Curator: Darya Yartseva

As Steve Jobs once said: “My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts.”

BLAR project invited Commute Art Hub, a community of five Moscow galleries, to follow in his lead and create a new format of exhibiting contemporary art. Commute Art Hub strives to become more than just an amalgamation of its parts. It will showcase how culture can function in a world of never-ending proposals and attention deficit—the main attributes of the 21st century.

We took the “one-stop show” idea as the main concept for our exhibition. A “one-stop show” is a universal support service—a place where a client can be consulted in a multitude of ways. What happens if this model is used in contemporary art? A space with varying ideas and meanings is created—a place that will be meaningful and important today, materialized into objects of collection. Beginning with ceramics and installation and ending with classical painting, all these mediums will be showcased by young contemporary gallerists who will present collaborative work for the very first time. This project was created with the goal of showing that contemporary art can be exhibited not only in galleries and museums, but also in any city space. This goal can be imagined and turned into reality.

We want to create an opportunity to easily collect art and provide a logical chain of steps to acquire it. Then, maybe, instead of public art on city streets or commercial landscapes in business centers, we can buy work from the best contemporary artists.

BLAR and Commute Art Hub have a new vision and strategy: we want to show how to effectively create horizontal connections through many teams to create synergy in a friendly, open, and transparent community of like-minded people. We chose a new format of a “one-stop show” to begin our journey. Our team leaders created a universal cultural route where key players of the art world can meet and create new ways of development for the art scene.

Artists:

Vitaliy Barabanov, Alexandra Beteeva, Sergey Bloh,Darya Gitmanovich, Alexander Gordeev, Pavel Grishin, Evgeniy Dedov, Ekaterina Emelyanova, Nikita Erokhin, Sveta Efremova, Alina Zolotih, Nikita Kroko, Sasha Kuprianov, Masha Lam, Darya Orochko, Tim Parshikov, Aleksandra Patsimaniuk, Elizaveta Semenova, Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva, Alexandra Ten, Evgenia Filatova, Arina Frank, Natalia Hlebtsevich, Anastasia Chervonnaya, Sasha Shabaeva, Polina Shilkinite, Elena Udina

Commute Art Hub founders: Aleksander Blanar, Vladislav Duhanin, Daria Kuznetsova, Ruslan Potamoshnev, Maria Homutova, Anastasia Shavlokhova, Igor Shilenko,Irina Shulzhenko, Darya Yartseva

BLAR project founders: Ester Gorilovskaya, Antonina Koroleva

Commute Art Hub is a community of five galleries: Deep List, Shilo, Shift, Tōmo, and сцена/szena. It was founded in 2025. Its main objective is to find points of connection between artistic and curatorial practices to create a dynamic space for interaction based on the principles of horizontal communication, openness, and transparency in the creation of the art market.

BLAR- is a new cultural space where inspiration becomes a driving force for creativity, self-exploration and an open cultural dialogue. A place where people from different spheres can explore their creative potential, find like-minded individuals and build a dialogue with themselves through art, design, education and cuisine.

BLAR is a new cultural space where inspiration becomes a driving force for creativity, self-exploration, and open cultural dialogue. It is a place where people from different spheres can explore their creative potential, find like-minded individuals, and build a dialogue with themselves through art, design, education, and cuisine.