How can a poet gather an audience of millions, and how can a writer be noticed by a major book publisher at the age of 20? How to make famous fashion brands fight for your prints and make your street art become the slogan of a generation? 5 inspiring facts about young and successful representatives of the modern Russian art environment – in our review.
- One of the most read Russian Instagram poets is Yulia Solomonova (Sola Monova). Its audience is about a million people. In addition to poetic activity, Sola Monova is engaged in directing: VGIK and several author’s films are behind her.
- One of the most touring contemporary poetesses is Vera Polozkova. The geography of her poetic and musical-poetic performances stretches from London to Vladivostok. Vera is also famous for being one of the youngest “thousanders” on livejournal. With the development of the vero4ka blog, the poetess became first Russian and then world famous.
- Alisa Yoffe, who works in the style of contemporary Suprematism, is one of the most recognizable young Russian artists in Europe. At 33, she has already managed to take part in the projects of the famous König Galerie and work with world famous fashion brands. For example, the brand Comme Des Garçons has been releasing clothes with prints based on her graphic works for several years in a row.
- 32-year-old Timofey Radya from Yekaterinburg is an example of how a street art artist can not only gain the right to speak out, but also achieve national fame. Timofey’s works are very short capacious inscriptions with a deep meaning, most of which have long gone beyond the boundaries of urban and museum spaces, at the same time conquering the Russian Internet. “I would hug you, but I’m just a text”, “Who are we, where are we from, where are we going?”, “The more light, the less you can see.” The reasons for the popularity of these texts are clear: after all, their author is a certified philosopher.
- Maxim Sonin is one of the youngest Russian writers. At the age of 23, Maxim has already managed to release two major novels: “Letters before midnight” and “The Two”, dedicated to the problems of the younger generation.