Art-Space-Hopping:
Urban Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

The third city festival Art-Space-Hopping will be held in Moscow with the support of the Museum of Moscow.

From July 7 to 10, with the support of the Museum of Moscow, the third city festival of contemporary art practices Art-Space-Hopping (ASH) will be held. Participants of the event will be able to visit workshops, studios and apartments of artists, independent art spaces, rehearsal facilities, exhibitions and events in bars, cafes and shops.

The ASH festival aims to expand the cultural geography of the city, make art part of everyday and tourist routes, support emerging artists and local businesses, initiate atypical integration of art into the city space, and support the arts community.

All festival locations are marked on a special interactive map. You can create the route yourself, or you can choose the one that the partners of the event came up with. For example, the plan of the walk has already been prepared by the team of the online gallery of contemporary art "Association" and the curator and culturologist Alexei Maslyaev. During any of the walks, you can make a stop at one of the institutions participating in the festival - Rovesnik, Wip, Prosvet, Krivokolenny 9s3, Eclair Clair. Each of the sites will show the works of artists close to them in spirit.

In addition to visits to the workshops, which are usually limited to a limited number of people, the guests of the festival will have a thematic program of events. More than 200 authors will conduct excursions, meetings, master classes in art, printing, ceramic and restoration workshops.

On July 7, an exhibition of Katya Zhilina, who paints picturesque oil paintings, will open in the Museum of Moscow shop. The artist considers her works an antidote to a world in which everything has already been. Works from the Mindscapes series, drawn on rice paper, will be exhibited on Zubovsky Boulevard. On July 9, from 16:00, the artist will make portrait sketches of the guests of the exhibition.

On July 9, the Voznesensky Center will host a series of poetry readings from the Print Mafia and Piranesi LAB projects. In the studio of the artist Vitaly Burykin, on July 9 at 19:00, a performance by residents of the Union of Composers of Russia Dmitry Mazurov and Anton Izgagin "Everything that sounds around" will take place. The Winzavod workshops and the Lansere house in Milyutinsky Lane will open their doors. Russian artist Uno Moralez will meet with the guests at Electrozavod. Students and graduates of the Iosif Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, Baza Institute, Bang Bang Education online design school, Moscow School of Contemporary Art, Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia and other institutions will show their work in unexpected spaces.