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Masterpieces of Early Photography
until 16 November, Sun
More than 70 rare photographs by foreign and domestic masters of the 19th century, such as David Hill and Robert Adamson, Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, Gavriil Ryumin, and Stepan Vishnevsky, from the collection of the Béton Center for Visual Culture, will be displayed at an exhibition in the center of Moscow. Most of the photographs are being presented to the public for the first time.
BÉTON
(2k1 Yakimanskaya Emb.)
until 16 November, Sun
More than 70 rare photographs by foreign and domestic masters of the 19th century, such as David Hill and Robert Adamson, Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, Gavriil Ryumin, and Stepan Vishnevsky, from the collection of the Béton Center for Visual Culture, will be displayed at an exhibition in the center of Moscow. Most of the photographs are being presented to the public for the first time.
BÉTON
(2k1 Yakimanskaya Emb.)
Passion for...
until 5 November, Wed
Anniversary exhibition of Vyacheslav Mikhailov dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the master. The exhibition includes about 150 works created over 40 years of creativity: from monumental biblical paintings to poignant portraits of Russian classics.
New Manezh
(3 Georgievsky pereulok, building 3)
until 5 November, Wed
Anniversary exhibition of Vyacheslav Mikhailov dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the master. The exhibition includes about 150 works created over 40 years of creativity: from monumental biblical paintings to poignant portraits of Russian classics.
New Manezh
(3 Georgievsky pereulok, building 3)
Studios. Waiting
until 2 November, Sun
Vitaly Pushnitsky's project is dedicated to understanding the image of an artist's studio, a space that connects architecture and the artist's work from the moment of conception to the creation of an artistic work. For the first time, the project brings together a series of works created by the artist from 1998 to 2024.
Shchusev Museum of Architecture
(Vozdvizhenka 5/25)
until 2 November, Sun
Vitaly Pushnitsky's project is dedicated to understanding the image of an artist's studio, a space that connects architecture and the artist's work from the moment of conception to the creation of an artistic work. For the first time, the project brings together a series of works created by the artist from 1998 to 2024.
Shchusev Museum of Architecture
(Vozdvizhenka 5/25)
Nicholas I. The Ideal Autocrat
until 22 June, 2026
The exhibition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the accession to the throne of a monarch whose image is as multifaceted and controversial as the era of his reign. Striving to be an ideal monarch and believing that stability was the highest good for his subjects, Nicholas I ruled with firmness, reason, and inspiration.
Historical Museum - GIM
(1 Red Square)
until 22 June, 2026
The exhibition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the accession to the throne of a monarch whose image is as multifaceted and controversial as the era of his reign. Striving to be an ideal monarch and believing that stability was the highest good for his subjects, Nicholas I ruled with firmness, reason, and inspiration.
Historical Museum - GIM
(1 Red Square)
Magic of glitter. Rhinestones and faceted steel
until 2 February, 2026
The exhibition is dedicated to the art of making jewelry and accessories from the 18th and early 19th centuries, which use rhinestones and faceted steel in their decoration. For the first time, exhibits created using these materials are showcased as valuable and self-sufficient luxury items.
State Historical Museum
(1 Red Square)
until 2 February, 2026
The exhibition is dedicated to the art of making jewelry and accessories from the 18th and early 19th centuries, which use rhinestones and faceted steel in their decoration. For the first time, exhibits created using these materials are showcased as valuable and self-sufficient luxury items.
State Historical Museum
(1 Red Square)
Frida. Viva la vida!
until 15 October, Wen
At the exhibition, visitors will see a magnificent and dynamic multimedia performance – the artist’s paintings come to life, accompanied by a very candid first-person account of her life’s twists and turns. The voiceover is read by Marianna Schultz, the actress who provided the voice for Salma Hayek in the film “Frida.”
