From the Hermitage to the Garage: 10 Russian museums already awaiting visitors
News A Life / / January 03, 2021
Pushkin Museum
The address: g. Moscow, Volkhonka st., 12.
Opening: already open.
From July 10, in the Gallery of Art of the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th – 20th centuries, which is part of the Pushkin Museum, it will be possible to visit the exhibition project "Tatu" dedicated to the art of tattooing. The exposition includes about 200 works of large-scale chronological and geographical coverage, revealing the history of this phenomenon.
An exhibition of selected drawings from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts began on July 10 in the main building of the museum. A.S. Pushkin. Viewers will be able to see rarely exhibited works of such masters as Durer, Veronese, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Fragonard, Tiepolo, David, Ingres, Daumier, Friedrich, Bryullov, Degas, Renoir, van Gogh, Vrubel, Kandinsky, Mark, Nolde, Picasso, Leger, Matisse, Malevich, Chagall.
Website of the Pushkin Museum →
The Russian Museum
The address: g. St. Petersburg, Engineering st. 4.
Opening: July 15.
In the Russian Museum you can visit the exhibition “Memory! To the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War ”. It is dedicated to the work of artists for whom the harsh drama of the war was an integral part of their personal biography. The exhibition presents works of painting, sculpture and graphics, made from 1945 to the 2010s. Many of the authors of the works presented (A. Laktionov, E. Moiseenko, A. Mylnikov, V. Ivanov, G. Korzhev, G. Savinov and others) are the greatest masters of Soviet and contemporary Russian art.
Also in the main building of the museum and its branches you can get acquainted with samples of different types of art that entered the collection of the Russian Museum from 1895 to 2019. Among them are works of art of Ancient Russia and the 18th - first half of the 19th century (Mikhailovsky Castle), painting, sculpture and graphics of the second half of the 19th - mid-20th century (Benois Wing), painting of the 1960s-1980s and contemporary Russian art (Marble Palace), examples of engraving, folk art and numismatics (Stroganovsky palace).
Russian Museum website →
Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh"
The address: g. St. Petersburg, Isaakievskaya square, 1.
Opening: already open.
In the Manege until July 15, you can visit the exhibition “A Different View. A portrait of the country through the lens of the Magnum agency ”, created in cooperation with the Magnum Photos agency in collaboration with curator and photography historian Nina Gomiashvili. The exhibition will show a portrait of the USSR / Russia from 1947 to 2020 in the works of legendary documentary photographers. The exhibition features over 250 works, some of which will be shown to the public for the first time.
Manege website →
Tretyakov Gallery
The address: g. Moscow, Lavrushinsky per., 10.
Opening: already open.
In the Tretyakov Gallery you can visit the exhibition “Generation XXI. Gift of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin. " It includes paintings and graphics, photographs and video works, objects and installations by artists of different directions. The basis of the collection is the work of young, but already established authors who began their journey in the 2000s. Many of them have taken part in prestigious Russian and international exhibitions, collaborated with leading Russian and Western galleries and foundations.
Tretyakov Gallery website →
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
The address: g. Moscow, Obraztsova st. 11, p. 1, lit. A.
Opening: already open.
The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center presented the exhibition “Unknown Berlin. May 1945 ". The project is timed to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The exposition features more than 50 previously unpublished photographs of Berlin in the spring-summer of 1945. The authors of the photographs are front-line cameraman Ilya Arons and young Valery Ginzburg, in the future a well-known movie cameraman. In the pictures you can see not only the destroyed city, but also the people who participated in its capture. Among them are Marshals of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rokossovsky.
Tolerance Museum website →
Yaroslavl Art Museum
The address: g. Yaroslavl, Volzhskaya nab., 23.
Opening: already open.
In Yaroslavl, at the local art museum, you can visit the LEGO World of Harry Potter exhibition. It features dolls of your favorite characters: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Professor McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore and other characters of the "Potteriana". The dolls are made "with a portrait likeness", their costumes repeat in detail the images of the film.
A significant place in the exhibition space is occupied by the author's collection of LEGO sets, produced since 2001. They represent important scenes, locations and characters in the film adaptation of Rowling's novels: Hogwarts Express, Bus Knight of the Night, Hagrid's Hut, Voldemort's Return, Triwizard Tournament, Quidditch Match and many more others.
Yaroslavl Art Museum website →
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
The address: g. Moscow, Krymsky Val st., 9, p. 32.
Opening: already open.
Garage will show the exhibition Sekretiki: Digging in the Soviet Underground. 1966–1985». It is presented through the prism of comparison with the famous Soviet-era children's fun "Sekretiki". The exposition touches upon the themes of underground art, spiritual consciousness in the USSR, bodily practices, yoga, ecumenism and more. Viewers will be able to see works of art, objects of unknown purpose and archival materials (diaries, photo albums, samizdat) united into a common semantic network.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art website →
hermitage Museum
The address: g. St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaya pl., 2.
Opening: July 15.
An exhibition of the art of ancient Assyria will open in the Hermitage on July 15 - "I erected my royal palace there." It is organized in partnership with the British Museum, which has the world's finest collection of Assyrian art.
Assyria in the 9th - 7th centuries BC represented the most powerful political force of the era. This state was located in the north of modern Iraq, but the Assyrian kings conquered many countries in the territory modern Syria and Turkey, conquered Babylon, located south of Assyria, captured part of Egypt, reached the western borders modern Iran. Each Assyrian king strove to crown military victories by building his own palace. It is thanks to the palaces that glorify the rulers that the art of Assyria is known.
Hermitage website →
Novosibirsk Art Museum
The address: g. Novosibirsk, Krasny Prospect, 5.
Opening: already open.
In Novosibirsk you can visit the exhibition “Beautiful in the Simple. Russian still life of the XIX-XXI centuries "from the collection of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva. It is dedicated to still life - the most conceptual genre of fine art. The exposition of the exhibition includes 54 works of painting and decorative and applied art.
Novosibirsk Art Museum website →
Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve
The address: g. Vladimir, Bolshaya Moskovskaya st., 58.
Opening: already open.
The Museum Center "Chambers" in Vladimir presents the exhibition "Fenomenale! To the 100th anniversary of the Italian poet, writer, screenwriter, artist Tonino Guerra. "
Tonino Guerra - poet, screenwriter, writer, journalist, artist, sculptor, constructor, philanthropist, public activist, storyteller, teacher, inventor, chemist, agronomist, gardener... In Italy he is called “Man Renaissance ". The exhibition will feature over 60 of his works: graphics, painting, ceramics, panels (fabrics), books, photographs. Interestingly, most of the items were in 2002. donated to the museum by the author himself.
Site of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve →
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