The poster of art exhibitions in Moscow is full of rich projects. As always, we selected the ones that caught our attention; we believe that our readers will find it useful and pleasant to visit them.

Firstly, last week - November 16, 2017 - the State Tretyakov Gallery opened exhibition of sunny Armenian artist Martiros Saryan(1880–1972). This exposition opened a series of cultural events, dedicated to the Days culture of Armenia in Russia. 13 valuable works are part of the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, 16 more came from Armenia, the National Museum and the House-Museum of the artist.

The figure of Saryan is a vivid evidence of the interweaving of the destinies of the Russian and Armenian peoples. Martiros Saryan was born in the territory modern Russia- in the vicinity of Rostov-on-Don, where a large settlement of Armenians has been formed since the 17th century. He studied in Moscow at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Korovin, Levitan, Serov and other brilliant Russian artists. There, the artist learned the skills of impressionistic painting. Martiros Saryan first went to Armenia, with which he always felt a connection, at the age of twenty. Here, in 1915, he witnessed the atrocities of the Turks against the Armenian people and for a long time could not recover from what had happened, he helped the refugees a lot. Later, he will create the coat of arms of Armenia, and although he will live in Russia and France for a long time, he will never break the connection with his country.

At the exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery, we also see a joyful and loving attitude towards the Ottoman Empire, since the main part of the works dates back to the 1910s. A significant proportion of the canvases describe what Saryan saw in Turkey, Egypt and Persia: “Constantinople. Dogs (1910), Date Palm. Egypt" (1911), etc.


Opening of the exhibition of paintings by V.M. Vasnetsov “Sirin and Alkonost. Song of Joy and Sorrow” in the Tretyakov Gallery

On November 21, 2017, the Tretyakov Gallery also opened a chamber, but important in terms of spiritual understanding exposition of V.M. Vasnetsov “Sirin and Alkonost. Song of Joy and Sorrow". Read our separate report about the exhibition.

November 23, 2017 at the State Historical Museum (SHM) will open an exhibition of Czech treasures, which is called - “Treasures of Prague Castle”. 130 works of fine and decorative art will come from the fraternal Slavic people in response to the Russian treasures of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, exhibited five years ago in the Czech Republic.

Prague Castle (Pražský hrad) is the cultural and political center of the Czech lands, it is an ancient fortress and the current residence of the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman, whose visit to Russia. In part, the hail is comparable to the Moscow Kremlin. Traditionally, jewels hunted by enemies have been kept here for centuries. Some of these jewels of the Czech Republic can be seen in the State Historical Museum until February 25, 2018.

The Czechs will bring works of various purposes: spiritual, domestic, ceremonial, they will let the Russians feel why their treasures attract 7.5 million tourists annually. The crown, scepter and orb are symbols of the power of Czech kings, their sculptural images, furniture, the famous Meissen porcelain (Meissen), supplied to all European imperial courts and carefully preserved in the collections in which it is stored today, and much more. The exhibits will come to us from the Prague Castle Museums, the Cathedral of St. Vit and the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Archeologicky Üstav).

The treasures of the Czech Republic belong to different eras and styles, including such pan-European cultural trends as Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque.

Goya, Dali, Klimt, Schiele, Titian, Gaudi, Murakami, Cattelan: The Art Newspaper Russia editors have chosen the most interesting exhibitions of the new year in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which you probably won't want to miss

Salvador Dali. "Caprichos" by Goya. Series of 80 engravings. "No". 1977. From the collection of Boris Fridman. Photo courtesy of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin

"Caprichos". Goya and Dali
The main building of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
From January 24 to March 12

An exhibition of engravings will open the year Francisco Goya And Salvador Dali, on which there are 41 etchings artist XIX century is adjacent to 41 engravings created 180 years later. Hypocrisy, injustice, laziness, sleeping human consciousness, fear - a gallery of vices dressed in fantastic images by Spanish geniuses, differs little from today. But the museum warns against hasty conclusions: Dali himself, on one of the etchings of the exposition, depicted his predecessor in the form of a mysterious sphinx lying against the backdrop of the desert. An impressive lecture program is devoted to interpretations of works in the exposition. But besides it, each pair of “caprichos” is preceded by a literary commentary by Goya himself, explaining, along with satirical overtones, the mystical origins of his characters. The etchings arranged in pairs draw in an additional game: sometimes Salvador Dali simply follows his predecessor without intruding into the image, but often takes the plots to another plane, introducing additional characters and new details.

