The most important representatives of the Moscow underground were Vladimir Yankilevsky, Dmitry Plavinsky, Eduard Steinberg and Marlen Spindler.

In the 1990s, one of the leading phenomena in the art of St Petersburg was the piquant and refined aesthetics of Timur Novikov ’s New Academy movement, which addressed such issues as the “beautiful”,...

The New Artists movement of the early 1980s – Timur Novikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Inal Savchenkov, Vadim Ovchinnikov, Sergei Bugayev (Africa), Oleg Maslov and Oleg Zaika – was based on various different so...

Linked to the activities of a group of young architects disappointed in existing practice and developing a new artistic strategy, the “paper architecture” movement flourished in the 1980s. Form, styl...

Moscow Conceptualism is represented by the installations of Elena Yelagina and Igor Makarevich, the graphic art of Grisha Bruskin, the photography of Yury Leiderman and Ilya Kabakov’s classical Garde...