This exhibition occupies two floors of the museum and brings together works by leading sculptors and artists from Saint Petersburg and Moscow of the XX-XXI centuries. It creates a dialogue between works and highlights connections that are not always immediately apparent.

The exhibition introduces visitors to Saint Petersburg monumental and genre sculpture from the second half of the twentieth century, a field that has often been overlooked and that holds an important place in the museum’s collection.

Participating artists include sculptors from several generations such as Mikhail Anikushin, Lyubov Kholina, Alexander Ignatiev, Mikhail Ershov, Evgeny Rotanov, Robert Lotosh, and Dmitry Kaminker.

Sculptures and installations by Alla Urban and Kirill Alexandrov, as well as costume-objects by Sergey Chernov, a longtime collaborator of Sergey Kuryokhin’s ‘Pop Mechanics’ art collective, are shown in dialogue with paintings by artists of the 1960s generation including Erik Bulatov, Oleg Vasiliev, Yuri Zlotnikov, Semyon Faibisovich, and Eliy Belyutin.

The exhibition design is authored by architect and artist Yuri Avvakumov.