Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair is the main annual event in the field of contemporary art in Russia. It is a platform for leading art scene professionals and the main ‘entry point’ into the world of contemporary art for those who are just beginning to take an interest in it. Cosmoscow serves as a meeting and communication venue for artists and collectors, as well as gallery owners, businessmen, journalists, and many others. Here, deals are made and trends are set for the art world to develop throughout the following year.
This season, the fair features over 1,500 works of contemporary art from 91 galleries. All participants are divided into several thematic sections that correspond to their specialization and help visitors better navigate the diversity of the art presented.
The MAIN section features already well-known galleries with their own exhibition space. FRAME brings together emerging galleries that may not have a permanent space and work in the format of a showroom or an online platform. The EDITIONS section includes galleries dealing with prints and multiples. DESIGN presents galleries working with collectible design. The DIGITAL section brings together offline and online galleries working with projects in the field of new media and digital art. The NETWORK section presents projects aimed at developing infrastructure, education, and communications in the field of contemporary art and increasing interest in collecting.
For the first time at the Cosmoscow 2024 fair, "Culture" presents a unique section "Persian section". This section includes works by artists from four renowned Iranian galleries, which for the first time present modern and contemporary works of art from Iran in Russia. This project is an important step towards the popularization of modern Iranian art and its integration into the world cultural community.
The MAIN section features already well-known galleries with their own exhibition space. FRAME brings together emerging galleries that may not have a permanent space and work in the format of a showroom or an online platform. The EDITIONS section includes galleries dealing with prints and multiples. DESIGN presents galleries working with collectible design. The DIGITAL section brings together offline and online galleries working with projects in the field of new media and digital art. The NETWORK section presents projects aimed at developing infrastructure, education, and communications in the field of contemporary art and increasing interest in collecting.
For the first time at the Cosmoscow 2024 fair, "Culture" presents a unique section "Persian section". This section includes works by artists from four renowned Iranian galleries, which for the first time present modern and contemporary works of art from Iran in Russia. This project is an important step towards the popularization of modern Iranian art and its integration into the world cultural community.
The Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art was founded in 2017 as a follow-up of the fair’s non-profit initiatives.
Its mission is systematic support of contemporary art in Russia, its integration into the international cultural space, promotion of young artists, and development of patronage in the country. The Foundation holds competitions, develops and implements its own projects, and also allocates non-competitive funding to support unique cultural initiatives.
Its mission is systematic support of contemporary art in Russia, its integration into the international cultural space, promotion of young artists, and development of patronage in the country. The Foundation holds competitions, develops and implements its own projects, and also allocates non-competitive funding to support unique cultural initiatives.
The Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal) represents a contemporary artistic process combined with classical art, and works with the unique identity of the territory. The institution was founded in 1997, and in 2020 it became part of the Pushkin State Museum branch network.
Cosmoscow guests will get acquainted with the publishing program of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and with book recommendations from museum employees from different cities. An interactive installation located at the booth is dedicated to the Arsenal library, which will undergo transformations in the near future. The project includes works by such artists as Sergey Boyarintsev, Vatsa, Lev Kise, Egor Plotnikov, Katya Ryblova, Blue Pencil, Alexey Starkov, Rostan Tavasiev, Katya Chervonnykh, as well as the architectural bureau [MISH] studio (Elena Evstratova, Misha Maslov) and 3D designers Alexander Krasilnikov, Olga Mikhailova, Artur Sofin.
Cosmoscow guests will get acquainted with the publishing program of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and with book recommendations from museum employees from different cities. An interactive installation located at the booth is dedicated to the Arsenal library, which will undergo transformations in the near future. The project includes works by such artists as Sergey Boyarintsev, Vatsa, Lev Kise, Egor Plotnikov, Katya Ryblova, Blue Pencil, Alexey Starkov, Rostan Tavasiev, Katya Chervonnykh, as well as the architectural bureau [MISH] studio (Elena Evstratova, Misha Maslov) and 3D designers Alexander Krasilnikov, Olga Mikhailova, Artur Sofin.
Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin (Arsenal)
Museum of the Year 2024
The Center was launched on May 18, 2016 as an initiative of the New Collection Cultural Projects Support Foundation. The Center is a fundamentally new independent platform for Perm, created to support local cultural, social and educational initiatives.
"At the Cosmoscow fair, the Center will be represented by a booth with an expressive architectural solution in the form of a rotunda. This rotunda is not a presentation space as such and not a special project. This is the Center itself, which we have packaged in a special way to deliver at least part of our atmosphere and history to Moscow," the Center’s team says. From the inside, the structure will be decorated with a variety of materials left over from projects created in the Center in recent years. Each fragment refers to a specific project in which the efforts, emotions and abilities of many people were invested. Inside the rotunda there are explanations for each fragment and a story about the exhibition with which it is associated.
"At the Cosmoscow fair, the Center will be represented by a booth with an expressive architectural solution in the form of a rotunda. This rotunda is not a presentation space as such and not a special project. This is the Center itself, which we have packaged in a special way to deliver at least part of our atmosphere and history to Moscow," the Center’s team says. From the inside, the structure will be decorated with a variety of materials left over from projects created in the Center in recent years. Each fragment refers to a specific project in which the efforts, emotions and abilities of many people were invested. Inside the rotunda there are explanations for each fragment and a story about the exhibition with which it is associated.
Institution of the Year 2024
The Perm Center of Urban Culture (Perm)
Alexandra Gart, an artist from St. Petersburg, works with various media — graphics, painting, sculpture, installation. She became famous for her printed graphics — as a co-founder of the print graphics studio New Print Studio, curator of the Graphic Cabinet in the Small Manege and author of monochrome compositions and images of vaguely disturbing post-apocalyptic spaces.
At the Cosmoscow 2024 fair, Alexandra Gart will present a special project — the work "The Constancy of Fun and Dirtt", dedicated to reflections on the transience of human life. The title is borrowed from Daniil Kharms. His poem of the same name is a poetic text about the slipping away of time, its annihilation under the influence of two energies: carefree fun and undivided despair from contact with the darkest sides of life and the human soul, which occurs with the constancy of a single figure — a spy, a god, a demiurge
"The Constancy of Fun and Dirt" by Alexandra Gart is an installation in the form of a massive, round-sectioned metal structure covered with wooden boards, the heavy frame of which supports the figures of horses placed around the perimeter. The geometry of the structure and its elements form the image of a carousel, supported by the central location of the installation at the fair’s venue and the format of the event itself.
At the Cosmoscow 2024 fair, Alexandra Gart will present a special project — the work "The Constancy of Fun and Dirtt", dedicated to reflections on the transience of human life. The title is borrowed from Daniil Kharms. His poem of the same name is a poetic text about the slipping away of time, its annihilation under the influence of two energies: carefree fun and undivided despair from contact with the darkest sides of life and the human soul, which occurs with the constancy of a single figure — a spy, a god, a demiurge
"The Constancy of Fun and Dirt" by Alexandra Gart is an installation in the form of a massive, round-sectioned metal structure covered with wooden boards, the heavy frame of which supports the figures of horses placed around the perimeter. The geometry of the structure and its elements form the image of a carousel, supported by the central location of the installation at the fair’s venue and the format of the event itself.
Artist of the year 2024
Alexandra Gart
"Collector's Eye" is an annual special project of the non-commercial program of the Cosmoscow fair, dedicated to private collections. This year it is hosted by the New Collectors Foundation, which supports collecting practices and promotes the role of the collector in the system of cultural processes.
The exhibition at Cosmoscow presents selected works from the collection of the co-founder of the Foundation Ekaterina Lapshina: objects, graphics, paintings, and photography. The central place in the exposition is occupied by video works, which emphasizes Ekaterina’s special attention to new media, with which her collection began. Following her interest, she became a patron of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, supporting the department of film and media art, while continuing to build her collection.
