From Walls to Stages: A Chronicle of Moscow Street Art, 1991–2020

This book traces the thirty-year history of Moscow street art, from the first graffiti and samizdat of the 1990s to the commercialization and institutionalization of the medium in the 2010s.

The publication brings together rare photographs, interviews with artists, and accounts of key street art events, as well as analyses of artistic practices and their impact on the cultural landscape of the Russian capital.

Drawing on his personal experience, artist and researcher Igor Ponosov documents how the visual language of street art has evolved and the place it has come to occupy in Moscow’s life. The publication is based on a unique archive assembled by the author over three decades and transferred to Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020.