Red Flags — PLAGUE

Red Flags, Group show curated by PLAGUE at fabula HQ, Moscow, 2025

Exhibition title: Red Flags Dates: 11.12.2025 — 30.01.2026
Venue: fabula HQ, Moscow
Photo: Natalia Melikova
Sound: FMSAO
Light design: Poisson Spot
Partners: Sfera Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art, FOTOLAB

Artists: Bora Akinciturk, Paul Barsch, Andrew Basinski, Don Elektro, Lara Joy Evans, Arthur Golyakov, Tom Koehler, Stanislav Lobachevskiy, PLAGUE, Zukhra Salakhova, Daniel Vasconcelos, Vanya Venmer, VITALY, Хаски

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In recent years, the PLAGUE team has held two solo exhibitions Total and Made in Heaven, as well as several group projects such as the Plague Expo Show, Plague Fashion Show, Popart2, Antitled, Logo and Rebranding. All these stories are combined by one curatorial vector — the study of the relationship between art, design and politics. From one exhibition to another,PLAGUE takes recognizable visual images or cultural phenomena related to their production and replication as a basis each time: design, fashion, pop art, etc. The motto uniting all these projects was a phrase from the film “The Chinese” (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard: “It is necessary to confront vague ideas with clear images”. This principle became the starting point in our reflections on the world events that have happened in recent years, starting with Covid-19, as well as how art, the ways of its production and presentation have changed.

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PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, shirt, embroidery, dimensions vary

PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, cotton, acrylic, batik paint, propolis, dimensions vary

Хаски,‘Untitled’, 2025, printing on paper on two sides, 21 x 29.7 cm (each sheet)

PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, shirt from voentorg,
floss embroidery, dimensions vary

PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, cotton, linen, burlap, acrylic, batik paint, propolis canvas, leaves, turmeric, dimensions vary

PLAGUE, ‘All stars’, 2025, metal, metal engraving, 40 x 40 cm (each), 20 pieces (Andrei Rublev, Andy Warhol, Chris Burden, Donald Judd, Ed Ruscha, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, NSK, Olga Rozanova, Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt, Vladimir Tatlin, Yves Klein)

PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, mannequin, dyed linen, cotton, hoodie by Plague, dimensions vary

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Andrew Basinski, ‘Dialogue Version’, 2025, print on paper, cardboard, 88 x 56 cm

Stanislav Lobachevskiy, ‘Lowbrow vultures triptych’, 2025, acrylic on plywood,
152 x 152 cm (each fragment)

Daniel Vasconcelos, ‘Dr strangelove’, 2025, print on paper, aluminum frame,
59 x 84 cm

Exhibition view / leftward: Unfolding, ‘Your best work’ series, 2025, UV print on Dibond, 30 x 40 cm (each)

Vanya Venmer, ‘Daddies’, 2025, digital print on canvas, acrylic, glue, 100 x 100 cm / ‘Independent Artist’, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

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Leonid Kostin, ‘vs. 50% red’, 2025, PLA, MDF, plexiglass, dye ink, metal,
400 x 50 x 50 cm

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PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, Just Stop Art T-shirt, pen, misfits jacket, thick linen, acrylic, batik paint, dimensions vary

PLAGUE (Zukhra Salakhova), ‘PLAGUE army’ series, 2025, Jil Sander jacket, cotton, propolis canvas, earth, acrylic, batik paint, dimensions vary

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Daniel Vasconcelos, ‘Untitled’, 2023, print on T-shirt, dimensions vary

TZVETNIK, ‘untitled’, 2025, loop, tzvetnik website scroll, 08:55 min

Lara Joy Evans, ‘Vanity of the commons’, 2017, UV direct print on aluminium Dibond,
70 x 100 cm

Tom Koehler, ‘drained of brilliance’, 2025, wine decanter, y2k belt, dimensions vary

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Arthur Golyakov, ‘Ressentiment’, 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 cm

Vanya Venmer, ‘Double Tap (!!!!)’, 2025, print on canvas, glue, 112 x 140 cm

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PLAGUE, ‘Back To The Text’, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm / ‘I SAW’, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 cm / ‘Many’, 2025, pens, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 30 cm

VITALY, ‘The Beginning of the 21st Century’, 2024-2025, mixed media,
110 x 65 x 22 cm

Paul Barsch, ‘O.T. (absolute truth) (orange)’, 2025, canvas print, stretcher, 67 x 107 cm / ‘O.T. (absolute Truth) (green)’, 2025, canvas print, stretcher, 67 x 107 cm