Free open intensive by OnStudy

How to make
contemporary art
and be seen

Build a career as an artist and become contemporary, professional and recognised in the art world

Two days19 and 20 November
Starts at19:00 Moscow time
Maria Hiltunen-Sedoshenko in a contemporary art gallery
4,95 average rating of OnStudy courses
600+students since 2020
Live broadcastwith answers to your questions

The intensive programme

Day 1 How to make contemporary art
1

Being a professional in art

We will look at who counts as a professional artist today and what sets them apart from an amateur.

2

How to make contemporary art

We will look at what makes art contemporary and how to make it.

3

Kinds of art and choosing your path

We will talk about how institutional art differs from commercial art and which path suits you as an artist.

4

Conclusions

We will put together the picture of how an artist becomes a professional and makes contemporary art.

Day 2 How to become visible in contemporary art
1

Galleries, exhibitions, residencies

We will look at what is open to artists and which venues accept them.

2

An artist’s document pack

You will learn how to present yourself professionally and what galleries and curators look at.

3

Free opportunities

We will show the real free tools for getting into the art world.

4

Conclusions

We will put together the picture of how an artist becomes visible in the contemporary art world.

Author of the course, art manager, curator and author of education programmes for artists

Maria Hiltunen-Sedoshenko

Art becomes valuable when it finds its viewer. This is your voice, and it is up to you what you want to say with it.

Sign up for the intensive and start
your career in the art world
Maria Hiltunen-Sedoshenko
  • Education: RMA business school, art management — the gallery business and conflict studies (social psychology)

  • Experience: Phillips auction house, gallery 11.12, Winzavod, and work on the artists’ side as a manager

  • 7 major courses on art history, the art market and psychology

  • Since 2020 more than 600 students have taken or are taking the education programmes

MMOMA (25 Petrovka Street, Moscow)

MMOMA (25 Petrovka Street, Moscow)

The exhibition Katrin Z. Between Fun and Pleasure

Art fairs

6 art fairs

DaMoscow 2019, Cosmoscow 2020, Blazar 2020, Art Russia 2020–2022

Gallery exhibitions

Gallery exhibitions

Damir Muratov: Short Stories, 2020; Nikita Shokhov: Scan Klaxon, 2020, and others

Our intensive is for you if you are

An emerging artist

An emerging artist

If you are still dreaming of a first show and first sales, walk around galleries and do not understand why other people’s work hangs there while yours gathers dust in the studio and does not sell.

An experienced artist

An experienced artist

If you have already shown and sold work but have no system and no idea what to do next. You want a steady income and a way into international markets.

A designer or illustrator

A designer or illustrator

If you come from another field and want to enter the art world, understand how the art market works, become a successful commercial artist and raise the price of your work

Getting a profession in art is easier than it seems

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