Exhibitions

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Exhibitions

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It's just a mystery. Around Elena Surovtseva

until 17 August

This project was the first posthumous exhibition of the artist, which is largely retrospective in nature, but also creates new ways to perceive her art, which is eternally young in nature.

Museum of Contemporary Art
(Gogolevsky 10/2)

Oksana Afanasyeva. Dazzling white and jet black

until 20 July

The exhibition is a journey into the world of childhood, where light and dark memories are intertwined, forming a person. The space is divided into two parts, symbolizing the opposite sides of the experience: the good and the cruel worlds.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA)
(Gogolevsky 10/1)

In the closet

until 29 June

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition "In the Closet", which continues a series of research projects on the phenomenon of Moscow conceptualism. In the center of the new exhibition is a study of the theme of personal space, both physical and mental, as well as the theme of the artist's home and the character of his art.

Museum of Contemporary Art
(Ermolaevsky pereulok, 17)

PERSONA

until 9 August

The name refers to a "persona" in Jungian terms, i.e. a socially acceptable mask that a person puts on to adapt to the expectations of others. The exhibition attempts
to explore this complex game of the subject and his projections. The difference between the real self and the image is the key to understanding the portrait as a phenomenon.

Alina Pinsky Gallery

(Prechistenka Street, 28)

According to the laws of the classics. Drawings by F. A. Bruni

until 10 August

The artist painted portraits of contemporaries, landscapes and genre works, capturing the life and color of Russia, features of the national character, everyday life and holidays of the Russian province.

In his art, he combined the traditions of realism with impressionism and symbolism, enriching them with elements of Russian folklore and folk art.

Tretyakov Gallery

(Lavrushinsky lane, 10)

Boris Kustodiev

until 28 September

The artist painted portraits of contemporaries, landscapes and genre works, capturing the life and color of Russia, features of the national character, everyday life and holidays of the Russian province. In his art, he combined the traditions of realism with impressionism and symbolism, enriching them with elements of Russian folklore and folk art.

Tretyakov Gallery
Engineering Building

(Lavrushinsky Lane, 12)

Valery Yurlov. Speculative experiments

until 17 August

For more than 70 years, the artist's work has been a laboratory for studying and analyzing the structures underlying the surrounding reality.

The retrospective, which brings together over 150 works from the Tretyakov Gallery, the author himself and private collections, demonstrates the versatility of Valery Yurlov's method and the integrity of his artistic thinking.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery,

West Wing, hall 4.

(Krymsky val 10)

Alexander Burganov. Mythology of reality

until 7 September

Alexander Burganov actively explores the themes of human nature, emotions and interaction with the surrounding world, which makes his work deeply philosophical and emotionally rich.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, mezzanine floor

(Krymsky val 10)

"He fought for the Motherland"

until 18 August

The exhibition "He Fought for the Motherland" is dedicated to the work of Mikhail Sholokhov during the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition reveals little-known pages of the biography of the writer-front-line soldier, tells about his contribution to the victory over fascism through literature and journalism.

Victory Museum
(Victory Square, 3)

Lenin

until 18 August

100 years after his death, his identity remains the subject of endless debate. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is a man who changed not only Russia, but the whole world. He became a symbol of the Revolution and the entire Soviet era, the creator of the first workers 'and peasants' state in history. However, who was this person really?

State Historical Museum (GIM)
(1 Red Square)

Africa in the Museum of Oriental Art

until 20 July

The African continent is the cradle of many cultures that demonstrate unity in an infinite variety of manifestations.

Museum of Oriental Art
(Nikitsky Boulevard, 12A)

SVOYASI. The Path of Modern Russian Art

until 11 August

SVOYASI is an up-to-date display of contemporary Russian art. The theme of the exhibition at the Historical Museum is "Home as a space of being". It is based on the understanding of the concept of external space and internal space, which determines the key worldview settings.

State Historical Museum
(1 Red Square)

Fine Dining: Stories of Food in Ancient China

until 17 August

Exhibition from the National Museum of China

The show will be devoted to such an the important aspect of human culture as gastronomic traditions, and will present the history of these traditions in China.

