The Congress will be attended by Andrei Egorov, a contemporary art collector living and working in Moscow, founder of Diodia Night Gallery, a garage gallery for the promotion of young artists. He will moderate the session “MODERN ART AS A POINT OF CONSTRUCTION OF CITY ENVIRONMENT - A CONSIDER'S VIEW”.A little about Andrei: Graduated from the Higher School of Economics and in parallel from the SorbonneIn 2004-10 he worked at the Renova Group of Companies. Since 2010, he took part in the process of creating the Skolkovo Innovation Center and was the Executive Director of the Skolkovo Open University (OtUS) until 2017.In 2017-18, he worked as a senior managing director at VEB. Since 2011. - Organizer of conferences under TED license - TEDxSkolkovo, since 2014 - TEDxMoscow. Ambassador of TEDx in Russia. In 2011-2015. - Ambassador of Singularity University in Russia. In 2019-2022 - Director of the Office of Knowledge and Innovation of the Qatar-Russia Cooperation Center, Program Director of Qatar SPIEF.From 2017-2023. Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in Scientific and Educational Spheres of the Presidential Council for Science and Education. Since 2024 he has been working at Yandex. Co-founder and since 2012 Executive Director of the Alexander Pyatigorsky Foundation, aimed at preserving the legacy of the famous Russian philosopher. He has visited more than 85 countries. “Through traveling and learning about other peoples and cultures, I have always looked for authentic things - made from local materials by craftsmen who are agents of their culture and traditions, whether it's a carpet from Isfahan, silverware from the Andes, old household items from Hong Kong shops, a painting bought in a Laotian town, Bedouin jewelry found in a Cairo bazaar, or even an obsidian statue from Easter Island. What matters is material, craftsmanship and cultural context, and of course, beauty (not necessarily “pretty”). Then it all settles and cohabits in a strange way in my home.”Photo of the paintings in the post: Matiush First. Flood. 2016, mixed media, 170 x 150 cm, Grecht Steimann. Untitled. 2019, watercolor, ink, 21 x 30 cm.