"The Present Continued" presents works by artists who have chosen to distance themselves from the subject of the image as a method. Such detachment blurs boundaries and echoes the forced habit of recent years of not thinking about the future and not being attached to the past, living the current moment as the only possible one.
The exhibition features works by Olga Chernysheva, Alexandra Paperno, Irina Korina, Dima Filippov, Alexandra Gart, Bill Viola, Glenda Leon, Lee Bae and John R. Pepper.
The exhibition at Cosmoscow presents selected works from the collection of the co-founder of the Foundation Ekaterina Lapshina: objects, graphics, paintings, and photography. The central place in the exposition is occupied by video works, which emphasizes Ekaterina’s special attention to new media, with which her collection began. Following her interest, she became a patron of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, supporting the department of film and media art, while continuing to build her collection.
"The Present Continued" presents works by artists who have chosen to distance themselves from the subject of the image as a method. Such detachment blurs boundaries and echoes the forced habit of recent years of not thinking about the future and not being attached to the past, living the current moment as the only possible one.
The exhibition features works by Olga Chernysheva, Alexandra Paperno, Irina Korina, Dima Filippov, Alexandra Gart, Bill Viola, Glenda Leon, Lee Bae and John R. Pepper.
Collector`s Eye
Special annual project
“The Present Continued”, exhibition of works from the collection of Ekaterina Lapshina
Curator – Galina Shubina
“The Present Continued”, exhibition of works from the collection of Ekaterina Lapshina
Curator – Galina Shubina
This year, the fair will traditionally feature the Cosmoscow Kids program, organized by our partner, the Algorithm private school. Young guests of the fair will be immersed in a space inspired by the principles of Bauhaus workshops, which will erase the boundaries between the artist and the craftsman and encourage the creation of new, unique forms.
During the program, young art lovers will learn the basics of applied practices under the guidance of masters, feel like real creators in our pop-up studio, and will explore art as part of a guided tour or on their own.
During the program, young art lovers will learn the basics of applied practices under the guidance of masters, feel like real creators in our pop-up studio, and will explore art as part of a guided tour or on their own.
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Program schedule
Friday, October 25th
14:00 discussion "Surrealism — forever"
15:30 public talk "Our life in art: the influence of the century and signs of the times"
17:00 discussion "Surrealism and surrealisms: a cinematic view"
18:30 film classics of surrealism: attending a special seminar for specialists in cinema and contemporary music at the HSE School of Design
Saturday, October 26th
12:30 discussion "Illusions of ownership: shared ownership of art and the transformation of investments in the art world"
14:00 discussion "Contemporary art of Iran: from tradition to innovation"
15:30 discussion "Art in dialogue: how communication and PR shape the perception of art projects"
17:00 discussion "Collectible design today: who, what, why?"
18:30 discussion "Collecting sets: navigating the market for limited edition art"
Sunday, October 27th
12:30 discussion "Surrealism. Museum practices"
14:00 discussion "Collectibles: how our ideas are changing" (With the support of the Noôdome club)
15:30 discussion "Surrealism as a community"
17:00 discussion "The Long Game". Mythology of the current and eternal in art
18:30 lecture by Irina Kulik "Dreams for implantation"
Friday, October 25th
14:00 discussion "Surrealism — forever"
15:30 public talk "Our life in art: the influence of the century and signs of the times"
17:00 discussion "Surrealism and surrealisms: a cinematic view"
18:30 film classics of surrealism: attending a special seminar for specialists in cinema and contemporary music at the HSE School of Design
Saturday, October 26th
12:30 discussion "Illusions of ownership: shared ownership of art and the transformation of investments in the art world"
14:00 discussion "Contemporary art of Iran: from tradition to innovation"
15:30 discussion "Art in dialogue: how communication and PR shape the perception of art projects"
17:00 discussion "Collectible design today: who, what, why?"
