"Endless New" - Diploma project of the Contemporary Art course

The exhibition presents 22 graduation projects—artistic statements that explore the question of what "new" means today in art and in our understanding of reality. While artists were once taught to follow tradition, today they are expected to constantly discover and be surprised. But perhaps true novelty is born not in the object, but in the viewer's perspective.

The project centers on the theme of "the ethics of the gaze": the artists explore how perception changes when images become too numerous, and the speed at which they appear outstrips the ability to comprehend them. Working with this theme, the artists sought their own voice and personal response, transforming everyday objects and images into artistic forms. In these works, "new" emerges not as the invention of something nonexistent, but as a careful and ethical look at what already exists—at what usually goes unnoticed but suddenly acquires special value.

Curators: Zhanna Bobrakova, Mikhail Levin, Alexey Mandych.

Artists: Maria Aleshina, Tatyana Aniskina, N É K A, Natalia Burdinskaya, Anastasia Geraskina, Maria Gutorova, Nesmeyana, Tatyana Ivanova, Anfisa Korelova, Veta Lukyanova, Anya Maryasova, Nadezhda Prades, Alexandra Ovcharenko, Katya Rogova (K.R.), Elena Prekrasnaya, Tatyana Spasova, Lana Stalnaya, Grigory Streltsov, Vika Shilkova, Sofia Michel, Eldar Sharif, Katya Yartseva.

The art festival "Reboot" isn't about starting from scratch, but about returning to our roots. We listen to the city to understand how it resonates today—in the exhibitions "House from Cellar to Attic," "Dandelion Wine," "Zaraysk Window Frames," an art residency at the Machteta House.

In this sense, Zaraysk isn't a province, but a territory of meaning, where new forms of communication between artists, space, and time are born. https://zaraysk-art.ru/

The exhibition project concludes the educational block on "Personal Mythology." During this module, students worked on developing their inner core and frame of reference, searching for new themes, images, and methods, and individualizing their artistic language.

The result of this process was the exhibition "(Thinkable) Unthinkable," which is not so much a conclusion as a recognition that reality is broader than any language attempting to describe it. The artists here act as locators measuring the distance between the self and the world: some explore internal mechanisms, others the fragile systems of life, the past, or media images. The works in the exhibition are not simply objects but also points of contact with that which, while nameless, already demands attention. And in many ways, this is the realm of intuition, the subconscious, the transcendental, the ephemeral, where awareness and the unconscious operate simultaneously.