EXHIBITION
as part of the XIII MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY “PHOTOBIENNALE – 2020”
7 SEPT 2020 — 18 OCT 2020
FLOWERS FOR DOCTORS
Curator: Maria Lavrova
Department of culture of the city of Moscow
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Picture Agency
.ART domain zone
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, the Picture Agency, Reikhan Kasimova-Trustee of MAMM and co-founder of the domain zone .ART and the Malevich platform launched the flashmob "Flowers for doctors" (#FlowersForDoctors) during the self-isolation period, as an action to support health workers.
MAMM has selected the most interesting work with hashtag (#FlowersForDoctors) . They now comprise the exhibition “Flowers for doctors”.
The show features works from masters of contemporary Russian art and from young artists, including Ilya Kabakov, Pavel Pepperstein, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Nikita Alekseev, Andrei Filippov, Igor Shelkovsky, Paruyr Davtyan, Evgeny Granilshchikov and others, along with exhibits from non-professional artists who joined in the flash mob.
The exhibition also includes videos and photoreportage that record the medics’ heroic work on round-the-clock shifts during the most stressful moments of the epidemic.
7 SEPTEMBER 2020 г.
Honoured guests at the first MAMM exhibition opening on 7 September will be the health workers themselves, along with all those who sent them gifts and can come along to say a personal ‘Thank you!’
At the end of the exhibition, an auction of the works included in the exhibition will be held. The proceeds will be divided so that 40% goes to support artists who also found themselves socially unprotected during the epidemic, who lost commissions and previously scheduled exhibitions, while the remaining 60% will be donated as targeted assistance to the families of doctors and health workers who passed away during the epidemic.