From 19 April, the DiDi Gallery opens a group exhibition of Leningrad and Moscow Nonconformists. The exhibition will include paintings and graphic works from the 1960s to the 1980s. Authors include: Leonid Borisov, Igor Vulokh, Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, Timur Novikov, Leonid Purygin, Vasily Sitnikov, Vladimir  Sterligov, OlegTselkov and Mikhail Shvartsman.

The early works of the brightest authors of Soviet underground art are the most expressive evidence of their time. The names of these artists over the past decades have been overrun with myths and legends, and their heritage is represented in museum and private collections around the world. However, there is a plethora of works that previously, due to various circumstances, were not presented to the general public in an exhibition format. In the new exhibition of DiDi Gallery, the viewer will see early canvases by OlegTselkov and Timur Novikov, rare relief by Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko and graphics by Mikhail Shvartsman. Pre-emigrant work of Vasily Sitnikov and collage of Vladimir Sterligov.

The stylistic diversity, division by cities, schools and generations - conditionalities that will be overcome within the presented collection. The main focus is on the twenty-year period and private histories of works in which, contrary to established prohibitions and censorship, the most significant names of post-war Soviet art were formed and held.