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The New East goes underground
The New East nurtures dozens of dynamic contemporary art scenes that you’ll miss if you just visit the big art museums. Why not go to some of the region’s lesser-known galleries and check out some of their exciting, fast-changing, and thought-provoking exhibitions
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Inside the Sofia art space in a rooftop swimming pool -
The Chechen artist confronting his country’s turbulent past -
Explore this summer’s landmark art programme through the eyes of its curators -
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How Russia's leading contemporary art museum changed the art world -
Making the most of your time in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s art and trade hub -
Your guide to creative Yekaterinburg, Russia's capital of Constructivism -
The provocative Slovenian artist on staging her own propaganda spectacle -
How Russia's super-rich make and spend their millions -
Meet the Kyrgyz women bringing the public back to galleries -
The Austrian attaché bringing contemporary art to Russia’s regions -
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An interview with Emilia Kabakov -
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Russia’s premier surreal-medieval-cyber art collective -
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How one sculptor turned Holocaust atrocities into devastatingly beautiful art -
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Bishkek’s pioneering art impresario -
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Artemy Troitsky on the cost of Russia’s decade of sex, drugs and excess -
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From Iceland to India, explore our highlights of artists on show this year -
Inside the digital life of a 20-something Ukrainian war veteran -
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A lost Yiddish utopia for Ukraine and its afterlife in modern-day Kharkiv -
Giving Russia’s most up-and-coming artists space to breathe -
Explore this year's highlights from artists representing the New East -
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Explore post-truth and reality with our highlights from Latvia -
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Meet the artist who walked across Moldova in search of cultural identity -
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Inside the spirited collage worlds of Sergei Sviatchenko -
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How two radically different galleries are putting Kiev on the contemporary art map -
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Meet the artist mapping the mythology of the post-Soviet landscape -
Introducing a born-digital generation of artists from the new east -
Three decades on, Russia’s artists are still dealing with the fallout from Chernobyl -
Behind the Soviet-era art collective that continues to defy the norm