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2021
2022
2023
2024
RU
Here
& Now
& Now
Moscow
’25
Here
& Now
& Now
Moscow
’25
CONTEMPORARY
ART ON CITY
STREETS
ART ON CITY
STREETS
Here and Now, the contemporary art show held annually in Moscow, is celebrating its 6th edition in 2024. For the fourth time in a row, it is happening outdoors. The exhibited works of art integrate seamlessly into the urban landscape, bringing contemporary art closer to city residents.
The current edition is hosted by the Skolkovo Innovation Center, with the entire cast of exhibits installed within a single location. Prompted by the genius loci, the festival explores connections between science and art as its keynote idea. Being Russia’s largest innovation hub today, Skolkovo plays a major part in providing a solid foundation for the national economy. It supports numerous startups in growing businesses focused on supplying domestically made technology-intensive products for the manufacturing industry, healthcare, transportation, IT, and other applications.
Together, Zaryadye Park the operator and Skolkovo Innovation Center the host of the Here and Now festival have developed an art trail linking nearly two dozen artworks on show. As in the previous year, the festival features artists coming from a broad geography across Russia, including Moscow. Alongside objects of art and murals premiering in this exhibition, the selection includes works by five participants of the festival’s earlier editions. The choice of locations for showcasing art on the grounds of Skolkovo naturally gravitated towards community anchor points, such as parks and gardens, main streets and boulevards, campuses and outdoor areas of office buildings.
The current edition is hosted by the Skolkovo Innovation Center, with the entire cast of exhibits installed within a single location. Prompted by the genius loci, the festival explores connections between science and art as its keynote idea. Being Russia’s largest innovation hub today, Skolkovo plays a major part in providing a solid foundation for the national economy. It supports numerous startups in growing businesses focused on supplying domestically made technology-intensive products for the manufacturing industry, healthcare, transportation, IT, and other applications.
Together, Zaryadye Park the operator and Skolkovo Innovation Center the host of the Here and Now festival have developed an art trail linking nearly two dozen artworks on show. As in the previous year, the festival features artists coming from a broad geography across Russia, including Moscow. Alongside objects of art and murals premiering in this exhibition, the selection includes works by five participants of the festival’s earlier editions. The choice of locations for showcasing art on the grounds of Skolkovo naturally gravitated towards community anchor points, such as parks and gardens, main streets and boulevards, campuses and outdoor areas of office buildings.
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Рroject Objectives
Stimulate the cultural and social dynamics of urban public spaces while engaging city residents into an exploration of Russian history and culture
Support and encourage the development of Russia’s regional art scene
Support for young art
Decentralise and activate the cultural map of various city areas while putting more iconic attractions on the map
Popularise contemporary art as an integral part of the urban landscape
Objects
Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
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first name second name
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
ABOUT THE WORK
In 19th-century Russia, decorative house painters were travelling craftsmen, each of them traditionally serving customers along a specific route, known as a putik. It must have been a streak of good fortune that put Moscow on such a route for Krasil Makar, a modern-day master mural painter from the Urals. Except he no longer paints villagers’ homes, focusing instead on larger urban settings and massive sculptural forms as his surfaces to work on.
To find prototypical forms for his visual language, the artist turned to a one-stroke decorative painting technique which originated in the Urals and involves using a brush loaded with white and colored paints on different sides. By reinterpreting traditional ornamental motifs such as berries, petals, leaves, and tiny accents, Makar created a ‘design kit’ for his signature imagery. He completes each piece with accompanying poetic commentary that offers some insight into the hidden meaning of the story behind it.
Krasil Makar is now on the lineup of the Here and Now Festival at the Skolkovo Innovation Center with The Space Chamomile, installed in the Central Park area. Using smooth, gentle shapes enhanced by vivid colors, it is a spatial composition that clearly dominates the setting. The work carries an allusion to the vernacular love prediction method using chamomile petals.
To find prototypical forms for his visual language, the artist turned to a one-stroke decorative painting technique which originated in the Urals and involves using a brush loaded with white and colored paints on different sides. By reinterpreting traditional ornamental motifs such as berries, petals, leaves, and tiny accents, Makar created a ‘design kit’ for his signature imagery. He completes each piece with accompanying poetic commentary that offers some insight into the hidden meaning of the story behind it.
Krasil Makar is now on the lineup of the Here and Now Festival at the Skolkovo Innovation Center with The Space Chamomile, installed in the Central Park area. Using smooth, gentle shapes enhanced by vivid colors, it is a spatial composition that clearly dominates the setting. The work carries an allusion to the vernacular love prediction method using chamomile petals.
Krasil Makar is an artist whose biography is part legend, according to which he was born in 1889 to a peasant family in Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, a village in the modern-day Sverdlovsk Region, Russia. Between 1901 and 1939, taking time away from working the fields, he toured the countryside as a house painter, decorating log homes and household utensils. Considering he is at least 135 now, it is easy to trace his creative record all the way back to the roots and see how folk art heritage got so deeply embedded into his skills and style.
In 2017, Makar moved to Yekaterinburg where he made a name for himself with debut street art projects, bringing the Urals’ vernacular painting style into the modern spotlight. By the year 2022, the artist took his two-dimensional method further, expanding over to sculptural forms. The artist has four solo shows to his credit, in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, including ‘Krasil Makar. The Emergence of the Artist’ at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, as well as dozens of street art integrations across Russia. Krasil Makar was on the lineup of the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Artmossphere Biennial of Street Art, and multiple other contemporary art fairs in Moscow and Milan. In 2020, Makar was awarded the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize in the Art in Public Space category.
