ABSTRACTION WORLD 2024
International Contest and Exhibition of Abstract Art
Methods of participation: IN PERSON and IN ABSENTIA
Exhibition Dates: November 14-20, 2024
Registration deadline: until November 13, 2024
Opening ceremony: November 14, 2024, 20:00.
Award ceremony: November 20, 2024, 17:00.
Venue: The Center for Contemporary Arts and the Art Commune Gallery in the Kievsky
Shopping Mall, Moscow, Kievskaya str., 2, Kievsky Shopping Mall, 4th floor.
Exhibition opening hours: 10:00-22:00
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There are three forms of participation:
1) Personal partiсipation: you visit Moscow/St. Petersburg and bring artwork in person.
2) Artwork partiсipation: you ship artwork, we exhibit it
2) Art print participation: you send file, we print and exhibit it
The forms of participation have equal rights. All works are exhibited in St. Petersburg Exhibition Hall and judged by the jury.
How to participate:
There are two ways of registration:
Method 1: registration by sending information about the work and the author through the registration forms.
The author registers each work separately by following the link: REGISTRATION
Method 2: Send your data and jpg. pictures (by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ):
1) Application form (download Word, PDF)
2) Labels for each art object (download in Word, PDF);
3) Applicant’s photo (size of at least 3x4 cm)
4) Images of the competition works (not less than 200 dpi, not more than 20 Mb)
5) A copy or screenshot of the registration fee payment. We accept Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Yandex and PayPal.
You may find information about the cost of participation in the section:
a) "Participation fee / organizational fee"
b) "How to pay an organizational fee"
After you send all registration documents to the Organizing Committee, you receive a notification letter with assigned "Participant's number" from the administrator.
The number of art objects
Author (or a group of co-authors) can participate with any amount of works. In addition, each artwork will be assessed as an independent item.
Can I Ship My Work and Not Attend?
Yes, you can ship and not attend. There are various options for hiring a technician on the application form too, but you can get a friend to hang for you to save money.
This is the general process:
You would ship your work to our storage to arrive at the set date. If you have used an agent, because you are shipping from outside of the UK and EU, you would ship it to them and they would forward the delivery onto to our storage after checking through UK customs Our technicians would transport it within London to the venue, check it and hang it according to your hanging plan. Promo staff would process any sales on your behalf. It would be transferred to you. After the show any work not sold, the technicians would repack and transport back to our storage space. You would receive an email from our shipping department that there is work to pick up. You would arrange your shipper to pick up again (or, depending on your shipper, we could do the paperwork this side for free).
Shipping of Accepted Entries
Artists must provide for incoming shipping and insurance to the Moscow House of Artists. Artists who reside outside of the Russia, as well as artists whose packaged work exceeds standard FedEx or UPS length and girth measurements, requiring the use of freight shipping, will be responsible for BOTH incoming AND return shipping costs and scheduling arrangements, as well as providing transit insurance if so desired. A prepaid return shipping label must be provided by the artist in the above instances, along with any return shipping commercial invoices and customs documents needed. In addition to being responsible for incoming and return shipping and transit insurance, artists who reside outside the Russia will also be responsible for any expenses related to customs clearance, including duties and taxes and/or the hiring of a customs broker if necessary. In most cases, except those as outlined above, the Organizer will provide insured, return shipping via common carrier (UPS or Fed Ex will be used in most instances). Artists who wish to have their works returned through a fine arts shipping company or artists whose works need to ship via a freight company, will have to do so at their own expense (both incoming and return). Works will be returned packed in the same materials and manner in which they were received, therefore crates, boxes and other shipping containers must be strong enough for the return trip. Artists who choose to hand-deliver their work to the Moscow House of Artists must also pick up their work. The Moscow House of Artists will not reimburse travel. Delivery and pick up hours are Monday-Friday, 8-4. We are NOT able to accommodate weekend deliveries.
ABSTRACTION WORLD 2024
International Contest and Exhibition of Abstract Art
Methods of participation: IN PERSON and IN ABSENTIA
Exhibition Dates: November 14-20, 2024
Registration deadline: until November 13, 2024
Opening ceremony: November 14, 2024, 20:00.
Award ceremony: November 20, 2024, 17:00.
