More than a decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s art world is thriving and yet for many the culture remains an enigma. Ante 5 is an unprecedented catalog of emerging and established artists whose practice engages Russian identity and its complex legacy as a (failed) radical utopian state.
Comics in Russia: A Contentious Genre
Jose Alanizn
Victor Alimpiev
Cinema: Vladimir Shinkarev’s Twentieth Century
Ekaterina Andreeva
Are You Putin Me On? Political Anecdotes in Today’s Russia
Alexandra Arkhipova
Elena Berg
Constantin Bokhorov
Framing Mother Tongue
Svetlana Boym
Ivan Brazhkins
Moscow Interiors: A Tour Through the Entrails of a City
Tijana Vujosevic
Protest Match
Dmitri Vilensky
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Alexandra Galkina
Anton Ginzburg
Political Art in One City
CAT (Contemporary Art Terrorism)
The Meaning of the World: An Introduction to Mikhail Lifshitz
Dmitri Gutov
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The Meaning of the World: A Compendium of Mikhail Lifshitz
Mikhail Lifshitz
Alexei Kallima
Homosexuality as Device: Necrorealism and Neoacademism
Thomas Campbell
Creating Intervultural Interfaces: An Excerpt
Oleg Kireev
Elena Kovylina
Interview by Elena Sorokina
Anton Mayr Koslov
Vitaly Komar
Interview by Isabelle Dupuis
Vladimir Logutov
Am I Black? (Text by Dmitry Prigov)
Natalia Mali
Yuri Masnyj
Interview by Nicholas Herman
David Riff What is to be Done?
Interview by Nicholas Herman
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Russian Library
Martha Rosler
Tagir Safayev
Interview by Dmitri Siegel
David Ter-Oganyan
Andrei Ustinov
Lenin For Your Library?
Yevgeniy Fiks
Fuel Design
Interview by Nicholas Herman
Vladimir Chaika
The Overheard March
Olga Chernysheva
Valery Chtak