On December 26, the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University “Apothecary Garden” will host the opening of the VII annual festival of orchids, carnivorous plants and desert plants “Tropical Winter”, which will last until April 3, 2016. Guests will be able to see and photograph the rarest tropical orchids of the most unexpected shapes and sizes, striking with amazing smells (chocolate, mulled wine, cheese, dust, evening perfume), as well as appreciate new varieties.

Photo © Mikhail Shcheglov

Other heroes of the tropical tale are bromeliads, ferns, vines, flowering amorphophallus with the smell of rotten meat, insectivorous Venus flytraps, sundews and butterworts, huge bananas, centuries-old palm trees. To top off the winter holiday, there is one of the country’s richest collections of cacti, aloe, agaves, “living stones,” and cacti-lianas “queens of the night.” Each visit to the festival is an exciting quest, the main goal of which is to find the most interesting plants in the jungle and feel like an Orchid Hunter. Throughout the festival, new plants will appear and bloom.

Especially for the opening of the festival and at the long-awaited requests of visitors, all the sand paths in the Palm Greenhouse were replaced with wooden ones. The design of the space of the VII “Tropical Winter” was carried out by the best florists of Moscow under the leadership of the Russian Champion in floristry Andrei Filonenko in collaboration with the curator of the collection of tropical plants of the “Apothecary Garden” Vitaly Alyonkin and the curator of the festival - the landscape architect of the “Apothecary Garden” Artyom Parshin. On the eve of the festival, new amazing and unique tropical plants arrived in the garden - unique orchids, bromeliads, ferns and vines. “Apothecary Garden” will present the most interesting representatives of the kingdom of the goddess Flora!

Andrey Filonenko, Russian Champion in floristry:

- The craftsmen tried to present the exhibition samples in the most natural, natural form. The most interesting thing is that you will have to look for the most rare and remarkable plants in the thickets of palm trees and other large inhabitants of the greenhouse! As a result, visiting the Tropical Winter festival will turn into an exciting quest - everyone will be able to feel like an Orchid Hunter! By the way, the corresponding botanical art installation is one of the main “features” of the space design.

Since the Victorian era, orchid hunters regularly embarked on dangerous journeys to the most distant lands - often at great risk to their lives. Kidnappings, encounters with tribes of cannibals, battles with wildlife, tropical diseases - everything the brave men have faced! However, the end justified the means: they longed to bring new, hitherto unseen plants to Europe.

The hunt for valuable orchids continues in our time - with the same dangers and colossal damage to nature, since some plant species are on the verge of extinction and remain only in collections. Thanks to the ancient spirit of the Palm Conservatory, built in 1891, you will feel completely immersed in the times of “orchid fever”.

Orchids

The greenhouse will be filled with thousands of flowering plants with amazing properties: some are striking in shape and color, others seem to glow in the twilight, and others exude incredible aromas - chocolate, vanilla, blue cheese, lemon, coconut, dust, mulled wine, meat and cinnamon.

In addition to natural species, visitors will also see amazing works of selection, including rare varieties of cymbidiums and new varieties of phalaenopsis.

The Botanical Garden will be especially proud to present a unique group of miniature orchids from the stock collections - visitors will be able to appreciate their fragile and discreet beauty. Guests of the exhibition will also get acquainted with plants from the genus Dracula, whose unusual flower structure sometimes terrifies some impressionable viewers.

Carnivorous plants

The exposition “Garden of Carnivorous Plants” is a real tropical swamp with a waterfall and a unique microclimate. It is home to a huge number of carnivorous representatives of the flora, which over millions of years have learned to catch and digest insects, amphibians and even small rodents. Festival guests will see the famous Venus flytrap, several species of sundews, butterwort, as well as the rarest carnivorous plants - the South American heliamphora and cephalothus, which grows only in Australia.

The exhibition of insectivorous plants at the “Apothecary Garden” is one of the largest in Russia and will continue to be replenished with the rarest species of predators from hard-to-reach corners of the Earth. The variety of forms and hunting adaptations of insidious plants will surprise not only children, but also adult visitors to the tropical greenhouse.

Desert Plants

The collection of succulents of the “Apothecary Garden” is one of the oldest and richest in Russia: it numbers more than 3 thousand specimens, representing about 1.5 thousand natural and varietal forms. The main thing in the new season is the country's largest collection of the legendary cacti “Queen of the Night” (“Moon Cacti”), or Selenicereus. The exhibition also includes agaves, euphorbias, aloe, crassula and “living stones” - lithops. To complete the experience, you can touch some plants.

Last year's VI Tropical Winter festival turned out to be the most successful in the history of its existence - it was attended by more than 80 thousand people.

