The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center will become one of the venues of the Night at a Museum international event

May 16, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center will become one of the venues of the Night at a Museum international event. This year the guests of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center will be able to visit free of charge the most high-tech exposition in the country, to see the best masterpieces of the Russian art of the 20th century at the exhibition: Contemporaries of Future. Jewish Artist in the Russian Avant-Garde. 1910-1980 and the well-known photos at the retrospective: Alfred Eisenstaedt. Father of Photojournalism.

Moreover, the Museum will present a special program about the Russian Avant-Garde. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, located at the he Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, the monument of Constructivism, will welcome its guests with an interactive projection of MediaMead Studio named the Back Side of the White. Following the traditions of suprematism, the media-artists experiment with colors and shapes with the help of the newest technologies. Those who wish will be able to become part of a 4-meter high multimedia canvas, to create and print out their own photo-portraits in the style of the works of the Russian Avant-Garde classics of the first wave. Moreover, The Sky Above Vitebsk, the audiovisual performance will be screened at the Museum during only one night. The atmosphere of the mother town of Marc Chagall whose works became part of the exposition will be recreated in the new presentation of Evgeny Berkovich, Gogol-Center director: modern interpretations of the Jewish folklore, revived heroes of the famous masterpieces and the autobiographical texts of the modernism classic performed by Nikita Efremov (Sovremennik Theatre) and Yana Gladkikh (A.P.Checkov MKHT). We have foreseen not only the cultural program but the gastronomic one as well: a pop-up café will be working at the Museum’s yard treating our guests with kosher food and hot drinks.