Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Russia
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As the overall interest towards gender art grows in the early 90s, the first feminine organizations appear and start their activities in the field of humanitarian research; among them, ‘Idioma’ (Moscow) and ‘Cyber-Femin-Club’ (Saint-Petersburg) should be named. They act as informal unions of women artists and start exhibiting without any institutional support of gender art.

The titles of the exhibition sections reflect the main terms of gender art of the period: masquerade of identities, borders of gender, reflection on cultural codes, exaltation of maternity, mental archeology, vulnerability, and so on. This thematic sectioning, together with historical documentation that accompanies the works, creates the optics for a better understanding of gender aspects of an artwork. Pieces by well-known female and male artists combine organically with projects that still stand in the shadow — together they form the multifaceted panorama of post-Soviet gender art.

Curators: Natalia Kamenetskaya, Oksana Sarkisyan

Participating artists: Natalia Abalakova, Semen Agroskin, Anna Alchuk, Tatiana Antoshina, Anna Brochet, Vita Buivid, Olga Chernysheva, Maria Chuikova, Alexandra Dementieva, Olga Florenskaya, ‘The Fourth Height’ (Katia Kameneva, Galina Smirnskaya, Dina Kim), FNO, Ilona Gansovskaya, Glyuklya and Tsaplya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya, Olga Yegorova), Lyudmila Gorlova, Tatiana Kaganova, Tatiana Natalia Kamenetskaya, Tatiana Khengstler, Vera Khlebnikova, Marina Koldobskaya, Maria Konstantinova, Nina Kotyol, Elena Kovylina, Tatiana Liberman, Marina Lyubaskina, Natalia Mali, Alena Martynova, Bella Matveeva, Marilyn Monroe (Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe), Liza Morozova, Tatiana Nazarenko, Irina Nakhova, Anastasia Nelyubina, Marina Obukhova, Maria Ovchinnikova, Marina Perchikhina, Tatiana Petrova, Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova, Aidan Salakhova, Victoria Samoilova, Oksana Sarkisyan, Vera Sazhina, Alena Shakhovskaya, Tatiana Spasolomskaya, Olga Tobreluts, Natalia Turnova, Irina Valdron, Svetlana Vikkers, German Vinogradov, VMS (Anna Abazieva, Elena Kovylina), Elena Yelagina, Anatoly Zhigalov, Olga Ziangirova, Olga Kisseleva.