The 12th International Fair of Contemporary Art Cosmoscow was held at the Timiryazev Center with the support of the general partner Sberbank PJSC, Casarte, HUTTON, MR Group, automotive partner EXEED, Design section partner ēdomo, fashion partner EKONIKA, BORK, Beluga and Beluga Botanicals , Tête de Cheval, THE UGLY DUCK (TUD), lifestyle partner 12 STOREEZ, beauty partner The Act, Ultima companies Yandex Go, Black Square, official hotel The Carlton, Moscow, partner Cosmoscow Children Algorithm and Borodin's Meat House, as well as Take bit and RBC Style. The fair will take place at the new exhibition site “Timiryazev Center” (Verkhnyaya Alley, 8) from October 25 to October 27, 2024.
This year, the 12th edition of Cosmoscow was attended by more than 50,000 people, which was an absolute record in the more than 10-year history of the fair.
The fair presented more than 1,500 works of contemporary art from 91 galleries. As part of the non-profit program, the Cosmoscow Foundation showed 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 - The work “The Persistence of Fun and Dirt” is presented in the form of a massive and planked metal structure, the heavy frame of which is fixed around the perimeter of the figure of horses created from salt dough. “Museum of the Year” - Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin (Arsenal) - offered 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) - was presented with a stand with an expressive architectural design in the form of a rotunda. From the inside, the construction is decorated with international materials left over from projects created at the Central State Conservatory over the past 8 years.
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. The feeling of fatigue from the glossy world and the promises of a beautiful life with many pictures escorts us forward into the foggy dawn. The stand concept, inspired by the work “Viola” by Ivan Chemakin, was realized with the participation of Ilya Grishaev, Grecht, Vera Svetlova and Nestor Engelke. The architecture of the stand is the work of young designer Antonina Mazepa from Maze Studio.
"Night road. Fields and vegetation, roadside advertising. We are racing along the highway. Trees and billboards flash past the window, the way forward. Progress, speed, movement. But the road here is a conventional image, rather it’s a phone screen with many open tabs (pictures). Our brain learns to keep them all under control. Scroll with your finger, stop, return to the previous one. Online store catalogue, social network, magazine. This is a rather electrifying world with many images and meanings. We don’t have time to understand them at this speed. The vision gets tired and rest is required. One movement of the hand can change this kaleidoscope of pictures, and we find ourselves on the start page, static, screen wallpaper - a foggy dawn,” says Ivan Chemakin.
Cosmoscow 2024 demonstrated strong sales. The top most expensive works sold during the fair included: a work by Alexander Kosolapov for 7,400,000 rubles (Syntax Gallery); work by Sergei Shekhovtsov for 4,500,000 rubles (Elohovskiy Gallery); work by Olga Chernysheva “Notes” for 4,000,000 rubles (Iragui Gallery); Olga Soldatova’s work “Above Moscow” for 3,600,000 rubles (Evgeny Shutko gallery); tapestry by Elena Popova for 2,000,000 rubles (Artwin Gallery); the work “The Whole World Upside Down” by the art group “Provmyza” (Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov) for 1,500,000 rubles (Gallery 9B); work by Daniil Archipenko “Neo-reveal” for 1,100,000 rubles (Ural Vision Gallery).
Among the most inexpensive works: a painting by Natalya Tarantsova from the “Numbers” series for 60,000 rubles (A-House), a work by Matvey Shapiro “And it’s not immediately visible” for 25,000 rubles (Substance); object Aki Sakaida for 20,000 thousand (ULM); work by the art group “MishMash” from the “Unobtrusive Account” series for 5,000 rubles (Set Projects).
For the first time, works by contemporary Iranian artists were presented at the Cosmoscow fair, which became possible thanks to the Kulturing company. Iran's participation in the fair was a great success. The fair featured four Iranian galleries - Artibition, Nam, Nian and Bashgah, which displayed paintings and sculptures by fifty Iranian artists, receiving high praise from visitors. In total, Iranian galleries sold twenty works. The most expensive of them were works by famous Iranian artists Reza Derakhshani and Kamran Yousefzadeh (YZ Kami), and the maximum price for a work was 110 thousand dollars.
Cosmoscow continues on the TEO by Cosmoscow platform
The fair on the territory of the Timiryazev Center is over, but Cosmoscow 2024 continues online on the TEO platform and will be available until November 4.
TEO by Cosmoscow is an online platform for selling contemporary art, founded in 2020. TEO unites more than 80 galleries, 850 authors and 4,500 works, thanks to which it covers almost the entire Russian art market. The platform also features sections “Foreign Art” and “Design”.
In addition to shopping on the platform, you can check prices, get advice, order a preview and fitting, and bargain for works online.
You can select and purchase art on the website teodorus.art.