Art-map
Since 2012 the Udarnik cinema hosts the exhibitions of contemporary art and the Kandinsky Prize award ceremony in the sphere of contemporary Russian art.
16th Line Art Gallery is the first contemporary art gallery in Rostov-on-Don which established itself internationally. The gallery was founded by the businessman and art collector Evgeny Samoilov.
25th Kadr Gallery is open since 2011. This is a platform established to introduce the audience with the works of emerging artists.
Founded in 1986, A3 Gallery Exhibition Hall is located in the centre of Moscow. Annually it hosts about 20 shows.
ABA Gallery in New York specializes in contemporary art and collaborates with such Russian artists as Ilya Kabakov, Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Purygin and many other Russian art stars.
‘Agency. Art Ru’ was founded in 2010. An exhibition hall in Radio Street at first, in six months it became another venue on Ozerkovskaya embankment.
Founded in 2005 in St. Petersburg, today Anna Nova Gallery is one of the leading galleries in Russia.
Arka Gallery was established at the private initiative in 1995 in Vladivostok. The exhibition hall of the gallery opened in 1997 in the city centre. The gallery is focused on promoting artists from Primorye in Russia and all over the world.
The gallery is engaged in the organization of art projects, participating in international art fairs and exhibitions. The gallery was founded in 2009.
ART re.FLEX Gallery was founded in 2006 by the Serdyuk family - the collector Fyodor and the art historian Ksenia. During its existence this St. Petersburg gallery successfully established itself in the art market.
ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum is a private Moscow museum of contemporary art founded in 2007.
Artmuza creative cluster in St. Petersburg is open since 2013. It is located in the premises of the former Muzdetal musical instrument manufacturing company.
Founded in 2003, Artplay is one of the first art clusters in Moscow. This is a whole district for creative industries and businesses with workshops, design and architecture agencies, showrooms, shops, and facilities for comfortable pastime: cafes and restaurants, a cinema, a club, a booshop. In 2011 the big hall of Artplay housed the4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art curated by Peter Weibel.
The Artproekt Foundation supports projects in visual arts, music, literature and theater focused on promoting contemporary artistic process.
The Gallery of Contemporary Art ARTSTORY opened in 2014 in the heart of Moscow. The gallery founders are collectors Mikhail Opengeym and Lyusine Petrosyan.
This Moscow-based gallery was founded in 2012 by sisters Madina Gogova and Mariana Gogova.
The private museum of the Russian artist – the avant garde artist Anatoly Zverev.
Baibakov Art Projects was founded by Maria Baibakova in 2008. The project functions as a private non-profit institution.
One of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine arts. Along with other leaders of the market (Christie's, Sotheby's и McDougalls), it actively participates in regular Russian sales in London.
BREUS Foundation (International Cultural Foundation BREUS Foundation, the former Art Chronika Cultural Foundation) was established by Shalva Breus.
The University of Ca'Foscari has been hosting shows of the Russian artists over the last few years.
Calvert 22 Foundation is a non-profit UK charity created in 2009 by economist Nonna Materkova.
The Manege Museum and Exhibition Association includes six venues. The central venue hosted the main project of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibitions ‘Golden century of the Russian avant-garde’ of Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke, the retrospective exhibition of Erik Bulatov ‘I lIVE-I SEE,’ among many others.
Christie's auction house is the leader of the world’s art market with offices in more than 32 countries all over the world, including London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Zurich, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Mumbai.
Contemporary City Foundation was founded by Dilyara Allakhverdova and Claire Savoretti in 2005.
D.E.V.E. Gallery runs two branches in Moscow and in Brugge. The gallery is focused on the cultural exchange between Russia and Belgium.
A private museum of contemporary art in St. Petersburg founded in 2010.
Fine Art Gallery was founded in 1992. Marina Obraztsova is a gallery director, Irina Filatova is a curator. The gallery is focused on contemporary artworks of diverse media - painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, video installations.
Flacon design factory is located in the premises of the former Kalinin ‘Khrustalny’ factory not far from the Moscow city centre.
Frants Gallery Space was founded by the artist and curator Anna Franz in New York in 1998 to showcase Leningrad underground on American art scene.
Futuro, contemporary art gallery, is located in the historical venue in the centre of Nizhny Novgorod.
The best-known contemporary art space in Berlin, founded by Volker Diehl, collaborates with such Russian artists as AES+F, Sinie Nosy, and Olga Chernysheva.