Type of HPP-2. V-A-C

"Double engagement". Stained glass from the Sainte-Chapelle. France, 1230-1248. Patrick Cadet / Center des monuments nationaux

"Saint Louis and the relics of the Sainte-Chapelle"
Patriarchal Palace of the Kremlin Museum
March 2 to June 4

French king, whose name is associated with the heyday gothic style in France, was a keen collector of Christian relics. Starting with the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ, he collected more than 20 sacred objects: from a particle of the Cross of the Lord to the Spear of Destiny. All of them were kept in the Sainte-Chapelle - the chapel-reliquary, which also has the most complete ensemble of stained-glass windows of the 13th century. Some of them were dismantled six centuries later. Now, thanks to the Center of National Monuments of France, stained glass windows, along with other masterpieces of French Gothic art from the Louvre, the Cluny Museum, the National Libraries and Archives of France, can be seen in Moscow.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Triennial of Contemporary Art
Garage Museum
March

Garage curators scoured Russia's cities from Kaliningrad to Vladikavkaz to find the most notable regional artists and the art that best captures the zeitgeist. The exposition will highlight seven areas that reflect the same artistic trends in different territories of the vast country. The exposition, in addition to the museum, will also be located in Gorky Park, and all selected artists, who turned out to be more than 60, will be invited to the opening.

Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch. 1920. Paper, watercolor, ink, brush. Yaroslavl Art Museum

"Poste restante. Collections of the Russian avant-garde from regional museums. Part II
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
March 30 to May 28

The project, the first part of which was included in the rating of the best exhibitions of the year by our newspaper, in the new year will present about 100 works of Russian avant-garde civil war, the transition to the NEP and collectivization. From curator Andrey Sarabyanov again expect unknown works, never before exhibited in Moscow.

Zinaida Serebryakova. "Behind the toilet" ("Self-portrait"). 1909. State Tretyakov Gallery

Retrospective of Zinaida Serebryakova
State Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane
April 4 to July 30

The Tretyakov Gallery, as well as the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, already hosted exhibitions of the artist a couple of years ago. Now the visitors will have a retrospective with an exhaustive set of paintings not only from Russian museums, but also from the Parisian fund of the artist, private English and French collections. For the first time the viewer will get acquainted with decorative panels Zinaida Serebryakova for the Belgian baron's villa Jean Brower who were considered dead during the Second World War, but miraculously survived and were found in 2007 in the basement of that very villa. A large gallery of portraits will be diluted with a series of paintings dedicated to behind-the-scenes life Mariinsky Theater, as well as landscapes and sketches of the murals of the Kazan railway station.

Giorgio De Chirico. "Nostalgia for Infinity". Piazza d'Italia

"De Chirico. Nostalgia for infinity"

April 19 to July 23

For the exhibition of the founder of metaphysical painting and forerunner of surrealism Giorgio De Chirico exhibits were provided by the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Foundation Giorgio and Isa De Chirico, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The artist's work will be presented very widely: about 100 works of art from painting and sculpture to theatrical costumes. The audience will also be reminded of the Russian trace in the work of the avant-garde master. Living in Paris with a Russian actress Raisa Gurevich-Krol, de Chirico created the costumes for Diaghilev's performance "Ball" - they, as well as archival photographs and materials, will become an additional decoration of the exposition.

Vasily Vereshchagin. "Walking on Water" 1903. State Russian Museum

Vasily Vereshchagin. To the 175th anniversary of the birth"
Russian Museum
April - July

Historians joke that the only accepted ever Vereshchagin the award was the Order of St. George for the defense of the Samarkand fortress. The impulsive, self-centered, freedom-loving battle painter loved to travel and took part in all the hostilities that fell in his fate. The retrospective exhibition of the artist will show 220 works by the master, including the famous Balkan and Turkestan series, many landscapes, as well as ethnographic sketches and graphics. The exposition will be decorated with items from the Ethnographic Museum associated with Vereshchagin's numerous trips.

Anselm Kiefer. "Velimir Khlebnikov". 2004-2010 Phillips

Anselm Kiefer to Velimir Khlebnikov
State Hermitage
May 31 to September 3

That the "Chairman of the Globe" Velimir Khlebnikov inspires the cabalist Anselm Kiefer, the world community learned when Kiefer's work “To Velimir Khlebnikov. The Doctrine of War: Battles was sold at a Phillips summer auction for £2.4 million in 2016. It turned out that Kiefer constantly rereads the poems of the futurist translated into German. In his fantastic retrospective installation in Paris and London, he illustrated Velimir Khlebnikov's mathematical theory of civilizational clashes in history. It can be seen in the Hermitage, where 18 more large-scale works will be added to it.

