The Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve continues to host the exhibition “Light Between Worlds,” dedicated to the little-studied layer of Soviet, Uzbek, and Russian modernism of the 1920s and 1930s.

The Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve continues to host the exhibition “Light Between Worlds,” dedicated to the little-studied layer of Soviet, Uzbek, and Russian modernism of the 1920s and 1930s.

The exhibition features works by the art group “13,” which made a name for itself in 1929-1931. Its founder, Vladimir Milashevsky, decided to challenge European graphic artists and create a completely new type of contemporary drawing in the USSR. Initially, the group consisted of 13 artists: recent graduates of the Khutemas art school, graphic artists from the Gudok magazine, and amateur painters. Later, Nadezhda Kashina, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Alexander Drevin, and others joined the group. The painters tried to work instantly, from life, rather than from memory, even drawing with matchsticks. In this way, the artists of the group aptly described the objects of the time, the dynamics of the urban environment, and the contrasts between the old and new worlds.

The exhibition “Light Between Worlds” will run until April 5, 2026.