10 main exhibitions of 2021

Exhibitions of classical art in Moscow

The list includes the most interesting exhibitions of fine art that take place at various venues in the capital with brief descriptions, dates, addresses and ticket prices.

Light symphony by Ivan Schultze

Ivan Schultze worked in the twentieth century and studied with the famous Arkhip Kuindzhi and Konstantin Kryzhitsky. The favorite of the Romanov family received worldwide recognition during his lifetime, but after his death in Nice he became forgotten for many years. He painted landscapes full of magical realism. He even went on an Arctic expedition to the island of Spitsbergen, where he created many works.

Today the name of the painter is being resurrected again for the general public. His canvases seem to be penetrated by the rays of the sun, for which the artist was nicknamed “the wizard of light.” Having seen these paintings once, you will forever remember Schultze’s unique style and distinguish him from other landscape painters.

Time: January 27 - March 27, 2021, Tue-Sun 12:00-18:00

Place: Arts Center. Moscow", st. Volkhonka, 15, metro station "Kropotkinskaya"

Price: from 150 to 300 ₽

Official website: artcentre.moscow

I. Schultze. Cote d'Azur

Attack of Don Quixote. Dali. Lithographs. Zverev. Painting, graphics

Don Quixote is a fictional personality whose influence on world culture and society is extremely great. His image was reinterpreted by many artists in different eras.

The new project of the AZ Museum brought together in Moscow the works of two creators - Salvador Dali and Anatoly Zverev. They are united by an interest in the image of the Spanish hidalgo. Dali created illustrations based on various literary works, including “Don Quixote” by Cervantes. Zverev painted the sad knight throughout his life.

Time: November 23, 2021 – March 25, 2021, Tue–Sun 12:00–20:00.

Place: AZ Museum, st. 2-ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya, no. 20-22

Price: from 0 to 200 ₽

Official website: museum-az.com

Photo from the site www.museum-az.com

Karl Bryullov. Portraits from a private collection in St. Petersburg

Exhibitions of paintings from private collections are a rare opportunity to see paintings that are usually hidden from the general public. The great-great-grandson of his older brother owns a collection of eight unknown works by Bryullov. In 15 years, he was able to acquire most of the works of his brilliant ancestor.

Time: January 24 – June 24 (Tue, Wed, Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu–Sat 10:00–21:00)

Place: Tretyakov Gallery, lane. Lavrushinsky, 10, metro station "Tretyakovskaya"

Price: from 0 to 500 ₽

Official website: www.tretyakovgallery.ru

Masterpieces of Russian graphics from the collection of the Historical Museum

In 2022, the Historical Museum in St. Petersburg will turn 150 years old. The anniversary will be widely celebrated, and the exhibition “Masterpieces of Russian Graphics” is the first stage of the celebration and at the same time the Tretyakov Gallery’s homage to its northern friend and constant partner.

Graphics are the most vulnerable type of fine art, so they are exhibited extremely rarely. Seize the opportunity to see almost all the masters of the Russian drawing school in six halls of the Tretyakov Gallery until the end of April. The museum presents the best drawings and watercolors by M. M. Ivanov and G. S. Sergeev, F. Ya. Alekseev and M. N. Vorobyov, O. A. Kiprensky and K. P. Bryullov, A. O. Orlovsky and V. A. Tropinin, P. F. Sokolov and V. I. Gau, V. S. Sadovnikov and N. G. Chernetsov, A. I. Charlemagne and M. A. Zichy.

Time: November 24, 2021 – April 29, 2021 (Tue, Wed, Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu–Sat 10:00–21:00)

Place: Tretyakov Gallery, lane. Lavrushinsky, 10, metro station "Tretyakovskaya"

Price: from 0 to 500 ₽

M. M. Ivanov. Death of His Serene Highness Prince G. A. Potemkin-Tavrichesky in the Bessarabia steppes

Exhibition of works by Vasily Vereshchagin

The concept for the exhibition of the legendary battle painter is reflections on the boundaries of realism using the example of Vereshchagin’s work.

The canvases are shown in series dedicated to his campaigns: Turkestan, Balkan, Indian series, “Russian North”, Japanese series. The exhibition is based on about 100 paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery, as well as works from the Russian Museum and collections in other cities of Russia.

Time: March 7 – July 15 (Tue, Wed, Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu–Sat 10:00–21:00)

Place: Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, st. Krymsky Val, 10, metro station "Oktyabrskaya", "Park Kultury"

Price: from 0 to 500 ₽

V. Vereshchagin. Japan. Shinto temple in Nikko

The era of Rembrandt and Vermeer. Masterpieces of the Leiden Collection

Thomas and Daphne Kaplan will bring to Russia an extensive collection of old Dutch masters, which the couple has been enthusiastically collecting for 15 years. At the exhibition you will see paintings by Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Karel Fabritius, Frans Hals and other artists.

The museum will present 80 paintings and 2 drawings that have never been exhibited anywhere in Russia before.

