Vkhutemas 100. School of Avant-Garde

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Vkhutemas 100. School of Avant-Garde” at the Museum of Moscow. It is dedicated to the centenary of the experimental school Vkhutemas, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020 – one year after that of the Bauhaus. Vkhutemas and Bauhaus were among the first schools to train professional designers, and both shared the vision of developing new principles for designing the material environment. These principles included, for example, ergonomics, functionalism, objectivity and harmony, which found their implementation in the distinctive pedagogical teaching and the combination of craft traditions with modern technologies involving the arts. The catalogue not only features unique material by avant-garde artists – both teachers and students – that conveys the high cultural significance of the Moscow School in the broader history of art and design, but itself also showcases a design that reflects the aesthetics of the time, experimenting expressively with typography, text-image relationships and even printing processes to achieve a striking, contemporary look.