Sagrada Familia. Photo by Bernard Gagnon

"Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona»
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 22 to September 10

Instead of reading a guide to Barcelona, ​​at the end of spring it will be possible to come to the exhibition. Sketches and models of the most outstanding buildings of the Art Nouveau master, as well as a collection of photographs from the archives of the Catalan College of Architecture, will be shown at MMOMA. The architect left behind 18 buildings, and 12 of them are in Barcelona. First of all, this is the famous Sagrada Familia Cathedral, on which the architect worked for 43 years and to which a separate section will be devoted to the exposition. Four others will focus on his residential buildings, the creation of the Guell Palace, the history of collaboration with the main customer, the industrialist Eusebi Güell, and furniture, the author of which was also an architect. The exposition will end documentary"Dali and Gaudi" from the Spanish Film Archive, which is natural, if you remember that Salvador Dali called the architecture that inspired the Surrealists "the most original phenomenon in the history of art."

Johann Groot. "Owl sitting on a bough." 1750s From the collection of the State Museum Reserve "Tsarskoe Selo"

The Groot brothers: portrait painter and animal painter. German artists at the Russian court"
Bread House of the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"
From June 1st to September 17th

Summer exhibition in Tsaritsyno is dedicated to German craftsmen portrait painting XVIII century, who connected his life with Russia and played a huge role in the development of Russian painting. Georg Groot best known for his fine portraits Elizabeth Petrovna(for example, in the form of Flora) and her courtiers, and his brother Johann turned out to be the very first animal painter at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, giving the basis for an entire school of animal painters. The workshop of Johann Groot was visited in admiration by the whole court - the animals and birds depicted by him were so realistic. The exhibition in Tsaritsyno, which will show about 60 works collected from museums in both capitals and private collections, will open the amazing and touching world of wild animals of the 18th century and pets at the court of the first Russian empresses.

Paolo Veronese. Apollo and Marsyas. Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin

Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. The Golden Age of Venetian Painting"
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
June - end of August

The legacy of the Venetian school of painting is one of the brightest pages in the history of the Italian Renaissance. The Venetians, who found themselves aloof from the Italian mainland feudal wars, experienced the joy of life extremely fully, transferring the sensual beauty of the world and bright color into their works. So far, it has not been reported which masterpieces the viewer will see at the exhibition opening the summer season, it is only clear that they will reflect the period from the heyday of the school to its extinction in creativity. Tintoretto. Another distinctive feature will be the genre diversity of paintings, of which there will be about 40 in the exhibition - from the favorite Venetian masters portrait to religious and mythological stories. Tickets, apparently, should take care of in advance.

Aristarkh Lentulov. "Call". ("Ivan the Great belltower"). 1915. Photo: Tretyakov Gallery

Aristarkh Lentulov. To the 135th anniversary of the birth"
Theater Museum. A.A. Bakhrushina. main building
Summer

Aristarkh Lentulov was a tireless experimenter. He wrote both in the spirit of expressionism and in the style Cezanne, after a trip to France, he switched to cubo-futurism, creating one of his most famous paintings - St. Basil's Cathedral. One of the founders "Jack of Diamonds", the artist was afraid of repetition, which the upcoming exhibition should tell about. Her museum plans to make it quite large-scale and promises to show the audience 24 works of the period 1910-1920s.

Pavel Filonov. "Cows". 1914. Russian Museum

"Dreams of World Bloom"
Russian Museum
August - November

The centenary of the October Revolution was reflected in the programs of most museums and galleries, which we have already discussed. The St. Petersburg Russian Museum also decided to comprehend the consequences of the events of 1917 in the history of art. The exposition of the exhibition "Dreams of World Heyday" will include a large number of works Paul Filonova, who devoted the whole poetic hymn "Sermon on the sprouting of the world" to the "world flowering" - the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bsymbolic flowering and germination both in society and in painting. In addition to him, the exhibition will feature works Kazemir Malevich, Alexander Deineka, Alexander Samokhvalov and other artists from the museum's collection, who, despite differences in manner and political views, shared their views on the post-revolutionary future with equal enthusiasm.

