Despite the borders of the USSR being closed to the majority of its population, Soviet citizens were among the world’s most frequent flyers. "Aeroflot – Fly Soviet" uses beautiful graphic ephemera to illustrate a parallel aviation universe that existed for 70 years, from the very beginning of the USSR through to its demise in 1991.
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A lavishly illustrated reference on a little-known chapter in art history – the art of the three Baltic States, covering a wide range of mediums, movements and styles. The Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – retain strong cultural identities that have survived despite centuries of colonization by powerful neighbouring lands. By the l...
"Artists Against the Kremlin, Vol.1" is the first edition of the almanac featuring protest art by Russian-speaking artists, created by the All Rights Reversed gallery in collaboration with The Moscow Times. Following from the "Artists Against the Kremlin" exhibition in Amsterdam, the book features a full catalogue of the works, photographs and d...
In this path-breaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize the particularly rich and varied art scenes of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia,...
This new translation by Donald Rayfield aspires to be the fullest, liveliest and most accurate version in English of Gogol's masterpiece. For the first time in English, Gogol's prose is illustrated with reproduction of Chagall's 96 engravings and 12 vignettes, major works by the artist of which only a few are widely reproduced.
Two authorial co...
Nationalism has made a spectacular comeback, with tribalism, particularism, and local pride embraced across the political spectrum. As the post–Cold War order erodes, the nation appears as a refuge, yet it remains an illusory one, an “imagined community,” as Benedict Anderson put it. Horror Patriae, the 2024 edition of steirischer herbst, tackle...
A career-to-date retrospective of a unique creative talent, "Hyperborea" presents unforgettable visual tales of life in the Siberian Arctic that photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva knew when she was growing up in Tiksi, a town on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Yakutia. Her work discloses both the fragility and beautiful desolation of ...
Mass-produced from the 1970s to the 1990s, modular kiosks could be found anywhere throughout the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslav countries, from bustling city squares to socialist-era housing estates. They served as hot dog and Polish zapiekanka joints, farm egg and rotisserie chicken vendors, funeral flower shops, newsstands, car park booth...
In her debut graphic memoir, "May The Universe Be Your Home!", Lena Wolf explores how to find a place to belong in a country that erased your history and identity. Lena Wolf grew up as an ethnic German child in the Soviet Union, in Kazakhstan. For the longest time, she believed that all Germans came from Kazakhstan–until her grandmother, Emilia,...
Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR.
The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely u...
Dive into the world of Andrei Tarkovsky with “Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids & Writings” – a visual and textual journey blending the director’s film stills, personal Polaroids and diary fragments with reflections by fellow artists and critics. It traces his work from “Ivan’s Childhood” to “The Sacrifice”, giving you a front‑row seat to ...
An in-depth overview of Ukrainian art from the dawn of Modernism in the late nineteenth century to the start of the Russian invasion in Spring 2022. Ukraine is at a historic crossroads, with the nation’s complex cultural identity at stake. Curator Alisa Lozhkina provides an authoritative overview of the country’s art, artists and movements from ...
“The Last Soviet Artist” merges graphic novel, journalism, and memoir to capture profound changes across Russia and the post‑Soviet world through the eyes of ordinary people. Created between 2014–2022, it moves from graphic reportage to documentary of societies in crisis, ending with Lomasko’s personal reflections amid repression and exile.
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The Soviet Century brings together some 550 photographs by almost 50 great masters of Russian photography, which document the history of Russia between 1917 and 1970. Authors such as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Giorgi Zelma and El Lissitzky portrayed meetings, celebrations, protests, parades, factories, farms, cities, buildings, wars... and they also m...
“The Tenants” journeys through post‑war mass housing across the former Eastern Bloc, from Berlin to Norilsk, Kyiv to Tallinn – bringing the people inside the concrete towers to the forefront. Through striking portraits, each resident holds a paper model of their home, sharing memories tied to these modernist estates, honouring life inside the “p...
Ukraine’s overlooked modernist buildings are under threat from development, decommunization and war. Photographer Dmytro Soloviov has crossed Ukraine documenting them to form the most comprehensive publication available on the subject. What does Ukrainian Modernist architecture look like and why isn’t it better-known in the west? Photographer an...