Above: Images of Ilya Kabakov and Andrei Monastyrsky
The Moscow Conceptualist, or Russian Conceptualist, movement began with the Sots art of Komar and Melamid in the early 1970s, and continued as a trend in Russian art into the 1980s. It attempted to subvert socialist ideology using the strategies of conceptual art and appropriation art.
The central figures were Ilya Kabakov, Andrei Monastyrsky and Komar and Melamid. The group also included Eric Bulatov, Dmitri Prigov and Viktor Pivovarov.
