Social events

Excursion: City Walk (6th December, 11:00)

Itinerary includes Red Square, where we will visit the Kremlin, St Basil’s Cathedral, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Eternal Flame and enjoy the breathtaking view of the city center. Then we will go underground to see Moscow Metro. We will feast our eyes on stations famous for their architecture, sculpture and design. Must visit stations are Mayakovskaya, Prospekt Mira, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya, Komsomolskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Belorusskaya. More details soon.

Conference Dinner

The Conference Dinner will take place on Tuesday, 8th December. More details soon.

Optional Excursion to Tretyakov gallery (9th December):

Available exhibitions:

1) From the program “The Tretyakov Gallery opens up its store rooms”. The mark of Malevich. Graphics from the State Tretyakov Gallery’s collection.open 23 October 2015 – 14 February 2016

Krymsky Val, 10, Hall 21-22

December 19th (old style) 2015 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the legendary “Last Futurist Exhibition of paintings: 0.10”, which showcased Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Suprematist Square” for the first time and marked the moment when Suprematism was declared a new movement in art.

The objective of the exhibition is to show the graphic heritage of Malevich and his circle of artists from works stored in the Tretyakov Gallery and to explain how the experiments of the leading masters of the Russian avant-garde preceded the appearance of Suprematism, and also exactly how this movement developed under his influence.

2) Valentin Serov. An exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of his birthopen 7 October 2015 – 17 January 2016

Krymsky Val, 10, Halls 60-62, 80-82

Valentin Serov (1865-1911) combined elements of the Russian school of realism with the legacy of classical and innovative contemporary Western European painting. He became one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Russia at the turn of the century.

This retrospective of Serov’s best paintings and drawings will be located on three floors of the gallery. The exhibition will help to showcase the great variety of the master's creative heritage, not only through his famous portraits, but also with his landscape paintings and monumental art, which have previously been gradually neglected by researchers.

We intend to exhibit the artist’s theatrical works connected with the production of the opera “Judith” by the well known composer Alexander Serov (the artist's father), and his design for the magnificent curtain for a production of Rimsky-Korsakov's ballet “Scheherazade” for the Russian Seasons by Sergei Diaghilev.

The exhibition consists of works from eighteen Russian and five foreign museums and private collections.

3) Metageography. Space - Image - Action. Special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of the Contemporary Artopen 25 September 2015 – 7 February 2016

Krymsky Val, 10, Hall 39-42

In the late 1960s when air travel was commonplace and the first photos of the Earth from space appeared, perceptions of time and space underwent a radical revision. In the present day, the process of globalization is leading to a whole new experience – the modeling and representation of empty space. The exhibition will bring together the experience of art historians, geographers and artists from three generations from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Ticket prize: app. 400 rubles

Should you wish to receive additional information or register for the social events, you are kindly asked to contact the Organizing Committee.