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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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Peripheral Visions

Peripheral Visions

02 October — 30 November 2015      A SOLO EXHIBITION OF OLGA CHERNYSHEVA

A special project of the Sixth Moscow Biennale, Peripheral Visions is a solo exhibition from the internationally celebrated, Moscow-based artist Olga Chernysheva, curated by GRAD director Elena Sudakova.

Peripheral Visions

02 October — 30 November 2015

A SOLO EXHIBITION OF OLGA CHERNYSHEVA


Curated by Elena Sudakova

Exhibition design by Katya Sivers


Photographs by Sophia Schorr-Kon


A leading figure in the artistic generation of 1990s Moscow, internationally acclaimed artist Olga Chernysheva documents the interactions of people and objects with the structures and spaces of contemporary Russia. In a solo exhibition at GRAD, Chernysheva focusses particularly on the experience of the individual in the neglected institutional spaces of abandoned museums and offices, taking over the gallery with a range of work in a variety of media.

Moscow is permeated with the relics and sentiments of its Soviet history, and Chernysheva’s scenes appear as if they are from another time, like artefacts of a contemporary era. Included in the exhibition are thirty new and unseen drawings and sculptural objects, interspersed with the videos and photographs that have brought Chernysheva international acclaim.

Chernysheva’s practice developed in parallel with the seismic changes brought on by the decline of the Soviet Union. Her powerful images record strangers unselfconsciously navigating the practices of everyday life. Eschewing social criticism or judgement, she continues to document the people and objects that she feels are ignored by mainstream narratives. This exhibition highlights the power of an artistic ‘peripheral’ vision to broaden perception and bring attention to issues relegated to the margins of our everyday thought processes.

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Peripheral Visions Documentary Theatre Programme

In conjunction with the exhibition, GRAD will host a series of three documentary theatre performances on the themes of immigration and social inequality in Bulgaria, Russia, and the UK. Curated by Molly Flynn, the series includes works by the London-based Ukrainian theatre collective Molodyi teatr, Moscow-based performer/director Talgat Batalov, and Theatre Replika, Bulgaria’s leading documentary theatre company. This programme supports GRAD’s commitment to bring new insights into Eastern European art, design and culture through sharing specialist knowledge in ways that capture the imagination and inspire new ideas.

Bloody East Europeans, Molodyi Teatr

09 October 2015

Tickets £15 (Concessions £10)
7:30 pm

For tickets call +44 (0) 20 7637 7274 or purchase online with your paypal account here. For any other questions please contact GRAD at info@grad-london.com.


Performed in the style of a church-basement vaudeville, musical-satire Bloody East Europeans comes to GRAD from the London-based theatre collective Molodyi Teatr. The play features untrained actors from across the former Eastern Bloc telling true stories of Eastern European immigrants in the UK: from night clubs in Stratford to Border Agency bureaucracy.

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Uzbek, Talgat Batalov

23 October 2015

Tickets £15 (Concessions £10)
7:30 pm

For tickets call +44 (0) 20 7637 7274 or purchase online with your paypal account here. For any other questions please contact GRAD at info@grad-london.com.


Talgat Batalov’s autobiographical production Uzbek recounts the performer’s own experience immigrating to Moscow from Tashkent at the age of nineteen. A ‘stand-up comedy solo show’, Uzbek is a sarcastic deconstruction of Batalov’s own national identity as a Muscovite-Uzbek of Tatar descent. In the show, Batalov presents his audience members with his actual immigration papers, raising questions around the status of documents and the performance of national identity in contemporary culture. Uzbek is a co-production of Teatr.doc and the Joseph Beuys Theatre.

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We Are the Rubbish from Eastern Europe, Theatre Replika

12 — 13 November 2015

Tickets £15 (Concessions £10)
7:30 pm

For tickets call +44 (0) 20 7637 7274 or purchase online with your paypal account here. For any other questions please contact GRAD at info@grad-london.com.


Theatre Replika, Bulgaria’s leading documentary theatre company, presents We Are the Rubbish From Eastern Europe, in which actors share true stories from Bulgarians living on the streets in Sofia as well as those who chose to move abroad. Through the rubric of rubbish, both literal and figurative, Theatre Replika’s remarkable work interrogates the lasting legacy of Socialism in a contemporary Bulgarian context. Directed by Georg Genoux, We Are the Rubbish from Eastern Europe is supported by the Goethe Institute Bulgaria.

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Peripheral Visions Events

EKATERINA DEGOT IN CONVERSATION WITH OLGA CHERNYSHEVA

15 October 2015

One of the most prominent Russian artists Olga Chernysheva, a leading figure in the artistic generation of 1990s Moscow, is joined in conversation by world-renowned art historian and curator Ekaterina Degot to discuss her internationally acclaimed practice. The discussion takes place in within the exhibition at GRAD.

Part of the official FRIEZE programme of events. Free admission.

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Peripheral Visions Private View

01 October 2015

Guests, press and exhibition lenders joined Olga Chernysheva and the GRAD team to celebrate the opening of Peripheral Visions.

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