Art Business Consulting (Maxim Iliukhin, Mikhail Kosolapov, Natasha Struchkova) has been working as a group since 2000. All of them graduated from the first and the most interesting class of The New Art Strategies school. At that time the Russia's economy was going through the radical change, so many of the students had to combine art practice with regular job, mostly of office type. Many students have worked in the office, but only these three found the optimal balance between art and reality. The office became their issue which they were working on. Each group member transforms, masters or repels the office thing with all the body of ideas and forms.

Basically the previous sentence should be in the past continuous. For each of them the metaphysics of the office is a theme so meticulously studied, that I find myself following it as if it was a detective thriller. They have opened the gallery-office ABC - to show projects by young artists, many of whom are quite far from the main office theme. Kosolapov-Iliukhin-Struchkova and the artists they work with are much more sophisticated than the declared theme. So while they didn't fully recognize it themselves, it's so interesting to show some of the best projects made and shown by ABC group. It's one of the most interesting things in Moscow contemporary scene.
And I'm happy that curators will definitely have a lot of work in the future.

Elena Selina