Andrei Viktorovich Monastyrski (1949)

Andrei Viktorovich Monastyrski

Andrei Viktorovich Sumnin (Russian: Андрей Викторович Сумнин), known under the pseudonym Andrei Monastyrski (Russian: Андрей Монастырский), was a Russian poet, writer, artist, and art theorist, as well as one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism. In 1976, he became one of the founders of the group "Collective Actions" and the author-editor of most volumes of the documentation "Trips out of Town". Andrei Monastyrski also participated in exhibitions of Apt-Art and the Club of Avant-Garde (KLAVA) in Moscow, as well as numerous domestic and foreign exhibitions. He is also the author of theoretical articles on contemporary art in domestic and foreign publications.