The Balloon

Andrei Monastyrski is a Russian conceptual artist and founder of the Collective Actions group, established in the 1970s in Moscow. His practice centers on performative interventions and site-specific events that operate outside institutional frameworks, often engaging landscape, temporality, and collective participation. Working primarily with ephemeral actions and documentation rather than discrete objects, Monastyrski developed an influential model of conceptual practice within the Soviet context that prioritized the experience and memory of participants over material artifacts or exhibition display.