Art Focus Now
Art Focus Now is an online platform on a mission to provide a well-reported, timely overview of the post-soviet art space to an international audience in English and focus on what is happening now in contemporary art in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics; the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Liza Bobkova: I want to be at the edge of my capabilities
Valery Yurlov: it’s time to comprehend what we see
Russian artist Olga Tobreluts: I travel like Faust seduced by Mephistopheles
Sergey Katran: the most interesting things happen in our minds
Maria Safronova: we can only sell our own dragons
Roman Sakin: the result of art is more important than the process
Irina Petrakova: being not relevant is very fashionable
Georgy Ostretsov: I want to tell everything about everything
Egor Plotnikov: on reconstructing the art of landscape painting
Евгения Буравлева: о философском ландшафте сегодня
Katya-Anna Taguti: a plaster mold from face and soul
Haim Sokol: It’s not even death, but a transformation that tricks death
MishMash: Art is really a salvation from reality
‘Vorozheya’: We discover that the internet remembers far from everything.
Aristarkh Chernyshev: People want to believe that someone will come and save them.
Irina Korina: I really do love artists, exhibits and museums...
Taus Makhacheva: My doubts became part of my method
Ekaterina Muromtseva: What it feels to be a part of history
Andrey Kuzkin: I went to the prison like I was going to work.
Pavel Pepperstein and Sonya Stereostyrski found a visual equivalent of white noise
"I smashed my family tea set": Evgeny Granilshchikov on the nature of Russian colonialism
Alexander Kosolapov, Duchamp's Soviet disciple
The All-Seeing Eye of Google is watching us? Interview with the Recycle art group
Why paint Brezhnev in 2020? Interview with Vladimir Dubossarsky.
Katya Bochavar: I transition from one profession into another. Interview to Russian Art Focus
Igor Samolet: any person is a document of what happens around. Interview to Russian Art Focus
Alexander Povzner: what the hell should I mess with clay for? Interview with Russian Art Focus
Russian Art Focus: interview with Maria Koshenkova
Russian Art Focus: interview with Olga and Oleg Tatarintsev
Russian Art Focus: interview with Igor Shelkovsky (Chelkovski)