On April 12, 2021, on Cosmonautics Day, the 8th Charity Auction of the Cosmoscow Foundation was held, which was supported by the Mercury jewelry company, the Opening of Private Banking, the House of Champagne Ruinart and the strategic partner v confession agency. The venue was the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, declared the "Museum of the Year" Cosmoscow 2021. The auctioneer was the actor, TV presenter and musician Ivan Urgant.
The guests of honor of the gala dinner were: Olga Sviblova, Valeria and Alexander Rodnyansky, Olga Karput, Anton and Victoria Borisevich, Arian Romanovsky, Sergey and Elena Less, Anna Andronova, Igor Garanin, Daria and Stas Lisichenko, Evgeny Zabolotny, Yulia Akimova, Ilya and Valentina Davydik, Alexander and Evgenia Popov, Denis Kitaev, Tatiana Dobrodeeva, Tamuna Arshba, Natalia Luchaninova, Elvira Tarnogradskaya, Yana and Alexei Abroskin, Marina Dolidze, Alina Kryukova and many others. They were greeted by the hostess of the evening - Margarita Pushkina, founder and director of the Cosmoscow fair and founder of the Cosmoscow Foundation.
The Auction and Pre-Auction Exhibition was curated by Cosmoscow Art Director Simon Rees, who announced the theme "PHANTASMA"
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The most expensive lot of the auction was Rostislav Lebedev's Russian Cosmos, sold for €25,000. The work of Irina Korina, Cosmoscow 2021 Artist of the Year, left the auction for 20,000 €. Other favorites of the charity auction were the works of Aidan Salakhova, Georgy Ostretsov, Alexei Azarov, Alexei Bogolepov and Anna Andrzhievskaya.
As a result of the auction, all 22 lots were sold for a total of 201,500 €. Proceeds from sales will traditionally be directed to the implementation of programs of the Cosmoscow Foundation.