Russian Pavilion at the Triennale di Milano

Moscow River Age

Russian Pavilion at the Triennale di Milano presented the Moscow River Age exposition — an artistic research exploring human and nature relationship. Each of 38 boxes on a timeline from 1919 to 2119 contain a story and an object. All together they form a cloud of facts and chances that occur where the natural and human habitat overlay.

We have collected these ideas from the past and brainstormed the future in the search of restorative design of the Moscow River areas. Friendship and love were central to this approach. All our contributors are Friends of the Moscow River — together we want the River to flourish and follow its natural flow in all regards. 

In the boxes, one could find an old photograph of swimmers near the Kremlin walls or the future River's passport, a sample of pearl pavement or a sound of the River Radio, a cartoon frame on the harm of pollution or an intimate videodiary telling about the River's lover.

The exhibition catalog is a collection of postcards. All pages are tear-off, and each page represents one of the boxes.

Credits

EXHIBITION CONCEPT & DESIGN: Yury Grigoryan, Anna Kamyshan, Yury Kuznetsov, Taisia Osipova, Sergei Sitar, Elena Uglovskaya

COORDINATION: Bogdan Peric

PRODUCTION: Anna Bouali, Ivan Shpak, Pavel Kiselev

PATRONAGE: Dmitry Shvidkovsky, MARCHI Moscow Architectural Institute, MEGANOM office for architecture

TEXTS: Yulia Tarnavskaya

TRANSLATION: Lev Kats, Anna Shirokova-Koens

CONTRIBUTORS: Archimatika, Yana Aliaskarova, Anna Andronova, Julia Ardabievskaya, Mikhail Beilin, Alexandra Budaeva, Konstantin Budarin, Olga Chernova, CITIZENSTUDIO, Ilya Davydov, Orchestra Design, Zhanna Dikaya, Alexandra Dyachenko, Brian Evans, Maria Fedorova, Mikhail Fedotov, Polina Filippova, Ekaterina Goldberg, HEADS Group, Anna Kamyshan, Arsen Khairov, Marina Khrustaleva, Mikhail Khvalebnov, Anastasiya Kizilova, Boris Kondakov, Olga Konyukova, Vladislav Kulikovskiy, Alina Kvirkvelia, Dmitriy Laptev, Tatevik Mamyan, Natalia Melikova, Edouard Moreau, Rustam Nasriddinov-Bitson, Daniil Nikishin, Alexander Popov, SAGA, Yury Saprykin, Egor Shchurov, Irina Shmeleva, Alisa Silanteva, Sergei Sitar, Artem Staborovskiy, Egor Orlov, Margarita Podgornaya, Sergey Topunov, Elena Uglovskaya, Alexandr Zinoviev.

THANKS: ASH studio, Axiomatica Smart Print, Maria Baeva, Elena Borisova, Anna Bronovitskaya, Alexey Buslenko, Cybercom Ltd, Natalia Dushkina, Maria Erman, Mikhail Fedotov, Misha Grigorovich, Institute of Modernism, Roman Kazulin, Pavel Kiselev, Danil Manerko, Mikhail Matrenin, Andrey Mikhalev, Moskva-Volga canal community, Maria Nashchokina, Oleg Oleinikov, Vladimir Ovsyannikov, Glafira Parinos, Clive Phillips, Aleksandra Polunina, Maria Raevskaya, Pyotr Savostyanov, Kirill Sidorenko, Gleb Soshnikov, Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Dmitry Shilov, Danila Shkolnyi, Alena Shlyakhovaya, Evgenia Sokolova, Soyuzmultfilm, Albert Urchukov, Studio911, Vechernyaya Moskva.

EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHS: Giovanni Emilio Galanello

MOSCOW RIVER FRIENDS
Architects and artists, journalists and archeologists, environmentalists and physicists, actors and businessmen, politicians and local historians, and thousands of other people who care about the past, present and future of Moscow and its main river, are all friends of the Moscow river. In 2018, architects Yury Grigoryan, Anna Kamyshan, Taisia Osipova and geographer Glafira Parinos created an informal society, The Friends of the Moscow River, in the hope that it would help people feel connected to the river and responsible for it.