To be in the Material. Contemporary Ceramic Art


Exhibition architecture and design

Tsaritsyno State Museum-Reserve, Moscow

884 m2

12.07.2024–19.10.2025


<…> Today, the deluge of information, the total digitalization and lack of sensory input in our lives underpin the special importance of craft materials and technologies: artists use them ever more frequently, while designers enthusiastically marry industrial production and manual handiwork. This trend is apparent in the works of pottery artists who use clay both as a material and a form of creative expression. Our exhibition showcases the works of two studio potters, Tatyana Brigadirova and Viktor Reshetnikov, in order to study how art can give equal importance to concept, function, and beauty. 

Tatyana Brigadirova combines rational studies with feelings and emotions that are hard to visualize, engaging in poetic, image-based storytelling. Viktor Reshetnikov is focused on formal structures, harmonizing simple geometrical shapes in space, and looking for fractal similarities in natural, organic forms. Their three-dimensional installations, easel pieces and functional objects serve as vivid illustrations of how design and art, combined with flawless artistic technique, can merge into one and enrich one another.


Authors of the Project: Victor Reshetnikov, Tatiana Brigadirova
Idea: Tatiana Punans
Project Supervisor: Alina Ilyina
Lighting Design: Poisson Spot bureau
Texts: Marina Shirskaya

Photographer: Katia Geits