Free open intensive by OnStudy

Contemporary
art

From your first works to biennials and exhibitions

Two days20 and 21 May

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 An introduction to contemporary art

What contemporary art is

We will go through the key differences between contemporary and academic art.

An artist’s life in contemporary art

We will talk about how an artist’s life is arranged in the contemporary art world: exhibitions, biennials, artist residencies.

What kind of art is in demand today

We will discuss what an artist needs to change in their work to become part of the art world.

Day 2 An artist’s path in contemporary art

How the value of the work is formed

We will look at how exhibiting affects an artist’s growth and the price of the work.

The first steps towards exhibitions

We will talk about how an artist gets to their first shows, open calls and professional projects.

Strategy

We will put together a step-by-step plan: from the idea and the portfolio to taking part in exhibitions and working with galleries.

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.

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)

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

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