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Shabolovka Avant-Garde.
Model for a New Life, 1:1 Scale
Avant-garde Center on Shabolovka
2015
2015
The exhibition told the story of a showcase residential quarter of the avant-garde era, a neighborhood designed to shape every stage of Soviet life—from birth to death—through new architectural typologies.
Located within a one-kilometer radius of the famous Komintern Radio Station tower by Vladimir Shukhov on Shabolovka Street, this area saw the emergence of key modernist landmarks between the 1920s and the mid–1930s: the Khavsko-Shabolovsky residential complex, a school with an astronomy observation tower, a student dormitory for the Textile Institute, the Donskoy public baths, the Mostorg department store, and—within the grounds of the Donskoy Monastery—the Museum of Anti-Religion, Moscow’s first crematorium, and a columbarium.
Each of these buildings contributed to the overarching goal of creating a new Soviet way of life, and many were designed by leading architects of the time.
The exhibition was built around symbolic objects representing each structure, which themselves served as display cases for archival materials and surfaces for visual content.
Newly digitized archival newsreels made specifically for the exhibition featured anti-religious marches, the cremation of the first body in Moscow’s crematorium, and scenes of everyday life in a Soviet commune.
Located within a one-kilometer radius of the famous Komintern Radio Station tower by Vladimir Shukhov on Shabolovka Street, this area saw the emergence of key modernist landmarks between the 1920s and the mid–1930s: the Khavsko-Shabolovsky residential complex, a school with an astronomy observation tower, a student dormitory for the Textile Institute, the Donskoy public baths, the Mostorg department store, and—within the grounds of the Donskoy Monastery—the Museum of Anti-Religion, Moscow’s first crematorium, and a columbarium.
Each of these buildings contributed to the overarching goal of creating a new Soviet way of life, and many were designed by leading architects of the time.
The exhibition was built around symbolic objects representing each structure, which themselves served as display cases for archival materials and surfaces for visual content.
Newly digitized archival newsreels made specifically for the exhibition featured anti-religious marches, the cremation of the first body in Moscow’s crematorium, and scenes of everyday life in a Soviet commune.
Curator
Aleksandra Selivanova
Exhibition Architecture
Ksenia Yankova (K-Masterskaya)
Ksenia Bessarab (K-Masterskaya)
Photography
Maria Fadeeva
Aleksandra Selivanova
Exhibition Architecture
Ksenia Yankova (K-Masterskaya)
Ksenia Bessarab (K-Masterskaya)
Photography
Maria Fadeeva
