http://www.museothyssen.org/
- Moscow - The Architecture and Urban Planning of Konstantin Mel’nikov 1921-1937 - Wien
- February 16 - April 13, 2006
- Ringturm Exhibition Centre
- The Russian Revolution of October 1917 was followed
by a phase of radical artistic and cultural activity that constitutes
one of the most interesting periods in 20th-century architecture. Konstantin
Mel’nikov made a significant contribution to this exciting period.
From deceptively simple exhibition pavilions via his own highly unusual
house in the form of a double cylinder to major urban planning projects,
his striking architecture is among the most creative of all architectural
achievements. Architecture in The Ringtum presents a survey of Mel’nikov’s
key works in the form of models, photographs and plans.
- http://www.staedtische.co.at/
- Facets of Cubism - Boston
- December 05, 2005 - April 16, 2006
- Museum of Fine Arts
- “Facets of Cubism” is a family affair: several major private collectors are lending rarely seen masterpieces to honor Irving Rabb and his late wife, Dolly, Great Benefactors of the MFA whose longstanding desire has been that Cubist artworks be on public view in Boston. The exhibition, which focuses on Cubism’s flowering in France up until 1920, includes outstanding paintings and sculptures and is particularly rich in works on paper.
- http://www.mfa.org
- Karl Waldmann & Russian contructivism - Brussels
- November 12, 2005 - March 5, 2006
- 120 works of this mysterious artist. Probably
born in the penultimate decade of the 19th century in Dresden and died
in 1958 in the USSR (in a working camp), Karl Waldamm was one of constructivism's
last discoveries and surely a very important one. It is only after the
fall of the Berlin Wall that people rediscovered him through 50 of his
works.After extensive research, his works were traced in Italy, Belgium,
France, Ukraine and the US. There were 800 works dating from 1915 to
the 50’s, most of which are collages or photomontages.
Formally Waldman’s art is very heteroclite, as it has never confounded itself with a unique movement. His early pieces are abstract but soon after, his other works turn to echo constructivism, Dadaism and even surrealism. The forms derived from constructivism, with a destruction of the classical image, VERB! in a dynamic vision. But the state of mind of the photomontages is close to the Dadaists by the will of integration of the social facts of his time in an acid and politic vision.
http://www.pascalpolar.be/
- Aleksander Rodchenko - Spatial Constructions - Wien
- October 26, 2005 - February 26, 2006
- In the early 1920s, Alexandr Rodchenko (1891–1956), one of the co-founders of constructivism, experimented with twodimensional surfaces and their extension into three-dimensional space. He designed freely floating constructions, kinetic sculptures made of cardboard and wood, but he also explored the possibilities of simply placing pieces of massive squared timber, which he produced with his students at the state art school WCHUTEMAS in Moscow, into a three-dimensional space. He was averse to exhibiting these geometrical abstract works during his lifetime, feeling that their radicalism would make excessive demands on the public. In spite of this – or perhaps because of it – these experiments are among the most outstanding moments in the history of the Russian avant-garde. Because Rodchenko destroyed his constructions after documenting them in photographs, they can be seen today only in the form of replicas. The MAK now presents a selection of these, in conjunction with the Rodchenko Society of Moscow and the MUAR (Shusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow).
- http://www.mak.at/
- Gustavs Klucis (1895-1938) - Strasbourg (France)
- November 18, 2005 - February 26, 2006
- Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
- The Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art present the works of Latvian artist Gustavs Klutsis. This is the first retrospective of this artist's work hosted in France, and it will feature over a hundred works and other documents (photographs, posters, architectural designs, watercolours) dating from the period between the two World Wars. All exhibits come from the rich collections of the Latvian Fine Arts Museum.
- http://www.musees-strasbourg.org/F/ART_MOD.HTML
- Kubismus im Korridor - Rupf Collection - Bern
- December 2, 2005 - Februar 26, 2006
- Kunstmuseum Bern
- http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/
- Soviet movie posters from 1920s and 1930s - Moscow
- December 19, 2005 - January 12, 2006
- Moscow Modern Art Museum
- The exposition consists of more than 150 works, between constructivism, avant-garde film art and modern photography.
