Moscow’s Winzavod launches new series of exhibitions by young artists

The Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow is set to host a new cycle of eight exhibitions showcasing the work of young Russian artists over the next year.

The exhibitions form part of the “Start” project, which was launched in 2008 and gives young artists the opportunity to hold personal exhibitions. Since the beginning of the initiative, “Start” has received more than 40,000 applications, presented 43 personal exhibitions and welcomed an average of 13,000 visitors a month.

According to the project’s curator, Kirill Preobrazhensky, one of the main aims of “Start” is to place Russian art within a broad international context.

“Russian art [...] is self-referential, that is to say that very often it reflects on itself. It’s interesting, but I think that it sometimes prevents our young artists from being understood in another, wider international context,” said Mr Preobrazhensky.

The first exhibition of the new cycle will take place in December.

Source: RIA Novosti (in Russian)