at the dawn of a stroll, I’m meeting you...
until 19 October, Sun
The exhibition includes works by more than 40 Russian photo artists spanning the 19th to 21st centuries, from portrait photography to post-conceptual art. Through the medium of photography, the project explores themes of collectivity, community, and participation.
(6 Trubnikovsky Lane)
until 28 August, Thu
The works are dedicated to the theme of change – as an internal and external transition, where the artist faces boundaries, experiences and transformation. The exhibition presents different media: painting, video art, installations, digital media, textiles and sound.
(Bobrov Lane, 4, building 4)
until 31 August, Sun
The project explores the dialogue between artistic imagination and the fixation of real-life stories, immersing the viewer in a space where the shimmering of meanings and images creates a unique, multi-layered fabric of perception.
(Khamovniki, Usacheva 13)
until 21 September, Sun
An exhibition of the legendary art group Mitki. The exhibition takes visitors back to the era of the Leningrad underground, a time of t-shirts, quilted jackets, and the use of phrases like "dyuk", "yely-paly", and "bratushka", which became symbols of an entire generation.
"ARTBOX ETALON" Gallery
(16 Novoalekseevskaya Str., Building 11)until 14 September, Sun
The project, presented in the format of a total installation, will feature digital works, plasticizations, and 3D-printed sculptures.
(Malaya Ordynka, 19)
until 19 October, Sun
Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) belongs in the pantheon of the world’s most revered and influential architects. Today, 33 years after her death, her hugely varied work is attracting ever more interest as the scale of her talent becomes ever more apparent.
GES-2
(Bolotnaya embankment., 15)
until 12 October, Sun
A new exhibition at the Museum of the East is dedicated to the visual and decorative arts of 20th-century Kyrgyzstan. The beauty of this country's nature and the unique culture of the Kyrgyz people will be showcased in the project "On the Banks of Lake Issyk-Kul."
Museum of Oriental Art
VDNKh-Pavilion No. 13
(ave. Mira, 119, p. 13)
Alexander Deineka. Anthem of Life
until 26 October, Sun
An outstanding artist of the Soviet era, a painter, graphic artist, teacher, sculptor, and monumentalist. His works are filled with energy, dynamism, and attention to the human form. The project spans several decades of the artist's work, from the 1920s to the 1960s.
(Kadashyovskaya Embankment, 12)
until 12 October, Sun
The exhibition will feature engravings based on drawings by prominent European artists, including Raphael, Bronzino, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Pushkin Musem of Fine Arts
Gallery of European and American Art(Volkhonka 14)
until 21 September, Sun
The exhibition is dedicated to the early period of the work of the renowned artist Viktor Ivanovich Umnov (1931-2022). The exhibition continues a series of research projects within the framework of the "Collection. Point of View" program.
Museum of Modern Art
(17 Yermolaevsky Lane) - MMOMA
until 16 September, Tue
Ivan Klun (1873-1943) was one of the key artists of the first half of the 20th century, a friend of Kazimir Malevich, a painter, graphic artist, and creator of cubist sculptures, suprematist objects, and kinetic structures that were among the first mobiles in the history of art.
Museum of Modern Art
(17 Yermolaevsky Lane) - MMOMA
until 19 October, Sun
The exhibition, dedicated to the perfume industry in Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, will be the center's first olfactory project. The curators have taken an experimental approach to the methodology of studying the era, collecting a wide range of data on the olfactory impressions of the time, thereby making smell the main focus of the exhibition.
Zotov Center
(2s1 Khodynskaya Street)
until 28 September, Sun
Critic Louis Vauxcelles called the participants of the 1905 Paris Salon d'Automne "fauves" (from the French word for "wild"), as they challenged classical tradition and shocked the public with their rough forms, disregard for the laws of perspective, and most importantly, their bold colors that "literally exploded with light."
