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Каталог ретроспективы «Товарищества Новые Тупые», которая проходила с 21 июня по 28 августа 2016 года в Московском музее современного искусства на Гоголевском бульваре. Издание содержит архивные фотографии художественных проектов группы, включая документацию акций и перформансов, воспоминания участников и статьи Петра Белого, Лизаветы Матвеевой, Виктора Мизиано.

Товарищество Новые Тупые (1996–2002)

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<h2>About the Collection</h2>
In 2018, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art began building an archive collection that brought together materials related to the history of the local scene since the 1950s and documents covering the latest developments in contemporary art. 

The collection contains materials on the key artists and events of the St. Petersburg art scene, self‑organized initiatives, short‑lived artist associations, and various subcultures. The archive contains sections devoted to particular artists, events, institutions, street art and graffiti, and club culture. The core of the collection is formed by ephemera related to exhibitions and events (posters, programs, press releases, invitations, booklets), both digital and analogue. The collection also features archival documents, photographs, original artworks and prints, as well as zines. The library collection contains 4,000 publications on the history of Russian and international art in the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries. 

The collection expands through donations from artists, curators, researchers, collectors, and institutions, as well as through acquisitions based on research activity by Garage staff. The collection contains an archive and a library, which are continuously supplemented with new materials reflecting changes in the contemporary art scene and capturing important cultural phenomena of recent decades.

About the Collection
In 2018, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art began building an archive collection that brought together materials related to the history of the local scene since the 1950s and documents covering the latest developments in contemporary art. 

The collection contains materials on the key artists and events of the St. Petersburg art scene, self‑organized initiatives, short‑lived artist associations, and various subcultures. The archive contains sections devoted to particular artists, events, institutions, street art and graffiti, and club culture. The core of the collection is formed by ephemera related to exhibitions and events (posters, programs, press releases, invitations, booklets), both digital and analogue. The collection also features archival documents, photographs, original artworks and prints, as well as zines. The library collection contains 4,000 publications on the history of Russian and international art in the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries. 

The collection expands through donations from artists, curators, researchers, collectors, and institutions, as well as through acquisitions based on research activity by Garage staff. The collection contains an archive and a library, which are continuously supplemented with new materials reflecting changes in the contemporary art scene and capturing important cultural phenomena of recent decades.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art archive in St. Petersburg

Товарищество Новые Тупые / The New Blockheads

Товарищество Новые Тупые

Московский музей современного искусства

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Мизиано Виктор

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Peter Belyi was born in Leningrad. From 1990 to 1992, he studied at Leningrad Mukhina Higher Industrial and Art College. In 2000, he completed his Master’s degree at Camberwell School of Art. In 2009, he founded the gallery Lyuda. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists. He is a recipient of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize in the nomination Best Work of Visual Art (2009) and the Innovation Prize in the nomination Curatorial Project (with Alexander Terebenin, 2015).

Белый Пётр

Матвеева Лизавета

Абдулхакова Эльза

Березницкая Нина

Editor

Копытов Юрий

Новая академия изящных искусств

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«Товарищество Новые Тупые» возникло в конце 1990‑х, на базе галереи «Борей» в Санкт‑Петербурге. Группа объединила художников, писателей, философов и художественных критиков (Вадим Флягин, Игорь Панин, Владимир Козин, Александр Ляшко, Сергей Спирихин, Максим Райскин, Инга Нагель, Олег Хвостов), отказавшихся от устоявшихся художественных поведенческих моделей в пользу спонтанных, абсурдных, часто телесно‑ориентированных действий (именно действиями они называли свои первые перформансы). Их практика соотносится с городским фольклором, но отталкивается от локального опыта культурного распада и социальной неопределенности новой России. В этом контексте «тупость» рассматривается не как стилистика, а как гипертрофированный способ осмысления и взаимодействия с действительностью. «Новые Тупые» просуществовали шесть лет — с 1996‑го по 2002‑й, за время своей деятельности реализовали более семидесяти акций и перформансов. По большей части эти события не были задокументированы и по крупицам собирались для выставки «Товарищество Новые Тупые» в Московском музее современного искусства в 2016 году.

Товарищество Новые Тупые (1996–2002)

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