WORLD’S FIRST RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
A fully detailed and documented retrospective-exhibition on the work and life of Anna Andreeva (1917-2008), the Soviet textile designer who worked in the design collective at the Red Rose Silk Factory in Moscow from the 1940s to the 1980s, will be the core narration line of the upcoming exhibition under the title “Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory”, at the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 7 December 2024 until 27 April 2025, curated by Christina Kiaer.
Named after the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the Red Rose Silk Factory was a site of collective female design labor that shaped the fashion and material culture of late Socialism. The exhibition showcases the abstract, geometric, cosmic, space-age, and cybernetic patterns of Andreeva, highlighting her as an individual talent whose inventiveness often soared above the work of her comrades, and who sometimes had to find ways to elude the censoring glare of Party authorities.
The exhibition includes Andreeva’s drawings, sketches, and historic fabric samples, as well as photographs, film clips and other documentary materials from the Red Rose Factory collective, Soviet fashion magazines and exhibitions. It is complemented by large-scale contemporary reproductions of Andreeva’s textiles that viewers are invited to touch.
The exhibition presents Andreeva's work in dialogue with the Russian avant-garde from the Costakis collection of MOMus-Museum of Modern Art. It includes a number of textile designs from the 1920s, as well as works of art that inspired industrial design in the early Soviet years, which were preserved thanks to the tireless efforts of collector George Costakis.
An accompanying catalogue with historical and theoretical essays by scholars, curators and critics, also emphasises on the collective process of the industrial production of textiles.
Curated by: Christina Kiaer, expert in Soviet art history, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA
Assistant Curator: Angeliki Charistou, Art historian, MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection
In collaboration with: Anna Andreeva Estate (Basel), Layr Gallery (Vienna)
Exhibition Support: Kristina Krasnyanskaya
Catalogue Support: Konstantin & Victoria Yanakov
SAVE THE DATES
Friday 6 December 2024
11:00-12:30 Press conference for the journalists / tour in the exhibition.
Saturday 7 December 2024
12:00-14:00 Conference and presentation of the catalogue. Visit to the exhibition.
Speakers:
Christina Kiaer – Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA, Curator of the exhibition
Anna Dumont – Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
Evangelos Kotsioris – Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA, New York
Julia Tulovsky – Curator at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, USA
Xenia Vytuleva-Herz – Anna Andreeva Estate (Basel)
Moderator:
Maria Tsantsanoglou – Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection.
More information to be announced soon.
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