Sasha Obukhova, an art historian and director of the Research Department of the Garage Center, will give a course of fifteen lectures. She will talk about the artists and show photographs from her archive, as she knows quite a few of these artists.
The course of fifteen lectures will present major milestones in the history of Contemporary Russian Art from the 1950s to the present.
She will discuss the main styles, trends, key events and heroes of the Moscow underground, the artistic institutions of the 1990s and the young stars of contemporary art; the first generation of non-conformist artists, apartment exhibitions of the1960-1970s, the social art and the Moscow conceptualist movement, new-wave art and Moscow actionism, the situation in the Russian art market, and the political art of the 2000s.
