100 Years On: Revisiting the First Russian Art Exhibition of 1922

Contributions by Ewa Bérard Contributions by Linda Boersma Contributions by Sebastian Borkhardt Contributions by Kasper Braskén Contributions by Ilia Doronchenkov Contributions by Éva Forgács Contributions by Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier Contributions by Christina Lodder Contributions by Iryna Makedon Contributions by Myroslava Mudrak Contributions by Toshiharu Omuka Contributions by Ludmila Piters-Hofmann Contributions by Willem Jan Renders Contributions by Monika Rüthers Contributions by Ulrich Schmid Contributions by Merse Pál Szeredi Contributions by Daniel Kroll Contributions by Naila Rahimova Contributions by Xadija Asadova Contributions by Natalia Avtonomova Contributions by Irina Karasik Contributions by Irina Kochergina Contributions by Liubov Pchelkina Contributions by Dilyara Sadykova Contributions by Isabel Wünsche Contributions by Miriam Leimer Edited by Isabel Wünsche Edited by Miriam Leimer

Book cover: 100 Years On: Revisiting the First Russian Art Exhibition of 1922

Extent: 272 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln

Subjects: Art & Art History, Slavic Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2022)

ISBN: 9783412525644

8.86 x 11.22 inches

Price: $99.00

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Moving away from the narrow focus on the avant-garde, the volume presents new research that examines the exhibition’s broader historical scope and cultural implications. The reception of the exhibition within artistic circles in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Japan in the 1920s is addressed, as well as the disposition of many of the works exhibited. The combination of longer, thematic essays and short features, along with reproductions of newly identified works and a selection of unpublished archival materials make this book valuable to both a scholarly and a general readership.


The First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung), which opened at the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on October 15, 1922, and later travelled to Amsterdam, introduced a broad Western audience to the most recent artistic developments in Russia. The extensive show – more than a thousand works, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures, stage designs, architectural models, and works of porcelain – was remarkably inclusive in its scope, which ranged from traditional figurative painting to the latest constructions of the Russian avant-garde. Coming on the heels of the Treaty of Rapallo, the exhibition was a first cultural step towards bilateral relations between two young and yet internationally isolated new states – the Weimar Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic. Moving away from the narrow focus on the avant-garde, the volume presents new research that examines the exhibition’s broader historical scope and cultural implications. The reception of the exhibition within artistic circles in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Japan in the 1920s is addressed, as well as the disposition of many of the works exhibited. The combination of longer, thematic essays and short features, along with reproductions of newly identified works and a selection of unpublished archival materials make this book valuable to both a scholarly and a general readership.

  • Contributions by Ewa Bérard
  • Contributions by Linda Boersma
  • Contributions by Sebastian Borkhardt
  • Contributions by Kasper Braskén
  • Contributions by Ilia Doronchenkov
  • Contributions by Éva Forgács
  • Contributions by Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier
  • Contributions by Christina Lodder
  • Contributions by Iryna Makedon
  • Contributions by Myroslava Mudrak
  • Contributions by Toshiharu Omuka
  • Contributions by Ludmila Piters-Hofmann
  • Contributions by Willem Jan Renders
  • Contributions by Monika Rüthers
  • Contributions by Ulrich Schmid
  • Contributions by Merse Pál Szeredi
  • Contributions by Daniel Kroll
  • Contributions by Naila Rahimova
  • Contributions by Xadija Asadova
  • Contributions by Natalia Avtonomova
  • Contributions by Irina Karasik
  • Contributions by Irina Kochergina
  • Contributions by Liubov Pchelkina
  • Contributions by Dilyara Sadykova
  • Contributions by Isabel Wünsche
  • Contributions by Miriam Leimer
  • Edited by Isabel Wünsche
  • Edited by Miriam Leimer