Venue: The Center for Contemporary Arts and the Art Commune Gallery in the Kievsky
Shopping Mall, Moscow, Kievskaya str., 2, Kievsky Shopping Mall, 4th floor.
Exhibition opening hours: 10:00-22:00
Join online broadcasts in VKontakte
Theme "ABSTRACT REALITY"
We offer you to abstract and dive into the world of vivid experiences and new emotions. We offer you to experience the beauty and musicality of abstract art. According to its founders it’s the only one able to create a universal picture of the world order. We invite you to become the innovators of the XXI century and express your conception of art, as brave as it was in the twentieth century when the first avant-garde artists established new vision in arts (Kazimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky and Mikhail Larionov). Their art opened a new epoch in culture – establishing in our everyday life, finding expression in architecture, fashion, design and modern ideas of urbanism.
Undoubtedly, it’s free art which doesn't obey any dogmas or rules. It managed to serve its dynamism, energy, life, but achieved a certain elitarist status. Ability to rise above the ordinary level of consciousness, to penetrate the artist's intention, expressed by non-objective painting is a challenge not for a crowd, but special spectators – the most sensitive and internally ready for this experience.
Our dive will take place in several levels: 2d works (painting), 3d objects (fashion design) and be called the "fourth dimension" - installations with their movement, the ambiguity of the interpretation and message…
NOMINATIONS
1) Abstraction in painting:
- Suprematism
- Geometrical abstraction
- Neo-expressionism
- Neo-pop art
- Op-art
- Conceptualism
- Abstractionism
2) Abstraction in graphics
- Suprematism
- Geometrical abstraction
- Neo-expressionism
- Op-art
- Conceptualism
- Abstractionism
3) Abstraction in sculpture (- Installations -)
- Suprematist abstraction in sculpture
- Geometric abstraction in sculpture
- Conceptualism in sculpture
- Abstract art in sculpture
4) Abstraction in design
- Environmental design
- Interior design
- Concept in design
- Book design
5) Abstraction in fashion
6) Abstraction in textiles
7) Abstraction in arts and crafts
8) Abstraction in photography
- Microcosm
- Macrocosm
- Idea
- Conceptualism in photography
NOMINATIONS
in the illustrations of the great masters
SUPREMATISM
Planes and lines multicolored and different sizes having basic geometric shapes (straight line, circle, rectangle). Such compositions take on an inner movement and an equilibrated asymmetry.
Kazimir Malevich created the theory of suprematism, it later developed and enhanced by his followers and associates. Malevich rejected the rational understanding of the world, because it is unattainable "All the efforts of the human mind to make the world clear, bright, understandable remain unreachable, because it’s impossible to implement something that do not exist in the universe. Thus if the objective world does not have sense, the artist can not and should not not portray it.
In addition to Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexandra Exter and others developed the direction.
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| К.Малевич «Супрематическая композиция» |
Александр Родченко «Танец» |
GEOMETRICAL ABSTRACTIONISM
Geometrical shapes, colored planes, straight and broken lines are combined into non-figurative space, sometimes they are placed outside the illusory space. Rejection of linear perspective, of illusion of the depth of the picture.
Works: Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg.
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| Пит Мондриан «Нью-Йорк» |
Тео ванн Дусбург «Композиция» |
NEO-EXPRESSIONISM (ABSTRACT SURREALISM)
The style combining the principles of abstract and figurative art. Variety of lines and shapes, colors and textures. An important role is played by the spontaneity of creativity, automatism. All works together to reveal the image. But there is no aim to facilitate the perception of the viewer. For example Georg Baselitz turned pictures upside down, it complicated as well the understanding of figurative forms in his paintings.
Representatives: Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock. In Russian art Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko. His art is excellent because of the deep spiritual search of Mikhnov-Voitenko who compared his art to the one of icon-painter. His inner eyesight was concentrated on the spiritual world and vision.
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| Евгений Михнов-Войтенко «Путь паломника». |
Джексон Поллок «Маска» |
NEO-POP-ART
Art producing explosive, shocking effect. Pop art appeared in the 1950s. in the UK, a little later developed in the US. Artists of this direction reproduce the typical objects of modern life (household articles, packaging of goods, pieces of interior, machine parts, etc.), popular printed images of stars, newspaper clippings. This is a product of consumption culture, fixing the signs of ephemeral reality (objects now are short-live). Often artist mock banality, glamour and pathos. Using these materials (a sort of second-hand) artist creates a new and abstract reality, encodes a message to society. .
