Russia
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Russia - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Russia.
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 New York’s iconic Russian & Turkish Baths is where the city goes to ‘schvitz’From gangsters to hipsters, artists to politicians, New York’s Russian & Turkish Baths continues to attract a colourful crowd with its basement banya By Mary Cleary Last updated 
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 Power house: Renzo Piano designs a new home for the V-A-C Foundation in MoscowBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated 
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 Sergei Shchukin’s modern masters reunite, for the first time outside of RussiaBy Amy Verner Last updated 
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 Young architects tasked to rethink Russia’s abandoned industrial sites in KazanFor the second Russian Architecture Biennale for Young Architects, curator Sergei Tchoban, architect and founder of the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin, looked out into Russia’s post-industrial landscape and challenged Russian architects under 35 to propose some new solutions for a former faucet factory and a grain elevator near Kazan By Elissaveta Brandon Last updated 
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 Designers Furniture at the Russian Club GalleryBy Malaika Byng Last updated 
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 The Museum of Everything’s road trip across RussiaBy Nick Compton Last updated 
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 Go east: St Petersburg's New Holland Island is about to open to the publicBy Sara Sturges Last updated 
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 SANAA to resurrect Hexagon pavilion for Moscow’s Garage Museum extensionJapanese firm SANAA will overhaul the Hexagon pavilion, a 1920s Ivan Zholtovsky-designed structure in Gorky Park, for a Garage Museum extension By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 
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 Zaha Hadid Design and the Russian avant gardeTitled ‘Abstracting The Landscape’, a new exhibition of Zaha Hadid design pieces (on show at Zürich’s Galerie Gmurzynska until 1 July 2021) pays homage to the visionary architect’s work and her aesthetic links to the Russian avant garde By Rosa Bertoli Last updated 
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 Soviet dreams: London's Design Museum delves deep into lost Russian architectureBy Ali Morris Last updated 
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 'My Red Homeland': Anish Kapoor presents his first Russian solo showS-Curve, 2006, a curving concave then convex mirror; and My Red Homeland, 2003, a melted red wax wall. But they are handsomely mounted in the centre’s large gallery spaces and, here, less is definitely more. Kapoor’s work demands a lot of empty space and they get it. By Nick Compton Last updated 
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 Moscow's maritime Humans offers sea-change for themed restaurantsBy Melina Keays Last updated 
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 High ceilings and bold graphic art at Karelinn HotelBy Daven Wu Last updated 
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 Diller Scofidio + Renfro links Moscow's natural landscapes and urban life at Zaryadye ParkBy Sam Lubell Last updated 
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 Moscow mule: Aquazzura and Casa Do Passadiço paint the town redBy Ali Morris Last updated 
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 Born in the USSR: a new show at Gallery Elena Shchukina explores contemporary Russian designBy Ellen Himelfarb Last updated 
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 Soviet style: Frédéric Chaubin puts cosmic Communist constructions in the frameBy Jonathan Bell Last updated 
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 Russian restaurateur Andrei Dellos opens a Georgian restaurant in MoscowBy Anna Jackson-Stevens Last updated 
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 The Soviet propaganda graphics that shaped the Russian RevolutionBy Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 
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 Model home: a new book surveys Konstantin Melnikov’s totemic Moscow houseBy Jonathan Bell Last updated 
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Animations from Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, RussiaBy Nick Compton Last updated 
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 Garage Museum's new exhibition maps the history of Russian performance artBy Maria Kravtsova Last updated 
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 Touring St Petersburg’s New Holland Island and its ongoing transformationNew Holland Island is a historic artificial island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, dating from the 18th century. Now, under an architect's guidance, development continues apace, transforming it into a vibrant cultural hub By Tom Seymour Last updated 
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 Garage Centre pavilion designed by Shigeru Ban in Gorky Park, MoscowBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated 
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 Buy the limited edition digital painting by AES+F for Wallpaper* at s[edition]By Marina Cashdan Last updated 
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 LEAPrus 3912 — Mount Elbrus, RussiaBy Lauren Ho Last updated 
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 From Russia with love: Chanel’s 2019 High Jewellery collectionBy Hannah Silver Last updated 


