Kseniya Boguslavskaya and Ivan Puni are among the most important representatives of the Russian avantgarde. Their ideas shaped the theoretical and practical course of this art epoch, and that also outside the borders of Moscow or St Petersburg, namely first in Berlin and later in Paris, where they built together with other artists a Russian bohemian diaspora and gave life to their aesthetic ideas. Both lived in Paris until their death. Ani Menua: Kseniya, Ivan, so nice to finally see…
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Vladimir Tatlin is the forefather of constructivism and at the same time the enfant terrible of Russian modernism. He had an indispensable aversion to any kind of authority, which is why his relationships with…
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Marina Cvetaeva is one of the most important Russian poets of the 20th century. Ani Menua got to know her in the café “Prager Diele”, where an evening with Ilja Ehrenburg took place by…
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Andrei Bely is not only one of the most important poets of the 20th century, but also an important theorist of art. He is considered one of the main representatives of symbolism. The Literary…
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Gala, first named Elena Diakonova, was born in the Russian Empire and moved to Switzerland at an early age then later to Paris, where she married the young poet Paul Éluard. She was a…
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Kazimir Malevich is the main representative of the Russian avant-garde and the founder of the radically new art movement, Suprematism. It is in fact a countermovement to conventional art, which for Malevich is nothing…
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Berlinograd 1920s
Introducing “Berlinograd 1920s” – Column and Art Project by Ani Menua and Ekaterina Koroleva
We would like to introduce our monthly new column which will transport you on fictional journeys into the world of Berlinograd. The column itself is an art project by author Ani Menua together with…
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The author Ani Menua, the illustrator Ekaterina Koroleva and the Russian-Jewish painter Marc Chagall met for a (fictitious) conversation at Galerie Van Diemen in Berlin, where Marc Chagall and other Russian contemporary artists held…