Tag: Kazimir Malevich

  • In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s

    A touring exhibition of art from Ukraine’s national museums captures the country’s distinctive contribution to the early 20th-century avant garde

  • Cosmos and Chaos: Cyfest-13

    This exhibition brings together documentary and artistic material exploring the history of ideas of the conquest of the cosmos as well as the chaotic state of our own planet. It is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of man’s first flight…

  • Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922

    By sidestepping radical abstraction and highlighting the quixotic figurative work of Chagall, this exhibition foregrounds the revolution’s potential to bring joy, sex and playfulness into people’s lives apart from political propaganda, utopianism and promises of a better life

  • Nevermore: Leonid Lamm, Selected Works

    This retrospective of the artist, who died last year, shows the brilliance, courage and impeccable work ethic that made Lamm such an important figure in postwar Russian and American art

  • Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

    Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! joins an effort by progressive cultural institutions to mark the centenary of the October Revolution, an event that shook the world

  • Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932

    The fascinating and expansive exhibition provides an intriguing and rare insight into the dialogue between art and politics, the individual and the state, freedom of expression and the pull of ideology

  • A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

    This exhibition of Russian art from the 1920s and 30s, based on MoMA’s own collection, is a heartening celebration of a period of remarkable creativity and development

  • Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle

    From kinetic sculptures to ‘do-it-yourself machines’ and scorched animal skulls to self-destructing golden phalluses, Tinguely courted controversy and spun spectacle throughout his life. Here, the artist who fought against being ‘museumised’ is subjected to, well, just that

  • Moholy-Nagy: Future Present

    A major retrospective showcases the work of multimedia Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy, who pioneered the use of technology as a creative medium

  • Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity

    Vagrich Bakhchanyan was a follower of the Russian avant garde and a precursor of Moscow conceptualism and Sots art, as he strove to highlight the deadening absurdity of Soviet authoritarianism and officialdom