Liubov Popova (1889-1924) was a painter, a theorist, an art professor and a designer, one of the so called ‘Amazons’ of the Russian avant garde period, a bold traveller, a researcher, an experimenter and creator of new aesthetic proposals in the beginning of the 20th century; she was also the only artist who the collector George Costakis called after her first name, although he never met her. Liubov Popova is the focus of the new exhibition organised and hosted by the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection in Thessaloniki, Greece, under the title ‘Liubov Popova. Form. Colour. The exhibition hosts almost all works and archival material -more than 200 pieces- from the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection, alongside with unique works by private collections, while this is the first large- scale show of Popova’s works in three recent decades, making
it an extraordinary event in the international art and museum milieu.
it an extraordinary event in the international art and museum milieu.
Curators: Maria Tsantsanoglou, Andrei Sarabianov, Kristina Krasnyanskaya
Associate Curator: Angeliki Charistou
11 October 2019 – 1 March 2020
MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection
(Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Events Program
Thursday, October 10, 2019
MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection / 14:00
Round table, discussion: ‘POPOVA: PUBLIC TALK’
International scholars of Russian avant garde focus on the artistic and teaching work of Liubov Popova.
Speakers : Natalia Adaskina, Russian avant garde Art Historian / Head Curator in Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow),Prof. John Ε. Bowlt, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (Los Angeles),Prof. Nicoletta Misler, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (Rome),Prof. Christina Lodder, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (London),Andrei Sarabianov, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (Moscow), Maria Tsantsanoglou, Director of the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection (Thessaloniki)
Thursday, October 10, 2019
MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection / 14:00
Round table, discussion: ‘POPOVA: PUBLIC TALK’
International scholars of Russian avant garde focus on the artistic and teaching work of Liubov Popova.
Speakers : Natalia Adaskina, Russian avant garde Art Historian / Head Curator in Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow),Prof. John Ε. Bowlt, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (Los Angeles),Prof. Nicoletta Misler, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (Rome),Prof. Christina Lodder, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (London),Andrei Sarabianov, Art Historian, specialist in the study of Russian Avant-garde (Moscow), Maria Tsantsanoglou, Director of the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection (Thessaloniki)
Coordination: Kristina Krasnyanskaya, President of the International Art Heritage Foundation
Friday, October 11, 2019 / 21:00
Performance: ‘Life like a work of Art’
After the opening ceremony, actors from the National Theater of Northern Greece present a live performance based on texts by Russian writer Daniil Kharms, under the title ‘Life like a work of art’,Director: Thanos Feretzelis, Actors: Nefeli Anthopoulou, Vassilis Spyropoulos, Thanos Feretzelis
Performance: ‘Life like a work of Art’
After the opening ceremony, actors from the National Theater of Northern Greece present a live performance based on texts by Russian writer Daniil Kharms, under the title ‘Life like a work of art’,Director: Thanos Feretzelis, Actors: Nefeli Anthopoulou, Vassilis Spyropoulos, Thanos Feretzelis
