Bestiary 2020

Online exhibition

28 April 2020 — 26 July 2020

Расположение: Virtual exhibition

Welcome to the annual exhibition of modern artists' works depicting the animal world. This is one of the most important projects initiated by the founders of State Darwin museum – Alexander Kohts and Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts – in the early 20th century. They believed that natural science museums should cooperate with artists to make museum exhibitions more complete and expressive, as well as to replenish the country’s artistic heritage by animalist paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

Bestiary as an exhibition of the competition winners’ works has existed for about a quarter of a century. This is the only annual exhibition of contemporary animalistic artworks in Russia, which also helps to reveal the development of the genre. Moreover, it is a unique democratic event allowing the committee of participants to select the best works to be displayed and often turning the installation process into a platform for philosophical discussions about artistic traditions and the future of animalistic art in Russia.

This year, due to the difficult situation in the world, we are opening this exhibition online. This will allow people not only from Russia but from around the world to enjoy the magnificent artworks and to participate in selecting the winners of the competition.

You can vote for the artworks you like the most by pressing the red “like” underneath the photos. Votes will be accepted before May 18, 2020. The works who receive the most likes will be exhibited at Darwin museum offline once the museum is open for the public.



Vasily Vatagin. A portrait of an adult chimpanzee. Engraving, 1947. 




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