MUSCOVITE.
WOMEN OF THE SOVIET CAPITAL IN THE 1920-1930-s
Date:
2024Location:
Museum of MoscowProject team:
Curators: Ksenia Guseva, Nadezhda PlungyanEquipment: Aledo
The exhibition “Moskvichka. Women of the Soviet Capital in the 1920s-1930s” is the main event of the Museum of Moscow in 2024.
It demonstrates how the image of a female city resident changed in the first decades of Soviet power, through the prism of artistic works of the first half of the 20th century.
Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s was a place of rapid change of social roles
The main heroine of the art of that time is the new woman, who transforms the city and acts in it. A worker and a revolutionary, an actress and a pilot, a parachutist and a NEP woman, a metro builder and an artist, a proletarian writer and an engineer’s wife – each of them is not only a real person, but also a symbol of Soviet history.
“The exhibition immerses you in the world of Muscovites of the 1920s and 1930s, allows you to see “living” heroines with their aspirations and hopes, study their everyday life and at the same time understand how women of that time were seen by others,” Anna Trapkova, General Director of the Museum Association “Moscow Museum”.
The curators of the exhibition, art historians Ksenia Guseva and Nadezhda Plungyan, selected about 2,000 exhibits from more than 30 Russian museums and private collections, including works by Kazimir Malevich, Alexander
Deineka, Ekaterina Zernova, Nadezhda Kashina, Alexander Labas, Aristarkh Lentulov, Alexander Tyshler, Konstantin Yuon, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Ilya Mashkov and other outstanding artists of the last century.