In addition, guests of the Tropical Winter festival in the Aptekarsky Ogorod will be able to visit the largest in Russia Japanese bonsai exhibition “The World in a Clay Bowl”, which features the rare 100-year-old Japanese ume plum, 100-year-old pine trees, 70-year-old junipers, strawberry tree, cypress grove, ficus, persimmon and even a miniature domestic apple tree with tiny fruits. The exhibition will run until January 24, 2016.

Website of the “Pharmaceutical Garden” http://www.hortus.ru/

“Aptekarsky Ogorod” is open daily from 10.00 to 20.00, ticket office - until 19.30

Address: Mira Avenue, 26/1.

The cost of a full entrance ticket is 200 rubles, a discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners and holders of an international student ISIC card) is 150 rubles.

From June 7 to July 15 in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden" will be held exhibition of works by students of the Sergei Andriyaka School of Watercolor "Animals and Plants".

The exhibition includes more than 50 works made using the technique of watercolor painting and drawing (pencil, sanguine, helium pen).

A significant place in the School's curriculum is given to sketches, including those of animals and birds. Following the teaching methodology created by the Artistic Director of the School, People's Artist of the Russian Federation S.N. Andriyaka, students of the Watercolor School regularly work in the open air in the "Apothecary Garden" and other picturesque places, and also undergo practical training at the Moscow Zoo, where they make sketches of animals from life. This learning process allows you to capture an animal in dynamics, develops memory, hand motor skills and the ability to quickly capture an image on paper. The fact that the animals are not copied from a photograph, but drawn from life, can be easily understood from the sketch: some of the heroes of the works are depicted while running or playing with each other.

The opening starts at 17:00. The venue is the hall of the greenhouse complex.

Visitors to the exhibition can see many different insects - beetles, dragonflies and butterflies. Every detail of the pattern of the legs and wings is drawn with filigree precision.

There are also birds here - toucans, pelicans, turkeys, large macaws. Characters in children's works often include pets - dogs, cats, hamsters and chinchillas of various breeds and colors.

Flowers are the calling card of Sergei Andriyaka’s School of Watercolor; there are a great many of them at the exhibition. There are magnolias, anemones, tulips, roses, peonies, and bells.

In the process of creating a picture, students, working from life, accurately transfer the smallest details and structural features of plants onto the sheet. The image is voluminous, with the transmission of light and shadow, with precise modeling of the shape of a flower or bouquet.

The exhibition will be an interesting and memorable event in the busy life of the “Apothecary Garden” - it will delight all residents and guests of the capital.

"Apothecary Garden" is open daily from 10:00 to 21:00, ticket office until 20:30.

Exhibition project “The Art of Being” in the “Apothecary Garden” - from June 14 to July 28

Exhibition project “The Art of Being”

Dates: June 14, 2019 – July 28, 2019

Opening: June 14 19:00

Place: Prospekt Mira 26/1

Curators: Natalya Goncharova, Larisa Grinberg, Nadezhda Gura

Organizers: Federal State Budgetary Institution State Medical and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO", Charitable Foundation for helping seriously ill people "Gulfstream"

Partners: Presidential Grants Fund, Cushman&Wakefield, Gofroprodpak LLC

Architectural concept: Studio "Mel"

In March 2019, the National Center for Contemporary Art as part of ROSIZO, together with the Gulfstream Charitable Foundation for Seriously Ill People, presented a joint project “THE ART OF BEING”.

The title – “THE ART OF BEING” – can be interpreted in different ways.

One of them refers to the book of the same name by the German philosopher, social psychologist and analyst Erich Fromm, in which he contrasted the concepts of “to have” (possess, own) and “to be” (simply exist) as “two fundamental ways of existence.” Exploring all the possible paths along which a person can direct his life, Erich Fromm came to the conclusion: a person moves either to “have” or to “be”. In other words, a person either strives to possess someone or something, and sometimes he himself becomes an object of possession, or he simply exists without violating the boundaries of others. A person focused on “having”, as a rule, relies on various kinds of “social walkers” (for example, social stereotypes that prevent one from gaining new experience and deviating from the familiar), risking not learning to “walk with one’s own feet.” A person striving to “be” always relies on himself and his own mental powers: the ability to feel, love, analyze, act.

The second interpretation of the title “THE ART OF BEING” is associated with changes in the approaches and principles of museum work, in ways of interacting with the audience. Over the long history of the museum, several paradigms have changed: “museum-temple” - “museum-heritage” - “museum-person”. Today, a museum is not only a storage and demonstration site, but also, to a greater extent, a catalyst for social dialogue. Thanks to the integration of museums with other organizations - educational, medical, social and rehabilitation - interdisciplinarity and interaction between specialists from different professional fields are actively developing. We are increasingly raising questions: what is the “Art of being... yourself... different... together... in the future?”

