Private Guided Tour of the exhibition The Avant – Garde World. City, Nature, Universe, Human

This exhibition at the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum, in collaboration with MOMUS-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection, proposed a renewed reading of the Costakis Collection through the lens of the relationship between humans and their environment – a theme that emerged as a crucial field of artistic, philosophical, and scientific inquiry in early 20th-century Russia. Unfolding across three thematic sections, the exhibition traced the transition from academic norms to experimental practices, and from established conventions to radical utopian visions, as artists engaged with and responded to the profound ideological, social, and aesthetic transformations of their time.

The tripartite structure – City, Nature, Universe – offered a conceptual mapping of human experience across the constructed (City), organic (Nature) and unexplored (Universe) realms. Each section highlighted the distinct trajectories within the Russian avant-garde as it navigated the fertile intersections of artistic experimentation, technological innovation, and utopia.