An exhibition titled Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935, will be hosted at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, in Berlin from April 5 to July 9, 2012. The exhibition, based on an original production of the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, first presented in 2008 under the title Lost Vanguard Found: Combining Architecture and Art in Russia, 1915-1935, has already been presented with success in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and in La Caixa Forum in Barcelona and in Madrid.

The Berlin exhibition -based on the Costakis Collection, owned by the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art- sheds light on an area of Soviet avant-garde that has remained relatively unknown in Europe and beyond: architecture. What was new about this architecture was not only the formal idiom, but also its functionality.

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