Svetlana Baskova is a film director, screenwriter, artist, director of the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art (since 2011) and head of the Art Criticism Laboratory, organized by the Winzavod Contemporary Art Support Foundation together with the Baza Institute. In 1989 she graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute. Since 1996 he has been engaged in video and cinema.

Egor Sofronov is an art critic, editor of the Art Journal. He received his MA in Art Criticism and Literature from the School of Fine Arts, New York (2014). Co-organizer of the Art Criticism Laboratory.

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Anna Afonina (born 1989) is a young Russian artist. In 2017 she graduated from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg with a degree in easel graphics, she studied at the Paidea School of Contemporary Art Interpretation. In 2019, she entered the Rodchenko School. Participant of many exhibitions both at the leading venues of contemporary art in Russia and international projects.

Alexander Gorelikov (b. 1983) is a Moscow-based artist, a graduate of the Free Workshops of the MMOMA and the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art. Member of many group and personal projects.

Yuri Zlotnikov (1930–2016) is one of the undisputed classics of Russian contemporary art, one of the first abstract artists of the thaw period.

Elena Zubtsova (b. 1984) is a graduate of the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art (2015). Participant of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Biennale of Contemporary Art, Why not ask again? (2016), Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2016), IX Shiryaev Biennale of Contemporary Art, CASH (2016) (with u/n multitude).

Ksenia Kudrina (b. 1982) is a contemporary Russian artist who combines work with various mediums in her work. In 2014-2015 Studied at the British Higher School of Design (Moscow); in 2019 she graduated from the Baza School of Contemporary Art (CCA Winzavod, Moscow). Participant of many exhibitions both at the leading venues of contemporary art in Russia and international projects.

Angelina Merenkova (born 1988) is one of the brightest artists of the younger generation. For her works, she uses a wide range of techniques - from painting, installations and photography, to the practice of embroidery and sewing. Graduated from Moscow State Technical University. Bauman, then Free Workshops at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011-2012) and the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art "Baza" (2012-2014). Angelina's works are in numerous private collections in Russia and abroad.

Ivan Novikov (b. 1990) is one of the brightest representatives of the young generation of Moscow artists, who works mainly with the medium of abstract painting and installation. Graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute. IN AND. Surikov with a degree in easel painting. Since 2014, Ivan has been the head of the painting department at Baza. Novikov's personal exhibition will take place in August 2020 at MMOMA.

Anatoly Osmolovsky* (born 1969) is one of the brightest representatives of Moscow actionism. At the turn of the 1980s - 1990s, the artist moved from poetic practice and theoretical study of cinema and fine arts to performance. In 2007 he won the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Artist of the Year". Today Anatoly acts as a social activist and creator of the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art, curator and theorist, publisher and producer.

*Included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of persons performing the functions of a foreign agent.

Alexander Pankin (born 1938) is a significant Moscow artist, a representative of the “other art”. Known as the creator of his own, original version of abstraction, in the last decade and a half deployed in the form of artistic and analytical research related to the problems of the classical avant-garde and the latest achievements of theoretical science. Pankin's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Center for Contemporary Art, in a number of regional museums in Russia, domestic and foreign private collections.

Anna Tereshkina (born 1986) is a contemporary artist of the younger generation. Works in various directions: drawing, collage, artist's books, audio and video. In 2014 she graduated from the School of Engaged Art "What is to be done?". Practices collaborations in various interdisciplinary teams: the newspaper "Nasreddin in Russia", the communal gallery "Egorka", the sewing cooperative "Shvemy", the musical duet "Red Dawns".