The pop/off/art Gallery presents a group project "Rooms", which addresses the theme of the house, the artist’s “habitat”. The project will unite the works of eighteen residents of the pop/off/art Gallery: fr om undisputed classics of Russian art and key representatives of the art scene to bright young authors.

 Artists often use the images of their native walls, interior items, windows and doors as a reference or a tracing paper for creating a work – interest in the theme is formed fr om the diversity of approaches to capturing the space around them. In the project, it is important to fix the place of residence and indicate wh ere meaningful description of everyday life ends and uncontrolled, spontaneous inclusion of a real image begins. The curiosity is not so much about the working area or the studio, but rather about the place wh ere a person who is inextricably linked to art resides. 

The exhibition will feature previously unexhibited figurative works by Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, unique works fr om the 1980s by Vladimir Kupriyanov and Mikhail Roginsky, early works by Vitaly Pushnitsky and Olga Tatarintseva, paintings by Andrey Krasulin from his period in exile, as well as works created specifically for the exhibition by Mikhail Levius, Alexander Mortaev, Vika Begalskaya, and Alexander Vilkin. The viewer will find themselves in 19 different rooms that reference 19 different locations around the world, each of which has been etched into history through artistic will.

Nikolai Kasatkin catches his reflection in the window of a house in the village of Vorontsovo in the Smolensk region, wh ere he returned every summer for 13 years; Mikhail Roginsky, who had just emigrated to France, begins to feel nostalgic for his parents' apartment in Moscow; Irina Nakhova, in her "Room No. 1", comprehends the duality of the apartment's image for unofficial artists – as a refuge intellectuals and places of detention at the same time; for Albert Soldatov and Shamil Shaaev, working inside a home is a way of interacting and modifying everyday life, while for Polina Rukavichkina it is a question of the boundary between someone else's and one's own. 

The project will bring together more than 20 works in a variety of media, from video and photography to painting, graphics, and installation. From the Soviet kitchen to the temporary dwelling, from the documentary gaze to the metaphor, the Rooms exhibition does not illustrate the theme of the house, but explores the mechanism by which a real living space becomes an artistic representation.