Moscow. Habitat. Painting

Location: museum exhibition halls / 5th floor / open roof

On the most unusual outdoor exhibition area – the museum roof with the view of the city, comfortable poufs, bookcrossing area and free Wi-Fi one of the largest exhibition and the research project of this year “Moscow. Habitat” unfolded. Under the open sky, away from the bustle of the city you can immerse yourself into original interpretation of the interaction between living organisms and the big city which suggested more than 30 participant artists.

From April 30 the art space "Roof" of the State Darwin Museum has been holding the exhibition "Moscow. Habitat”. The exhibition involves the participance of more than 30 artists, who have offered the most original interpretations. A deeper immersion in the topic of interaction between human and nature has been provided by creative laboratories.

The project came into being thanks to the collaboration of people from very different fields. The museum conducts the exhibition together with an independent creative team dealing with street art:  Studio 7. Visitors will be able to see works exhibited on canvases, banners, plywood, as well as to enjoy installations, sculpture, hanging figures, small murals.

At the same time, not only writers took part in the creation of the exposition, but also artists working in the traditional manner - ceramists, painters, muralists, sculptors. That is why on June 17 “classic” island will appear inside the open “street” exposition space of the exhibition, which will present paintings, as well as small sculptural forms created by the project participants.

For a more comfortable acquaintance with the content the exhibition space is divided into parts - water, air, earth and human. Passing through them with the help of QR codes you can hear the voices of artists talking about their work, as well as join the scientific component and attend lectures and excursions that the artists visited during the creative laboratory.

The parallel program of the project includes master-classes, live drawing, lectures on art, concerts for visitors of all ages - children, youth, adults.

Project curators: Nikolai Litvinov (Studio 7), Natalia Mikhailova (State Darwin Museum).

Coordinator of the parallel program of the exhibition: Olga Shmakova

Key project partner: Studio 7

Project partners: Agency "Artkontrakt", Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, Biodiversity Conservation Center, Zoological Museum of Moscow University, Moscow Zoo, Losiny Ostrov National Park, Museum of Moscow.

Artists participated in the project: Anna Badulina, Oleg Berlin, Elena Boyko, Tatiana Boldyreva, Sergey Buravtsev, Daria Buravtseva, Larisa Buravtseva, Natalia Vymorkova, Irina Gavrilitsa, Mila Gavrilova, Olga Granovskaya, Dmitry Guryev, Varvara Darevskaya, Evdokia Dergileva, Olga Evtina , Zvyagintseva Marina, Ibatullin Rustem, Iukannen Daria, Kalmykova Maria, Koteneva Alexandra, Kuznetsova Kristina, Litvinov Nikolai, Makienko Ksenia, Matershev Andrey, Mishkin Eduard, Narkevich Elizaveta, Perevezentsev Vyacheslav, Polomar Dasha, Popov Alexey, Popova Maria, Protsenko Maxim, Seleznev Konstantin, Xenia Sidlina, Anna Sushchenko, Alevtina Khabibova, Anastasia Shokhova.

Varvara Darevskaya. Pigeons

Kseniya Sidlina. Metropolitan and people. Clay, engobes, glazes

Seleznev Konstantin. Between snowfalls

Olga Evtina. Cats in the city

Seleznev Konstantin. Evening of the hard day