Painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video art, graphic art, objects, performance

«Freedom» artists: Maria Anwander (Austria), Christina Georgiou (Cyprus), Alexander Glandien (Germany – Austria), Manos Grafanakis (Greece – Spain), Michael Johansson (Sweden), Antoine Coquard (France), Victoriya & Dmitry Korol (Ukraine), Tatiana Kochemasova & Maria Vyazhevich & Nadezhda Mukhina (Russia), Alexandra Mazur-Knyazeva (Russia, Vladimir – Moscow), Allison Maletz (USA), Alexander Pogorzhelsky (Moscow), Mayma Pushkareva (Russia, Tver – Moscow), Anastasia Sautenko (ASia) (Russia, Perm – Moscow), Maria Sundby (Norway), Svetlana Hansemann (Uzbekistan, Bukhra – Russia, Saratov), Sabrina Harri (Finland), Fotini Chandra (Switzerland – Greece)

«Liberty» artists: Dmitriy Ablin & Polina Druskinas & Alexander Dorokhov (Moscow), Svetozara Alexandrova (Bulgaria – Austria), Habib Asal (Jordan – Switzerland), Rania Bellou (Greece), Daphna Weinstein (Great Britain), Nikita Garets (Ukraine), Alfred Dong (Jinming Dong) (China – USA), Ivars Drulle (Latvia), Vita Dumchyute (Moscow), Alexey Dyakov (Moscow), Oksana Kapishnikova (Kyrgyzstan), Taisiya Korotkova (Moscow), Robertas Narkus & Milda Zabarauskaite (Lithuania), Ivan Novikov (Moscow), Tatyana Pautov (Russia – Israel), Victor Petrosyan (Ukraine – Russia, Moscow), Jeanne de Petriconi (France), Simona da Pozzo (Italy), Тamás Réthey-Prikkel (Hungary), Alexsey Rudikov (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod), Yana Smetanina (Moscow), Samuil Stoyanov (Bulgaria), Heidi Hankaniemi (Finland – Spain), Anastasiya Khoroshilova (Moscow), Florian Egermann (Germany)

The project consists of two separate exhibitions that share the project’s title Liberty/Freedom and that display the artists’ reflections on the two opposite meanings of this notion: Freedom as a reference system of values determining the individual as a social being and Liberty as the existential self-awareness of the individual who charts his behavior based on his own interests and needs. Young artists reflect on the borderline space of semantic series and on the search for convergences and divergences between such notions as Freedom and Liberty.

Social Freedom is what constitutions and declarations guarantee us. How do young people today feel within the limits determined by law? Do they choose consciously, voluntarily to stay within the “limits of freedom,” whose real restrictions are fear and death?

The concept of Liberty, which stems from hoary antiquity and refers to a conscious choice of a line of behavior, has almost disappeared from contemporary speech and has preserved its narrow meaning only in the slang of prisons and labor camps. Nevertheless, one should recall that Liberty is above all the independent behavior of an individual, his noncompliance to the will of others, and his freedom of choice and invariance of actions that often go against the established limits of norms and rules. Limits do not mean anything when a person is “at liberty.” He is free to obey or protest, free to accept or refuse a course of action set down by society, and free from internal and exterior boundaries determining each individual’s place in society.