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. "1918 in Petrograd". State Tretyakov Gallery

"Someone 1917"
State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
September 27 — January 14, 2018

The exhibition should not only show the iconography of the images of the revolution, but also reflect the internal discussions, the intense struggle of artistic movements and ideas of the early 20th century. The exposition is conceived as a large-scale one: it will be possible to learn about the thoughts and feelings with which the artists met the revolution, using the example of 120 works, including canvases Nesterov, Petrov-Vodkin, Serebryakova, and Filonov, Rodchenko, Kandinsky, Malevich. To show the contrast between painting and real life exhausted and starving people, the exhibition will be supplemented with photographs and newsreel of those years. To tell about one of the most significant events in recent history, the revolution of 1917, the Tretyakov Gallery selected exhibits not only in the regions of Russia, but also abroad: in the Pompidou Center, the Tate Gallery, the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, museums in Spain, Greece, Israel.

Takashi Murakami. "Kaikai". 2000-2005. 2000-2005 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Private collection. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin

Takashi Murakami retrospective
Garage Museum
September

In the fall, Garage will offer an opportunity to get acquainted with the art of one of the most expensive and fun contemporary Japanese authors — Takashi Murakami. This is Russia's first retrospective of a pop art artist who combines manga with contemporary art and design. Jobs with Eared Mr. Dobom- the alter ego of the 54-year-old "scammer", posters with the most incredible cartoons and sculptures in neon colors - just what you need in the autumn season. They decided to strengthen the impact of such art many times over by playing on contrasts: the exhibition will include ancient Japanese paintings and engravings from the collection of the Museum of Art of the Peoples of the East and the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. According to the already established tradition, the exhibition will leave the museum to the adjacent Arts Square, where a monumental sculpture by Murakami will appear. Its name is still kept secret.

TV Lambert ("Lambert") 21-S-502 stationary kinescope. Museum of Science and Industry

"Encyclopedia of Television"
VDNH, Pavilion No. 64 "Optics"
September-October – January 2018

Guests of the autumn exhibition at VDNKh will be offered to learn all the secrets of television - from Soviet broadcasting to the most rated modern programs. Here they will show the equipment used by the first Russian television people: from cameras to recording and projection installations from the funds Russian museums, television studios and TV channels. It has not yet been announced whether the exposition will be interactive, but what can be seen and heard for sure is archival footage from the filming, mock-ups of studio scenery, as well as costumes, props, funny fragments from TV shows and musical themes to them.

Egon Schille. "Klimt in a blue coat". Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin

Drawings by Klimt and Schiele from the collection of the Albertina Museum
Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin
Mid October - mid January 2018

The Albertina Museum in Vienna, in exchange for Impressionist paintings, provided the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin 120 graphic works Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. The latter considered himself a student of Klimt, and it is known that during their first meeting, Klimt not only agreed to exchange his work for a drawing by an artist 28 years younger, but also bought several works, noting: “Why do you want to exchange with me? You still draw better." Subsequently, Klimt patronized the artist, introducing him to profitable buyers and exhibiting his works along with his own. A grateful student made his portraits and drawings, one of them - "Klimt in a blue robe" - will most likely be seen in the exhibition.

Maurizio Cattelan. Installation at the Frieze Art Fair. Photo: Timothy Schenck; courtesy of Frieze Projects

Maurizio Cattelan exhibition
Multimedia Art Museum
From October 30 to December 17

The exhibition of the brawler has been long awaited in Russia since the artist, breaking the word that he was leaving art forever, exhibited his works at the Paris Mint last year. It is unlikely that the Multimedia Art Museum will allocate a special room for a selfie with a golden toilet bowl - a recent masterpiece cattelana which is now in New York's Guggenheim Museum. But you can definitely count on the famous stuffed animals with their heads stuck in the wall, and provocative wax sculptures. Who knows, maybe the Italian will create a piece specifically for the Russian exhibition.