Time: March 28 – July 22 (Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 11:00–20:00, Thu, Fri 11:00–21:00)

Unknown Wanderers

In this exhibition one can see the freedom of expression and the full artistic power of the generation of Russian Itinerants. The exhibition will include pencil drawings and watercolors - unknown graphic works of the famous I.E. Repin, V. A. Serov, I. I. Levitan, I. I. Shishkin, V. I. Surikov, I. N. Kramskoy.

Some things differ significantly in style from complex paintings by the same authors. It is very interesting to compare them, to discover other aspects of the work of artists we have known since childhood. This is a new experience that cannot be ignored.

Time: November 23, 2021 – May 19, 2021 (Tue, Wed, Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu–Sat 10:00–21:00)

Place: Tretyakov Gallery, lane. Lavrushinsky, 10, metro station "Tretyakovskaya"

Price: from 0 to 500 ₽

"Caprichos". Goya and Dali

Opening hours: from January 24 to March 12
Place: Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin City: Moscow Address: Volkhonka street, building 12 Phones: +7 (495) 609 9520 (answering machine); +7 (495) 697 9578, +7 (495) 697 7412 (tour desk) Price: from 300 rubles Page on the museum’s website
A series of etchings by Francisco Goya “Caprichos” - a satire of the Enlightenment era, filled with grotesqueness, causticity, pain - will be brought to Moscow and madness - and a surreal replica of it by Salvador Dali, who colorfully colored the graphics, added his own favorite motifs to the images and came up with alternative captions.

Exhibitions of contemporary art in Moscow

If classical art does not touch you, then I invite you to places where current artists are exhibited, who live and create at the same time as us.

"Museum with a Painted Sky"

Tatyana Sergeeva was inspired to create this series of works by the walls of the Prague Toy Museum: they depict a blue sky, like from children's fairy tales. Likewise, the artist’s collages bring magic into our lives, revealing an alternative universe. Tatyana Sergeeva creates unique images from familiar objects, mixes the impossible with the real and gets something completely new.

Time: January 23 – March 4 (Tue-Sun 12:00–20:00)

Place: Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod", 4th Syromyatnichesky lane, 1, building 6, metro station "Kurskaya", "Chkalovskaya"

Price: Free

Official website: www.winzavod.ru

T. Sergeeva. Georgia. Sighnaghi

Fabrizio Plessi. Time left. From antiquity to baroque

As part of the exhibition, viewers will see two large-scale projects by Fabrizio Plessi - “The Soul of Stone / L'Anima della Pietra” and “Rolling stones”. The world-famous media artist enters into a dialogue with history, revealing it with the help of modern technologies. In his method he combines baroque frescoes with technology, ancient and modern art, primitive stone and video. His works seem to transcend time and space.

Time: June 1 – August 31 (Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 11:00–20:00, Thu, Fri 11:00–21:00)

Place: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, st. Volkhonka, 12, Lenin Library, “Borovitskaya”, “Kropotkinskaya”

Price: from 0 to 300 ₽

Official website: www.arts-museum.ru

Photo from matthias-schnabel website

Time 0–10. Art of the 2000s

This is the first attempt at rethinking the fine arts of the early 21st century. In several halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, visitors will see all the latest artistic methods: nonspectacular art, simulationism, interaction aesthetics, as well as social projects and political actions. The exhibition will show about 100 works of different genres of contemporary art: installation, video art, painting, graphics.

Time: March 23 – July 22 (Tue, Wed, Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu–Sat 10:00–21:00)

Place: Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, st. Krymsky Val, 10, metro station "Oktyabrskaya", "Park Kultury"

Price: from 0 to 500 ₽ (free on Wednesdays)

Official website: www.tretyakovgallery.ru

Photo from the site Afisha.ru

Kimiko Yoshida. Masako Yasuki

The RuArts gallery will host an exhibition of works by Japanese photo artist Kimiko Yoshida. It is timed to coincide with the cross year of Russia and Japan. The culture and traditions of the East are a very subtle topic that Yoshida conveys through his creativity. The RorschachYoshida project is an unusual synthesis of photography and painting, showing us the author’s special view of himself and the world.

Time: March 14 – May 26 (Tue-Sat 12:00–20:00)

Place: RuArts Gallery of Contemporary Art, per. 1st Zachatievsky, 10, metro station "Kropotkinskaya"

Price: Free

Official website: www.ruarts.ru

Photo from the site www.ruarts.ru

Geometry of the present

Opening hours: from February 20 to February 27
Place: GES-2 City: Moscow Address: Bolotnaya embankment, building 15 Phone: +7 (495) 9809760 Price: free (except for additional evening programs) Exhibition page
VAC Foundation, demonstrating smart and relevant projects in friendly territories, will open its future permanent site - GES-2 - for a week. Under the leadership of curator Mark Fell, an international team of artists and musicians will soundtrack the spaces of the pre-revolutionary power plant with sound art.

