"Not everyone will take to the future" - the exhibition of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov opens in the Hermitage

The exhibition-retrospective "In the future will take not all" is intended to demonstrate the development of the creative method of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and their evolution through the example of installations, architectural models, paintings and graphics.

Ilya Kabakov - the largest figure in Moscow conceptualism, a representative of the late generation of Soviet artists, has won worldwide recognition in the field of art.

Kabakov is famous for the construction of a new genre - a total installation, where the work is not a separate object, but an integral single space into which the viewer enters.

In his works, the creative union of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov mythologizes the routine, everyday, communal life of the USSR, the heroes of their works are vulnerable romantics and forgotten dream artists who live in prosaic conditions of Soviet life.

This large-scale project is the result of the cooperation of the State Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery and the London Tate Gallery and includes works from art museums and private collections in Russia, Europe and the United States.

04/21/2018 - 07/29/2018
The Hermitage, A large suite of the second floor of the General Staff