Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10/2
2.9.2026
The exhibition “The Silence of the Star”
Participating artists
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, German Ing, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Igor Makarevich, Alexandra Nesterkina, Nuriya Nurgalieva, Daniel Reymann, François Sahuc, Lucy Soloveva (LU), Lena Chetverik, Tamara Shipitsina, Alexander Yulikov.
Opened on December 15, 1999, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) is Russia’s first public museum of modern art. Founded by Zurab Tsereteli, it specializes in Russian art of the 20th and 21st centuries while also introducing audiences to the international art process of this period. The museum operates across six venues, five of which are located in central Moscow. As of today, the MMOMA collection comprises more than 10,000 works.
About the SOUZ Cultural Project — In 2024, gallerist Yulia Akimova founded a new institution, the SOUZ Cultural Project. Its work is focused on promoting contemporary art and regularly presenting artists’ creative output across various venues, including museums and major foundations, in collaboration with independent curators.
About the SOUZ Cultural Project — In 2024, gallerist Yulia Akimova founded a new institution, the SOUZ Cultural Project. Its work is focused on promoting contemporary art and regularly presenting artists’ creative output across various venues, including museums and major foundations, in collaboration with independent curators.
The competition’s finalists are Ivan Arkhipov (Moscow), Anton Bodryashkin (Moscow), German Ing (Krasnodar), and Nuriya Nurgalieva (Kazan). Works by the four artists are featured in the group exhibition The Silence of the Star. On view at the historic mansion on Gogolevsky Boulevard in central Moscow, the exhibition is the centerpiece of the annual competition program.
Overall, more than 900 artists from across Russia submitted their entries for the competition’s inaugural season. Ivan Arkhipov was eventually named the winner; his solo show will open at MMOMA next year.
Among the first guests to see the exhibition and congratulate Yulia Akimova and Vasily Tsereteli, as well as view works by the competition’s finalists, were Ksenia Solovyova, Evgeny Zabolotny, Elizaveta Molchanova, Viktoria Borysevich, Viktoria Gazinskaya, Maria Lobanova, Polina Kitsenko, Irina Jovovich, Vlad Lisovets, Yulia Prudko, Konstantin Andrikopoulos, Irina Chaikovskaya, Ilya Davydov, Pavel Kamin, Evgenia Milova, Galina Mazaeva, Idris Gitinaev, Olga Karpova, and many more.
Yulia Akimova, founder of SOUZ Cultural Project: “First and foremost, I would like to thank the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Vasily Tsereteli personally for their trust, collaboration, and for the opportunity to become part of a program supporting young art, particularly in Russia’s various regions. Our new institution is called SOUZ Cultural Project, and this is no coincidence. SOUZ, a union in Russian, is a coming together of like-minded people who value creativity, support, and bringing talented artists together. These principles are at the heart of the open competition program we launched together with the museum. We are really proud to be part of such an amazing project—one that truly brings people together, inspires them, and gives artists the opportunity to implement their ideas. We hope this is only the beginning, and that many more joint initiatives lie ahead.”
The exhibition The Silence of the Star explores a person’s search for their own identity in a modern-day world where technological progress, environmental challenges, and social change are ousting the human being from the center of the universe, giving rise to a new “post-Romantic sensibility” and encouraging engagement with issues of memory and personal experience.
The exhibition brings together 70 works across six rooms at MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard. Each room is organized around a central object, including Anastasia Bezvershuk’s Fountain of Memories, Ilya Dolgov’s installation Hand–Wind–Feather, and sculptures by Alexandra Nesterkina.
Alongside the competition’s finalists, the exhibition features pieces by artists collaborating with SOUZ, including paintings by Eva Getz and Lucy Lu, lithographs by Tamara Shipitsina, and ceramics and drawings by Lena Chetverik. Also on display at the show are works from the MMOMA collection by Francisco Infante, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Viktor Alimpiev, Igor Makarevich, and Alexander Yulikov.
Overall, more than 900 artists from across Russia submitted their entries for the competition’s inaugural season. Ivan Arkhipov was eventually named the winner; his solo show will open at MMOMA next year.
Among the first guests to see the exhibition and congratulate Yulia Akimova and Vasily Tsereteli, as well as view works by the competition’s finalists, were Ksenia Solovyova, Evgeny Zabolotny, Elizaveta Molchanova, Viktoria Borysevich, Viktoria Gazinskaya, Maria Lobanova, Polina Kitsenko, Irina Jovovich, Vlad Lisovets, Yulia Prudko, Konstantin Andrikopoulos, Irina Chaikovskaya, Ilya Davydov, Pavel Kamin, Evgenia Milova, Galina Mazaeva, Idris Gitinaev, Olga Karpova, and many more.
Yulia Akimova, founder of SOUZ Cultural Project: “First and foremost, I would like to thank the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Vasily Tsereteli personally for their trust, collaboration, and for the opportunity to become part of a program supporting young art, particularly in Russia’s various regions. Our new institution is called SOUZ Cultural Project, and this is no coincidence. SOUZ, a union in Russian, is a coming together of like-minded people who value creativity, support, and bringing talented artists together. These principles are at the heart of the open competition program we launched together with the museum. We are really proud to be part of such an amazing project—one that truly brings people together, inspires them, and gives artists the opportunity to implement their ideas. We hope this is only the beginning, and that many more joint initiatives lie ahead.”
The exhibition The Silence of the Star explores a person’s search for their own identity in a modern-day world where technological progress, environmental challenges, and social change are ousting the human being from the center of the universe, giving rise to a new “post-Romantic sensibility” and encouraging engagement with issues of memory and personal experience.
The exhibition brings together 70 works across six rooms at MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard. Each room is organized around a central object, including Anastasia Bezvershuk’s Fountain of Memories, Ilya Dolgov’s installation Hand–Wind–Feather, and sculptures by Alexandra Nesterkina.
Alongside the competition’s finalists, the exhibition features pieces by artists collaborating with SOUZ, including paintings by Eva Getz and Lucy Lu, lithographs by Tamara Shipitsina, and ceramics and drawings by Lena Chetverik. Also on display at the show are works from the MMOMA collection by Francisco Infante, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Viktor Alimpiev, Igor Makarevich, and Alexander Yulikov.
THE CULTURAL PROJECT “SOUZ".
MOSCOW, PETROVKA ST., 17 BUILDING 1.
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MOSCOW, PETROVKA ST., 17 BUILDING 1.
PHONE: 8 977 600 78 10