18:30 discussion "Collecting sets: navigating the market for limited edition art"
Sunday, October 27th
12:30 discussion "Surrealism. Museum practices"
14:00 discussion "Collectibles: how our ideas are changing" (With the support of the Noôdome club)
15:30 discussion "Surrealism as a community"
17:00 discussion "The Long Game". Mythology of the current and eternal in art
18:30 lecture by Irina Kulik "Dreams for implantation"
Topic: (neo)surrealism
In October 2024, the international surrealist movement will turn 100. Having emerged between the two world wars, it fully reflected its era, when rationalism and order were being replaced by an anxious worldview, a sense of the absurd and a lack of control over life situations, rooted in the Dada experiments of the First World War. Interest in the unconscious, a fascination with irrationalism and illogicality manifested themselves in poetry, painting, photography, cinema, and other forms of art.
The situation in the world today, it seems, is very much in tune with the moods of a hundred years ago. Tendencies to explore the unconscious, already present in the art of the second half of the 2010s, were especially intensified by the coronavirus pandemic and the dramatic events that followed on the world stage. The purism of neo-conceptualism and the economy of artistic means of the "new bores" are being replaced by artists' fascination with mysticism, rituals, work with memory and trauma, fear, and anxiety. Works are acquiring installation and performative forms; the desire for theatricalization is gaining momentum.
In October 2024, the international surrealist movement will turn 100. Having emerged between the two world wars, it fully reflected its era, when rationalism and order were being replaced by an anxious worldview, a sense of the absurd and a lack of control over life situations, rooted in the Dada experiments of the First World War. Interest in the unconscious, a fascination with irrationalism and illogicality manifested themselves in poetry, painting, photography, cinema, and other forms of art.
The situation in the world today, it seems, is very much in tune with the moods of a hundred years ago. Tendencies to explore the unconscious, already present in the art of the second half of the 2010s, were especially intensified by the coronavirus pandemic and the dramatic events that followed on the world stage. The purism of neo-conceptualism and the economy of artistic means of the "new bores" are being replaced by artists' fascination with mysticism, rituals, work with memory and trauma, fear, and anxiety. Works are acquiring installation and performative forms; the desire for theatricalization is gaining momentum.
Cosmoscow х Sber Special Projects
A unique project that explores the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence. In collaboration with the GigaChat neural network model, artist Yakov Homich created a series of paintings where AI acts not just as a tool but as a full-fledged co-author. The artist asked GigaChat questions, and the answers he received were interpreted and transferred to canvas, creating a visual dialogue between humans and artificial intelligence. This project opens up new horizons in the creative process and shows how artificial intelligence can inspire and complement artistic ideas, making art even more interactive and experimental.
Zvuk HiFi-streaming has released several thematic playlists commissioned for Cosmoscow that will allow visitors of the fair to immerse themselves in the unique atmosphere of the project not only visually but also through sound experiences. The selections will feature podcasts about contemporary art, playlists from the management and inspirators of Cosmoscow and personally from Cosmoscow Founding Director, Margarita Pushkina, as well as tracks that reflect the spirit of the fair itself. These playlists, accessible via QR codes posted around the fair and on social networks, will create a multi-sensory experience that will allow visitors to more deeply understand and feel contemporary art.
The bank’s premium clients will be able to relax in the Cosmoscow x SberFirst Collector’s Lounge or the Sber Private Banking Lounge, conceptual spaces dedicated to the nature of creativity.
The bank’s premium clients will be able to relax in the Cosmoscow x SberFirst Collector’s Lounge or the Sber Private Banking Lounge, conceptual spaces dedicated to the nature of creativity.
The Cosmoscow Art Collectors Club is an exclusive club for those willing to immerse into the contemporary art scene.
The program includes special art tours to key exhibitions and art institutions, exclusive events, visits to artists’ studios and private collections, meetings with Cosmoscow Founding Director Margarita Pushkina.
Club members receive the privilege of using personal art consulting services, VIP client status at the fair, discounts on art tours and educational courses, as well as access to a closed Telegram channel with announcements of vernissages and notable events.
