The Art Newspaper Russia is part of the world's most competent art media (which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2025), and Russia's only international art edition (in 2022, the newspaper celebrated its 10th anniversary). Edition size is 70 thousand copies. The newspaper aims to include the Russian-speaking audience in the global artistic context and help integrate Russian art into the global art scene.
This Is the Best We Have. The Art Newspaper Russia Selection exhibition features artists from different generations and showcases a wide range of imaginative approaches, a variety of styles and perspectives represented on the Russian art scene. The show will include selected works from the 1960s until the present day, which were discussed in interviews published by The Art Newspaper Russia in the book 25 Interviews with Contemporary Artists. 2014-2024, as well as works presented at exhibitions the interviews refer to. The project is a retrospective of contemporary Russian art over more than half a century, which will evidence how previous generations influenced emerging artists: from Ilya Kabakov and Eric Bulatov to Recycle Group and Alina Glazun.
The exhibition will feature works by the following artists: Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Boris Orlov, Leonid Sokov, Pavel Pepperstein, Valery Chtak, Irina Korina, Alina Glazun, AES+F, Andrey Bartenev, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Elena Kovylina, Taisiya Korotkova, Nina Kotel, Valery Koshlyakov, Nikolai Polissky, Oscar Rabin, Aidan Salakhova, Maria Safronova, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Recycle Group, Sergey Shekhovtsov.
[Exerpts from the exhibition press release]
Works by AES+F presented in the exhibition: The Feast of Trimalchio. Allegory #3 (Triumph of Africa), 2010, c-print; The Feast of Trimalchio. Allegory #4 (Abduction of Europe). 2010, c-print; The Feast of Trimalchio. Allegory #6, 2010, c-print; The Feast of Trimalchio. Allegory #7 (Secure World), 2010, c-print; Allegoria Sacra. The Dance, 2012, c-print.