The exhibition story
Abstraction appears here as an international exchange of ideas across painting, music, poetry, film and dance.
Organised by Leah Dickerman with Masha Chlenova, the exhibition followed networks of artists rather than a single origin story. MoMA’s surviving record includes installation photography, audio and a publication entry.
Artists in the record
Vasily Kandinsky, František Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky
Publication trail
Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
Catalogue reference; see the source institution for access and publication details. No full catalogue is reproduced here.
Reading the record
The dates 1910–1925 belong to the exhibition’s subject; the exhibition itself opened in 2012.