The curators aimed to “reveal a tendency in contemporary art that would somehow boost Christian culture today.”

But as this tendency is not yet obvious in art, the curators invited some well-known artists whose works are dedicated to Christian themes.

According to the organizers, the artistic and Orthodox communities took part in the selection of works for the exhibition. “Excessively shocking works were declined and some artists who have a reputation as opponents of Christian values and traditions were refused in participation," organizers say.

“I assume that this exhibition will be, in a certain sense, a memorandum of intentions [for contemporary art and Orthodox traditions] to get along,” said the father superior of St. Tatiana’s Church, archpriest Maksim Kozlov.  

According to Kozlov, the exhibition will be conducted not in the church itself, but in the neighboring premises. “Undoubtedly, the idea of such proximity is rather daring,” Kozlov says.

The display will be on for two weeks through to June 14 at St. Tatiana’s Church at Moscow State University in the center of Moscow, opposite the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall on the corner of Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Mohkovaya Streets.