Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center with the support of the charity fund SAFMAR represents the Exhibition: Avant-Garde and Aviation, dedicated to the most fruitful and intensive dialogue between science, technology and art which was carried out in the 20th century.

The works of such artists of the avant-garde epoch as Alexander Labas, Alexander Rodchenko, Nikolai Suetin, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Leo Khidekel, Alexander and Victor Vesnin, Georgi Krutickov, Vera Ermolayeva, Alexander Tyshler, Vasily Kuptsov, Varvara Stepanova, Alexander Deyneka, Valery Alfeevsky and many others will be presented at the exhibition together with the material proofs of the epoch including the aeronautic relics, historical objects, household items as well as music and movies connected with aviation.

The showpieces for the exhibition were provided by the largest art museums and funds of the country: the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, the Central Museum of Armed Forces as well as Sepherot Foundation, Labas Fund, Khidekel Fund and other collections.

Aviation is the central theme in the Soviet avant-garde of the first third of the 20th century. Overcoming space, former limits of human and technical possibilities with the help of aeronautic achievements took shape in ideas, texts, shapes and even art optics of the epoch.

The exposition is divided into three conceptual sections:

Space: angles, speed, motion, open perspectives in the suprematiс works, avant-garde graphic art and photos and the pieces of work of the 1930s.

Machine: anesthetization of an aeroplane and airplane from architectural projects to magazine collages and graphic art, genuine fragments and flying machines which were the source of inspiration for artists.

Hero: the image of a pilot as the key figure of the Soviet pantheon reflected everywhere from monumental painting and photography to sweetie paper and board games.