"Moscow - Seoul:
general plans"

Curators: Kristina Romanova, Nail Farhatdinov.

Participants: AES + F, crocodilePOWER, Recycle Group, Gensu An, Daniil Antropov, Anka Akhalaia, Alexey Dubinsky, Gibom Kwon, Jay Yong Kim, Taisia Korotkova, Maxim Ksuta, Alexey Kuznetsov, Chonun Lee, Jang Yong Min, Vladimir Martirosov, Pavel Otdelnov, Kwang Yong Chan, Lee Jinju, Jungen Chung, Xuan Choi, Uram Choi, Genchol Shin

The Museum of Moscow, together with the Triumph Gallery, the Moscow City Tourism Committee, the official Moscow tourist portal Discovermoscow.com and the digital travel service RUSSPASS, will open the group exhibition “Moscow - Seoul: Common Plans” on August 13. It will present the works of contemporary Russian and South Korean artists, whose creative trajectories are somehow connected with the two capitals. The project will mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between modern Russia and the Republic of Korea and twinning relations between Moscow and Seoul.

The curatorial solution of the exhibition is based on a pair demonstration of works by artists. Inside the exhibition space, representatives of Moscow and Seoul are in a dialogue on topics close to them: the relationship between global and local, personal and national identities, space and memory, traditions and modernity. The artists of each pair are united by being in the common semantic field of today’s culture and modern life. Moreover, their work has obvious technical and genre differences due to many factors. The result of a close spatial and semantic comparison of works are new connections between them, new optics for the perception of each work and the art scene as a whole. Moreover, this "optics of correlations" turns out to be very complementary to the Moscow art scene: it successfully withstands comparisons with the Seoul,one of the brightest and most recognized in the world.

The project was implemented with the support of Askeri Gallery and the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Russian Federation.