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On September 14 (at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.) the new PERFORMA festival of performing arts will present a special event as part of the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair. The Horse Hour kinetic drama performance is a collaboration with the Context. Diana Vishneva and multimedia artists Panterra. It is a plastic exploration of human interaction with new forms of mind.

Cosmoscow fair will host 99 galleries and will take place in the Russian capital on September 12–14, with preview on September 11. Following last year’s practice of introducing the international gallery section, artworks from 3 galleries from India will be presented as a special "COLLECTORS" project at Cosmoscow. Over the years, the fair has become a center of cultural interaction, where artists, collectors and experts from all over the world meet.

The renovated VEB Centre (31, Novinsky Boulevard) was turned into an art space. For a month, it will house works by contemporary artists from among Cosmoscow contemporary art fair participants. In the central atrium of the VEB Centre, the unique Sudden Oasis art project will feature a range of sculptures and installations, transforming the space into a refreshing oasis amidst the bustling city.

The BORK Collector of the Year Award was announced at the 12th Cosmoscow Foundation Charity Auction and is being held for the first time. The initiative aims to popularize collecting for the development of the Russian contemporary art industry, as well as to create opportunities and favorable conditions for recognizing personal contributions to the formation of the art market. Based on the results of the selection, the nominees for the BORK “Collector of the Year” award included: Dmitry Aksenov, Sergey Limonov, Natalia Opaleva, Igor Sukhanov, and others.

The visual style of the 13th edition of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair is based on the gesture of temporary fixation, on the rehearsal, installation nature of the exhibition space, and refers to the works of Cosmoscow 2025 Artist of the Year, the PROVMYZA art group. The identity was created by omsky studio.

The 13th edition of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair will take place across two floors of the Timiryazev Centre exhibition space (Verkhnyaya Alley, 6/1) on September 11–14, 2025. Collectors and members of the art community will have the first opportunity to view the exhibition during Cosmoscow Preview on September 11. The project is supported by the following partners: Sber, Samokat, Hutton, MR Group, EKONIKA, BORK, TUD, Beluga, and The Act.

10 апреля в Центре современной культуры «Солодовня» при поддержке партнеров — MR Private, BORK, Beluga, edis — состоялся 12-й Благотворительный аукцион Фонда Cosmoscow. Коллекционеры и меценаты объединились в стремлении поддержать современных российских художников и сделать свой вклад в развитие сферы искусства. Ведущим мероприятия выступил Иван Ургант. Выручка составила 17,3 миллионов рублей.

В день превью аукциона Фонд Cosmoscow объявил победителей ежегодных программ. Арт-группа ПРОВМЫЗА получила статус «Художник года» Cosmoscow 2025, красноярский Музейный центр «Площадь Мира» был выбран «Музеем года» Cosmoscow 2025, а московский Центр творческих индустрий «Фабрика» стал «Институцией года» Cosmoscow 2025.

11 декабря при поддержке СберПервого, Vesper, THE UGLY DUCK (TUD), брендов Beluga и Tête de Cheval, Unika и BAIKAL состоялась ЁЛКА: Cosmoscow x Pianissimo. Мероприятие прошло в пентхаусе с панорамным видом на Москву, расположенном в клубном доме Vesper Tverskaya. Центральным элементом вечера стала блистательная игра пианиста Филиппа Руденко, выступающего в составе музыкального фестиваля Pianissimo. Гостями мероприятия стали: Маргарита Пушкина, Зельфира Трегулова, Полина Бондарева, Ксения Китаева, Денис Химиляйне, Евгений Тихонович, Дарина Алексеева, Анастасия Каменская и др.

The fair was visited by more than 50,000 people, which became an absolute record in the more than 10-year history of Cosmoscow. Jessica Gallery was awarded the “Best Booth” award at Cosmoscow 2024. The stand was an excerpt from a movie in which the hero rushes along a night road, shabby billboards, tired of the marketing burden, flash on the right, villages and rusty bicycles flash by on the left. Feeling tired of the glossy world and the promises of life. Many pictures accompany us forward into the foggy dawn. The stand concept, inspired by the work of “Viola” by Ivan Chemakin, was realized with the participation of Ilya Grishaev, Grekhta, Vera Svetlova and Nestor Engelke. The architecture of the stand belongs to the young designer Antonina Mazepa from Maze Studio.

