The technical trip, which was added to the weekly lesson plans of the department students within the scope of the Istanbul Gelisim University Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Design and Communication Design department curriculum, was completed with the exhibition tour of the Russian Avant-garde, Dreaming of the Future with Art and Design, opened at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum.
In the exhibition held at Sabancı University SSM, the Russian Avant-garde, which has a unique position with its developmental line and the different relationship it has established with the avant-garde movements of Western art, is represented with over 500 works reflecting its period. Art direction, Sabancı University SSM Director Dr. Organized by Nazan Ölçer, the exhibition is curated by Maria Tsantsanoglou, Director of Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and George Costakis Collection. Following the path of the Russian avant-garde from the 1900s to the end of the 1930s, the exhibition brings together the works of prominent figures of the period such as Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Vasili Kandinski, Olga Rosanova, Liubov Popova.
The George Costakis Collection, hosted by Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, one of the most comprehensive Russian Avant-garde collections and archives facing the world today, is the "Russian Avant-Garde" with 375 works. It forms the basis of the exhibition “Imagining the Future with Art and Design”. The exhibition also includes works borrowed from Europe's well-known private collections and the Russian Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum, which stands out with its post-Revolution porcelain collection.
The Russian Avant-garde Exhibition can be visited until April 1, 2019.
