The Cooper Union updated its website yesterday afternoon to note that it is postponing the exhibition Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930 given the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The show, which was scheduled to open last night, is the culmination of student research into Vkhutemas, a design school in Russia that opened in 1920 and was subsequently shut down by Joseph Stalin after just ten years in operation. Today it is informally known as the “Soviet Bauhaus.”
Led by Anna Bokov, an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Cooper Union, work on the exhibition began in 2019 and continued as part of coursework in
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