Young galleriest/Young collectors: pop/off/art Gallery

Exhibition period

1. – 21. September 2008

Collectors

Pavel Ananenko
Anton Belov
Anton and Victoria Gopka
Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints
Ivan Isaev
Nikolay Palazhchenko
Alexey Parabuchev
Mikhail Popov

Katerina Belkina, Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints, Oleg Dou, Anton Belov against the backdrop of works by Stas Shurip from the collection of Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints and Pavel Ananenko

Words from the gallery owner Sergey Popov

Last fall, Afisha magazine published an interview with Vladimir Ovcharenko, the owner of the Regina Gallery, in which he stated: “The problem is that we don’t have a young class at all - we don’t have young artists, young curators, or young collectors, no young gallerists, nothing.”

"I was offended that the information blindness of one of the most respected people in the capital's gallery business is presented as a given, as a trend; even then it was clear that the phenomenon of the "young class" in Moscow art took place, it was simply not reflected enough. And what is the current the year can rightfully be called the year of a breakthrough for young artists on our art scene: the Biennale of young artists and curators takes place at all venues in the city; fresh faces appear in many regions; two more operate in St. Petersburg) - but on the other hand, the new collectors have registered as a class, I am sure of this, forever. An exhibition similar to the current one is supposed to be played annually - and each time it promises to be unique.

It seems to me that young collectors are the last, most important link in the chain of the local, rapidly developing art market. They note its stability, they also guarantee continuity. All of them are involved in art, accurate in their judgments about it, truly interested in what is happening in it; each has its own view, which to a certain extent fixes in the form of a collection. Moreover, these views are by no means banal, and, as a rule, practically do not coincide with the views of elder, venerable collectors: someone is interested in a religious orientation, someone is gender, someone is radical, someone is non-objective, and someone is predominantly youth component.

These are collections, and not just "a few acquired works", even if there are only three works. After all, any collection is work in progress, and here this progress is shown in its purest form: intuition and emotions go hand in hand with firm calculation and expectation of growth; the young category, as you know, always tends to move to the emerging category. The collectors of the second half of the 2000s are as strikingly different from their immediate predecessors as they are from the collectors of the "other art" generation. Let it not yet be obvious - as, indeed, in any young phenomenon. The main thing is that the phenomenon itself is obvious."

Artists

Katerina Belkina | born in 1974

Oleg Dou | born in 1983

Stas Shuripa | born in 1971

Alex Andreev | born in 1972

Venue

pop/off/art Gallery

4th Syromyatnichesky lane, 1, bld. 6

WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art

105120 Moscow

Russia