Under support of the British Council on 8 September – 6 November 2011 the British artists Jeremy Deller and Sonia Boyce will present their art-works at the exhibition "Impossible community" at the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Gogolev Boulevard, 10).

The project is a result of a multi-aspect research work effectuated by Moscow Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with a renowned Russian curator Viktor Misiano. A lot of leading Relational art artists participate in the “Impossible community” project. This trend is highly recognized and relevant today, even though it is largely based on the traditions of both avant-garde art and European art of 1960 – 1970s.

Official project’s web-site – http://www.ic.mmoma.ru/

Jeremy Deller

A celebrated British artist who makes politically and socially charged video, installation and performance works. Was born in 1966.   Deller is the best-known for his Battle of Orgreave (2001), a recreation of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.

In 2004 Deller became a Turner Prize winner. In 2007 was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery. In 2010 Deller was awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) for “creating art that encourages public responses and creativity”.

Official web-site http://www.jeremydeller.org/

Sonia Boyce

A British Afro-Caribbean artist. Was born in London in 1962. Works across a wide range of media including photography, installation, video and text. At the exhibition Impossible Community she will present a video-installation For you, just for you – a project that uses music, singing and acoustic characteristics of the space. Her works are held in the collection of Tate Modern.

Sonya was awarded the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007 for services to art. She juggles the dual roles of creative practitioner and Co-Director of Aavaa – the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive. Lives and works in London.