Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka, 25. History and the Present

Moscow is a modern city-center, actively using all the achievements of civilization and democracy. She actively supports, promotes, and also develops all kinds of art. One of such sites, where its objects are displayed, is the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka, 25.

Personal Collection

In Russia it is the first state museum specializing exclusively in the art of the twentieth and early eleventh centuries. The museum was opened in late 1999, its founder and director was Zurab Tsereteli. Personal collection consists of 2 thousand works of famous artists of the twentieth century, and it became the basis of the museum collection. Since that time the museum's fund has been constantly replenished, and now it is one of the most extensive collections of Russian art of the last century.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka, 25 is filled with modern artifacts, among which there are unexpected objects, for example a dark room with three-liter cans. Works of art occupy not only the premises of the mansion, but also the inner courtyard of the building. Outside - mostly the work of the ideological mastermind of the museum Zurab Tsereteli.

Returned to their homeland

Petrovka, 25 represents the more traditional art of the classics of the Russian avant-garde. Many works of domestic artists were purchased at auctions in Europe and the US, and then transferred to their homeland, now they belong to private collectors. The works of avant-gardists of the beginning of the last century are the core of the collection, which the Museum of Modern Art is proud of. Gallery of images consists of paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova and others, from the sculpture of Osip Tsadkin, Alexander Arkhipenko.

Contemporary artists

In the museum there is a unique collection of works by the Georgian primitivist Niko Pirosmani. A considerable section of the exhibition was given to the works of nonconformists of the 60s-80s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar, Oscar Rabin, Leonid Shvartsman and others.

The Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka, 25 regularly replenishes its collection with the works of contemporaries, which makes an invaluable contribution to the development of contemporary art. The works of such artists as Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulikov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Andrei Bartenev are included in the section of contemporary art. The exposition of actual art changes every six months, unlike a permanent one.

Educational activity

The Museum of Contemporary Art at Petrovka, 25 is itself a forge of young creative personalities. He supports and involves young artists in the art direction in demand today. The museum has a modern art school called "Free Workshops". The course program is designed for two years of study. It is aimed at realizing the creative principle in specific practical activities, and also introduces children to the art market, new technologies in visual arts, and problems of modern culture.

Petrovka, 25 invites children from 5 years, there is an art studio called "Fantasy". For all comers, lectures and master classes are organized with curators, artists, and art researchers.

Branches

The museum is located in an old mansion, designed by architect M. Kazakov for the Ural industrialist, merchant Gubin (XVIII century). It is decorated in the traditions of Russian classicism, but at the entrance visitors immediately notice a massive arch, indicating the new appointment of the house.

Moscow, Petrovka, 25 is the address of the main building of the museum, but it also has four branches located on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, 15, in Ermolaevsky Lane, 17, on Gogol Boulevards, 10 and Tver, 9. The five-story building of Ermolaevsky Lane Was erected at the beginning of the twentieth century and was intended for an architectural society, then it was transferred to the Union of Artists, and in late 2003 an exhibition hall of contemporary art was opened here.

The room on Tverskoy Boulevard for about thirty years was the workshop of Zurab Tsereteli. In 2007, a gallery with the most modern masterpieces of art was created here. The mansion on Gogol Boulevard is an architectural monument of the XVIII century. It was erected by the same architect, who built a mansion for a merchant. Now this is a platform for international projects, symposiums and conferences. The Georgian street, where the museum is located, is unique in that its exhibits can be exhibited on the open air.

Connection of epochs

It would seem that there are two incompatible things - modern works of art and old mansions ... But this idea suited the organizers, as it enables modern art connoisseurs to self-define themselves in the cultural space. Postmodernists believe that the classical material will play in a new way, if it is diluted with modern aesthetics. And they were not mistaken, making a bid for a mix of epochs - today their exposition areas are very in demand in Moscow.

In the main building and its four branches there are many thematic exhibitions of paintings and photographs, they are related to the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Museum of Modern Art, whose address you saw above, not only demonstrates large-scale exhibition projects, scientific conferences and symposia are held in its halls. Also there are thematic, team and sightseeing tours, cultural programs for schoolchildren and students are organized. For preschoolers and junior schoolchildren there is a lecture hall.