Contemporary art is usually reproached for its incomprehensibility, high-mindedness, and distance from the realities of human life, especially a person with disabilities, but contemporary art is an integral part of this life. It absorbs its contexts, rhythms, problems, processing it into new forms belonging to art, operates in the language of modern reality and becomes a mediator between man and the world. This can be used as a kind of adaptive contact, initiating dialogue and interaction between different groups of people. It is contemporary art that has a high degree of empathy and does not work without it.

It is also worth noting that the prerequisite for a particular action, the source of human activity, is need. One of the important needs of a person is to be included in a group of his own kind - in a microsociety (family) and a macrosociety (social life), including in the process of familiarization with cultural values ​​and art. The process of real inclusion of people with disabilities in active public life - inclusion - is equally necessary for all members of society.

The key point of our project (but not the only one) is the ability to interact. The exhibition “THE ART OF BEING” was created thanks to the participation and feedback of our visitors. The views and opinions of our audience will continue to be taken into account in the creation of some works.

An equally important stage in the work on the project was carrying out open competition, the technical specifications for which were developed by teachers, psychologists, art therapists of the Gulf Stream Foundation and project curators from the NCCA. Important criteria for selecting works of art were: openness and accessibility of perception for any audience, including people with special needs in the motor, sensory, emotional, communicative, behavioral, and mental spheres.

The exhibition is accompanied by a rich parallel program aimed at public discussion of the rehabilitative potential of works by contemporary artists.

The year-long program “Contemporary Art and Special Perception”, the first stage of which was the exhibition “The Art of Being”, will end with the publication of methodological manuals and a general catalogue, which will describe the experience of using artistic objects not only in the exhibition space, but also their inclusion in rehabilitation centers.

Natalya Goncharova, Larisa Grinberg, Nadezhda Gura, curators of the exhibition “The Art of Being”
Irina Skuratovskaya, psychologist, Gestal therapist, project manager of the Gulf Stream Foundation

The exhibition of roses and ornamental shrubs will be held from July 1 to 5 in the Apothecary Garden

From 1 to 5 July in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden" will be held annual exhibition of roses and ornamental shrubs.

Visitors will see roses of various groups(park, floribunda, ground cover, hybrid tea).

All varieties presented are suitable for growing in the Moscow region, bloom profusely, and are disease resistant.

In addition to roses, the exhibition will include interesting ornamental shrubs, the most decorative at this time - maples, willows, bladderworts, hydrangeas, heathers and many others.

The program also includes consultations and the opportunity to order planting material.

The organizers of the exhibition are members of the sections “Roses and Ornamental Shrubs” and “Uncommon and Decorative Deciduous Plants” of the Moscow Florist Club.

Opening hours are from 10:00 to 20:00.

From December 22, 2018 until the beginning of April 2019, the Winter Orchid Festival will last in the Apothecary Garden on Prospekt Mira in Moscow as part of the Tropical Winter festival.

More than a thousand blooming orchids are located in the large Palm Greenhouse in a tropical forest atmosphere. Visitors will see the rarest tiger orchid, bee orchid, hairy orchid, a unique collection of miniature orchids and new varieties of breeding plants.

What's new at the festival

What’s new as part of the “Tropical Winter” is the “Underwater Gardens” exhibition with underwater plants of Asia.

The festival also showcases one of the country's largest collections of cacti and succulents and an exhibition of insectivorous plants. Come admire the lunar cacti-lianas “Queen of the Night”, agaves, lithops - living stones, predatory Venus flytraps, sundews and other rarities.

Guests of the Winter Orchid Festival can visit the Victory Greenhouse, which features a large swimming pool and tropical water lilies.

About the palm greenhouse

The Palm Greenhouse is the oldest greenhouse in Moscow, built in 1891. Her collection includes hundred-year-old palm trees, huge bananas, cocoa, mangoes and many other tropical inhabitants.

A two-hundred-year-old cycad, donated by Count Razumovsky, grows here - one of the oldest indoor plants in the world.

How to get to the Aptekarsky Garden

By public transport: metro station Mira-ring. After exiting the metro, turn left and walk along Prospekt Mira for about 180 meters. Enter the glass doors of the dark green building (there will be a cafe on the left) and go through it.

Address: Mira Avenue, building 26, building 1

Opening hours

Every day, from 10-00 to 20-00, cash desk - until 19-30

Ticket prices

• Entrance ticket (includes visiting the territory of the Vegetable Garden and the Greenhouse complex) - 300 rubles,
• Reduced ticket for schoolchildren, students and pensioners upon presentation of an ID - 200 rubles.

You can take photos for free.

Photos from the festival

Alley of the Palm Greenhouse. It is very humid here - the camera lens instantly fogs up.

Orchids are located among the greenhouse plants, most of the flowers are equipped with nameplates.