SOUND UP performa: korowod, a unique multimedia event at the intersection of music, immersive theatre and video art, will feature artist Ilya Starilov, director Yuri Kvyatkovsky, band Zventa Sventana, and Folklore Ensemble of the Gnesin Academy exploring folklore in contemporary culture. For one hour, the musicians will embark on a fascinating journey from authentic songs of Russian villages to a techno party.

This season, the fair will present more than 1,500 works of contemporary art from 91 galleries. In addition, as part of the non-profit program, the Cosmoscow Foundation will show the projects of the winners of its 2024 programs: “Museum of the Year”, “Institution of the Year” and “Artist of the Year”. “Artist of the Year” - Alexandra Garth - will present the work “The Persistence of Fun and Dirt” in the form of a massive metal structure covered with wooden boards, the heavy frame of which supports horse figures placed around the perimeter. “Museum of the Year” - Volgo-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin (Arsenal) - will offer visitors an interactive installation dedicated to the Arsenal library, which is expected to be transformed in the near future. “Institution of the Year” - the Center for Urban Culture (Perm) - will be presented with a stand with an expressive architectural design in the form of a rotunda. The inside of the building will be decorated with a variety of materials left over from projects created at the Central City Building over the past 8 years.

The 12th International Fair of Contemporary Art Cosmoscow will be held at the new exhibition site “Timiryazev Center” (Verkhnyaya Alleya, 8) from October 25 to 27, 2024 with the support of the general partner Sberbank PJSC, the companies Casarte, HUTTON, MR GROUP, automotive partner EXEED, fashion -partner EKONIKA, BORK company, Beluga and Beluga Botanicals, Tête de Cheval, THE UGLY DUCK (TUD), lifestyle partner 12 STOREEZ, beauty partner The Act, Ultima Yandex Go, Black Square and technical partner LIVE SOUND.

Revenue more than 15.5 million rubles On May 14, the 11th Charity Auction of the Cosmoscow Foundation was held in Moscow with the support of Sber Private Banking, STONE, BORK, Hadassah Medical Moscow and the Beluga brand. The auction took place in the Noôdome club space, an inspiring environment for the display and development of social projects, primarily in the field of charity and the preservation of cultural code. It was here that collectors and patrons of the arts provided assistance to contemporary Russian artists and made their contribution to the development of the art sphere. The theme of the auction, curated by Alexey Maslyaev in 2024, is “Vertigo”. As part of the stated theme, the attention of the curator and artists in the presented works was focused on the feeling of instability and loss of balance that every person can experience against the backdrop of ongoing events in the world around us.

On May 13, 2024, a preview took place in the A-House space 11th Charity Auction of the Cosmoscow Foundation. The curator of the auction was Alexey Maslyaev, who determined its theme - “Vertigo”. Curatorial concept centers around feelings of instability and loss balance, which at certain moments in life every person experiences - in other words, states dizziness, or vertigo. The auction will feature works of artists who reflect in their art experience of vertigo, human fragility and instability of the surrounding world. The auction will take place on May 14 2024 with the support of Sber Private Banking companies, STONE, BORK, Hadassah Medical Moscow and the Beluga brand.

As part of the annual Museum of the Year program, the Cosmoscow Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art allocated 1.8 million rubles for the purchase of new works for the collection of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM. The museum selected 23 works by Russian artists and one artistic duet. Until this moment, the museum’s collection comprised 16% of the art of female artists; after the collection is replenished thanks to the Cosmoscow Foundation, this ratio will increase to 19%.

In total, the 11th edition of Cosmoscow was attended by more than 31,000 people, which became an absolute record in the more than 10-year history of the fair

On September 30, the SOUND UP Festival will open the concert season at the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair. Especially for this event, the curators have prepared a premiere in the fusion style: for the first time, composer Simeon ten Holt's Canto ostinato piece will be performed by an orchestra of Russian folk instruments.

At the 11th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, the BEAC and the BEAC First, acting as general partners, will present a large-scale project "Beac Digital Garden" and an exclusive digital gallery, the BEACART, created by the "Artist of the Year" Cosmoscow 2023 Artem Filatov and the Kandinsky 2.2 neural network.

The 11th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair announces a program of special projects