Press Release
"Riot is always a thing of beauty. At school, I had this dream of becoming an artist, and I practised graffiti on my school notepad. If you start your schoolwork on the first page and do your sketches in the back, sooner or later the two will meet in the middle. AND, NEXT TO YOUR HISTORY NOTES, GRAFFITI APPEARS which turns history into a different story." – Maria Alyokhina
Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia at Haus der Kunst is the largest presentation of the artistic collective’s work to date, and the first museum exhibition in Germany devoted to Pussy Riot. It poses the urgent question of what resistance is in art, and which stories need to become a fundamental part of exhibition making nowadays.
"Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia" at Haus der Kunst emerged from passionate exchanges with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, who first encountered Maria Alyokhina in Moscow. The exhibition is organised and toured by Maria Alyokhina and Kling & Bang, Reykjavik.
Haus der Kunst has been planning the exhibition since the beginning of 2023. Curated by Ragnar Kjartansson, Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir and Dorothee Maria Kirch (Kling & Bang, Reykjavik); Lydia Antoniou, Andrea Lissoni, Margarita (Haus der Kunst München).
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Duration
6.9.24 – 29.6.25 | LSK-Galerie