An exhibition bringing together 23 Russian artists from across generations: Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Yury Alexandrov, Maria Arendt, Yury Avvakumov, Liza Bobkova, Amanita, Annushka Brochet, Kirill Chelushkin, Vladimir Grig, Ilya Grishaev, Georgy Litichesky, Natalia Mali, Gosha Ostretsov, Sergey Pakhomov, Natalia Pivko, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Andrey Rudjev, Aidan Salakhova, Aljona Shapovalova, Denis Shevchuk, Shishkin-Hokusai, Petr Shvetsov, Haim Sokol, showing all the main themes and directions of contemporary art in Russia today.

The exhibition intended to acquaint the non-Russian with the major directions presently developing in contemporary Russian art: from three-dimensional installations to textual works, from architectural forms to graphic novels. The exhibition has already been shown in Berlin at the Russian House of Science and Culture (Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur). The core of the exhibition is drawing, with the pieces crossing different disciplines, although still strongly related to drawing.

One of the definitive pieces in the exhibition is Hermes’s Cardboard House by Yuri Avvakumov, the founder of the Paper Architecture movement.
 Two artists working with textiles — Maria Arendt, whose project Fabrics Of The City recreates monuments of the avant-garde using the finest of stitches, and Tanya Akhmetgalieva, who consciously translates graphics into the language of textiles.

The biggest scale works are the 8-metre installation Honeycombs and Cocoons by Georgy Litichevsky, a giant monochrome fresco by Kirill Chelushkin, and the printed comics of Vladimir Grig. Gosha Ostretsov takes the art of the graphic novel beyond the limitations of the magazine page with his work from a series inspired by Salvador Dali’s decorations for the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound.



There are also some miniature works in the exhibition including that of Denis Shevchuk – a black cube engraved on ivory piano keys. The architectural fantasies of Alyona Shapovalova are engraved on glass, they represent something between a memorial to the greatness of man, and chronicles of martian landscapes. 
Aidan Salakhova’s Purpose project, which is a series of silk screen prints on metallised paper, introduces the viewer to the paradigm of the graphic art of a tattoo. Natalia Pivko develops the theme of the theater by putting aliens in Victorian decorations, thus breaking the space-time continuum. The collages by Natalia Mali The Shadows of My Own Prison and paintings in light boxes by Annushka Brochet are focused on the theme of female identity. Haim Sokol, Andrei Rudyev and Sergei Pakhomov use text in their works in share the literature-centric roots of Russian art.