An exhibition “Back to the Future” by Nina Kotel and Vladimir Salnikov 

held from the 21st of December until the 31st of January at the exhibition hall of The Era Foundation.

An exhibition “Article 1. Identity” as part of The Lexicon of Contemporary Art Programme opened on the 17^th of November at 19.00. Among the participants were Nikita Alexeev, Alexei Kallima and Nikolai Polissky with his team.

Era Foundation was a co-organiser of the exhibition of Russian contemporary artists "Russian Fly By" at Hangart-7 in Salzburg (Austria). There were seven artists from Moscow, Novosibirsk and St.Petersburg. Among the presented artists were Diana Machulina, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, Sergei Denissov, Dmitry Shorin and others.

View to Hangar-7

An exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky titled “Trace and Lines” as part of The Past Perfect Programme opened on the 28^th of June. The career of Igor Shelkovsky, which spans nearly 50 years, is a testament to the importance of contemporary art as an international language. This is the first time that paintings, drawings and sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s are exhibited in Russia on such a large scale. In some of the earlier works in the exhibit, one can find figures who are now acknowledged as “patriarchs” of the Russian underground art movement:

The performance by Pavel Peppershtein held in the Foundation’s hall, in which he commented on the movie “Day Watch”.