In 2017, Makar moved to Yekaterinburg where he made a name for himself with debut street art projects, bringing the Urals’ vernacular painting style into the modern spotlight. By the year 2022, the artist took his two-dimensional method further, expanding over to sculptural forms. The artist has four solo shows to his credit, in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, including ‘Krasil Makar. The Emergence of the Artist’ at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, as well as dozens of street art integrations across Russia. Krasil Makar was on the lineup of the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Artmossphere Biennial of Street Art, and multiple other contemporary art fairs in Moscow and Milan. In 2020, Makar was awarded the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize in the Art in Public Space category.
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Objects
Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
«Artwork title»
(City)
first name second name
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
ABOUT THE WORK
In 19th-century Russia, decorative house painters were travelling craftsmen, each of them traditionally serving customers along a specific route, known as a putik. It must have been a streak of good fortune that put Moscow on such a route for Krasil Makar, a modern-day master mural painter from the Urals. Except he no longer paints villagers’ homes, focusing instead on larger urban settings and massive sculptural forms as his surfaces to work on.
To find prototypical forms for his visual language, the artist turned to a one-stroke decorative painting technique which originated in the Urals and involves using a brush loaded with white and colored paints on different sides. By reinterpreting traditional ornamental motifs such as berries, petals, leaves, and tiny accents, Makar created a ‘design kit’ for his signature imagery. He completes each piece with accompanying poetic commentary that offers some insight into the hidden meaning of the story behind it.
Krasil Makar is now on the lineup of the Here and Now Festival at the Skolkovo Innovation Center with The Space Chamomile, installed in the Central Park area. Using smooth, gentle shapes enhanced by vivid colors, it is a spatial composition that clearly dominates the setting. The work carries an allusion to the vernacular love prediction method using chamomile petals.
To find prototypical forms for his visual language, the artist turned to a one-stroke decorative painting technique which originated in the Urals and involves using a brush loaded with white and colored paints on different sides. By reinterpreting traditional ornamental motifs such as berries, petals, leaves, and tiny accents, Makar created a ‘design kit’ for his signature imagery. He completes each piece with accompanying poetic commentary that offers some insight into the hidden meaning of the story behind it.
Krasil Makar is now on the lineup of the Here and Now Festival at the Skolkovo Innovation Center with The Space Chamomile, installed in the Central Park area. Using smooth, gentle shapes enhanced by vivid colors, it is a spatial composition that clearly dominates the setting. The work carries an allusion to the vernacular love prediction method using chamomile petals.
Krasil Makar is an artist whose biography is part legend, according to which he was born in 1889 to a peasant family in Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, a village in the modern-day Sverdlovsk Region, Russia. Between 1901 and 1939, taking time away from working the fields, he toured the countryside as a house painter, decorating log homes and household utensils. Considering he is at least 135 now, it is easy to trace his creative record all the way back to the roots and see how folk art heritage got so deeply embedded into his skills and style.
In 2017, Makar moved to Yekaterinburg where he made a name for himself with debut street art projects, bringing the Urals’ vernacular painting style into the modern spotlight. By the year 2022, the artist took his two-dimensional method further, expanding over to sculptural forms. The artist has four solo shows to his credit, in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, including ‘Krasil Makar. The Emergence of the Artist’ at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, as well as dozens of street art integrations across Russia. Krasil Makar was on the lineup of the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Artmossphere Biennial of Street Art, and multiple other contemporary art fairs in Moscow and Milan. In 2020, Makar was awarded the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize in the Art in Public Space category.
In 2017, Makar moved to Yekaterinburg where he made a name for himself with debut street art projects, bringing the Urals’ vernacular painting style into the modern spotlight. By the year 2022, the artist took his two-dimensional method further, expanding over to sculptural forms. The artist has four solo shows to his credit, in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, including ‘Krasil Makar. The Emergence of the Artist’ at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, as well as dozens of street art integrations across Russia. Krasil Makar was on the lineup of the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Artmossphere Biennial of Street Art, and multiple other contemporary art fairs in Moscow and Milan. In 2020, Makar was awarded the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize in the Art in Public Space category.
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Programme
Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
Installation of The Space Chamomile by Krasil Makar
Installation of The Space Chamomile by Krasil Makar
Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
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Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
Installation of The Space Chamomile by Krasil Makar
Installation of The Space Chamomile by Krasil Makar
Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
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Central Park at Skolkovo Innovation Center
Installation of The Space Chamomile by Krasil Makar
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Board of Experts
Директор ГАУК г. Москвы «Парк «Зарядье», генеральный директор ГБУК г. Москвы «МВО «Манеж», председатель комиссии по культуре и культурно-историческому наследию общественной палаты города Москвы
ivan
demidov
Olga Galaktionova
Генеральный директор Государственного музейно-выставочного центра «РОСИЗО»
Урбанист, социолог, основатель компании CM INTERNATIONAL
petr
kudryavtsev
kudryavtsev
Yulia Vasilenko
Руководитель отдела спецпроектов и программ по развитию молодого искусства в ММОМА. Сооснователь Биеннале уличного искусства «Артмоссфера»
Генеральный директор Государственного музейно-выставочного центра «РОСИЗО»
ivan
lykoshin
lykoshin
Ivan Polissky
Управляющий партнер арт-парка «Никола-Ленивец»
Заместитель председателя Правления фонда «Сколково» по общественной, социальной и образовательной политике
Alexander Chernov
Dmitry Shishkin
Начальник отдела выставочных проектов Государственного автономного учреждения культуры города Москвы «Парк «Зарядье»
Anna Trapkova
Генеральный директор Музейного объединения «Музей Москвы»
Anna Malik-Korolenkova
Curator, researcher, and exhibition project producer in the field of contemporary art
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