Liubov Popova. Form. Colour. Space. Organized by: MOMus – Museum of Modern Art – Costakis Collection, Heritage Art Foundation. Venue: MOMus – Museum of Modern Art – Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki​

Liubov Popova (1889-1924) was a painter, a theorist, an art professor and a designer, one of the so called ‘Amazons’ of the Russian avant garde period, a bold traveller, a researcher, an experimenter and creator of new aesthetic proposals in the beginning of the 20th century; she was also the only artist who the collector George Costakis called after her first name, although he never met her. Liubov Popova is the focus of the new exhibition organised and hosted by the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection in Thessaloniki, Greece, under the title ‘Liubov Popova. Form. Colour. Space’ from October 12, 2019 until March 1, 2020, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Liubov Popova started as a student of Impressionism and Cezannism, she included in her early works French Fauvism, she studied thoroughly the new forms and techniques; she also made a solid contribution to the development of such art schools as Cubofuturism, Suprematism, and Constructivism. She created constructivist works using her personal, unique style, while leading art to production and creation of unique design proposals, graphic design, theatrical stages, textiles and costumes. This put her name without doubt amongst the most prominent representatives of the Russian avant-garde. She was also a great teacher who set new, high standards in teaching in the Higher Artistic and Technical Studios (VKhUTEMAS) from 1921 until her early death in 1924.

The exhibition hosts almost all works and archival material -more than 200 pieces- from the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection, alongside with unique works by private collections, while this is the first large- scale show of Popova’s works in three recent decades, making it an extraordinary event in the international art and museum milieu. The Museum’s new exhibition plan represents a series of exhibitions highlighting the key figures of Russian avant-garde, whose works are in Museum’s custody; the exhibition. The series opens with the big scale exhibition ‘Liubov Popova. Form. Colour Space’.

Curators: Maria Tsantsanoglou, Andrei Sarabianov, Kristina Krasnyanskaya
Associate Curator: Angeliki Charistou