Exhibition series

The project sets out to showcase the arts scenes across Russia. It raises awareness of the formative processes in local creative scenes through presentation of their artists and communities. The ‘assembly' here suggests an attempt to bring together the diverse styles and languages of artistic expression from a given region in a singular space. The project launched in 2023.

The exhibition series introduces audiences to new names, promotes interregional exchange, and frames the evolution of local scenes as a forward-looking process that calls for regular review and renewal. Each iteration of Compound Assembly focuses on a specific region and is developed by the Triumph curators in collaboration with local experts and institutions. As part of the project, reciprocal exhibitions have been held in Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod.

EXTENSION is the gallery’s program that presents international artists from around the world to Russian audiences. Each exhibition in the series comes with an educational program featuring lectures, artist talks and master classes, as well as a print catalogue. After an opening in Moscow, the exhibitions tour various prominent contemporary art venues in different Russian cities. The project launched in 2016. To date, the EXTENSION series has presented 12 exhibitions by artists from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Iran, the Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Finland, and Estonia.

In operation from 2013 to 2021, the Research Arts Centre used to integrate research by contemporary artists and scholars in sociology, anthropology, and other related humanities. Its projects aimed to generate experimental forms of knowledge about the history of the present. The earlier efforts focused on Russia’s regions, with an analytical research agenda centred on documentary and concept photography projects.

In operation from 2013 to 2021, the Research Arts Centre used to integrate research by contemporary artists and scholars in sociology, anthropology, and other related humanities. Its projects aimed to generate experimental forms of knowledge about the history of the present. The earlier efforts focused on Russia’s regions, with an analytical research agenda centred on documentary and concept photography projects.

Launched in 2015, Young Lions is a joint program by Triumph Gallery and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art to support young artists. It features artists who have already taken part in major exhibitions and are familiar to the public, including laureates and nominees of art prizes. Within Young Lions, artists present their inaugural solo projects in museum exhibition spaces and get the opportunity to take a new look at their work placed in a different context.

Great Expectations was a series of solo exhibitions hosted at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow with the support of the MediaArtLab Museum of Screen Culture. Each exhibition ran for about a month, during which the artist engaged with the new space in their own way and presented newly commissioned projects. The project ran from 2013 to 2015 and culminated in an eponymous group show, Young Lions, featuring works by all participating artists.

Each exhibition under the auspices of Great Expectations is a unique statement by the artist and curator. It marks a watershed in the artist’s career, registering the transition from a promising young author to a mature professional. A step that opens up new prospects in the artist’s personal exploration and self-identification within the art system. And crucially, Great Expectations offered young artists the chance to mount a solo exhibition for a large audience in one of Moscow’s prime exhibition venues while preserving full freedom to experiment.