until Friday January 31 2014

State Museum of Contemporary Art
Moni Lazariston
T : +30 23 10 58 91 40 1/3
21, Kolokotroni str., Stavroupoli
56430 Thessaloniki
Greece

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2013 is an anniversary year for the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki-Greece, since it has been 100 years since the collector George Costakis was born in Moscow.

On this occasion the SMCA holds a big exhibition, with over 250 artworks from the famous Russian avant-garde collection, dedicated to the collector himself, a large part of whose collection belongs to the Museum.

The other part was donated by the collector himself in 1977 to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The Costakis collection is the largest collection of Russian avant-garde art (1900-1930) and has a great mobility in exhibitions all over Europe and the USA. It is a big presentation of the Costakis collection and the archive which follows and shows the collector’s gaze and method, through monographic artists’ presentations, enriched by guided tours, educational programs, talks, book presentations and lessons on the Russian avant- garde period.