Moscow is a modern city center actively using all the achievements of civilization and democracy. She actively supports, promotes, and also develops all types of art. One of the sites where his objects are displayed is the Moscow Museum of Modern Art at 25 Petrovka Street.
Personal collection
In Russia, it is the first state museum specializing exclusively in the art of the twentieth - beginning of the eleventh century. The museum opened in late 1999, its founder and director was Zurab Tsereteli. The personal collection consists of 2 thousand works of famous artists of the twentieth century, and it was she who became the basis of the museum collection. Since then, 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 exhibits, among which there are unexpected objects, such as a dark room with three-liter cans. Works of art occupy not only the premises of the mansion, but also the courtyard of the building. Outside - mainly the work of the ideological mastermind of the museum Zurab Tsereteli.
Returning home
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 USA, and then transferred to their homeland, now they belong to private collectors. The works of avant-garde artists of the beginning of the last century are the core of the collection, which the Museum of Modern Art is proud of. The gallery of images consists of paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova and others, from a sculpture by Osip Zadkin, Alexander Arkhipenko.
Contemporary Artists
The museum houses a unique collection of works by the Georgian primitivist Niko Pirosmani. A considerable section of the exposition is given to the works of nonconformists of the 60-80s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar, Oscar Rabin, Leonid Shvartsman and others.
The Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka 25 regularly replenishes its collection with the work of contemporaries, which makes an invaluable contribution to the development of contemporary art. The works of artists such as Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulikov, Konstantin Zvezdochotov, Andrei Bartenev, are included in the section of contemporary art. The exposition of contemporary art changes every six months, in contrast to the permanent one.
Educational activities
The Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka 25 is itself a forge of young creative personalities. He supports and involves young artists in today's sought-after artistic direction. The museum has organized a school of modern art, which is called "Free workshops." The course program is designed for two years of study. It is aimed at the realization of creativity in specific practical activities, and also introduces children to the art market, new technologies in visual arts, and the problems of modern culture.
Petrovka, 25, invites children from 5 years old. An art studio called Fantasy operates here. For everyone, lectures and master classes with curators, artists, art researchers are organized.
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 the massive arch, testifying to the new purpose of the house.
Moscow, Petrovka, 25 is the address of the museum’s head building, but it has four more branches located on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, 15, 17 Yermolaevsky Lane, 10 Gogolevsky Boulevards and 9, Tversky Five-story building erected at the beginning of the twentieth century and was intended for the architectural society, then it was transferred to the Union of Artists, and at the end of 2003 an exhibition hall of modern art was opened here.
The room on Tversky Boulevard for about thirty years was the workshop of Zurab Tsereteli. In 2007, they created a gallery with the most modern masterpieces of art. The mansion on Gogolevsky Boulevard is an architectural monument of the 18th century. He was erected by the same architect who built the mansion of the merchant. Now it is a platform for international projects, symposia and conferences. The Georgian street where the museum is located is unique in that its exhibits can be displayed on an open area.
The union of eras
It would seem that two incompatible things - modern works of art and ancient mansions ... But the organizers liked this idea, as it gives modern connoisseurs of art self-determination in the cultural space. Postmodernists believe that classical material will play in a new way if diluted with modern aesthetics. And they were not mistaken, relying on the connection of eras - today their exhibition areas are very popular in Moscow.
The main building and its four branches host a lot of thematic exhibitions of paintings and photographs, they date back 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 symposiums are held in its halls. Also, thematic, national teams and sightseeing tours are held here, cultural programs for schoolchildren and students are organized. A lecture hall works for preschoolers and primary schoolchildren.