Group exhibition "Moscow, who are you?" at the Geometry Foundation

On July 24, MYTH Gallery, in partnership with the Geometry Foundation for the Support of Art and Cultural Initiatives, will present the group exhibition "Moscow, Who Are You?" at the foundation's space on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. The exhibition's title draws from the eponymous poem by Velimir Khlebnikov and brings together thirteen artists, each offering their own vision of Moscow—shaped by personal memories, professional experience, and emotional resonance.

The project emerges organically from an ongoing dialogue between the Moscow-based Geometry Foundation and the St. Petersburg gallery MYTH. For the gallery, this exhibition marks a conceptually significant milestone—a deliberate step toward building and sustaining a long-term partnership with the foundation. Of particular value is the fact that the foundation's founder, Zoya Galeeva, counts among her collection works by artists with whom the gallery has maintained years of collaboration and friendship.

The foundation's location on the embankment set the conceptual trajectory for the entire project from the outset: our aim was to reflect on the city itself—to pay homage, to absorb its energy and internal contradictions. For a gallery coming from St. Petersburg, this is no mere gesture. Moscow is often perceived in dualistic terms—on one hand, a source of friction; on the other, an undeniable magnetic force. And it is within this environment that a commitment to supporting art takes shape—not merely through capital, but through active engagement in the very fabric of the creative process.

The exhibition weaves together multiple temporal layers, featuring both newly commissioned works that offer a contemporary perspective on the city and pieces drawn from private collections, including those of Zoya Galeeva, Anton Kozlov, and others. In the works on view, Moscow is in constant flux: it spreads across canvas edges and folds into screens, sinks through stretcher frames and solidifies in bronze, coalesces from postcard fragments and dissolves into the haze of the outskirts. These images—often divergent in tone and substance—together form a layered, multifaceted portrait of the metropolis.

For many of the participating artists, Moscow is not their native city. Yet it is here that their professional trajectories took shape, where their first studios and exhibition projects emerged, where they found kindred spirits and built creative communities. Consequently, Moscow appears in their work not only as a subject of depiction but as a distinct cultural ecosystem within which artistic practice unfolds. The city's image here is assembled from a multitude of disparate experiences—and continues to evolve alongside the people whose lives are intertwined with it.

 

Artists: Lyudmila Baronina, Olga Bozhko, Egor Fedorychev, Alina Glazoun, Alexander Gronsky, Petr Kirusha, Irina Korina, Fedor Maksimishin, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Vadim Mikhailov, Ulyana Podkorytova, Igor Samolet, Kirill Saveliev.

 

Admission to the exhibition is subject to pre-registration every Thursday and Friday at 19:00. To visit, fill out the form.