UPD:project canceled

Sergei Eisenstein on the set of the film "Old and New" ("General Line"). 1929 Gelatin silver print. State central museum movie

"Eisenstein. Revolution in art"
State Hermitage
November 7 - March 5

In the past year, Moscow museums devoted several projects to the personality of an eccentric director, artist and teacher. The Garage Museum compared the works Eisenstein with creativity Francisco Goya and Robert Longo, and in the Multimedia Art Museum a large project with fragments from films, posters, scenery sketches and drawings by the author opened the celebration of the anniversary season. Little is known about what exactly will be shown at the exhibition in St. Petersburg. On the one hand, this may be another project under the sign Great Revolution with a demonstration of the film "October" and a study of the director's influence on revolutionary Soviet cinema. On the other hand, the project can reveal Eisenstein with his graphics, visual and theatrical solutions as an innovator, “revolutionizing” art as such. “If it weren’t for the revolution, I would never have ‘split’ the traditions, only the revolutionary whirlwind gave me the main thing - the freedom of self-determination,” he wrote in his autobiography.

Chaim Soutine. "View of Sere". 1921

Retrospective of Chaim Soutine
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
November 11 — February 19, 2018

painting of one of the brightest representatives Paris school Chaimy Soutine the Moscow audience could see in 2011, at an exhibition of artists of the Paris School. On it, he was represented by the largest number of works. This year, the Pushkin Museum, together with the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, is preparing a retrospective of an expressionist who painted naked so as not to wear out his clothes and starved himself until he painted still lifes with herrings or bloodied bull carcasses.

Lazar Lissitzky

El Lissitzky
Jewish Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
November 16 — February 4, 2018 Popular materials

For City Day, the Tretyakov Gallery has prepared an exhibition of works about Moscow - from iconography of the 17th century to painting XIX– 21st century About 100 exhibits from the State Tretyakov Gallery and private collections

State Tretyakov Gallery, September 7, 2017 - January 21, 2018
Engineering building, Lavrushinsky lane, 10

The Tretyakov Gallery opens the new season with a series of exhibitions about Moscow. The projects offer to consider the image of the city in the fine arts from different angles. The Tretyakov Gallery has previously addressed the theme of the city: “Moscow in Russian and Soviet Painting” (1980), “Moscow and Muscovites” (1997), “Catherine the Great and Moscow” (1997), “Peter the Great and Moscow” (1998), "Elizaveta Petrovna and Moscow" (2010). The image of the city invariably attracts and inspires artists. Modern curators find it interesting to introduce him to a new generation of Muscovites. This year's exhibitions are distinguished by the fact that they are composed almost entirely on the basis of works from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.

In the exposition of the exhibition "Moscow Through the Ages", considerable attention is paid to the formation of the iconography of the city - from the images of pre-fire Moscow in the iconography of the 17th century and the first landscape views of the capital in the works of F. Alekseev to the search for the "formula of Moscow" by artists of the early 20th century and the display of the image of the city in new forms and materials by modern masters. The exhibition consists of five thematic sections: "Moscow - the third Rome", "Moscow Kremlin - the heart of the city", "Conversations about old Moscow", "Red Square. “Formula of Moscow” and “XX century. City Voices. Visitors are waiting for a meeting as well famous works Simon Ushakov, V. Surikov, B. Kustodiev, A. Lentulov, V. Polenov, and with paintings by A. Vasnetsov, V. Perov, V. Makovsky, I. Nikolaev, A. Deineka, A. Labas, little known to the general public , K. Yuon, E. Vakhtangov, V. Brainin, T. Nazarenko, N. Nesterova and others.

Many paintings have not been exhibited before, for example, “Pushkin Square” by M. Gurevich, painted in 1937, when the monument to A.S. Pushkin was located not where we are used to seeing him, but on the opposite side of the street opposite the later demolished Strastnoy Monastery. For the first time, the paintings “Moscow of the 1930s” (1932) by V. Midler, “Kuznetsky Bridge” (1958) by O. Vasiliev, “Kropotkinskaya Street” (1948) by V. Apfelbaum, “Yauza Gates” (1979) by I. Sorokin will be shown for the first time and others. These artists are usually represented in the exposition and at exhibitions by more famous works - the listed works are rarely exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery and almost never go to traveling exhibitions. Within the framework of this project, finally, it became possible to show these things that are inaccessible to the public.

Some of the paintings were restored specifically for this project. So, after serious work to remove dirt and yellowed varnish, for the first time leaves the fund and is shown to the public "The Cab Yard in Zamoskvorechye" (1887–1892) by S. Svetoslavsky. A. Lentulov's painting "Moscow" (1913), made in mixed media, can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the New Tretyakov Gallery, but it also underwent complex restoration work, after which it noticeably changed.

