Kirill Savchenkov's Solo Exhibition at Moscow Museum of Modern Art Explores Decision-Making and Evolution
From 9 September to 5 November, Kirill Savchenkov showcased his solo exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, organized by the V-A-C Foundation. The exhibition comprised installations that depicted unseen phenomena across three distinct rooms. On the ground floor, visitors encountered flow charts incorporating military terminology and related artifacts. The upper gallery presented a floor piece documenting errors from Chernobyl alongside an evolution-themed installation featuring plaster casts and eclectic objects. In the final gallery, a loudspeaker emitted Simon & Garfunkel's 'Homeward Bound' (1966) illuminated by pink lighting. The Winter 2017 edition of ArtReview featured a critique of the exhibition, highlighting Simon O'Sullivan's idea of diagrams as a form of speculative fiction.
Key facts
- Kirill Savchenkov's solo exhibition ran from 9 September to 5 November at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- The V-A-C Foundation commissioned the exhibition
- The show included three rooms on two floors with architectural and text installations
- Ground floor featured chipboard partitions with military flow charts in Russian and metallic armatures holding paraphernalia
- Upper gallery had a floor work cataloguing Chernobyl errors in Russian, referencing Pripyat
- Another installation in the upper gallery displayed evolution-related artefacts like plaster casts and bones
- Final gallery played Simon & Garfunkel's 'Homeward Bound' (1966) on repeat under pink light
- The exhibition was reviewed in ArtReview's Winter 2017 issue
Entities
Artists
- Kirill Savchenkov
- Simon O'Sullivan
- Darwin
- Linnaeus
- Simon & Garfunkel
Institutions
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- MMOMA
- V-A-C Foundation
- ArtReview
Locations
- Moscow
- Russia
- Britain
- US
- Pripyat
- Chernobyl