Experimental gallery 2,04 was founded in 2012 in a former studio ‘204’ in Pushkinskya-10 art centre in St. Petersburg.
Gallery 21, founded by Ksenia Podoynitsyna in 2010, presented over 45 exhibitions throughout 7 years, including 6 international projects.
Gallery EKart Bureau represents the artists of Moscow conceptual school of 1970-80-s of the XX century. It is located in Maly Kiselny lane in Moscow. Gallery EK Art Bureau was founded in 1991 by Elena Kuprina (since 2009 – Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich).
Shchukin Gallery was founded by the collector Nikolay Shchukin in New York in 1987.
The Moscow branch of the New York gallery, it represents such stars of the Western art world as Damien Hirst, Peter Helly, Christopher Wool, Peter Doig, Daniel Richter.
Glaz Gallery was founded in 2002. Today it is the only Moscow gallery focused on contemporary photography.
GRAD is a non-profit organization established in 2013 in London. GRAD is committed to promoting Russian and Eastern European culture.
Gridchinhall is a private suburban gallery of contemporary art, as well as one of the first Russian artistic residences. It was founded in 2009 by a collector Sergey Gridchin.
Eritazh international art gallery was founded in 2006 by an art historian and collector Kristina Krasnyanskaya. Since 2008 the gallery is located in the historical centre of Moscow in Petrovka street.
IN ARTIBUS non-commercial foundation, founded in 2014 by the collector and philanthropist Inna Bazhenova, publisher of The Art Newspaper, primarily devotes itself to the educational mission.
St. Petersburg Gallery of Contemporary Art Inner Voice is located in the very center of Saint Petersburg. The opening took place in April 2016. During this time it hosted exhibitions of such notable Russian artists as Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Vladimir Nemukhin and Pavel Pepperstein.
Ekaterina Iragui, the owner of the gallery, who started her career in Paris, opened the gallery in Moscow in 2008.
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center gave the audience the chance to see the contemporary art stars like Gerhard Richter and Anish Kapoor. Apart from permanent and temporary exhibitions, the museum has research, educational and children’s centers.
K35 Gallery hosts the shows of the world’s best-known artists and photographers of XX century and modernity – Andy Warhol, Mark Quinn, Oleg Zelkov, Omar Galliani, Sam Show, Günter Brus, as well as emerging artists – Ja’bagh Kaghado, Vladimir Mazkevich, Igor Ilchuk, Marina Fedorova and others.
The non-profit arts foundation Kadist collaborates with artists all over the world. Out of the Russian artists the Foundation collaborated with Arseny Zhilyaev, who had a show in the Paris branch of the Foundation in 2014.
The State Art Gallery in Kaliningrad has been operating since 1988.
The first Voronezh contemporary art gallery Kh.L.A.M. Gallery opened on January 5, 2008.
Kolodzei Art Foundation is a foundation for promoting contemporary Russian art, established in 1991 in the USA by Tatiana Kolodzey.
A new arts cluster in the former Kristall Vodka Distillery which production facilities moved out of the city in 2013.
KultProekt Gallery is the Moscow contemporary art gallery, founded in 2008.
Founded by a curator Daria Parkhomenko in 2008, Laboratoria Art and Science Space explores the relationship between science and art.
The auction house Litfond specializes in the sale of books and antiquities, but since 2016 it became a marketplace for contemporary fine art.
Loft Project ETAGI is a pioneer of loft design and one of the biggest exhibition venues in St. Petersburg. Since 2007 it is located in the former baking factory in Ligovsky avenue.
Lumas Gallery is the international network of galleries, focused on the sale of prints.
MacDougall's is the only fine art auction house to specialise exclusively in Russian art. It was founded in 2004 by William and Catherine MacDougall.
Marina Gisich Gallery is one of the leading contemporary Russian art galleries, founded in 2000. Marina Gisich is the director and the founder of the gallery.
Mars Center opened in 1988 as one of the first private galleries of contemporary art, open to experiment. Today Mars Center mostly hosts multimedia shows.
One of the MMOMA spaces which houses exhibitions within the experimental programme Carte Blanche, a joint project of the MMOMA and the V-A-C Foundation.
The first state museum in Russia which is entirely focused on the art of the XX and XXI centuries. It hosted the shows of Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Victor Pivovarov, Valery Chtak, as well as Joseph Beuys Stephan Balkenhol, among many others.
Molbert Gallery opened in 2011 in St. Petersburg. Since that time it hosted over 80 exhibitions of Russian and foreign artists participating in major culture projects - MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg Design Week, Week of Germany in St. Petersburg and others.