One of the features of the exhibition is the opportunity to hear the "voices of the city": the Institute of Sound Design, which has the most extensive archive of sounds in Russia, was involved in the work on the exposition. Together with experts in various fields, audio installations were created that "sound" the main works of the exhibition and allow you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Moscow from different eras. For example, to sound “The Moscow Yard” (1878), ornithologists helped to pick up the voices of birds that lived in 1878 in the area of ​​the Arbat alleys – it is this part of the city that is depicted in the painting by V. Polenov. This is what Spasopeskovsky Lane looked like about 150 years ago. In total, eight works were voiced, among which: "Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin" ( early XIX century) F. Alekseev, "Dovecote" (1874) V. Perov, "Moscow Inn" (1916) B. Kustodieva, "New Moscow" (1937) Y. Pimenov, "Metro" (1935) A. Labas, "Builders "(1959-1960) A. Deineka, "Moscow Evening" (1978) T. Nazarenko.

The aroma of the past will help you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Moscow in the 20th century. During the exhibition, the souvenir shop will sell the legendary perfume "Red Moscow".

The exhibition project goes beyond the walls of the museum and continues with special city tours, the route of which was developed by the Excursion Bureau No. 1 based on the works presented in the exhibition.

If the project “Moscow Through the Ages” is a kind of mosaic of picturesque images of the city, then the exhibition “City and People. Moscow in the schedule of the XX century" (October 11, 2017 - January 14, 2018, New Tretyakov Gallery) reflects the personal approach of the artists, shows how they saw the capital, which experienced the dramatic events of 1917 and 1941, as well as the euphoria of the Thaw.

The exhibition “Preserved shrines of the departed Moscow…” (September 8, 2017 – January 21, 2018, Corps of Engineers) is unique. For the first time, works of arts and crafts from the fund of precious metals and precious stones of the Tretyakov Gallery, one of the museum's most closed to the general public, exhibits. The chamber exposition brings together 30 works of church art of the 16th-19th centuries from 17 destroyed Moscow churches.


Source: press release GTG



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The building of the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val hosts Russia's only large-scale museum exposition "The Art of the 20th Century", which presents all types, genres, styles of Russian art of this period. The exposition combines various forms of work with both painting, graphics, sculpture, as well as with unusual materials of contemporary art.

The Ministry of Culture decided to divide the entire exposition of the Tretyakov Gallery into two parts: pre-Soviet and Soviet. The pre-Soviet part is located in the main building of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane. It was decided to place the Soviet part of the exposition in a new building, the construction of which began in the 60s of the 20th century. However, the construction took a long time and was completed after about 20 years, in the mid-80s. So the Tretyakov Gallery was opened on Krymsky Val.

The gallery building is an example of Soviet architecture and looks like a large-scale rectangle with panoramic windows. A long white two-story pavilion stretches along the Moskva River embankment towards the Kremlin. The museum has been criticized more than once due to the fact that there is nothing remarkable in its interior. On the other hand, more than 12,000 square meters of the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val are ideal for organizing large-scale events.

The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val presented the audience with a broad picture of the creative heritage of Russian masters who worked in the 1920s-1960s: Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, Above the City by Marc Chagall, Bathing of the Red Horse by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, The Ringing Aristarkh Lentulov and many paintings that convey the spirit of the era.


In addition, an intensive exhibition activity, diverse in subject matter and exposition material, unfolded in the halls. If you wish and by invitation, you can attend master classes of outstanding Russian and foreign artists of our time.

Ticket price:

  • 500 rubles - adults;
  • 250 rubles - for preferential categories;
  • Free for persons under 18 years of age.

Every Wednesday, admission to the permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val is free for individual visitors.

Permanent exposure mode:

  • Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday - from 10:00 to 18:00 (box office and entrance to the exposition until 17:00);
  • Thursday, Friday, Saturday - from 10:00 to 21:00 (ticket office and entrance to the exposition until 20:00);
  • Monday is a day off.

Days of free visits at the museum

Every Wednesday you can visit the permanent exhibition "The Art of the 20th Century" in the New Tretyakov Gallery for free, as well as the temporary exhibitions "The Gift of Oleg Yakhont" and "Konstantin Istomin. Color in the Window”, held in the Engineering Corps.

