The Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of avant-garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. The term covers many separate, but inextricably related, art movements that flourished at the time; including Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Zaum, Imaginism, and Neo-primitivism. Many of the artists who were born, grew up or were active in what is now Belarus and Ukraine, are also classified in the Ukrainian avant-garde.
Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov was a Russian–American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After that he lived and worked on Long Island, United States.
Oleg Vassiliev was a Russian painter associated with the Soviet Nonconformist Art style. Vassiliev emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1990 and later lived and worked in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Ekaterina Borisovna Rubleva is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Ivan Shefer, she is the 2009 Cup of Russia bronze medalist, the 2004 Bofrost Cup bronze medalist, and a four-time Russian national medalist.
The Russia women's national water polo team represents Russia in international women's water polo competitions and friendly matches.
Janine Gordon, better known by her professional name Jah Jah or MC Jah Jah, is an American rapper, photographer, and multimedia artist.
Boris Efimovich Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a global distinguished professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor of aesthetics, art history, and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London.
Olga Kisseleva is a French artist. Olga Kisseleva works mainly in installation, science and media art. Her work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale art installations and interactive exhibitions.
Igor Vladimirovich Mukhin, also known as Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin, is a Russian photographer. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.
Foxy Production is a New York contemporary art gallery founded by Michael Gillespie and John Thomson.
Anton Vidokle is an artist and founder of e-flux. Born 1965, Vidokle lives in New York and Berlin.
Pavel Pepperstein is a Russian artist and writer.
Ekaterina Degot is a Russian art historian, art writer, and curator based in Moscow, Cologne and Graz.
Andrei Viktorovich Monastyrski is an author, poet, artist and art theorist, one of the leaders of the Moscow Conceptualist movement along with Ilya Kabakov.
Boris Igorevich Matrosov is a Russian artist, former member of the art group World Champions and Chair of the Avant-garde Club (CLAVA). Matrosov is best known for his work Happiness Is Not Far on a Perm riverbank.
Haralampi G. Oroschakoff is an Austrian painter, writer and publisher. He is considered a pioneer of the East-West dialogue in art and a reviver of the reception of Eastern iconography in Western painting. Oroschakoff participated in TEDxLambeth 2019 as a speaker regarding the subject matter of conceptualism.
The Russian pavilion houses Russia's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
Volker Diehl is a German gallery owner. He mainly exhibits contemporary art in the gallery "DIEHL" (Berlin).
Georgy (Gustav) Konstantinovich Guryanov was a Soviet and Russian musician and artist.
Forbidden Art 2006 was an art exhibition that took place from the 7th to 31 March 2007 at the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center. The curator of the exhibition was art critic Andrey Erofeev.