MSK Eastside Gallery was founded by Zak and Ja'bagh Kaghado and Wildrik Batjes in 2012.
The Swiss-based Nadja Brykina Gallery collaborates with well-known nonconformist artists: Marlen Spindler, Igor Vulokh, Vladimir Andreenkov, Alexei Kamensky, Yury Zlotnikov, Igor Shelkovsky, Anatoly Zverev and others.
Nagornaya Gallery is the first state gallery in Moscow open outside of the city center.
NAMEGALLERY was founded in St. Petersburg in 2011.
NCCA is Russia's leading state institution specialising in the critical issues of contemporary art. Since 2016 it is part of the United State Museum and Exhibition centre ROSIZO.
New Holland is an artificial island in St. Petersburg which was built for the needs of the Admiralty when St. Petersburg was under construction. Since 2010 it has become the cultural hotstop.
Collection of art of the XX century of the Tretyakov gallery is located in the building on Krymsky val.
NK Gallery was founded by Nadya Kotova in Antwerp in 2012. It collaborates with Russian and international artists. Russian artists include Alexey Kostroma, Kirill Chelushkin, Maria Pogorzhelskaya, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, Taisia Korotkova, Ivan Razumov.
The only state institution in Northern Caucasian region working in the space of contemporary culture. Since 2016 it is a part of the United State Museum and Exhibition centre ROSIZO.
Novosibirsk State Art Museum opened in 1958. It is the biggest state museum in Siberia.
One Gallery is an institution with two branches in Sofia and New York.
The non-linear multi-storey space is filled with the artworks of the most topical contemporary Moscow artists of the beginning of the XXI century.
Osnova Gallery was founded in April 2014 in the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center. The gallery collaborates with young Russian and European artists.
Every year during the Venice Biennale Palazzo Bembo hosts group exhibitions of contemporary art, including the exhibitions of the Russian artists.
Pechersky Gallery was founded in 2011 by the collector Marina Pecherskaya.
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM is the state museum of contemporary art founded in 2009.
Phillips is one of the best-known auction houses in the art world with offices in London, New York, Geneva, Berlin, Brussels, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich and Paris. Since the second half of the 2000s the artworks of the artists from Russia and CIS countries acquire more noticeable role in the catalogues of Phillips auction.
Photodepartment Gallery opened to the public in April 2008 in St. Petersburg.
Pop/Off/Art Gallery is one of the leading players of the Moscow art scene. The gallery is specializing in international contemporary art.
St. Petersburg Charitable Foundation for Culture and Art "Pro Arte" is a non-profit nongovernmental organization. The Foundation, established in 1999, is located in the Peter and Paul fortress.
Pushkin House was founded in London in 1954 by a group of friends from Russia. Today Pushkin House functions as a Russian cultural center in the UK.
Regina Gallery was founded by Vladimir Ovcharenko in 1990. Since 2016 Mikhail Ovcharenko became the new director of the gallery.
Rosizo State Museum and Exhibition Center (the former name – Rosizopropaganda) is an institution of the Ministry of Culture of Russia which organizes exhibitions.
Roza Azora Gallery was founded in 1991 by Elena Yazykova, artist, Marina Loshak, future director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and Lubov Shaks, TV producer.
RTR Photo Gallery (Russiantearoom) opened in Paris in 2007. The artists of the gallery feature Russian names including Igor Mukhin, Sergey Maksimishin, Oleg Dow, Margot Ovcharenko.
RuArts Gallery was founded by a collector Marianna Sardarova in 2004. In addition to the Russian artists, the gallery collaborates with many international artists.
Saatchi Gallery is located in the centre of London. The exhibition hall belongs to a famous collector Charles Saatchi, who pays particular attention to contemporary Russian art.
The contemporary art gallery, located on Long Island, New York, was founded by the art dealer Oksana Salamatina.
Shapiro Auctions, American auction house featuring Russian and international art, was established in New York in 2007 by the art dealer Evgeny Shapiro.
SOLYANKA VPA (video/performance/animation) — is a unique museum and exhibition project of the State Solyanka Gallery dedicated to the art in motion.
Founded in 1744, Sotheby’s is one of the world’s oldest auction houses. The auction house has been working in Russia since 2007. In 2015 Russian buyers came in the second place for purchasing at auction sales after Chinese buyers.
The Southbank Centre is a world-famous arts centre in the Southern Bank of the Thames. The Centre organized over two thousand musical, theatrical and educational events. It hosted hundred shows of artists from all over the world, including Russia.