- http://www.mmsi.ru/
- Russian Avant-Garde 1900-1935 - Brussels
- October 5, 2005 - January 22, 2006
- Palais des Beaux-Arts
- Based on modernity and abstraction, an exceptional
movement stirred up the Russian artistic world: the first Russian Avant-Garde
movement appeared as early as 1907 in opposition to Naturalism and the
Symbolist reverie. At that time, Russian artists were among the most
audacious instigators of the changes that shaped 20th century art.
The exhibition in Brussels will approach the movement in all its amplitude in order to establish a dialogue between paintings, sculptures, reliefs, craftwork, stage sets and costumes, short films, photographs, photo collages, architectural projects, posters… For the first time, the movement will be placed within a larger historical context. The exhibition will retrace its exceptional history, from its origins up to the mid 30’s and will thereby be a testimony to the parallel or concurrent evolution towards Soviet Realism, whose dogma was promulgated in 1932.
The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg) and the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) will lend the majority of the works displayed during this exhibition, while a dozen less famous provincial museums will provide less well-known works which are often quite surprising. Several international museums will also contribute to this vast project.
http://www.europalia.be/
- Light and colour in Russian Avant Garde - Thessaloniki
- September 8, 2005 - February 5, 2006
- State Museum of Contemporary Art
-
The exhibition includes 350 works from 60 artists, spanning the entire
range of Russian Avant Garde, from 1900-1943, and is divided into ten
sections that present different methods and movements: from the
examination of monochromatic works to the liberation of colour and from
the depiction of cosmic and metaphysical light to the arrival of
technology, the role and function of electricity, photography and
cinema. Many of these works will be presented to the public for the
first time.
Invaluable archive material, manuscripts, books, photographs, as well as film screenings and reconstructions of installations based on the Costakis Collection, all from the collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, will be presented in the framework of the exhibition.
http://www.greekstatemuseum.com
- St Petersburg 1900 - Perth
- July 9 - October 23
- Art Gallery of Western Australia
-
St Petersburg 1900 features more than 230 works from major
artists and movements of that time from the collections of the State
Russian Museum, St Petersburg and St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre
and Music. Most of the works have not previously been seen outside
Russia.
The exhibition highlights the period that led up to and immediately followed the turn of the century in St Petersburg, the imperial capital, and features significant examples of painting, works on paper, decorative arts, illustrated books and artefacts. The importance of theatre during this period is illustrated with costumes, set designs and photography.
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/
- Futurism in Sicilia (1914 - 1935) - Taormina (Italy)
- May 26 - October 16
- Chiesa Del Carmine
-
The vivid colours and geometric patterns of Futurism during the interwar period in Sicily.
http://www.taormina-arte.com/2005/futurismo/ (in italian)
- The Bauhaus at Party (1919-1933) - Barcelona
- June 29 - September 4
- CaixaForum
- http://www.fundacio1.lacaixa.es/ (in spanish)
- Juan Gris - Madrid
- June 23 - September 19
- Reina Sofia Museum
-
Considered as the most complete to date on the painter José Victorian
Gonzalez (Madrid, 1887 - Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, 1927), known as
Juan Gris, this exhibition is exceptional for the quality and
importance of the works and the rigorous selection carried out as well
as for the large number of pieces (250, of which 90 are drawings) from
the most important museums and collections worldwide. Though emphasis
is placed on his production from the periods of analytic (1910-1915)
and synthetic (1915 - 1920) cubism, the stylistic change of his last
period is also brought to light.
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/
- Circling the Square: Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia - London
- November 18 - July 31, 2005
- The Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
-
This exhibition presents a comprehensive survey of the remarkable
avant-garde ceramics produced in St Perersburg's Lomonosov porcelain
factory during the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and
into the 1930s.
Inspired by the promise of a new society, leading artists supplied the factory with bold and innovative designs, often incorporating stirring images and slogans in support of the new regime. In 1923 the factory started producing an extraordinary range of porcelain with purely abstract designs by the Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich and his students Nicolay Suyetin and Ilya Chashnik.