Artplay media
until 15 October, Wen
At the exhibition, visitors will see a magnificent and dynamic multimedia performance – the artist’s paintings come to life, accompanied by a very candid first-person account of her life’s twists and turns. The voiceover is read by Marianna Schultz, the actress who provided the voice for Salma Hayek in the film “Frida.”
Artplay media
(10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Street, Building 2, Entrance 2A)
Path to the Avant-Garde: Artists' Dialogues in the Magazine "A-Ya"
until 18 January, 2026
The A-Ya magazine introduced the Soviet underground to Western audiences and helped the magazine's artists find their place in the "history of art that follows the main line of the avant-garde movement." The publication would expand beyond the confines of the magazine's pages, allowing viewers to explore the original artwork and archival documents featured within.
Zotov Center x Museum AZ
until 18 January, 2026
The A-Ya magazine introduced the Soviet underground to Western audiences and helped the magazine's artists find their place in the "history of art that follows the main line of the avant-garde movement." The publication would expand beyond the confines of the magazine's pages, allowing viewers to explore the original artwork and archival documents featured within.
Zotov Center x Museum AZ
(2s1 Khodynskaya Street)
Heading North
The exhibition is dedicated to the artistic interpretation of the image of the Far North. The new project tells the story of how, over the centuries, humans have been exploring the terra incognita and how these harsh lands have shaped their worldview.
(Volkhonka 14)
until 12 October, Sun
The exhibition is dedicated to the artistic interpretation of the image of the Far North. The new project tells the story of how, over the centuries, humans have been exploring the terra incognita and how these harsh lands have shaped their worldview.
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Gallery of European and American Art(Volkhonka 14)
Vadim Sidur | Alexander Pozin. Hybrid Flower
The "Flower-Hybrid" project is the third in a series of temporary exhibitions this year, with a common theme of a metaphorical garden as a lost and found paradise.
Vadim Sidur Museum
(37A Novogireevskaya Street)
until 5 October, Sun
The "Flower-Hybrid" project is the third in a series of temporary exhibitions this year, with a common theme of a metaphorical garden as a lost and found paradise.
Vadim Sidur Museum
(37A Novogireevskaya Street)
For the fall of spring
Solo exhibition by Zhou Yiwen, a contemporary Chinese artist, graphic designer and illustrator who is actively experimenting with the installation genre. The exhibition brings together over 50 works where graphics, painting and objects merge into a single visual narrative, compared by the curators to a journey through the seasons.
Museum of Modern Art
(Gogolevskiy blvd. 10/2) - MMOMA
until 28 September, Sun
Solo exhibition by Zhou Yiwen, a contemporary Chinese artist, graphic designer and illustrator who is actively experimenting with the installation genre. The exhibition brings together over 50 works where graphics, painting and objects merge into a single visual narrative, compared by the curators to a journey through the seasons.
Museum of Modern Art
(Gogolevskiy blvd. 10/2) - MMOMA
Why should I be big?
until 5 October, Sun
The project dedicated to Soviet book illustrations - an exhibition about the significance of the "little": how a children's book can be a highly artistic work, and how the image of a bunny or a little house can become part of the country's visual heritage.
Cube. Moscow
Carlton Hotel Building
(3 Tverskaya Street, 2nd floor)
until 5 October, Sun
The project dedicated to Soviet book illustrations - an exhibition about the significance of the "little": how a children's book can be a highly artistic work, and how the image of a bunny or a little house can become part of the country's visual heritage.
Cube. Moscow
Carlton Hotel Building
(3 Tverskaya Street, 2nd floor)
Message
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)
It's good to be young! Leningrad. 1980s. Mitki
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)
If These Walls Were Water. Lina Bo Bardi
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
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)
On the Banks of Lake Issyk-Kul
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)
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 Museum of Fine Arts
Gallery of European and American Art(Volkhonka 14)
Viktor Umnov. Desire to draw
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 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
Red Moscow. A Woman in the Big City
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
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)
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)
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)
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
