Participants
about the exhibition
Viktor Alimpiev, Sergey Alferov, Ivan Arkhipov, Anastasia Bezvershuk, Anton Bodryashkin, Eva Getz, Alexander Gorelikov, Sergey Denisov and Ivan Kolesnikov, Ilya Dolgov, Evgenia Dudnikova, Viktor Zhdanov, Francisco Infante Arana, Herman Ing, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Igor Makarevich, Alexandra Nesterkina, Nuria Nurgalieva, Daniel Reiman, François Sahuc, Lucy Solovyova (LU), Lena Chetverik, Tamara Shipitsina, Alexander Yulikov.
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with the SOYUZ Cultural Project, presents Silence of the Star, an exhibition that serves as the centrepiece of the first season of their joint competition programme. The project explores themes of memory, human relationship with the environment, and everyday life, offering an attentive and delicate perspective on reality.
The joint competition programme, organized by MMOMA and the SOYUZ Cultural Project, continues the museum's longstanding commitment to supporting young artists and creating opportunities for their professional development. The first season drew a wide response from the art community, with over 900 applications submitted through an open call from across the country.
The exhibition brings together approximately 70 works—paintings, graphics, sculptures, and installations—by 24 artists, ranging from established figures in Russian contemporary art to emerging talents. Among them are finalists Ivan Arkhipov, Anton Bodryashkin, Herman Ing, and Nuria Nurgalieva. The winner, who will present a solo project at the museum in 2027, will be announced by the museum's expert council during the grand opening. Alongside the finalists' works, the exhibition features artists collaborating with the SOYUZ Cultural Project, as well as works from the MMOMA collection selected in dialogue with the exhibition's themes.
The starting point of the project is evolution of the idea that humans hold a central position in the world. Technological development, environmental change, and contemporary philosophical concepts are gradually shifting these familiar coordinates, revealing the world around us as an independent environment governed by its own laws. The artists capture the subtle processes that shape our reality: plants breaking through concrete, traces of memory, the passage of time, the relationship between body and environment. In this perspective, the human being ceases to be the centre of all that unfolds, becoming instead an element within a complex system of relationships where life continues regardless of human presence.
The joint competition programme, organized by MMOMA and the SOYUZ Cultural Project, continues the museum's longstanding commitment to supporting young artists and creating opportunities for their professional development. The first season drew a wide response from the art community, with over 900 applications submitted through an open call from across the country.
The exhibition brings together approximately 70 works—paintings, graphics, sculptures, and installations—by 24 artists, ranging from established figures in Russian contemporary art to emerging talents. Among them are finalists Ivan Arkhipov, Anton Bodryashkin, Herman Ing, and Nuria Nurgalieva. The winner, who will present a solo project at the museum in 2027, will be announced by the museum's expert council during the grand opening. Alongside the finalists' works, the exhibition features artists collaborating with the SOYUZ Cultural Project, as well as works from the MMOMA collection selected in dialogue with the exhibition's themes.
The starting point of the project is evolution of the idea that humans hold a central position in the world. Technological development, environmental change, and contemporary philosophical concepts are gradually shifting these familiar coordinates, revealing the world around us as an independent environment governed by its own laws. The artists capture the subtle processes that shape our reality: plants breaking through concrete, traces of memory, the passage of time, the relationship between body and environment. In this perspective, the human being ceases to be the centre of all that unfolds, becoming instead an element within a complex system of relationships where life continues regardless of human presence.
information partners
THE CULTURAL PROJECT “SOUZ".
MOSCOW, PETROVKA ST., 17 BUILDING 1.
PHONE: 8 977 600 78 10
MOSCOW, PETROVKA ST., 17 BUILDING 1.
PHONE: 8 977 600 78 10