From Walls to Stages. A Chronicle of Moscow Street Art. 1991-2020

This book covers a thirty-year history of Moscow street art – from the first graffiti and samizdat of the 1990s to the commercialization and institutionalization of the genre in the 2010s. The publication includes rare photographs, interviews with artists, key events in street art, as well as an analysis of artistic practices and their influence on the cultural landscape of the capital.

Drawing on personal experience, artist and researcher Igor Ponosov documents how the visual language of street art has changed and what place it has occupied in the life of Moscow. The basis of the publication is a unique archive collected by the author over three decades and transferred to the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020.