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Punk Perestroika 80

Melky, Sabbat, Lebed’ in Red Square. Moscow. 
1987.
Dima Sabbats collection Psychobilly at Leningrad underground. Stas Bogorad and “Meantraitors” group. 
1989. 
Denis Kuptsov collection Eric Ershun.
Kolya Kanotye by “El’f” cafe. Leningrad. 
1987 Alexander Boyko.
Robot and “nightingale” – so was called drunkard inhabitants of Leningrad. 
1983. 
Ruslan Ziggel collection Punk and “luber” in photo studio. Moscow. 
1987. 
Misha Buster collection Dima Hank is one of the founders pank-hardcore group “Tchudo-Yudo”. The group appeared at the Moscow underground. On the breaks between concert. 
Dima Hank collection Ed Sakson, Moscow tone-up, passing by Kakhovka. Moscow.
1988. 
Eduard Ratnikov collection Misha Klesh and Festival beauty. Moscow. 
1985. 
From Mikhail Boyko collection New wave in the Soviet style.
1986. 
Gosha Shaposhnikov collection Natasha Vasilieva.
Pashtetina and Maja. Leningrad. 
1986. 
Tatiana Alexandrova collection Breakage on road. Yus and Ilyas, participants of the first Moscow moto-gang “Black Aces”. Moscow. 
1988. 
Dima Sabbats collection Petra Gall.
Ed and Rus at shooting for German magazine “Blinkt Punkt”. Moscow. 
1987 Heavy-metal style of the scenic image in a smaal Soviet town Grodno. Leningrad.
1987. 
Yevgeny Belov collection Vladimir Peshkov.
Venus of Nevsky area at circle of connoisseurs of a beautiful. Ruslan, Misha Komarov. Leningrad. 
May, 1983 Start of rockers moto-column in Luzhniki. Moscow. 
1988.
Lavrik collection New youth images. Yulia Locomotiv and Ira Gru. Moscow. 
1988.
Ira Afonina collection Sveta-candy in a forest hippie camp. 
1986.
Sasha Poni collection Villy and Lyosha Klein by the horses of Anichkov bridge. Leningrad.
Mid of 1980s.
Villy collection Garry Assa.
Alan’s veteran songs at Preobrazhenka ‘punk-saloon’. Moscow. 
1987 Veta. Leningrad.
1989. 
Veta Pomerantseva collection Igor Shaposhnikov.
Vadim Kutyavin, New wave. Chelyabinsk-70.
1985 Alexander Boyko.
Ruslan and “Teddy Boys”. Pub at Fontanka street, Leningrad.
1984.
Ruslan Ziggel collection Lads and beasts. Chusia, Suria, Nikolay and Indiuk. Moscow.
1988. 
Igor Chirik collection Regina and Larisa (duet of couturiers La-Re) with Misha Korolev. Moscow. 
1988. 
From Larisa Lazareva collection Future stars of Moscow scene “E.S.T.” group. Moscow. 
1986. 
From Andrei Gerneza collection Garik, Alan and Katya Filippova. Moscow.
1988. 
Garry Assa collection Leningrad cowboys: Denis Koschey and comrade. 
1989. 
Denis Kuptsov collection

Melky, Sabbat, Lebed’ in Red Square. Moscow. 1987. Dima Sabbats collection

Psychobilly at Leningrad underground. Stas Bogorad and “Meantraitors” group. 1989. Denis Kuptsov collection

Eric Ershun. Kolya Kanotye by “El’f” cafe. Leningrad. 1987

Alexander Boyko. Robot and “nightingale” – so was called drunkard inhabitants of Leningrad. 1983. Ruslan Ziggel collection

Punk and “luber” in photo studio. Moscow. 1987. Misha Buster collection

Dima Hank is one of the founders pank-hardcore group “Tchudo-Yudo”. The group appeared at the Moscow underground. On the breaks between concert. Dima Hank collection

Ed Sakson, Moscow tone-up, passing by Kakhovka. Moscow. 1988. Eduard Ratnikov collection

Misha Klesh and Festival beauty. Moscow. 1985. From Mikhail Boyko collection

New wave in the Soviet style. 1986. Gosha Shaposhnikov collection

Natasha Vasilieva. Pashtetina and Maja. Leningrad. 1986. Tatiana Alexandrova collection

Breakage on road. Yus and Ilyas, participants of the first Moscow moto-gang “Black Aces”. Moscow. 1988. Dima Sabbats collection

Petra Gall. Ed and Rus at shooting for German magazine “Blinkt Punkt”. Moscow. 1987