Rare exhibits are displayed in separate display cases. Orchid "Black Pearl".

"Venus' slipper" is one of the varieties.

Miniature flowers.

A few more photos of tropical beauties:

As part of the Tropical Winter festival, carnivorous plants are demonstrated in the Palm Greenhouse.

26.12.2015 - 03.04.2016

On December 26, the opening took place in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden" VII annual festival of orchids, carnivorous plants and desert plants “Tropical Winter”, which will last until April 3, 2016. Guests will be able to see and photograph the rarest tropical orchids of the most unexpected shapes and sizes, striking with amazing smells (chocolate, mulled wine, cheese, dust, evening perfume), as well as appreciate new varieties.

Other heroes of the tropical tale are bromeliads, ferns, vines, flowering amorphophallus with the smell of rotten meat, insectivorous Venus flytraps, sundews and butterworts, huge bananas, centuries-old palm trees. To top off the winter holiday, there is one of the country’s richest collections of cacti, aloe, agaves, “living stones,” and cacti-lianas “queens of the night.” Each visit to the festival is an exciting quest, the main goal of which is to find the most interesting plants in the jungle and feel like an Orchid Hunter. Throughout the festival, new plants will appear and bloom.

Especially for the opening of the festival and at the long-awaited requests of visitors, all the sand paths in the Palm Greenhouse were replaced with wooden ones. The design of the space of the VII “Tropical Winter” was made by the best florists of Moscow under the leadership of the Russian Champion in floristry Andrei Filonenko in collaboration with the curator of the collection of tropical plants of the “Apothecary Garden” Vitaly Alyonkin and the curator of the festival - the landscape architect of the “Apothecary Garden” Artyom Parshin. On the eve of the festival, new amazing and unique tropical plants arrived in the garden - unique orchids, bromeliads, ferns and vines. “Apothecary Garden” will present the most interesting representatives of the kingdom of the goddess Flora!

Andrey Filonenko, Russian Champion in floristry:

— The craftsmen tried to present the exhibition samples in the most natural, natural form. The most interesting thing is that you will have to look for the most rare and remarkable plants in the thickets of palm trees and other large inhabitants of the greenhouse! As a result, visiting the Tropical Winter festival will turn into an exciting quest - everyone will be able to feel like an Orchid Hunter! By the way, the corresponding botanical art installation is one of the main features of the space design.

Since the Victorian era, orchid hunters regularly embarked on dangerous journeys to the most distant lands - often at great risk to their lives. Kidnappings, encounters with tribes of cannibals, battles with wildlife, tropical diseases - everything the brave men faced! However, the end justified the means: they longed to bring new, hitherto unseen plants to Europe.

The hunt for valuable orchids continues in our time - with the same dangers and colossal damage to nature, since some plant species are on the verge of extinction and remain only in collections. Thanks to the ancient spirit of the Palm Conservatory, built in 1891, you will feel completely immersed in the times of “orchid fever”.

Orchids

The greenhouse was filled with thousands of flowering plants with amazing properties: some are striking in shape and color, others seem to glow in the twilight, and others exude incredible aromas - chocolate, vanilla, blue cheese, lemon, coconut, dust, mulled wine, meat and cinnamon.

In addition to natural species, visitors can also see amazing works of selection, including rare varieties of cymbidiums and new varieties of phalaenopsis.

The Botanical Garden is especially proud to present a unique group of miniature orchids from its stock collections - visitors can appreciate their fragile and discreet beauty. Guests of the exhibition will also be introduced to plants from the genus Dracula, whose unusual flower structure sometimes terrifies some impressionable viewers.

Carnivorous plants

The exhibition “Garden of Carnivorous Plants” is a real tropical swamp with a waterfall and a unique microclimate. It is home to a huge number of carnivorous representatives of the flora, which over millions of years have learned to catch and digest insects, amphibians and even small rodents. Festival guests can find here the famous Venus flytrap, several species of sundews, butterwort, as well as the rarest carnivorous plants - the South American heliamphora and cephalothus, which grows only in Australia.

The exhibition of insectivorous plants in the “Apothecary Garden” is one of the largest in Russia and will continue to be replenished with rare species of predators from hard-to-reach corners of the Earth. The variety of forms and hunting adaptations of insidious plants can surprise not only children, but also adult visitors to the tropical greenhouse.

Desert Plants

The collection of succulents at the Apothecary Garden is one of the oldest and richest in Russia: it numbers more than 3 thousand specimens, representing about 1.5 thousand natural and varietal forms. The main thing in the new season is the country’s largest collection of the legendary cacti “Queen of the Night” (“Moon Cacti”), or Selenicereus. The exhibition also includes agaves, euphorbias, aloe, crassula and “living stones” - lithops. To complete the experience, you can touch some plants.