Sasha is a young girl living in a block flat with her family in Moscow. Once she falls in love with Antonin, a bohemian artist and hard drinker. Their short love affair is pulling her down, to the bottom of her subconscious. Overwhelmed with beautiful and frightening visions, she starts to paint - violently, until she can stand on her feet.

Yes & Yes

The Kiev-born artist Oleg Kulik made his first major appearance in Western Europe when he delivered his "Reservoir Dog" performance outside the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1995. On the opening day of a major exhibition, he chained himself up stark naked outside the museum. Barking and sniffing like a dog, he bit the guests as they arrived and defecated on the public square - until the police arrived and arrested him. Since then, Kulik has appeared in many other towns, often imitating animals, but also with shows of his photographs, sculptures and installations. Working with interviews and archive footage, OLEG KULIK: CHALLENGE AND PROVOCATION provides an insight into the life and work of this controversial contemporary artist.

Oleg Kulik. Vyzov i provokatsiya

A duet of Dubosarskiy and Vinogradov was formed by the middle of Nineties of the XX century. For the last 6 years the artists has risen from local celebrities to international fame. Their rightly chosen strategy permits them, being on the top of success, to be understood appropriately by Moscow and international critics. Both project participants graduated from the Surikov Academic Art Institute. Holding up Russian painting traditions, rather basing upon the Socialist realism principals, Dubosarskiy and Vinogradov restore the monumental thematic painting genre. They declare they work on commission, but their customer is often virtual and doesn't exist. They probably mean a notorious social order which try to guess the artists painting what the "common people" like. Within the order framework the artists operate ironically with the Mass cultural stereotypes, publicity images creating a new character which is positive and triumphant. Their vivid palette and incredible combinations of various, diversified characters on the canvas multiply the virtual order real admirers. A picturesque language of Dubosarskiy and Vinogradov like many modern art representatives's one is understood as a text, but unlike other texts in art - their text doesn't need to be decoded.