Heavy-metal style of the scenic image in a smaal Soviet town Grodno. Leningrad. 1987. Yevgeny Belov collection

Vladimir Peshkov. Venus of Nevsky area at circle of connoisseurs of a beautiful. Ruslan, Misha Komarov. Leningrad. May, 1983

Start of rockers moto-column in Luzhniki. Moscow. 1988. Lavrik collection

New youth images. Yulia Locomotiv and Ira Gru. Moscow. 1988. Ira Afonina collection

Sveta-candy in a forest hippie camp. 1986. Sasha Poni collection

Villy and Lyosha Klein by the horses of Anichkov bridge. Leningrad. Mid of 1980s. Villy collection

Garry Assa. Alan’s veteran songs at Preobrazhenka ‘punk-saloon’. Moscow. 1987

Veta. Leningrad. 1989. Veta Pomerantseva collection

Igor Shaposhnikov. Vadim Kutyavin, New wave. Chelyabinsk-70. 1985

Alexander Boyko. Ruslan and “Teddy Boys”. Pub at Fontanka street, Leningrad. 1984. Ruslan Ziggel collection

Lads and beasts. Chusia, Suria, Nikolay and Indiuk. Moscow. 1988. Igor Chirik collection

Regina and Larisa (duet of couturiers La-Re) with Misha Korolev. Moscow. 1988. From Larisa Lazareva collection

Future stars of Moscow scene “E.S.T.” group. Moscow. 1986. From Andrei Gerneza collection

Garik, Alan and Katya Filippova. Moscow. 1988. Garry Assa collection

Leningrad cowboys: Denis Koschey and comrade. 1989. Denis Kuptsov collection

Lille, 5.06.2009—12.07.2009

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Curators: Irina Meglinskaya and Misha Baster

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Exhibition shedule

  • 5.06.2009—12.07.2009

    Moscow

    Central exhibition hall Manege

  • 5.06.2009—12.07.2009

    Lille

    Lille3000

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1980s fashion: subculture style

The 1980s brought fashionable perestroikas and a perestroika of fashion. A period that saw the emergence of new styles and new creative spaces. Charged by the energy of anticipated change, Soviet youth created new musical styles, street fashion, communal squats...

This project by Misha Baster and Irina Meglinskaya is a photographic history of the Soviet artistic underground, an attempt to present anew and reconstruct something that many people experienced and then forgot. Bikers, breakdancers, Teddy boys, New Wavers, punks, metalheads, rockers, rockabillies. Zhanna Aguzarova, Garri Assa, Alexander Petlyura, Andrei Bartenev, Viktor Tsoi, Sergei Kuryokhin, Timur Novikov, Malchishnik and Dolphin... More than three hundred amateur or professional, black-and-white or colour photographs from the private archives of those who took part in 1980s street movements, from squares, bridges, streets, concerts, kitchens, beaches, motorcycles, escalators, railway tracks, balconies, benches, bus stops, stages and stadiums.

This alternative to the Soviet regime originated from subcultures formed in the early 1980s. Their participants and heroes occupied squats and street podiums, inveigling ordinary passers-by to join them in a celebration of civil disobedience. The exaggerated dress code, hairstyles, tattoos and make-up were intended to shock, it was a demonstration of freedom and independence pushed to the limit, challenging’normal’, conventional Soviet imagery.

The photo-premiere’Hooligans of the 80s’ is part of the eponymous project to be continued in Misha Baster’s book. In a series of interviews those involved in these provocative street protests give the author and co-participant their own view of the turbulent 1980s, when they used their perception of trendsetting foreign ideas and experimental music to create a unique world with its own fashion, music, language and marketplace. The book consists of more than twenty interviews with outstanding representatives of unofficial culture, and over eight hundred photographs from their personal archives.’In the perestroika period many adolescents took up brutal non-Soviet concepts characterised by anti-heroism, bravado and the originality of the hooligan. All this happened as part of the clash between’normal’ and’abnormal’, and these style images, in turn, protected our own adolescent idealism and became key criteria in the search for others like ourselves on the streets of many Soviet cities’ (M. Baster).

The 1980s marked a turning point in the stylistics of the country as a whole.’Lifting’ the Iron Curtain so that new rhythms, new goods and fabrics filtered through proved problematic for adolescent identity, but nonetheless introduced the possibility for experimentation in human relations, in self-expression and lifestyle. These aesthetics were projected into contemporary society to the acoustic accompaniment of musicians who would become part of the project, a soundtrack to the history of 1980s hooligans.

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