Vasil Artamonov (born 1980) and Alexey Klyuykov (born 1983) have been selected for the consistent quality of their oeuvre, which comprises a broad range of media spanning performances, installations, painting, sculpture and social projects. The artists demonstrate a profound knowledge of the history of art and respond to impulses from the past, mainly to Futurism and Suprematism. They use the history of art as a framework for their research, and use their work to respond to political issues connected with the development of democratic systems and capitalistic economies in the former Soviet bloc.