Field: Advertising, Development
Direction: Art
Friends, hello! Since the beginning of 2026, I decided to expand the magazine’s team. Several talented people have joined us, and I’d like to introduce them. This will be a small about us series that has been overdue for quite a while. You know how it is when meeting someone: you miss their name at first, and later it feels awkward to ask again. Better late than never!)
Alexey Korneev is a man of art, born and raised in Moscow. He feels equally comfortable among niche intellectual circles and within the GR environment. He writes excellent texts about architecture and art — though the latter is definitely closer to him. He is also responsible for advertising special projects and collaborations.
Thanks to Alexey for pulling me out of my hectic routine and bringing me to places like the one we’re talking about today. And he also looks incredibly similar to Octave from "99 Francs" 😁 Below, he’ll tell you about Winzavod and what we saw there.
Yesterday, all exhibitions at Winzavod changed at once.
Photo: GORK
Event: Vernissage Evening
Location: Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art
In case you didn’t know: several times a year, all 13 resident galleries at Winzavod open new exhibitions simultaneously in one evening. This tradition is called Vernissage Evening. Essentially, it’s a coordinated seasonal смена that turns Winzavod into a true cultural cluster rather than just a group of venues sharing one address. Every gallery has its own program, but the schedules are synchronized, allowing visitors to see everything in one evening. Admission is free.
A bit more about what stood out.
"Museum Exhibition. Part One. Appropriation and Reconstruction" by Ivan Razumov at Vladey Gallery. The artist takes iconic works by Levitan, Repin, Serov, and Surikov and reconstructs them. Characters migrate between paintings, appear in чужих сюжетах, switch roles and eras; sometimes several works merge into one. This is not parody, but an attempt to restore the energy originally embedded in 19th-century academic painting — an energy modern viewers often fail to perceive without historical context.
"At the Same Speed" at 11.12 is a collective exhibition featuring 22 artists selected through an open call. A powerful concentration of strong works within a relatively small space, united by one theme: transformation not as a separate event, but as a permanent condition.
At pop/off/art — Arkady Petrov’s "Ode to Joy." The opening featured a musical performance: the exhibition title references both Beethoven and Petrov’s own installation "My Joy." The overall atmosphere resembles an African-American gospel service in a Baptist church — exactly the effect the artist intended.
Gallery XL went even further by combining a central installation with an immersive performance involving nearly all visitors. Other galleries offered their own reasons to stop: video art, ceramics, photography, sculpture, large-scale and miniature installations. Some hosted curator-led tours, others auctions, creating an incredibly насыщенная experience overall. That’s what Vernissage Evening is about — you come for one exhibition and leave with impressions from thirteen different worlds.
Another pleasure was the audience itself. Vernissage Evening offers a striking cross-section of Moscow’s bohemian scene: gallery owners, artists, collectors, students, and random passersby wandering through former factory workshops with wine in hand. Some came for art, others for the social atmosphere, while artists themselves stood near their works. People looked, talked, took photos beside paintings, met new acquaintances, and bumped into old friends. You could truly feel life happening around you. After the cultural program, most people headed to drink at the café "Khitrye Lyudi."
All exhibitions will run until July, when the next Vernissage Evening takes place. And the exhibition we originally came for will be covered in a separate post.
@gorkjournal · GORK
3D · Photo · Render · Ai
Direction: Art
Friends, hello! Since the beginning of 2026, I decided to expand the magazine’s team. Several talented people have joined us, and I’d like to introduce them. This will be a small about us series that has been overdue for quite a while. You know how it is when meeting someone: you miss their name at first, and later it feels awkward to ask again. Better late than never!)
Alexey Korneev is a man of art, born and raised in Moscow. He feels equally comfortable among niche intellectual circles and within the GR environment. He writes excellent texts about architecture and art — though the latter is definitely closer to him. He is also responsible for advertising special projects and collaborations.
Thanks to Alexey for pulling me out of my hectic routine and bringing me to places like the one we’re talking about today. And he also looks incredibly similar to Octave from "99 Francs" 😁 Below, he’ll tell you about Winzavod and what we saw there.
Yesterday, all exhibitions at Winzavod changed at once.
Photo: GORK
Event: Vernissage Evening
Location: Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art
In case you didn’t know: several times a year, all 13 resident galleries at Winzavod open new exhibitions simultaneously in one evening. This tradition is called Vernissage Evening. Essentially, it’s a coordinated seasonal смена that turns Winzavod into a true cultural cluster rather than just a group of venues sharing one address. Every gallery has its own program, but the schedules are synchronized, allowing visitors to see everything in one evening. Admission is free.
A bit more about what stood out.
"Museum Exhibition. Part One. Appropriation and Reconstruction" by Ivan Razumov at Vladey Gallery. The artist takes iconic works by Levitan, Repin, Serov, and Surikov and reconstructs them. Characters migrate between paintings, appear in чужих сюжетах, switch roles and eras; sometimes several works merge into one. This is not parody, but an attempt to restore the energy originally embedded in 19th-century academic painting — an energy modern viewers often fail to perceive without historical context.
"At the Same Speed" at 11.12 is a collective exhibition featuring 22 artists selected through an open call. A powerful concentration of strong works within a relatively small space, united by one theme: transformation not as a separate event, but as a permanent condition.
At pop/off/art — Arkady Petrov’s "Ode to Joy." The opening featured a musical performance: the exhibition title references both Beethoven and Petrov’s own installation "My Joy." The overall atmosphere resembles an African-American gospel service in a Baptist church — exactly the effect the artist intended.
Gallery XL went even further by combining a central installation with an immersive performance involving nearly all visitors. Other galleries offered their own reasons to stop: video art, ceramics, photography, sculpture, large-scale and miniature installations. Some hosted curator-led tours, others auctions, creating an incredibly насыщенная experience overall. That’s what Vernissage Evening is about — you come for one exhibition and leave with impressions from thirteen different worlds.
Another pleasure was the audience itself. Vernissage Evening offers a striking cross-section of Moscow’s bohemian scene: gallery owners, artists, collectors, students, and random passersby wandering through former factory workshops with wine in hand. Some came for art, others for the social atmosphere, while artists themselves stood near their works. People looked, talked, took photos beside paintings, met new acquaintances, and bumped into old friends. You could truly feel life happening around you. After the cultural program, most people headed to drink at the café "Khitrye Lyudi."
All exhibitions will run until July, when the next Vernissage Evening takes place. And the exhibition we originally came for will be covered in a separate post.
@gorkjournal · GORK
3D · Photo · Render · Ai