Moscow Conceptualists' Subversive New Show At 22 Calvert

A new exhibition at London's Calvert 22 Foundation celebrates the legacy of the Moscow Conceptual School, a loose group of artists who flourished in the 1970s and 1980s and whose influence is seen internationally today. The movement, which had to contend with the conservative aesthetics of the Soviet regime, still benefitted from the easing of government control over the arts that followed Stalin's death in 1953.

Its most famous exponents include Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, whose Art Healing Ministry in Manhattan we covered earlier this year.

The show features works by Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Viktor Pivovarov, Andrei Monastyrski, Dmitry Prigov, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Lev Rubinstein, Maria Konstantinova, Yuri Albert, Vadim Zakharov, Maria Chuikova and Andrei Filippov.

FIELD OF ACTION: The Moscow Conceptual School in Context will show at the Calvert, 22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP, through August 28.