The program includes special art tours to key exhibitions and art institutions, exclusive events, visits to artists’ studios and private collections, meetings with Cosmoscow Founding Director Margarita Pushkina.
Club members receive the privilege of using personal art consulting services, VIP client status at the fair, discounts on art tours and educational courses, as well as access to a closed Telegram channel with announcements of vernissages and notable events.
TEO by Cosmoscow is an online platform for selling contemporary art, founded in 2020 on the basis of the Cosmoscow fair in partnership with Anna Andronova. TEO unites more than 80 galleries, 850 artists, and 4,500 works, including works in the Foreign Art and Design sections. For several years in a row, the TEO team has been holding the Cosmoscow fair in an online format and is engaged in art consulting, supporting contemporary art, and building comfortable communication between artists and collectors.
TEO by Cosmoscow online platform and the Swiss watch manufacturer Raymond Weil present an interdisciplinary project aimed at rethinking the phenomenon of ‘time’ as a physical phenomenon and a philosophical concept. Especially for TEO by Cosmoscow, composer Egor Tkachenko will present a sound art project inspired by visual and semantic associations with the work of watch mechanisms.
TEO by Cosmoscow online platform and the Swiss watch manufacturer Raymond Weil present an interdisciplinary project aimed at rethinking the phenomenon of ‘time’ as a physical phenomenon and a philosophical concept. Especially for TEO by Cosmoscow, composer Egor Tkachenko will present a sound art project inspired by visual and semantic associations with the work of watch mechanisms.
Cosmoscow tours
Visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about the concepts of the stands, artists, and all the main aspects of the 12th edition. The fair’s art guides will conduct full-fledged tours for groups of up to 12 people.
This kind of tour is suitable for those who are just getting acquainted with the contemporary art scene, its infrastructure, and main participants, and want to take the first step towards collecting. The art guide will take you around the fair, tell you about the galleries and the work of the artists presented this year, as well as non-profit and partner projects.
A ticket gives you the opportunity to attend a group tour of the Cosmoscow fair in one of the timed sessions lasting 1.5 hours. While purchasing a ticket, please pay attention to the time of the session! The tour will take place strictly during the time session indicated on the ticket.
Registration for Group Tours is carried out at the TOUR stand at the entrance to the exhibition hall.
1,5–2 часа Duration: 1,5 — 2 hours
Cost: 2,000 rubles / a ticket for one person.
This kind of tour is suitable for those who are just getting acquainted with the contemporary art scene, its infrastructure, and main participants, and want to take the first step towards collecting. The art guide will take you around the fair, tell you about the galleries and the work of the artists presented this year, as well as non-profit and partner projects.
A ticket gives you the opportunity to attend a group tour of the Cosmoscow fair in one of the timed sessions lasting 1.5 hours. While purchasing a ticket, please pay attention to the time of the session! The tour will take place strictly during the time session indicated on the ticket.
Registration for Group Tours is carried out at the TOUR stand at the entrance to the exhibition hall.
1,5–2 часа Duration: 1,5 — 2 hours
Cost: 2,000 rubles / a ticket for one person.
Art Consulting
A tour with an art consultant is suitable for those who are aiming to buy art. A tour of the fair with an art consultant involves an individual approach. If required, art market expert will give you recommendations regarding works that can complement your collection or become an excellent gift, based on your preferences and budget. The service includes a consultation at the fair for up to 2 hours, arrangements for fittings, organization of a visit to the gallery, and transaction support.
Time is specified individually upon request. Send the request to artadvisory@cosmoscow.com. After an application is submitted, our manager will contact you to clarify your preferences and confirm your booking.
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 15,000 rubles / a ticket for one person.
Time is specified individually upon request. Send the request to artadvisory@cosmoscow.com. After an application is submitted, our manager will contact you to clarify your preferences and confirm your booking.
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 15,000 rubles / a ticket for one person.
