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Past exhibitions

Mother Tongue 09 March — 11 May 2019

Apparition of the Last Soviet Artist in London 16 October — 17 October 2018

ShadowMemory x Art Night Open 07 July — 08 July 2018

ShadowMemory х Ural Biennial 14 September — 12 November 2017

Postponed Futures 26 April — 24 June 2017

Destined To Be Happy 02 December 2016 — 28 February 2017

Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine' 18 June — 15 October 2016

Unexpected Eisenstein 17 February — 30 April 2016

Between The Lines 26 January — 08 February 2016

Peripheral Visions 02 October — 30 November 2015

Bonobo 17 July — 30 August 2015

DNA Swap 05 June — 11 June 2015

Documenting Ukraine 14 May — 17 May 2015

Borderlands 20 March — 16 May 2015

Bolt 06 December 2014 — 28 February 2015

A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia 27 September — 26 November 2014

Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain 20 June — 31 August 2014

The Shabolovka Tower Model 31 May — 12 June 2014

Taint 08 April — 03 May 2014

Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen 17 January — 29 March 2014

Utopia LTD 21 September — 20 December 2013

See USSR 07 June — 31 August 2013

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Between The Lines

Between The Lines

26 January — 08 February 2016

This January GRAD hosts Between the Lines, a collaborative project by students from Goldsmiths University and ICA Moscow. Curated by Stanislav Shuripa, the exhibition prompts audiences to apply a critical eye to our social reality and look beyond the established narratives to ‘read between the lines’. Part of an ongoing programme of creative exchange between the two institutions, the works on display were created in response to a series of workshops and seminars undertaken during a 2015 summer school held at the Academic Dacha near the town of Vishniy Volochek.

Between The Lines

26 January — 08 February 2016

Curated by Stanislav Shuripa


Our social reality is produced though discourses and narratives. It is possible to establish a critical distance by being sensitive to unexpressed, connotative, indirect or even encrypted meanings. This cultural practice is well known, though it is perhaps more widespread than we think; many people achieve this distance through various means and for various reasons, sometimes unknowingly. Artists, however, are often conscious to it. This is a technique of indirect resistance that allows us to perceive and transmit meanings through implications, hints or hidden allusions. The artists featured in this exhibition approach this idea of reading between the lines on various levels and through diverse practices.


The practice of reading between the lines was an important strategy for unofficial cultures that existed during the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. As a result, this action carries historical significance for contemporary Russian artists, who are once again using the technique to scrutinise the current contradictory political atmosphere. In more open societies reading between the lines helped to subvert the dominant ideologies through reinterpreting the images and meanings distributed by mass culture. Those who take this alternative stance can be seen as archaeologists of meaning, who excavate possible, secondary, or implied realities.


The artists featured in this exhibition make works that invite viewers to take part in the process of the production of meaning. Their works can therefore be interpreted as fragmented texts or statements with several layers of signification. Alice Kern, Ilya Plotnikov, and Maria Egorova refer to the tradition of the ready-made and objet trouvé – for them an everyday object is not only the beginning of a language game, but also a way to point to complex social structures and historical narratives. Evgenia Bonevert, Michael Dignam, Sophie Hoyle and Helen Knowles choose to explore the socio-political conditions of imagination through individual video works, where the movements of bodies, machines and images overlap, intersect and supplement each other as a means of mapping the connections between images, emotions and power.


Stanislav Shuripa


Participating artists include:
Francis Almendárez
Liza Artamonova
Sofia Astashova
Evgenia Bonèvert
Ilina Chervonnaya
Michael Dignam
Daniel Dressel
Maria Egorova
Sophie Hoyle
Alice Kern
Helen Knowles
Ilya Plotnikov
Masha Poluektova
Marina Rudenko
Himali Singh Soin
Sergey Tubashov

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Between The Lines Private View

25 January 2016

Guests and press joined the artists, curator Stanislav Shuripa and the GRAD Team to celebrate the opening of Between the Lines

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