Krasnoyarsk artists became participants of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts’ «Nemoskva is not far off» art project. The exhibition opened the other day in St. Petersburg.

A total of 80 artists from 21 Russian regions are taking part in the project. The artworks were selected by curators who specially travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway across the whole country. The main goal was to demonstrate that contemporary and cutting-edge art is created everywhere in the country, not just in capitals.

Oksana Budulak, the Deputy Director of the Krasnoyarsk «Ploschad Mira» Museum, became the curator of one of the exhibition platforms. She invited 6 Krasnoyarsk artists to present their works in St. Petersburg: Semyon Borisenko, Alexander Zakirov, Igor Lazarev, Alexander Mikhailov, Elena Anosova and Oleg Ponomarev.

The artists’ works formed the «Wormhole Theory» art-project. Its key message was «isolation, and the clinical non-Moscow state of the authors».

 

— Using different approaches and creative methods, the artists tell their stories of alternative creative realities living independently of the global Moscow trends, – the Ploschad Mira representatives stated.