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The Art Index (AIx, The Best Russian Contemporary Artists) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors, and expert recommendations.
It is aimed primarily at collectors and all connoisseurs of contemporary art.
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MishМash Art duet

1999

About

MishMash Art duet included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Misha Leykin was born in 1968; in 1994, he graduated from Moscow institute of Architects. Masha Sumnina was born in 1977; in 2001, she graduated from Moscow institute of Printing Arts. In 2000, our creative ideas grew into bonds of marriage, and since that time, we have been MishMash. The phrase "mishmash" is translated into Russian as hash, confusion. In our works, we involve uncontrolled powers – wind, mold, water, a spectator, etc., analyzing relationship between chaos and order. Nobody ever knows what form they will take— actions, installations, paintings, sculptures, of a bread tower or a huge inflatable face. The whole list of their works can be seen on the site www.mishmash.ru The finalists of the Kandinsky Prize (2007, 2014, 2015, 2016), short-list of the prize «Innovation» (2011), the finalists of the contest to collect money for the monument to residents of New Jersey state who died 9/11 (2003) and for the Memorial to residents of the Staten Island who died 9/11 (2002). Terna Award winners (2013). Artists of the year Cosmoscow 2019. Winners of the competition public- art for Skolkovo (2018). Participants of a special programme of the 6th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art (2015), parallel programme Biennale Manifesto 10 (Sankt-Petersburg, 2014). Selected personal exhibitions: «NoOpera FEAST» (2018), «Prostheses and substitutions» (MMOMA, 2016), «A Museum in me» (Museum –flat A. Kuindzhi, Sankt-Petersburg, 2015), «Spa theater of aging» (gallery XL, 2014), «Relocation» (gallery XL, 2013), See you (MAMM, 2011). Selected group exhibitions: «Interaction» (MMOMA, 2016), Allegories of Forgetting / A Nouveau festival (Pompidou Centre, 2014), Russian Dreams (the Museum of contemporary art (Bass, Miami–Beach, 2009). The works are in the following collections: NCCA, MMOMA, МАММ, Gazprom, Nadezda Agisheva and in other private collections.

ARTEEX Moscow Museum of Modern Art NNCA Artist of the year Cosmoscow Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Cosmoscow 49ART Rating Top 100 Established Artists