The Avant-garde Art Research Project
AARP was established to encourage and advance the wider understanding of the avant-garde art through the scholarly application of art historical and technological research
AARP is delighted to support the exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s that presents the ground-breaking art produced in Ukraine in the first decades of the 20th century, showcasing trends that range from figurative art to futurism and constructivism. The development of Ukrainian modernism took place against
We are pleased to announce a collaborative project with Hephaestus Analytical, a company developing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to solve complex art identification problems. The core of this research is a suite of algorithms that can identify the characteristic patterns that make artists unique. By combining statistical techniques with connoisseurship,
We want to express unconditional protest against the treacherous aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Our thoughts are with all Ukrainian people and our colleagues – curators who have to protect museum collections in the cities under Russian bombardment. We are calling Russian curators and art historians to raise
We are delighted to announce our support for the digital conference “Russian Avant-Garde: Original and Fake” that will take place on 5-7 November 2020 at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, in conjunction with the exhibition “Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake Questions, Research, Explanations”. Experts from across
We are delighted to welcome Willem Jan Renders, who became RARP Trustee this year. Since 1996 Willem Jan works in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, first as head of Communications and then as head of Education. Since 2013 he works there as curator Russian Art. We are looking forward to
We are pleased to present you the findings from Art Analysis & Research (AAR) and Museum Ludwig Conservation and Archives team on the analysis of 14 artworks of two Russian avant-garde artists – Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov. In 2017 we awarded a grant to Art Analysis & Research (AAR) to work
We are delighted to support this ground-breaking project, which is a collaboration between the leading scientific art analysis firm Art Analysis & Research and the Museum Ludwig. The Museum Ludwig has extraordinary holdings of the Russian avant garde; the museum’s fourteen paintings by Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, dating from
RARP signed a partnership agreement with Tretyakov Gallery today that would lay the foundation for digitisation of Larionov and Goncharova archives from the Gallery’s collection. The archives of the leading Russian avant grade artists will be scanned, footnoted, and uploaded to a database that should be available to audiences around the world
One of the most important part of provenance checks are auction records that allow to trace back the ownership at different stages. At the moment very few of the auction records on Russian Avant Garde Art works for the period 1945-1980 are available online. RARP is pleased to announce that
We are pleased to announce that Russian Avant Garde Art Project is now registered as charitable company. We will be working to give out grants furthering the knowledge of the Russian avant garde art. Find out more about our Mission and Vision, and Grant Making Policy.