Trans-Siberian Avant-Garde Archive

The Trans‑Siberian Avant‑Garde Collection focuses on the events and practices of interdisciplinary art. At its core is the personal archive of artist Oleg Novikov, comprising photographic and video documentation, archival documents, and ephemera recording the activities of the Art Propaganda self‑organized initiative (2005–2012, 2017–present), as well as those of communities and cultural practitioners close to it, including Stanislav Makovsky, Nikolay Zaikov, Ivan Ivashin (OS), Evgeny Kurskov, Alexander Markvart, Rustam Danilevsky, Stepan Kachalin, Gleb Uspensky, Nadezhda Matsiuk, Anton Retz, Denis Retz, Vasily Shelkovnikov, the AKT‑produkt label, and the Vovne.ru community. The collection also includes a series of interviews conducted by researcher Valeria Novitskaya with some of the most active participants in the Art Propaganda artistic scene.