Public program of the show Present Continuous

In the 1960s, art that was “unwanted” by the Soviet regime was actively pushed into the underground. However, some artists’ major ideas, for example, those involved in kinetic art, still had a theoretical chance to be implemented at a rather official level. Artist Francisco Infante-Arana will speak about the fate of his dynamic light and sound model and project for the ancient towers and walls of the Moscow Kremlin’s Red Square.

Sensitive to public displays of success or failure, creative workers often experience the cancellation of projects or the inability to finish them as personal dramas, psychological traumas, career disasters or epic fails. In this time of “cancel culture,” the chances of facing a negative reaction from colleagues or viewers have increased, and so has the danger of cancellation. 

The pandemic in the time of an ecological crisis and increasing social inequality has made architects and urban planners review their approach to design. What is a fifteen-minute city idea? What will happen to city transport and public spaces in the future? Will we witness the death of office culture and how is the countryside going to develop? Should we expect a new exodus from the cities?

The idea of creating a museum of contemporary women’s art in Russia dates back to the early 1990s. Its concept was developed by curator, researcher, and artist Natalya Kamenetskaya. For many years, she tried, unsuccessfully, to find support from public and private institutions for this project, inspired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.