Moscow Conceptualists

Moscow Conceptualism is a combination of the ideas of Western conceptualism and Soviet Sots Art Manuela Schoepp writes in her dissertation: " The term conceptual art and conceptualism was imported to Russia. The Conceptual Art offered in turn to the reception in Moscow Conceptualism to ... ". The term conceptualism comes from the American artist Sol Le Witt. Representatives of conceptualism see the essence of art is not in the completed work of art, but in the idea ( Idea Art ).

" Moscow Conceptualism got its name from a paper by Boris Groys, entitled " Moscow Romantic Conceptualism " ( Moskovsky romantičeskij konceptualizm ), published in the journal A- Yes, was released in 1979. "

Features of Moscow Conceptualism

The literature of Moscow Conceptualism is characterized by a strong intertextuality, intermediality and a rejection of the Soviet understanding of art. The boundaries between mass culture, popular culture and high culture are overcome and the role of the author to be reinvented. Not the author to shape the work, but the recipient. Through methods such as intertextuality and citation of the author may not be clearly identified and action art blurs the boundaries between artist and audience.

Representatives (selection)

Group Collective Actions, Dimitrij Prigov, Vladimir Sorokin, Lev Rubinstein, Ilya Kabakov, Andrei Monastyrski, Vadim Zakharov, Nikita Alexeev, Yuri Albert, Sabine Hänsgen.

Swell

• Http://www.foederales-programm.de/smb/moskauer-konzeptualismus-sammlung-oroschakoff/
• Http://conceptualism.letov.ru/CONCEPTUALISM.htm