Art Exhibition of Studio of Military Artists named after M.B. Grekov

The M.B. Grekov Stu­dio, which recent­ly cel­e­brat­ed its 90th anniver­sary, is a unique cre­ative team where rep­re­sen­ta­tives of a rare pro­fes­sion work, the mil­i­tary artists. It is here that the his­to­ry of Russ­ian bat­tle art is made. Sig­nif­i­cant events of our coun­try, mil­i­tary bat­tles, por­traits of great com­man­ders, the dai­ly life of the Russ­ian army – all this is embod­ied in numer­ous works of art, the authors of which are mas­ters of dif­fer­ent gen­er­a­tions and major Russ­ian artists, includ­ing aca­d­e­mi­cians of the Russ­ian Acad­e­my of Arts, whose works have become clas­sics of Russ­ian art.

Dur­ing the Great Patri­ot­ic War and in the post-war years, the Grekov artists made a great con­tri­bu­tion to the per­pet­u­a­tion of mil­i­tary exploits. Many of the studio’s artists were par­tic­i­pants in the Great Patri­ot­ic War and reached Berlin. Through­out the war artists of the M.B. Grekov Stu­dio served in the active army and con­tin­ued to record every­thing they saw and expe­ri­enced, which enabled them to reli­ably and con­vinc­ing­ly con­vey the liv­ing breath of these ter­ri­ble and hard times.

Before us is an impar­tial reflec­tion of mil­i­tary real­i­ty, ren­dered by the brush of bat­tle painters. The war became a school of pro­fes­sion­al skill for them, con­nect­ing artists with the army, bring­ing them clos­er to the Russ­ian sol­dier at a moment of the high­est upsurge of his spir­i­tu­al and phys­i­cal strength. Sketch­es of com­bat episodes and front­line land­scapes, every por­trait made from life, each sketch – this entire pic­to­r­i­al chron­i­cle became an invalu­able basis for the works created.

Exhi­bi­tion organisers:

Depart­ment of Cul­ture of the Min­istry of Defence of the Russ­ian Federation

Depart­ment of Cul­ture of the City of Moscow

Stu­dio of Mil­i­tary Artists named after M.B. Grekov

Zaryadye Park

Stu­dio of Mil­i­tary Artists named after M. B. Grekov

Direc­tor: Tatyana Samarskaya

Head of the Project and Exhi­bi­tion Depart­ment: Andrey Stepansky

Project and Exhi­bi­tion Depart­ment: Alexan­der Koshelev, Andrey Vysokolov, Dmit­ry Grekulov, Vasil­isa Zaprud­no­va, Ele­na Zbro­d­i­na, Evge­ny Kudi­nov, Olga Movchan, Andrey Petrov, Niko­lai Sere­gin, Eldar Seregin

Depart­ment of Funds: Iri­na Lebe­de­va, Tatyana Mitina

Restora­tion: Ivan Krivshinko

Con­tract Ser­vice: Tatyana Shishko­va, Mikhail Istomin

Zaryadye Park

Direc­tor: Ivan Demidov

Head of Depart­ment of Sci­en­tif­ic and Edu­ca­tion­al Projects: Ele­na Voitsekhovskaya

Head of Exhi­bi­tion Projects Depart­ment: Dmit­ry Shishkin

Exhi­bi­tion Projects Depart­ment: Alexan­der Danilov, Iri­na Osipo­va, Anna Malik-Korolenko­va, Anas­ta­sia Khovenko, Ele­na Gol­ube­va, Anna Shnei­der, Ilya Dvin­skikh, Natalya Evsee­va, Mar­fa Makee­va, Vic­to­ria Cherne­ga, Lil­iana Gabelaya, Mile­na Kharitonova

Proof read­er: Natalia Matviechko

Trans­la­tion into Eng­lish: Patri­cia Donegan

Tech­ni­cal coor­di­na­tion of the project: Accent cre­ative com­mu­ni­ca­tions agency – Kse­nia Fareso­va, Olga Stepano­va, Ele­na Shevchenko, Olga Mar­tyno­va, Maria Guse­va, Vasi­ly Faresov, Kse­nia Pano­va, Eliza­ve­ta Navt­senya, Ale­na Lebe­de­va, Niki­ta Zenin, Maria Ivano­va, Anna Minko­va, Tama­ra Skvortsova

Archi­tec­tur­al bureau ARKh-KUPE: Ilya Kurenkov, Iri­na Peshkova

Graph­ic design: Dmit­ry Zimin

Expo­si­tion con­struc­tion: OOO NV EXPO – Pavel Strukov, Niko­lay Ushakov, Oleg Ivanov, Yuri Shatal­in, Dmit­ry Kovrizhnykh

Expo­si­tion instal­la­tion: IP Demyanov

Light­ing design: IP Abramenko

Logis­tics: ANT Logistic

Insur­ance of exhibits: Ingosstrakh