Artist Must Think. Strategies and Practices of the Artist Vadim Zakharov 1978–2025

The experience gained during this time is unique, and the ideas and strategies that were natural during the distant pre-perestroika years—self-organization of the artist, gathering and preserving archives, small print publications, apartment exhibitions—are still valuable today.

The title of the book is «An Artist Must Think!», and this is especially relevant today, as the foundations of world culture and contemporary art are radically changing.

Wars, aggression, censorship, bans, new and old ideologies are actively penetrating from all sides into our everyday lives and creativity.

We must fight again and again for freedom of thought; it is our only chance to survive.