Moskonstruct is an exhibition of site-specific artworks with a series
of symposia and debates. The exhibition and accompanying events explore
the current discussions to preserve the heritage of avant-garde architecture in
Moscow. The artworks have been created by a team of contemporary European
and Russian artists, they draw inspiration from and interpret the work of the
avant-garde and offer a unique chance for Moscow to explore its important
architectural heritage.
Artists and Architects include:
Gino:knauss (Italy); Adam Page and Eva Hertzsch (Germany/UK); Mikhail
Nemtsov (Russia); Iced Archiects (Russia/Ukraine)
Ogino:knauss
Ogino:knauss was founded as a “mutant cinema laboratory” in 1985, its work over
the years is a constant drift through audio-visual languages and practices of
communication. Based in Berlin since 2008, the group’s production
includes short films, documentaries, installations, live media and vj sets,
audio works, graphic design, as well as curatorial activities and media
activism. In recent projects, supported by the formation as architects of some
of its members, the group’s attention has been focusing on the globalizing
urban landscape, applying image production techniques in an attempt to develop
innovative practices for listening to and describing cultural urban
processes. Their most recent project, Re:centering Periphery, is a broad
investigation of modernist ideology, the production of the periphery and the
daily practices transforming the urban environment. Moskonstruct represents an
opportunity to develop a new phase in this research, tackling the seminal
contribution made by Constructivism to the development of Modern
architecture.
www.oginoknauss.org
Iced Archiects Iced Architects was founded in
Moscow in 1993 by Ilya Bilashenko, Mikhail Leikin, and Ilya Voznesensky. At
present, the group's members include Igor Bury, Alexei Kononenko, Ilya
Voznesensky, and Vera Samorodova, all graduates of the Moscow Architectural
Institute. Iced Architects had a prominent profile this year as the
traditionally close ties between Russia's conceptual art and architecture
resurfaced. The collective approaches real problems like overpopulation and
homelessness with intelligence and humor, adding a rare display of social
conscience to the Moscow art scene without being preachy or pedantic. Their May
show "Living Conditions," about housing the billions of resurrected workers
that 19th-century eccentric Nikolai Fyodorov hoped would inhabit a future
Communist utopia, was a stand-out in the exhibition program of the Contemporary
City foundation. "Bum Hotel," a scaffolding cradle trimmed with all the
comforts of home, was the most memorable piece at "Modus R," an exhibition of
contemporary Russian art in Miami timed to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach,
the largest art fair in the United States. Their work has been shown at
the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Contemporary
Art.
www.icedarchitects.ru
Mikhail Nemtsov Mikhail Nemtsov was trained as a
stage designer under the guidance of the legendary Valery Levental. After a
short stint in the theatre, he moved to easel painting, gaining recognition at
numerous exhibitions in Moscow and occasionally abroad – in England, Poland,
and Italy. He also worked as a book illustrator and taught painting in the
Institute of Technology. In 1997, he formed a tandem with Julia Pokhaletskaya,
specializing in wall painting. Together, they transform domestic and public
interiors into the theatre of human life. Architecture in its relation with the
people who inhabit it is a recurrent theme of his work.
Moskonstruct is sponsored by the European Commission and coordinated by
the Dipartimento Interateneo Pianificazione Territoriale e
Urbanistica, at the “Sapienza” University of Rome and the MARKHI - Moscow
Architectural Institute.
Moskonstruct is sponsored by the European Commission and coordinated by
the Dipartimento Interateneo Pianificazione Territoriale e
Urbanistica, at the “Sapienza” University of Rome and the MARKHI - Moscow
Architectural Institute.