The Auction House and Gallery of Soviet Art Sovkom is working over 15 years. Sovkom specializes in sales of classical Russian, Soviet and contemporary art.
Sparta Curatorial Agency was founded by a gallerist and curator Liza Savina in 2013.
Stella Art Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Stella Kesaeva. From 2011 till 2015 Stella Art Foundation was the organizer of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Founded in 2012, the Street Art Museum in St. Petersburg is the only museum of its kind. It is located in the existing plant in the eastern part of St. Petersburg.
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is a non-profit international educational institution with experimental approach to education. It was founded in 2009.
Tate Modern is the London gallery of contemporary art and one of the top ten most visited art museums in the world. Every now and then it hosts exhibitions of the Russian artists.
The A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is a museum complex featuring the largest art collection of the foreign art.
The A.V. Schusev Museum of Architecture was founded in 1934. The institution was named in honour of its first director, the notable Russian and Soviet architect A.V. Schusev. The venue permanently hosts exhibitions of contemporary art.
The Western outpost of the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Russia and the only institution in Kaliningrad region which is actively involved in actual art. Since 2016 it is part of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO.
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center is a non-profit organization named after the first president of Russia. It hosts film festivals, lectures and contemporary art shows.
The art space of the Center for Creative Industries (CCI) FABRIKA opened to the public in 2005 in the premises of the former factory ‘October’ which produced technical paper. It houses residencies for artists, exhibition halls and theatre stages.
The Central House of Artists hosts exhibitions, festivals and salons featuring not only arts, but architecture, cinema and design.
The Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou has the largest collection of art of XX-XXI centuries in Europe. Since 2016 Georges Pompidou Centre collection features over 100 contemporary Russian artworks.
The ERA Foundation is an organization dedicated to supporting the visual arts founded in 2006 by Elena Berezkina to promote contemporary art of Russia.
The Moscow gallery of classical photography was established by a few associate photographers in 2011.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is the leading museum of contemporary art in Russia and the first philanthropic organization in Russia for the development of contemporary art and culture.
The left wing of the Gogol house is a platform for modern exhibition projects exploring the interaction of N.V. Gogol heritage with the modern cultural trends.
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opened to the public in 2010 in the former Red October factory.
The Middle Volga branch of the NCCA was opened for the public in Samara in 2014. In May 2016 the branch was part of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO.
The largest Russian Museum of photography and multimedia art was originally founded by Olga Sviblova in 1996 under the name of the Moscow House of Photography. In 2003 the museum was transformed into the Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow).
The Museum of Moscow is the main venue of the homonymic museum union which informs the audience of the city history. The venue also permanently hosts the shows of contemporary art.
The Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow was officially opened in 2016 by the collector Boris Mints. Apart from the paintings of Konstantin Korovin, Valentin Serov, Igor Grabar and Boris Kustodiev, the collection also features the artworks of modern artists, for instance, the works of Valery Koshlyakov.
The only Museum of Contemporary art in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan was founded by the group of artists.
The North-Western branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art as part of ROSIZO hosts exhibitions, lectures, seminars and collaborates with cultural institutions in the cities of North-Western region.
The Polytechnic Museum was founded after the first All-Russian Technical Exhibition of 1872. The Polytechnic Museum hosts festivals and exhibitions connecting contemporary art, science and technology.
The Russian pavilion for the Venice Biennale was designed by the architect Alexey Schusev in 1914. Since early 1980s the pavilion has been hosting shows of the Russian artists during each Venice Biennale.
The Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art
was founded in St. Petersburg in Autumn 2004. The center was named after Sergey Kuriokhin, the outstanding musician and composer of the late XX century.
The Siberian branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art opened for the public in Tomsk in 2013. The Siberian Branch of the NCCA became the sixth branch in the NCCA structure, being responsible for Siberian region. In 2016 it is part of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO.
One of the world’s leading collection of contemporary art. The permanent collection of the museum has over 300 masterpieces of the Russian art – from ancient icons to Social realism and modern art.
The State Hermitage Museum is one of the most important art museums in the world. Its collection includes over three million artworks and masterpieces of the world’s culture, including ‘Benois Madonna,’ and ‘Madonna Litta’ by Leonardo da Vinci, ‘Danae,’ ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son,’ by Rembrandt, ‘Portrait of a dame in blue,’ by Thomas Gainsborough, ‘Dance (La Danse)’ by Matisse, ‘Eternal Springtime,’ by Rodin, among many others.
