Russian avant-garde: from radical experiment to global blue-chip asset

If Shchukin and Morozov had not opened their collections - would Russian avant-garde have taken the same path?
I will provide a context and art historian POV so at the end of this public talk you answer this question for yourself!
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And why did a movement built on left ideology end up as a closed, high-value market for a few?
How did Vitebsk - a small town in Belarus, - become the centre of avant-garde and a laboratory of a new world?
Why did women gain visibility in art and in general and how VkhUTEMAS fasterned feminism in Russia?
Who actually shaped the movement: Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Lissitzky and how do their legacies differ today?
Did avant-garde anticipate the revolution or it was an attempt to construct it?

“Bathing of a Red Horse”: symbol, accident, or a prophesy?
What makes Russian Avant-Guard a blue chip asset today?
If the Russian art market is “blocked” - who is still buying, and how do deals actually happen?

We’ll talk about what actually happened in Russia a hudred years ago and what it means for us today without mythology.

A nice bonus you takwe away from this event:
a way to explain Malevich’s Black Square in 60 seconds.

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