CosmoscowAs an art collector and curator who helped build a collection for one of Russia’s investment banks, Margarita Pushkina, knows the international art fair circuit quite well, having visited Art Basel, Art Basel in Miami Beach, the Armory Show and Frieze London. So in 2014, on the heels of Art Moscow art fair closing, Pushkina thought she would relaunch Cosmoscow, the fair she started in 2010. “It was right the moment to start a fair,” said Pushkina, founding director of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair and founder of Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art. From September 7 to 10, the only contemporary art fair in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States celebrated its fifth edition at Gostiny Dvor. “We see that a lot of people are interested in Russian art and contemporary art in general.

Source: Forbes September 11, 2017 19:07 UTC