The State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan, an art museum in Kazan, features the collection of European and Russian art of XIII-XXI and Tatar national Tatar applied art of XIX-XXI centuries. In early 2018, after a lengthy refurbishment, it will open a redesigned building of the contemporary art gallery.
The world’s leading museum of art and design with a permanent collection of over 2.3 million artworks spanning over 5000 years. The museum hosts many exhibitions of Russian art.
The ZIL Culture Centre is the first and largest palace of culture in Moscow. Today it is a multifunctional cultural centre which regularly hosts exhibitions, performances, theatrical performances and workshops of leading experts working in science, culture and art.
Tipografiya Cultural Centre opened in 2012 in the centre of Krasnodar in the premises of the former printing house "Soviet Kuban."
Tkachi creative space was established in 2010. The venue houses shops and showrooms, offices and auditoriums and it hosts contemporary art shows.
Tolk Gallery is the first contemporary art gallery in Nizhny Novgorod founded in 2014.
Triumph Gallery was founded by Emelian Zakharov and Dmitry Khankin in 2006.
Tryokhgorny Manufacturing Company is one of the oldest textile factories in Russia. Since 2014 it has become an arts cluster.
The branch of the Ural branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Yekaterinburg (Ural Branch of the NCCA as a part of the ROSIZO) works in all Ural Federal Region. The most active cultural organization in Russian regions. The Ural branch is a venue of Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art.
Founded in 2009, the gallery successfully established itself in the art market under the name Art Slovar. Since 2012 the project changed its concept and entered the world’s art market under the new name – Ural Vision Gallery (UVG).
V-A-C Foundation is a non-profit institution founded in 2009 dedicated to the development of contemporary art in Russia through exhibition, education and publishing projects. The founding member and the president of the V-A-C Foundation is Leonid Mikhelson.
A representative office of the V-A-C Foundation in the embankment Zattere opened in a three-story palazzo in Venice in 2017. The founding member and the president of the V-A-C Foundation is Leonid Mikhelson, the first Russian philanthropist to be the member of the Tate International Board of Trustees in London, as well as the member of the Board of Trustees of the New Museum in New York.
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions is one of the major auction houses in the world which had passed a long way from the classic auction house specialized in the art of XIX century to a modern international player of the art market.
Victoria Gallery is the largest independent art venue in Samara, founded in 2005 by Leonid Mikhelson, the chairman of the board of JSC ‘Novatek.’
Vladey auction house is the first auction of modern Russian art in Russia. Founded in 2013, the auction house earned trust of artists and collectors, gaining the status of the recognized expert in the art market.
The Russian Foundation of Contemporary Art founded by collectors and philantropists Vladimir and Konstantin Sorokin in 2008.
The only museum and exhibition organization in Nizhny Novgorod promoting contemporary art in the wide context of contemporary art. Since 2016 it is a part of the United State Museum and Exhibition centre ROSIZO.
Founded in 1990, Vostochnaya Gallery specializes in Russian contemporary art. The gallery collaborates with such artists as Vladimir Grig, Yana Lande, Anastasia Zaborovskaya, Mikhail Blinov and other artists.
Founded by a collector Sofya Trotsenko in 2007, Winzavod is the first and largest contemporary art centre in Moscow.
Founded in 1993 by Elena Selina, XL Gallery is one of the blue-chip contemporary art galleries in Russia.
Founded in 2004, Yekaterinburg contemporary art gallery is a private exhibition center located in the historical center of Yekaterinburg.
The Zarya Center for Contemporary Art in Vladivostok was established in 2013 at the initiative of Alexander Mechetin, the Russian businessman, arts patron, founder and co-owner of the biggest Russian alcohol company “Synergia.”
Moscow non-profit arts centre is named after the Russian artist Anatoly Zverev.
The first state museum in Russia which is entirely focused on the art of the XX and XXI centuries. It hosted the shows of Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Victor Pivovarov, Valery Chtak, as well as Joseph Beuys Stephan Balkenhol, among many others.
The first state museum in Russia which is entirely focused on the art of the XX and XXI centuries. It hosted the shows of Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Victor Pivovarov, Valery Chtak, as well as Joseph Beuys, Stephan Balkenhol, among many others.
The first state museum in Russia which is entirely focused on the art of the XX and XXI centuries. It hosted the shows of Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Victor Pivovarov, Valery Chtak, as well as Joseph Beuys, Stephan Balkenhol, among many others.