THE BEST RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

The list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (49ART-arteex) -  of authors not older than 1960 year of birth , was made by  ARTEEX   based on their creations  evaluation , popularity , commercial activity  (their titles, awards , participations in exhibitions and fairs , auctions , mention in art-ratings , presence of their works in museum collections  and so on  were taken into consideration). 

Some authors were included in the list of Best contemporary artists within the programme   Discovery (based on expert recommendations), which allows to open new talents to the art-society.  

ARTEEX does its best to be objective making the list, but anyway it reflects only subjective position of ARTEEX.

The maximum number of names in the List is – 250 authors (Top-250). Nowadays the list is being supplemented. The list is open. ARTEEX is   considering suggestions of including authors in the list of best contemporary artists.

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Art duet MishМash

1999

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MishMash Art duet included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Misha Leykin was born in 1968; in 1994, he graduated from Moscow institute of Architects. Masha Sumnina was born in 1977; in 2001, she graduated from Moscow institute of Printing Arts. In 2000, our creative ideas grew into bonds of marriage, and since that time, we have been MishMash. The phrase "mishmash" is translated into Russian as hash, confusion. In our works, we involve uncontrolled powers – wind, mold, water, a spectator, etc., analyzing relationship between chaos and order. Nobody ever knows what form they will take— actions, installations, paintings, sculptures, of a bread tower or a huge inflatable face. The whole list of their works can be seen on the site www.mishmash.ru The finalists of the Kandinsky Prize (2007, 2014, 2015, 2016), short-list of the prize «Innovation» (2011), the finalists of the contest to collect money for the monument to residents of New Jersey state who died 9/11 (2003) and for the Memorial to residents of the Staten Island who died 9/11 (2002). Terna Award winners (2013). Artists of the year Cosmoscow 2019. Winners of the competition public- art for Skolkovo (2018). Participants of a special programme of the 6th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art (2015), parallel programme Biennale Manifesto 10 (Sankt-Petersburg, 2014). Selected personal exhibitions: «NoOpera FEAST» (2018), «Prostheses and substitutions» (MMOMA, 2016), «A Museum in me» (Museum –flat A. Kuindzhi, Sankt-Petersburg, 2015), «Spa theater of aging» (gallery XL, 2014), «Relocation» (gallery XL, 2013), See you (MAMM, 2011). Selected group exhibitions: «Interaction» (MMOMA, 2016), Allegories of Forgetting / A Nouveau festival (Pompidou Centre, 2014), Russian Dreams (the Museum of contemporary art (Bass, Miami–Beach, 2009). The works are in the following collections: NCCA, MMOMA, МАММ, Gazprom, Nadezda Agisheva and in other private collections.

ARTEEX Moscow Museum of Modern Art NNCA Artist of the year Cosmoscow Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Cosmoscow 49ART Rating Top 100 Established Artists