Museum of Russian Impressionism
(15 Leningradsky Prospekt, Building 11)
until 31 August, Sun
Ksenia Dranysh's personal project "The Matter of Sleep" is a multimedia artwork that explores the fragility and fluidity of human identity, as well as the subtle sensations of dreams, memories, and subconscious imagery.
Museum of Modern Art
(Petrovka 25) - MMOMA
Ilya Mashkov. Avant-Garde. Kitsch. Classics
until 26 October, Sun
A large-scale retrospective of Ilya Mashkov (1881–1944), a key figure of the early Russian avant-garde, one of the founders of the Bubnovy Valet group, and one of the best colorists in 20th-century art.
New building, in the halls of the 3rd floor
(Kadashyovskaya Embankment, 12)
Karl Bryullov. Rome – Moscow – St. Petersburg
until 8 January, Thu, 2026
In the year of Bryullov's 225th anniversary, the State Tretyakov Gallery invites visitors to explore his artistic legacy through the lens of the concept of "genius of place."
New Tretyakov Gallery, Halls 60–62
(Krymsky Val 10)
May Miterich. To the Cape of Joy
until 12 October, Sun
The exhibition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of May Petrovich Mituříč-Khlebnikov (1925–2008), one of the most famous graphic artists and illustrators of the second half of the 20th century.
New Tretyakov Gallery, Hall 38
(Krymsky Val 10)
Eastern Abstractionism and Western Symbolism
until 24 August, Sun
Maria Elkonina is a representative of the Soviet underground of the second half of the 20th century. Elkonina's work is a reinterpretation of the traditions of the Russian avant-garde, which she inherited from her parents, who were both monumental artists.
Museum of Oriental Art
(12A Nikitsky Boulevard)
until 31 August, Sun
The Algorithms of Cognition Summer Intensive Festival is a series of nine artistic projects that explore ways to navigate a rapidly changing world.
(11/4s1 Maroseyka Street)
until 31 August, Sun
This is a large-scale solo exhibition by Boris Asafovich Messerer, a set designer, painter, and graphic artist who has been synthesizing his artistic pursuits and individual style in a wide range of genres, from set design to book illustration, for over 70 years.
Museum of Modern Art
(Gogol 10/1) - MMOMA
until 26 August, Tue
The title refers to the Jungian concept of a persona, which is a socially acceptable mask that a person adopts to adapt to the expectations of others. The exhibition explores the complex relationship between the subject and their projections.
Alina Pinsky Gallery
(28 Prechistenka Street)
until 28 September, Sun
Boris Kustodiev painted portraits of his contemporaries, landscapes, and genre works, capturing the life and color of Russia, the peculiarities of the national character, and the everyday life and holidays of the Russian countryside.
Tretyakov Gallery
Engineering Building
(12 Lavrushinsky Lane)
Alexander Burganov. Mythology of Reality
until 7 September, Sun
Alexander Burganov actively explores the themes of human nature, emotions, and interaction with the outside world, making his work deeply philosophical and emotionally charged.
New Tretyakov Gallery, mezzanine floor
(Krymsky Val 10)
"Without the Right to Forget. On the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory"
until 25 August, Mon
The museum presents an exhibition of archival documents and artifacts that show the most important events of the Great Patriotic War and the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices.
Exhibition complex of the Historical Museum
(2/3 Revolution Square)
The Way to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia
until 28 September, Sun
The exposition will emphasize the magnitude of the Russian artists’ movement to the east and their role in the modernist style of art. Those painters, graphic artists and sculptors had different tasks but one goal: avant-gardists and neo-classics were bound by adoration of the grandeur and mystery of Asia.
New Tretyakov Gallery, halls 39-42
(Krymsky val 10)
1418 Days. To the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory
until 9 November, Sun
Irina Sedova, curator of the exhibition, reefers to it as an “exhibition of emotional experience” enabling viewers of all generations to feel and understand the 1941–1945 events through the works of artists from the Gallery’s collection.
New Tretyakov Gallery, Western Wing
(Krymsky val 10) - halls 1 and 2
