Artists and Gentrification

Popular Russian artist and founder of Vltramarine.ru, Dmitri Aske, tells readers of the Kvartira S gallery how and why good street art affects property values. Gentrification—the transformation of former industrial sites into commercial and residential spaces—is hardly a new phenomenon in Moscow. The creators of such clusters as Winzavod, Artplay, Arma, Flacon, Khlebozavod, and others

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Vernissage «The Colors of Van Gogh»

On November 5, Kvartira S Gallery held its eighth seasonal vernissage, “The Colors of Van Gogh.” The event proved cohesive, beautiful, captivating, and as close as possible to the ideal envisioned by its organizers. As always, we would like to thank our artists, guests, and wonderful partners. Namely: IVanGogh Bar, the gastronomic art venue that

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Guests and Visitors of Ekaterina Lebedeva’s Exhibition «Bloom»

The exhibition runs from 10 to 31 October at the Flacon Design Centre (36 Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya Street, second floor, Market Space, Moscow). Official opening: 26 October at 7:00 p.m. A guided tour of the exhibition, a presentation of scarves featuring prints by Ekaterina Lebedeva, and champagne. The Zhar Tvorchestva scarf collection was created in collaboration

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Getting to Know the Artist

We are holding a quick-fire interview, with rapid questions and answers from our artists, so that we can get to know them better. Meet artist, painter, and graphic artist Daria Eliseeva. She graduated from the I. D. Shadr Yekaterinburg Art College with a degree in Painting and from the Ural State University of Architecture and

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Vernissage “The Wine Road”

On October 7, La Farandole Hotel hosted the official presentation of the Russian-French art project “The Wine Route.” At the heart of the project was a unique exhibition created here in Provence over the course of two weeks by artists who had come from Russia. This is the third project of its kind organized by

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Cosmoscow 2017: We Were There, We Saw, We Share.

Quite recently, the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair took place at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow. How it was organised. The fifth-anniversary edition brought together 54 galleries and more than 150 artists from Europe, America, the Middle East, and Russia. The exhibition was divided into five sections: Main — established Russian and European galleries with a

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The Art of Writing About Art

Alexander Belyaev, a journalist, music critic, and translator from English, told us how to write about art properly. Read and learn! Contemporary art is a lot like the contemporary economy: while the specialists explain, ordinary people feel sick. That is, if those people understand anything at all. Usually they don't. The conversation goes on in

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Promo Video of Ekaterina Lebedeva’s Exhibition “The Heat of Creativity”

Last spring, the gallery team was fortunate enough to visit Ekaterina Lebedeva’s studio. Katya’s volumetric paintings impress and captivate the imagination. These are more than paintings — they are a frozen intensity of emotion, sculptures that mesmerize and invite touch. An atmosphere of ardent creativity, wild energy, and a slightly bashful Katya. Incidentally, the artist’s

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