HIGH UNDERGROUND

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Moscow Metro, the Moscow Transport Museum and the Museum of Moscow presented the exhibition "High Underground" — a large-scale artistic and research project dedicated to art in the Moscow Metro. The exhibition explores the metro as an "underground museum," where every day millions of passengers come into contact with works of art: mosaics, reliefs, sculptures, stained glass, and much more. The exposition includes more than 350 objects from more than 25 state and private collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the Russian Museum, the Museum of Moscow, as well as family archives of descendants of artists who worked on the decoration of the metro.

Among the authors whose works are presented at the exhibition are Vera Mukhina, Pavel Korin, Andrey Kuznetsov, Leonid Berlin, and other artists and architects who shaped the visual language of metro stations. Particular attention is given to the Moscow Transport Museum's own collection — for the first time, models and multimedia materials created specifically for the future permanent exposition in Konstantin Melnikov's garage on Novoryazanskaya Street will be presented. "High Underground" is the beginning of a large cultural and research cycle of the Moscow Transport Museum, whose goal is to systematize and comprehend the art of the Moscow Metro as a cultural phenomenon.

Moscow Transport Museum: Oksana Bondarenko, Director
Ivan Dementyev, Valeria Evtishenkova, Anastasia Lapin, Dana Avramenko, Ekaterina Rosenberg, Sergey Marinichev, Darya Dyomina, Darya Dyomina, Elizaveta Taranina, Vera Popova, Dima Petrovich, Igor Danilov, Denis Postrygaylo

Author of the exhibition idea: Alexander Mereskin
Chief curator of the exhibition: Nikita Golovanov

Museum Association "Museum of Moscow": Anna Trapkova, General Director
Lyudmila Khvorost, Margarita Lyalinskaya

Curators: Olga Kazakova, Monika Nors

Architectural design: Planet9
Chief architect: Agniya Sterligova
Lead architects: Evgeny Zimin, Ekaterina Syomina
Project administration: Artem Antonyan

Lighting design: YARKO lighting design studio
Multimedia: Artman Studio
COMPOSER: Mikhail Fedotov
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION: New-Art Production LLC