How to make
contemporary art
and be seen
Build a career as an artist and become contemporary, professional and recognised in the art world
The intensive programme
Being a professional in art
We will look at who counts as a professional artist today and what sets them apart from an amateur.
How to make contemporary art
We will look at what makes art contemporary and how to make it.
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.
Conclusions
We will put together the picture of how an artist becomes a professional and makes contemporary art.
Galleries, exhibitions, residencies
We will look at what is open to artists and which venues accept them.
An artist’s document pack
You will learn how to present yourself professionally and what galleries and curators look at.
Free opportunities
We will show the real free tools for getting into the art world.
Conclusions
We will put together the picture of how an artist becomes visible in the contemporary art world.
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 startyour career in the art world
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Education: RMA business school, art management — the gallery business and conflict studies (social psychology)
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Experience: Phillips auction house, gallery 11.12, Winzavod, and work on the artists’ side as a manager
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7 major courses on art history, the art market and psychology
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Since 2020 more than 600 students have taken or are taking the education programmes

MMOMA (25 Petrovka Street, Moscow)
The exhibition Katrin Z. Between Fun and Pleasure

6 art fairs
DaMoscow 2019, Cosmoscow 2020, Blazar 2020, Art Russia 2020–2022

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
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
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
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
Registration for the free intensive
