Tryokhprudny Lane, 31.12.92,

26.11.1992. Tryokhprudny Gallery, Moscow


Youri Babitch, a friend of the Trekhprudny Lane and an artist himself, didn’t have any appropriate space at his disposal to celebrate his marriage. He asked if he could use the gallery space for this occasion and thus turned the marriage into a performance or vice-versa.

Pavel Aksejonov, Konstantin Reunov, Valerii Koshliakov. Avdey TER-OGANYAN. Tryokhprudny Lane, 26.08.91

23.7.1992.  Tryokhprudny Gallery, Moscow


The words “As Usual” were painted on the wall. Thereby referring to – and turning the vernissage and its public into the actual work of art.

16.7.1992. Tryokhprudny Gallery, Moscow


This exhibition was titled after the large exhibition of ‘non-conformist’ art, organized by the Department of Contemporary Art of the Tsaritsyno museum. Avdey Ter-Oganian exhibited himself as an art object, dead drunk and asleep in the middle of the gallery.
Andrey Kovalev:
The name of the action is a parody of the famous exhibition "In the Direction of the Object" set up at one time in the Museum of Modern Art>>>
http://kovalev-org.livejournal.com/2000/03/01/

2.7.1992.  Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow



The artists presented themselves as a living sculpture by combining their bodies and acting a kind of puppet-theater.

Tryokhprudny Lane, 04.06.92,

Tryokhprudny Lane, 19.03.92,

27.2.1992. Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow



Two models from the Academy of Fine Arts where hired to pose with two neon lamps during the exhibition. This was another ‘hired performance’, a static spectacle.

Tryokhprudny Lane, 21.02.92. Alexander Sigutin, Avdey TER-OGANYAN, Ilija Kitup, Vladimir Dubosarsky

16.1.1992. Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow



A tour guide was hired to guide the public with a megaphone on a four hours bus trip around Moscow. The trip included all the typical Moscow sight-seeings as well as some carefully selected liquor stores and it finally ended up where it had started, at the Trekhprudny Lane.

 31.10.1991. Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow


The artist installed 12 hooks on the wall for the visitors to hang their clothes.

Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, 5.9.1991



For this very first exhibition at Trekhprudny Lane the artists hired three street pedlars to 'accompany' three reproductions of Rembrandt's etchings - one of them entitled "Charity".