Nikola-Lenivets Art Park: Modern Art in the Woods and in the Field

The history of "Nikola-Lenivets" Art Park began in 1994, when a Moscow artist settled in the extinct village of Nikola-Lenivets. He began to create bizarre structures from natural materials: cones, sticks and vines, and "populate" the adjacent fields and forest with them. Gradually, it attracted creative people from all over Russia to the village, and in 2010 a businessman purchased the territory adjacent to the village and started to improve the infrastructure here for visitors to view the installations. So an art park came up here.As for the Festival "Archstoyanie", it is organized every summer in the second half of July. In its framework, the invited architects create art objects from natural materials and inscribe them into the natural landscape. Many of these works are not fanciful objects of modern art, but functional subjects, although strangely looking. These are, for example, trampolines, bridges, swings, rafts, toilets, various objects similar to houses and accessible for viewing from the inside. Inspection of these creations is not the only occupation for the guests of Nikola-Lenivets. In summer, yoga classes, film screenings and master classes are held here.