Moscow conceptualism

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The Moscow Conceptualism is a combination of the ideas of the Western conceptualism and the Soviet Sots Art . Manuela Schöpp writes in her dissertation: “The term conceptual art or conceptualism was imported to Russia. Conceptual Art, for its part, offered itself for reception in Moscow Conceptualism,… ”. The term conceptualism comes from the American artist Sol Le Witt . Proponents of conceptualism do not see the essence of art in the finished work of art, but in the idea (idea art).

"Moscow Conceptualism got its name from an article by Boris Groys entitled" Moscow Romantic Conceptualism "(Moskovskij romantičeskij konceptualizm), which was published in A-Ja magazine in 1979."

- Manuela Schöpp

Features of Moscow conceptualism

The literature of Moscow Conceptualism is characterized by strong intertextuality , intermediality and a rejection of the Soviet understanding of art. The boundaries between mass culture , popular culture and high culture should be overcome and the role of the author reinvented. It is not the author who should shape the work, but the recipient. Methods such as intertextuality and citation can no longer clearly identify the author and in action art the boundaries between artist and audience are blurred.

Well-known representatives

Group collective actions , Dimitrij Prigov , Vladimir Sorokin , Lev Rubinstein , Ilja Kabakow , Andrei Monastyrski , Vadim Zakharov , Nikita Alexejew , Juri Albert , Sabine Hänsgen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/schoepp-manuela-2011-05-04/PDF/schoepp.pdf Manuela Schöpp: "Conceptualism this side and beyond the Iron Curtain", dissertation 2012, requested on 14. January 2014
  2. ↑ http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/schoepp-manuela-2011-05-04/PDF/schoepp.pdf Manuela Schöpp: "Conceptualism this side and beyond the Iron Curtain", dissertation 2012, requested on 14. January 2014