Russian Revolutionary Art at MAMbo Bologna

The MAMbo museum in Bologna presents 'Revolutija', a major exhibition on Russian revolutionary art from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The show spans three periods: pre-revolutionary, avant-garde and Leninist revolution, and Socialist Realism under Stalin. It opens with Ilya Repin's '17 October 1905', linking the populist Wanderers to later realism. The avant-garde section features Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich (including 'Black Square'), Vladimir Tatlin, and Aristarkh Lentulov, supported by patrons like the Ryabushinsky family. The exhibition includes rarely shown stage costumes by Malevich. The final section traces the return to figuration under Stalin, with works like Vladimir Malagis's 'Listening to the Speech of I.V. Stalin' and Vasily Kuptsov's 'Maxim Gorky or the Tupolev ANT-20'. Curated by the State Russian Museum, the show reflects a Putin-era return to order. The exhibition runs at MAMbo, curated by the State Russian Museum staff.