The right to free access to expositions in the Main Building in Lavrushinsky Lane, the Engineering Building, the New Tretyakov Gallery, the house-museum of V.M. Vasnetsov, museum-apartment of A.M. Vasnetsov is provided on the following days for certain categories of citizens in general order:

First and second Sunday of every month:

    for students of higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation, regardless of the form of education (including foreign citizens-students of Russian universities, graduate students, adjuncts, residents, assistant trainees) upon presentation of a student card (does not apply to persons presenting student trainee cards) );

    for students of secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions (from 18 years old) (citizens of Russia and the CIS countries). On the first and second Sundays of each month, students holding ISIC cards have the right to visit the exhibition “Art of the 20th Century” at the New Tretyakov Gallery free of charge.

every Saturday - for members of large families (citizens of Russia and CIS countries).

Please note that conditions for free access to temporary exhibitions may vary. Check the exhibition pages for details.

Attention! At the ticket office of the Gallery, entrance tickets are provided with a face value of "free of charge" (upon presentation of the relevant documents - for the above-mentioned visitors). At the same time, all services of the Gallery, including excursion services, are paid in accordance with the established procedure.

Visiting the museum on public holidays

On National Unity Day - November 4 - the Tretyakov Gallery is open from 10:00 to 18:00 (entry until 17:00). Paid entrance.

  • Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, Engineering Building and New Tretyakov Gallery - from 10:00 to 18:00 (ticket office and entrance until 17:00)
  • Museum-apartment of A.M. Vasnetsov and the House-Museum of V.M. Vasnetsov - closed
Paid entrance.

Waiting for you!

Please note that conditions for preferential admission to temporary exhibitions may vary. Check the exhibition pages for details.

Right of preferential visit The Gallery, except as provided for by a separate order of the Gallery's management, is provided upon presentation of documents confirming the right to preferential visits:

  • pensioners (citizens of Russia and CIS countries),
  • full cavaliers of the Order of Glory,
  • students of secondary and secondary special educational institutions (from 18 years old),
  • students of higher educational institutions of Russia, as well as foreign students studying in Russian universities (except for student trainees),
  • members of large families (citizens of Russia and CIS countries).
Visitors of the above categories of citizens purchase a reduced ticket in general order.

Right of free admission The main and temporary expositions of the Gallery, except for cases provided for by a separate order of the Gallery's management, are provided for the following categories of citizens upon presentation of documents confirming the right to free admission:

  • persons under the age of 18;
  • students of faculties specializing in the field visual arts secondary specialized and higher educational institutions of Russia, regardless of the form of education (as well as foreign students studying in Russian universities). The clause does not apply to persons presenting student cards of "trainee students" (in the absence of information about the faculty in the student card, a certificate from the educational institution with the obligatory indication of the faculty is presented);
  • veterans and invalids of the Great Patriotic War, participants in hostilities, former underage prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos and other places of detention created by the Nazis and their allies during World War II, illegally repressed and rehabilitated citizens (citizens of Russia and the CIS countries);
  • military servicemen of the Russian Federation;
  • Heroes Soviet Union, Heroes of the Russian Federation, Full Cavaliers of the "Order of Glory" (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
  • disabled people of groups I and II, participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (citizens of Russia and the CIS countries);
  • one accompanying disabled person of group I (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
  • one accompanying disabled child (citizens of Russia and CIS countries);
  • artists, architects, designers - members of the relevant creative Unions of Russia and its subjects, art historians - members of the Association of Art Critics of Russia and its subjects, members and employees of the Russian Academy of Arts;
  • members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM);
  • employees of museums of the system of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the relevant Departments of Culture, employees of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and ministries of culture of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
  • volunteers of the Sputnik program - entrance to the exhibitions "Art of the XX century" (Krymsky Val, 10) and "Masterpieces of Russian art of the XI - early XX centuries" (Lavrushinsky pereulok, 10), as well as to the House-Museum of V.M. Vasnetsov and the Museum-apartment of A.M. Vasnetsov (citizens of Russia);
  • guide-interpreters who have an accreditation card of the Association of Guide-Translators and Tour Managers of Russia, including those accompanying a group of foreign tourists;
  • one teacher of an educational institution and one accompanying a group of students of secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions (if there is an excursion voucher, subscription); one teacher of an educational institution that has state accreditation of educational activities when conducting an agreed training session and has a special badge (citizens of Russia and the CIS countries);
  • one accompanying a group of students or a group of military servicemen (if there is an excursion voucher, subscription and during a training session) (citizens of Russia).

Visitors of the above categories of citizens receive an entrance ticket with a face value of "Free".

Please note that conditions for preferential admission to temporary exhibitions may vary. Check the exhibition pages for details.