The exhibition also features an important group of design drawings by the leading Russian artists of the early 20th century, many of which have not been exhibited before.
http://www.hermitagerooms.com
- Kazimir Malevich - Roma
- April 23, 2005 -July 17, 2005
- Museo Del Corso
-
56 works by Malevich.
http://www.museodelcorso.it
- Russian Avant-garde - Perm (Russia)
- May 17, 2005 - June 17, 2005
- Perm Art Gallery
-
The exposition features the private collection of Edik Natanov
(Germany) and works from the Perm Gallery.
Works by Kasimir Malevich, the founding father of suprematism, Lazar
Lisitsky, the author of three-dimension suprematic compositions, Lev
Bakst, a brilliant theater artist and Serge Diaghilev's companion, and
cubist theater artist Alexandra Ekster are presented at the exhibition.
Paintings and graphic works by prominent masters of the "left-wing" art
Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova and Georgy Yakulov from the collection
of the Perm gallery are shown, as well.
more information here or pgallery@perm.raid.ru
See also : "David Burliuk is Back in Perm", an exhibition running at Perm Regional Museum of Local Lore.
- Arte e lavoro in Russian Avant-garde - Roma
- April 28, 2005 -June 12, 2005
- Complesso del Vittoriano
-
60 works by Malevich, Kliun, Goncharova, Larionov and others from the Tretiakov Gallery in Mocow.
more information here
- Light and colour in Russian Avant Garde - Vienna
- February 3, 2005 - June 19, 2005
- Mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst
-
The exhibition includes 350 works from 60 artists, spanning the entire
range of Russian Avant Garde, from 1900-1943, and is divided into ten
sections that present different methods and movements: from the
examination of monochromatic works to the liberation of colour and from
the depiction of cosmic and metaphysical light to the arrival of
technology, the role and function of electricity, photography and
cinema. Many of these works will be presented to the public for the
first time.
Invaluable archive material, manuscripts, books, photographs, as well as film screenings and reconstructions of installations based on the Costakis Collection, all from the collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, will be presented in the framework of the exhibition.
http://www.mumok.at/
- Futurism. The Novecento. Abstraction. Italian Art of the 20th century - Moscow
- February 4, 2005 -April 10, 2005
- Hermitage Museum
- This
is the first such large-scale exhibition of 20th century Italian art
ever shown in Russia and it includes "metaphysical painting,"
neo-Classicism, Surrealism and neo-Realism. More than 80 paintings show
the evolution of Italian art during one of the most important and
contradictory periods in the country's history.
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
- Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel - Berkeley (USA)
- November 15 - March 20, 2005
- The Magnes
- Lazar
Markovich Khidekel (1904-1986) was a student of Marc Chagall, one of
the three principal followers of Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer in the
visionary avant-garde movement called Suprematism, and, later, the only
practicing Suprematist architect. This is the first exhibition that
examines Khidekel's career from the years immediately following the
Russian revolution to the fall of the Soviet state.
http://www.magnes.org/
- Art and Architecture - 1900-2000 - Genoa (Italy)
- October 2 - February 13, 2005
- Genova Palazzo Ducale
-
Arti&Architettura 1900-2000 proposes to gather and document the
lines that were crossed by artists, directors, designers, writers,
photographers in the area of architecture and by architects in the
visual arts, disciplines united by the project of a complete aesthetic
transformation of reality.
The exhibition will be divided into three parts: the first will be substantially dedicated to architects and artists of the historical Avant-garde from Futurism to Surrealism, up to the post-war period (1900-1950) : Italian futurism, constuctivism and suprematism (Malevich, Leonidov, Rodechenko, Vesnin, Lissitzky, Tatlin, etc.), De Stijl, Bauhaus, etc.
http://www.palazzoducale.genova.it/eng/naviga.asp?pagina=5900
- L'estetica della Machina (Esthetics of Machine) - Torino (Italy)
- October 30 - January 30, 2005
- Palazzo Cavour
- Exhibition
presenting masterpieces of Italian Futurism of the 1920s and 1930s,
with a special section spotlighting the achievements of Turin artists.
