Nizhny Novgorod Region Art Residency Program

This year, Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair features the Nizhny Novgorod Region Art Residency Program. It brings together artists who participated in the residencies over the three years of the program, and presents their creative view of Nizhny Novgorod and the region, formed in the process of research and artistic experiments. The project brings together about 30 artists from different cities of Russia, including Moscow, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, and Nizhny Novgorod, as well as from Senegal. The participants’ works reflect individual routes of exploration of the territory: from observation of the urban environment to rethinking cultural codes and landscapes. The concept of the exhibition is inspired by the unique image of Nizhny Novgorod as the “capital of sunsets” and the symbolic role of the horizon line in the perception of space, where history, architecture and natural poetry meet.