Cosmoscow 2018: About the Fair
Cosmoscow
Victor Alimpiev
Leningradskaya 3 from the «Leningradskaya» series, 2017
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Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, aimed at bringing together both Russian and international collectors, galleries and artists, was launched by Russian collector and philanthropist Margarita Pushkina in 2010. Today Cosmoscow is the only international art fair in Russia and the CIS. Since 2014 it is an annual September event with its own place in an international art calendar. The latest edition of the fair took place at the Gostiny Dvor on September 9-11, 2017 representing 54 Russian and international galleries and welcoming nearly 19,000 guests. Three thousand people visited Fair’s collectors’ preview.
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