From 15th to 21th of May 2015 the debut of Russian Contemporary Art Week (RCAW) took place in Berlin. Three different locations served as the setting for a creative encounter across cultural boundaries, in which a large variety of Russian-born artists from Berlin introduced their work to an European context. The mayor venue for the event was the Ballery Gallery in Schöneberg, where two exhibitions featuring altogether six different artistic positions were presented. Together with the performance by Natalia Korotyaeva,…