Moscow Kremlin Museums
Exhibition halls in the Patriarchal Chambers and the Assumption Belfry
(Moscow, Kremlin)

Around the bread

until 20 July

The exhibition is dedicated to bread as an artifact of collective memory. The project is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Zotov Center

(2s1 Khodynskaya Street)

Starting a creative discussion.

until 20 July

The exhibition is dedicated to the creative work of participants of the photo associations "October" and ROPF. Both groups included prominent representatives of constructivist photography. An important place in the exhibition is occupied by art criticism of the 1920s and 1930s, which shows that art is always a discussion.

Zotov Center

(2s1 Khodynskaya Street)

20th Century Dance: Matisse, Malevich, Diaghilev, Kandinsky and others

until 8 August

The exhibition explores the connection between dance and visual art in the 20th century — from their parallel evolutions to the shared foundations of these art forms.

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

(11 Obraztsova St., building 1A)

Women Behind the Camera

until 27 July

A Postscript to the 100th Anniversary of Film Director Tatiana Liozniva's birth.

Let’s take a look at storyboards and sketches for films, behind-the-scenes photographs, screen tests, posters, various documents, including director’s scripts, and other artifacts from the realm of cinema.

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

(11 Obraztsova St., building 1A)

"Without the right to be forgotten. To the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory"

until 25 August

Rosarkhiv, together with the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Russian Foreign Ministry, and the Russian Historical Society, with the participation of archival institutions and museums, present an exhibition of archival documents and artifacts showing the most important events of the Great Patriotic War and the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices.

Exhibition complex of the Historical Museum

(Revolution Square, 2/3)

Vladimir Bashlykov. Silence will turn to the word

until 8 June

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Vladimir Bashlykov's personal exhibition project "Silence will turn to the word". The exhibition is a retrospective of the artist and poet's work, covering the period of work from the 1970s to the 2020s.

Museum of Contemporary Art

(Petrovka 25)

The Way to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia

until 28 September

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.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, halls 39-42

(Krymsky val 10)

1418 Days. To the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory

until 9 November

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.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, Western Wing, halls 1-2

(Krymsky val 10)

French drawing of the first half-middle of the XIX century

until 27 July

This is the first such representative display of the museum's collection of French drawing from the first half to the middle of the 19th century — a time when France was undergoing rapid changes associated with revolutions, the formation of the Empire and the romantic movement.

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

Gallery of European and American Art
(Volkhonka 14)

Punctuation marks

until 15 June

A project exploring speech “punctuation” as it emerges through body, landscape, and environmental interactions.

GES-2
(Bolotnaya embankment, 15)

Treasury of graphics. Engraving cabinet in the first quarter of the XX century

until 15 June

The exhibition includes more than eighty works by Western European and Russian printmakers, including graphic works by Durer, Rembrandt, Hogarth and Daumier. Some of them have not been exhibited for almost a hundred years.

State Museum of Fine Arts
Main building, hall 31
(Volkhonka 12)

Russian wild ones

18 June - 28 September

Critic Louis Voxel called the participants of the Paris Autumn Salon of 1905 "Wild" (from the French fauves), who challenged the classical tradition and shocked the audience with their rough forms, disregard for the laws of perspective, and most importantly — bold colors that "literally exploded with light".

The museum is closed until June 18.

Museum of Russian Impressionism

(Leningradsky Prospekt 15, b. 11)

TOO MUCH

until 29 July

Ruarts Foundation presents a new large-scale exhibition of contemporary Russian artists. Keen to explore the diversity of cultural expressions, the curators decided to focus on the phenomenon of kitsch in their new project "Too Much", examining it on the basis of contemporary art from the early post-Soviet years to the present day.

Ruarts

(Trubnikovsky Lane 6)

"Zero gravity. Alexander Labas on speed, progress and love"

until 20 July

For the first time, the exhibition dedicated to Alexander Labas does not focus on a specific topic, but aims to present the various facets of the artist's work as fully as possible through his key works created in the 1920s and 1930s.

New Jerusalem Museum

(1 New Jerusalem Embankment, Istra, Moscow region)