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A Portal Not Only to Hell, But Also to Paradise: Park Zaryadye, The Sacred Centre of 21st Century MoscowÌý

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“A Portal…" is a research-based exhibition, comprised of 15 contemporary Russian artists’ reflections, interrogations and provocations on the theme of Zaryadye Park, and its relationship to the aesthetic, political and economic new order of late-Putinist Moscow.ÌýZaryadye Park is a multi-billion rouble Kremlin-abutting prestige project, designed by the architects of Manhattan’s High Line on the ruins of the gargantuan Brezhnev-era Hotel Rossiya. It was opened with great fanfare by Vladimir Putin in September 2017.Ìý

The exhibition emerges fromÌý“Zaryadyology", a collaborative research project, carried out by anthropologist of architecture Michal Murawski together with students and staff at the Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism in Moscow.ÌýThe artists selected to take part in the project have chosen the focus and titles of their works themselves, but they were asked to respond to the work-in-progress results of the Zaryadyological research process: to incorporate their interpretations of the ethnographic material presented into the conceptual and tangible substance of the Zaryadyological hells and heavens, which they have created.Ìý

Curators: Michał Murawski, Daria Kravchuk

Participating Artists:ÌýSergey Kischenko, Aleksey Taruts, Aleksey Korsi, Maria Kremer, Alexander Morozov, Isadorino Gore, TSEH (The Centre of Contemporary Dance), Anya Shevchenko, Ariadne Arendt, Hanna Zubkova, Anton Zabrodin, Krill Melamud, Maxim Spivakov, Marina Moskalenko, Egor Isaev

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