MOMus-Museum of Modern Art tour

Participants of the ACC2023 will have the opportunity to visit the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art and experience an exciting guided tour to the Exhibition “50+1 Stories from the Costakis Collection” on the evening of Tuesday 14^th of November.

This evening socialization event includes wine bar and buffet with finger food at the Museum loggia. No extra fees required.

Bus transportation is arranged from the University campus to the Museum and back.

The buses will depart from the University campus Central Gate (beside the Ceremonial Hall of AUTh, Egnatia 131) at 18:30 and 19:30 hours

The MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, holds one of the principal collections of paintings and drawings by Russian Avant-Garde artists.  The George Costakis collection comprises more than 2000 works of art, including paintings and constructions, drawings, sketches, notebooks, posters and documents of all kinds (manuscripts, printed matter, state documents, books and photographs). The collection is representative of all the trends and tendencies of the Russian Avant-Garde. 

George Costakis played a significant role in the historical survival of the Russian Avant-Garde and in the perpetuation of this art. In the 1970s his flat in a high-rise building in Moscow became a kind of private museum and meeting place for artists, intellectuals and collectors, who were able to discover both famous and unknown pioneers of the Russian avant-garde, whose work had a decisive influence on artistic developments in Western Europe, including Kazimir Malevich, Ivan Kliun, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Vladimir Tatlin, Gustav Klutsis and Solomon Nikritin.

More than one hundred works of art and archival material from the Museum's renowned Costakis Collection will serve as the basis for the narratives and journeys presented to visitors, functioning in parallel and complementary to the stories that accompany them.

For more information regarding the exhibition please visit the following link:

https://momus.gr/en/exhibitions/501-istories-apo-ti-syllogi-kostaki

Some representative paintings of the Costakis Collection are presented below: