A collective of artists a gallery and a movement APTART was a series of self-organised
'anti-shows' that took place in a private apartment and outdoor spaces in Moscow between 1982
and 1984. These covert and anarchic actions which soon came into conflict with the Soviet
authorities represent a collective attempt to rethink the politics of exhibition-making and
the practice of making public in the absence of a public sphere. The first comprehensive
publication on APTART this book presents extensive photographic documentation of all their
activities alongside archival texts from contributing artists and documents from the time. Main
essays by Margarita Tupitsyn and Victor Tupitsyn offer a detailed elucidation of the movement's
history and guiding concepts and further contexts and analysis are provided through
contributions by Alexandra Danilova and Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Richard Goldstein Sven Gundlakh Ilya Kabakov David Morris and Valerie Smith.
