In concert with the exhibition Distortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today, the Hunter College Art Galleries have produced a new publication which chronicles the development of the concept of the show over the two-semester long graduate curatorial seminar, as well as describes the past and the new projects of Moscow Conceptualists presented at the exhibition.

Distortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today was on view at the 205 Hudson Gallery from September 9–October 28, 2023 and was developed through a two-semester graduate curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by professors Daniel Bozhkov and Joachim Pissarro with Dr. Olga Zaikina. The seminar included studio art students: Lauren Cline, Tucker Claxton, LeLe Dai, Paula De Martino, Alicia Ehni, Stevie Knauss, Milly Skelington, Johnny Sagan; and art history students: Caitlin Anklam, Victoria Borisova, Jay Bravo, Andrea Dauhajre, Curtis Eckley, Daniel Kuzinez, Jake Robinson. Visiting scholar: Virginia Marano, PhD Candidate, University of Zürich, Switzerland. 

Curated by Hunter College professors Daniel Bozhkov and Joachim Pissarro with Dr. Olga Zaikina. Curatorial Graduate Fellow: Victoria Borisova.

Participating artists and art groups:
Yuri Albert (born 1959 in Moscow, lives and works in Cologne)
Collective Actions (active 1976-present)
Gnezdo (active 1974-79)
Sabine Hänsgen (born 1955 in Dusseldorf, lives and works in Bochum, Germany)
Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949 in Pechenga, Russia, lives and works in Moscow),
Victor Skersis (born 1956 in Moscow, lives and works in Bethlehem, PA)
Nadezhda Stolpovskaya (born 1959 in Moscow, lives and works in Cologne, Germany)
SZ Group (active 1980-84, 1989, 1990)
Vadim Zakharov (born 1959 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, lives and works in Berlin, Germany).

Publication Editors: Daniel Bozhkov and Dr. Olga Zaikina

Authors: Daniel Bozhkov, Joachim Pissarro, Olga Zaikina, Yuri Albert, Collective Actions, Sabine H.nsgen, Andrei Monastyrski, Victor Skersis, Nadezhda Stolpovskaya, Vadim Zakharov, Caitlin Anklam, Jay Bravo, Victoria Borisova, Lauren Cline, lele dai, Curtis Eckley, Stevie Knauss, Daniel Kuzinez, Johnny Sagan, Jacob M. Robinson, and Milly Skellington.

Design: Natalie Wedeking; Stevie Knauss, Fine Binding

Copyediting and proofreading: Mary Cason and Gretchen Dykstra

This exhibition and publication were made possible by the generous support of the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, Clarissa Bronfman, Andrew and Christine Hall, Linda Macklowe, Katia Ilina, and the Prospect Hill Foundation.

Copyright 2023 Hunter College Art Galleries, New York; the authors.