"A game with masterpieces:
from Henri Matisse to Marina Abramovich"

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center presents the exhibition “Game with Masterpieces: from Henri Matisse to Marina Abramovich”. The exhibition will show the masterpieces of modernism and contemporary art - from cubism to video art. The core of the exposition will be the work of foreign and domestic artists: Kazimir Malevich and Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein and Victor Pivovarov, Natalia Goncharova and Marina Abramovich, Alberto Giacometti and Bridget Riley, Anselm Kiefer and Niko Pirosmani.

“Game with masterpieces” is, first of all, a family project. Built as an attraction, where to get to know the work you need to climb the stairs, bend down, slide down the slope or look into the closet, it will give children and adults the opportunity to see the works of iconic contemporary artists outside schools and concepts. The exposition will include selected works of the XX and XXI centuries: the works of Malevich (“Three figures in the field”), Bacon (“A sketch of the head of George Dyer”), Lichtenstein (“Portrait”) Yakovlev (“The cat that caught the bird”), Pivovarova (“ Pasha ”,“ Vika ”), Goncharova (“ Bathers ”), Kiefer (“ Adalbert Stifter ”), as well as Kandinsky, Pirosmani, Abramovich, Picasso, Matisse, and other famous artists. In total, viewers will see more than 30 works in various genres: from painting and photography to installation and experimental animation.

Adults often feel lost at contemporary art exhibitions - because they don’t know the names and suspect that they need some special knowledge to understand all this. Children are absolutely sure that all this was not invented for them, if only because the pictures hang too high. At the “Game with Masterpieces” exhibition, works often turn out to be at the level of children’s eyes, and exhibits and explanations help children get rid of the stereotype of the museum as something boring and imposed by adults. Adults can look at contemporary art without fear of not understanding it.

The works of different eras, schools, styles and directions become a single statement, the purpose of which is to talk about the universality of art, enter into dialogue with it and allow the emotional to prevail over the rational.

Within the framework of the exhibition, a program of educational events will be held at the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance - lectures on emotional intelligence, children’s workshops and interdisciplinary meetings with psychologists, art historians and bodily practitioners.

Curators of the exhibition: Alexey Munipov, Irina Munipova, Leah Chechik, Irina Dvoretskaya

Exhibition Architecture: Alexey Tregubov