Exhibitions

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Russian wild ones

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)

Ksenia Dranych. The Matter of Sleep

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

The State Tretyakov Gallery presents 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.

Tretyakov Gallery

New building, in the halls of the 3rd floor

(Kadashyovskaya Embankment, 12)

Karl Bryullov. Rome – Moscow – St. Petersburg

until 8 January, 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."

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, Halls 60–62

(Krymsky Val 10)

May Miterich. To the Cape of Joy

until 12 October, Sun

The State Tretyakov Gallery presents the exhibition "May Mituich. To the Cape of Joy", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of May Petrovich Mituich-Khlebnikov (1925-2008), one of the most famous graphic artists and illustrators of the second half of the 20th century.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, Hall 38

(Krymsky Val 10)

Eastern Abstractionism and Western Symbolism

until 3 August, Sun

Maria Elkonina is a representative of the Soviet underground art of the second half of the 20th century. Elkonina's art 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)

Algorithms of Cognition

until 31 August, Sun

The AZ/ART Contemporary Art Center will host the summer intensive festival "Algorithms of Cognition," a series of nine art projects that explore ways to navigate a rapidly changing world.

AZ/ART

(11/4s1 Maroseyka Street)

Boris Messerer. Kaleidoscope of Time

until 31 August, Sun

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is opening a large-scale solo exhibition by Boris Asafovich Messerer, a stage designer, painter, and graphic artist who has been synthesizing his artistic pursuits and individual style in a wide range of genres, from stage design to book illustration, for over 70 years.

Museum of Modern Art
(Gogolevsky 10/1)

It's just a mystery. Around Elena Surovtseva

until 17 August, Sun

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) - MMOMA

Oksana Afanasyeva. Dazzling white and jet black

until 20 July, Sun

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
(Gogolevsky 10/1) - MMOMA

PERSONA

until 9 August, Sat

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)

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

until 10 August, Thu

Fyodor Bruni became famous as a master of monumental composition and a brilliant draftsman who was a master of the "executive part."

Tretyakov Gallery

(10 Lavrushinsky Lane)

Boris Kustodiev

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)

Valery Yurlov. Speculative Experiments

until 17 August, Sun

For over 70 years, the artist's work has served as a laboratory for studying and analyzing the structures underlying the surrounding reality.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery,

West Wing, Room 4.

(Krymsky Val 10)

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.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, mezzanine floor

(Krymsky Val 10)

"He fought for the Motherland"

until 18 August, Mon

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, Mon

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?

Historical Museum
(1 Red Square) - GIM

Africa in the Museum of Oriental Art

until 20 July, Sun

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, Mon

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.

Historical Museum
(1 Red Square) - GIM

Fine Dining: Stories of Food in Ancient China

until 17 August, Sun

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, Sun

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, Sun

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, Fri

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)

Woman behind the scenes

until 27 July, Ыun

We will learn about the history of Russian cinema from the perspective of women who have worked and continue to work in the film industry. The main character is Tatiana Lioznova, a film director and screenwriter who is the author of one of the iconic multi-episode films, "Seventeen Moments of Spring."

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

(11 Obraztsova Street, Building 1A)

"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.

Tretyakov Gallery

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.

Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery, Western Wing

(Krymsky val 10) - halls 1 and 2

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

until 27 July, Sun

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)

TOO MUCH

until 29 July, Tue

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, Fri

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)