Manege Central Exhibition Hall carries on with a set of exhibition projects called #ATTRACTION. It’s a collaborative program between Manege and Russian and international leading cultural institutions. This time it’s a collaboration with Manege Museum and Exhibition Association (Moscow). It brings St. Peterburg Vadim Sidur’s War and Peace, a massive retrospective project.

This exhibition in St. Petersburg is an important point of the world tour. In 2016-2017 it was already displayed in Moscow, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. Later on, it will travel around Russia’s regions.

Vadim Sidur has left an impressive heritage of more that 500 sculptures, 2000 graphical works, a collection of poems, a book of avant-garde prose and a movie. His monuments exist in Germany, US and Russia. And works selected for this exhibition address universal values shared by everyone regardless of nationality or age. These pieces involve the terror of war and violent death, the looming threat of a global environmental disaster, a search for harmony throughout the world, admiration of creative power and genius and magnificence of human feelings. Sidur's works help you take a different look at the world around us, analyse whatever's happening now, peep into the future and maybe change it for the better.

Though Vadim Sidur shows a very independent style and his search is somewhat alienated, his name is still an integral part of his era that he called the era of fear’s balance. Vadim Sidur ranges among such outstanding avant-garde artists as Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Konstantin Br?ncu?i.


Vadim Sidur's War and Peace offers works various techniques and from a number of periods: sculpture, graphics, ceramics and linocuts. It puts on display famous works, such as Wounded (1963), Formula of Sorrow (1972), Connection. Tenderness (1963), as well as pieces less familiar to general public.

The exhibition involves about 100 works by Vadim Sidur from the collection of Manege association, as well as private ones. Their diversity help unveil the main stages of Vadim Sidur’s path in art.