The artist Avdey Ter-Oganyan, who left Russia because of the case under Article 282, returned after 20 years of emigration

Action artist Avdey Ter-Oganyan returned to Moscow after 20 years in exile, News.ru reports .

Oganyan left Russia in 1998 after a criminal case was opened under Article 282 due to the “Young Atheist” action, during which he chopped down icons with an ax. He received political asylum in the Czech Republic and lived in Berlin and Prague. In 2013, the Tranzit Display gallery in Prague hosted a large solo exhibition of Ter-Oganyan, “The Museum of the Russian Futurist.”

Before emigrating, Ter-Oganyan headed a gallery on Trekhprudny Lane and organized the “School of Contemporary Art.” The artist's works are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Kommersant journalist Anna Tolstova noted that Ter-Oganyan was one of the first artists in modern Russia to be persecuted for his creativity.