Colony of Cologne: Strategies of Social and Professional Adaptation of Moscow Unofficial Artists in the West Germany

Student: Ovchinnikov Stepan

Supervisor: Gasan Gusejnov

Educational Programme: Cultural and Intellectual History: Between East and West (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This work is dedicated to the analysis of changes in social and work specifics of previously unofficial artists from Moscow which happened due to the collective emigration to Cologne on the margin of the 1980s and 1990s. Through archival documents linked to Moscow conceptualism and broader unofficial art, especially performed in-depth interviews with artists and acculturation theories the author analyzed causes the fact of not-integration of Moscow artists into Cologne art community.

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