The most famous artists of Pop Art: Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake. Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
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| Энди Уорхол «Мерилин Монро» |
Питер Блейк «The Origins of Pop II» |
OP-ART
Art of optical (visual) illusions. It is based on the specificity of the visual perception of plane and spatial figures. It's the optical play: artist wants to deceive or to stimulate the eye of the viewer. Thus, the viewer participates in the art-precessus. Mainly used: geometric shapes, optical effects (dazzle, divided images, a calculated exact location of shapes, colors, brightness and contrast.
Representatives Viktor Vazarelli, Bridget Riley.
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| Виктор Вазарелли «Арлекин» |
Бриджит Райли «Loss» |
CONCEPTUALISM
Intellectual art, mostly ironic, arosed on the opposite to commercial art. Conceptualism - a triumph of ideas over emotions. This idea becomes an aim combining work and study. Supporters of conceptualism leave creating artwork to the announcement through art-objects their ideas. Works are often presented in open areas. An important role is played by instruction to the art object, as it invites the spectator and the author to the dialogue. After watching viewers can produce their own concept different from the author’s. Concentration on idea as a fundamental characteristic of conceptualism allows us to put it in the context of abstract art in general.
The most famous artists of this trend: Joseph Kosuth (basic theoretical), Ilya Kabakov. Anna Hübler Douglas, Robert Barry.
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| Джозеф Кошут. «Один и три стула». |
Илья Кабаков. «Каникулы». |
INSTALLATION
A reality created by artists. Objects break limits of sculpture interacting with the space which are placed in (interactivity). Viewers can be involved in demonstration processbecoming participants not only visitors. The sense of some installations depends on how the audience interact with it. An installation can appeal to different senses, offering a complex of sensations (tactile, auditory, olfactory, visual emotions). It uses audio-visual equipment, any technology and innovation.
Artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Mike Nelson.
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| Илья Кабаков «Человек, улетевший в космос из своей квартиры» |
Майк Нельсон. «Стамбульский караван-сарай» |
ABSTRACTION IN DESIGN
The area experienced the most massive and conceptual influence of abstract art in the twentieth century. Interior designers, manufacturers of furniture, household items, textiles were working over these ideas. Thanks to their interpretations we have the interior, which can be called modern. It embodies abstract ideas in 3d: color spots, smooth planes, metal details and constructions (heritage and development of constructivism, 1920-s), simplicity and utility as well. These interiors and objects are democratic, they do not dominate over a person, they create a comfortable environment.
ABSTRACTION IN FASHION
New fashion of the early twentieth century. It is also an experiment with form and color, it is a revolution in a person image, especially woman. We describe several most important steps. This, of course, a new geometric cut of Coco Chanel, simplicity and conciseness of the most famous works of Paul Poiret. Elsa Schiaparelli was the first designer who used the newspaper print, anticipated style of pop art long before it appearance.She also brought into fashion color shocking pink, previously have never been used in clothing. In the post-revolutionary Russian avant-garde works are used in the production of textiles, clothing and household items. It was a real incarnation of the avant-garde, vitally connected with abstract art (Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova). Later discoveries and techniquesof op-art are used in clothing to create an optical effect, beneficial for the presentation of body (for example, in casual and sporty clothes. New forms, materials and colors give the woman a whole new image, which allowed to change the inner world and a social role of a woman; they find the economical autonomy and independence, political rights. Clothing is not only a means of decoration, but also a declaration. This is the base high fashion (Fashion Art, haute couture) appeared and developed on.
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| Работы Эльзы Скиапарелли |
Работы Элис Палмер |
ABSTRACTION IN ARTS AND CRAFTS
Different interpretations of abstract ideas in handmade things. Interior decorations in loft-style (as heir to constructivism), geometrism, color spots. Non-figurative in paintings on silk, textile design etc. Endless figures (pattern) can also be considered as abstract elements. Due to their ambiguity, repetition in different cultures and sacral character they are in fact the oldest examples of abstraction. It has always been a desire to encrypt message or statement in symbols (arcane signs, codes)
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| Кельтские узоры и орнаменты |
Анастасия Беляева. Тарелка «Абстракция». |
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Евгений Михнов-Войтенко
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