Works by Giacomo Ballo and Fortunato Depero, among many others
http://www.palazzocavour.it/ita/estetica/estetica.html
- ArchiSculpture - Dialogues between Architecture and Sculpture from the 18th century to the present day - Basel (Switzerland)
- October 3 - January 30, 2005
- Fondation Beyeler
-
The reciprocal relationship between sculpture and architecture is one
of the most exciting artistic phenomena of the twentieth century. Since
its birth in the nineteenth century, modern sculpture absorbed key
impulses from the history of architecture, such as Aristide Maillol
from classicism and Constructivism from Gothic. In the installation art
of the 1970s sculpture was even transformed into enterable architecture
(Dan Graham), which gave viewers an entirely new perception of their
own body. On the other hand, architects began as early as the 1920s to
plastically model their buildings (Goetheanum). Contemporary
architecture is developing in terms of such definitely sculptural
qualities that it sometimes appears to continue the history of
sculpture (Frank O. Gehry). On view are 180 objects by 60 artists and
50 architects.
http://www.beyeler.com/
- Russian Children's Books - 1920-1940 - Vienna
- October 20 - February 2, 2005
- MAK Applied Arts
-
The majority of the Russian children's books presented here begin with
"Schili- Byli" ("once upon a time"). The fairy tale world they suggest
with these words stands in a crass contradiction to the reality of the
period in which they were produced. Writers and illustrators were often
prevented from carrying out their profession because of Stalinist
repression and were authors and artists of the Russian avant-garde who
earned their living in this way. And so Vladimir Lebedev, El Lissitzky,
Kazimir Malevitch, Vladimir Majakovski, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir
Nabokov, Alexander Rodchenko and Leo Tolstoi also dressed up their
texts and illustrations with (subtle) criticism of society. On an
artistic level the children's books document the history of suprematist
and constructivist book art in the Twenties and Thirties.
http://www.mak.at/
- Modern/Graphical Europe (1900-1930) - Stuttgart (Germany)
- October 10 - January 23, 2005
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
-
Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Rippl-R—nai
J—zsef, Vaszary J‡nos, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse,
Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Amadeo Modigliani, Berény R—bert, Nemes
Lampérth J—zsef, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluf, Erich
Heckel, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Uitz Béla, Tihanyi Lajos.
Virtual exhibition : http://www.mng.hu/kiallitasok/idoszaki_kiallitasok/modernizmusok/index.html http://www.staatsgalerie.de
- Light and colour in Russian Avant Garde - Berlin
- November 3 - January 10, 2005
- Martin Gropius Bau
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The exhibition includes 350 works from 60 artists, spanning the entire
range of Russian Avant Garde, from 1900-1943, and is divided into ten
sections that present different methods and movements: from the
examination of monochromatic works to the liberation of colour and from
the depiction of cosmic and metaphysical light to the arrival of
technology, the role and function of electricity, photography and
cinema. Many of these works will be presented to the public for the
first time.
Invaluable archive material, manuscripts, books, photographs, as well as film screenings and reconstructions of installations based on the Costakis Collection, all from the collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, will be presented in the framework of the exhibition.
http://www.gropiusbau.de/
- Two women from the Avant-gardes: Alexandra Exter and Liubov Popova - Barcelona
- November 2 - December 4, 2004
- Galeria Barbia
- http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?G=&gid=172960
- Polish Avant-gardes - Mouans-Sartout (France)
- October 10 - January 5, 2005
- Espace de l'Art Concret
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Constructivism and Unism in Poland in the 20s. 50 artworks are exhibited in a castle in the south of France.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/espace.art.concret/
- Cubism: Revolution and Tradition - Ferrara (Italy)
- October 3 - January 9, 2005
- Fondation Beyeler
- As with Impressionism and Fauvism, Cubism acquired
its label from the derogatory description of a critic. Unlike Dada,
Futurism and Surrealism, it never produced a manifesto, or took up a
political position. The Cubists, like their pictures, were multifaceted,
simultaneously presenting to the world a multiplicity of views. These
views are amply demonstrated in "Cubism: Revolution and Tradition,"
an exhibition of 90 expertly selected paintings, sculptures, collages
and sketches at the Palazzo dei Diamanti (International Herald Tribune
- October 16, 2004).
http://www.palazzodiamanti.it/
- Written by Proeto -- June 23, 2008.