Drawings by Klimt and Schiele from the collection of the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Opening hours: from October 2021 to January 2018
Place: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin (Gallery of Art of Europe and America) City: Moscow Address: Volkhonka street, building 12 Phones: +7 (495) 609 9520 (answering machine); +7 (495) 697 9578, +7 (495) 697 7412 (tour desk) Price: from 300 rubles Exhibition page on the museum website
Gustav Klimt was loved by his contemporaries with his burning eroticism covered in sweetness and gold. His student, the expressionist Egon Schiele, produced painful, depressive and moderately provocative almost pornography (the artist even received a short prison sentence). The first joint exhibition in Russia of two important Austrian authors of the turn of the century consists of 120 drawings. The graphics of Klimt and Schiele - subtle, technical, emotional - clearly reveal the connection between the artists and each other.

Maurizio Cattelan

Opening hours: from October 30 to December 17
Place: Multimedia Art Museum City: Moscow Address: Ostozhenka street, building 16 Phone: +7 (495) 637-1100 Price: 500 rubles Museum website (exhibition page will appear later)
Another big Moscow museum debut of a contemporary art star. The postmodernist Cattelan “killed” the Pope with a meteorite in the sculpture “The Ninth Hour”, stole (literally) other people’s works and exhibited them as his own, rented out an advertising space at the Venice Biennale to a perfume company, “hanged” children (of course, fake ones - wax) in Milan park. His exhibition will be fun - although the artist’s humor is dark.

Luxury of Imperial Japan

Opening hours: from July 5 to October 1
Place: Kremlin Museums (Patriarchal Chambers and Assumption Belfry) City: Moscow Address: Moscow Kremlin Telephones, (tour desk) Price: 500 rubles Exhibition page
Emperor Mutsuhito (1868–1912), who called himself Meiji , ended Japan's policy of self-isolation. Since then, the country has been actively absorbing the achievements of the West and exporting its ideas and heritage in return. The exhibition will showcase the decorative art of Japan's bright era: kimonos, vases, incense burners, ceramics, metal and fabric objects from the collection of the British scientist and collector David Nasser Khalili.

Poste restante. Collections of Russian avant-garde in regional museums. 1918-1930

Opening hours: from March 29 to May 28
Place: Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center City: Moscow Address: Obraztsova street, building 11, building 1A Telephone Price: from 300 rubles Museum website (exhibition page will appear later)
The second part of a large-scale educational exhibition of one from the compilers of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the Russian Avant-Garde by Andrei Sarabyanov. As last year, more than a hundred paintings will be brought from regional museums, including works by Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, Ilya Chashnik, Ivan Klyun, Alexander Labas, Robert Falk and Gustav Klutsis. The opening of the first part of the project drew a long line outside the Jewish Museum.

Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona

Opening hours: from May 22 to September 10
Place: Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka City: Moscow Address: Petrovka street, building 25 Telephone Price: 350 rubles Museum website (exhibition page will appear later)
Gaudi forever changed the face of Barcelona, and the exhibition (in layouts, graphics and photographs) will first of all talk about the architect’s creations in this city: the grandiose Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Palace Güell and other buildings. In addition, furniture invented by Gaudi will be shown in Moscow, no less elegant and intricate than his architecture.

Takashi Murakami

Opening hours: from September 28 to February 4 (2018)
Place: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art City: Moscow Address: Krymsky Val street, building 9, building 32 Phone: +7 (495) 6450520 Price: 400 rubles Museum website (exhibition page will appear later)
The first and immediately large personal exhibition in Moscow of one of the most famous Japanese artists. The works of Takashi Murakami are a collection of stereotypes about modern Japanese culture: an acidic palette, smiling flowers and mushrooms, porn and anime, optimism reaching the point of absurdity and horror. As a successor of pop art, Murakami often uses symbols of popular culture as criticism of it.

Saint Louis and the Sainte-Chapelle relics

Opening hours: from March 3 to June 4
Place: Kremlin Museums (Patriarchal Chambers) City: Moscow Address: Moscow Kremlin Telephones, (tour desk) Price: 500 rubles Exhibition page
Artifacts of the “High Gothic” era associated with the reign of Louis IX Saint ( 1214-1270): sculptures, works of jewelry and miniatures, as well as stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle chapel, which was built by the king as a repository for Christian shrines obtained by sword and gold. Dark and mystical Middle Ages at its best.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Opening hours: from September 11 to December 10
Place: Multimedia Art Museum City: Moscow Address: Ostozhenka street, building 16 Phone: +7 (495) 637-1100 Price: 500 rubles Museum website (exhibition page will appear later)
Works of one of the founders Magnum Photos agency, the first photographer to exhibit at the Louvre, has already been shown in Moscow, but an exhibition of a master of this level is always welcome. Cartier-Bresson is, without exaggeration, a great author: his photographs were never staged, but always turned out to be aesthetic and highly artistic.