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Hidden Places. Group show.
Location
Max Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Date
2021
MaxArt with the support of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and Triumph Gallery opens a site-specific exhibition 'Hidden Places'.
Participants
Anatoly Akue, crocodilePOWER, Tundra, Ekaterina Agadjanova, Kristina Aksentova, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Daniil Antropov, Marina Aseeva, Anna Afonina, Anka Ahalaya, Igor Baranov, Kirill Basalaev, Andrey Berger, Arseny Bobryshev and Konstantin Troitsky, Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky, Evgeniya Voronova, Kirill Garshin, Irina Drozd, Alexei Dubinsky, Vladimir Dubosarsky, Evgenia Dudnikova, Vladimir Kartashov, Alexandra Kokacheva, Vadim Kondakov, Victoria Kosheleva, Mikhail Levius, Kirill Makarov, Ivan Plyushch, Maria Safronova, Polina Sinyatkina, Blue Soup, Natalia Uspenskaya, Katya Tsareva, Nikita Chernoritsky, Alisa Emke, Ustina Yakovleva.
'The Hidden Places' exhibition brings together more than 30 Russian contemporary artists who work with images and metaphors that go beyond the reality visible to the eye. The world they depict exists on a shaky, vibrating translucent border between reality and the fictional world of artistic fantasy, and this border cannot always be clearly drawn or at least labelled. It is here that a kind of "hidden places" are formed, where one can not only hide from the lens of reality, but also discover hidden secrets and phantom imprints. Bunker 703 operated for decades as a secure special archive for the Foreign Office and was only declassified in 2018 after the facility was deemed technically obsolete. The place, devoid not only of the sterility of a white cube but also of any connection to the art world, creates a specific mise-en-scene for the exhibition, which will be a kind of invasion of art objects into its environment and architecture. Many of the authors will create works specifically for the exhibition that directly interact with the context of the bunker's architecture and the idea of a hidden secret place. The exhibition also includes works acquired into our collection in 2021.
