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27/4/2006

Times of Change

The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Art of the 1960-85s in the Soviet Union

The large collection of the art of the 20th century stored in the Russian Museum helps to "reconstruct" the atmosphere of the artistic life of the 1960-80s within the frame of the Times of Change exhibition. On the one hand - the official art, in which the artists of the "harsh style" and representative of the generation of the 1970s rank first - Korzhev, Andronov, Nikonov, Moiseyenko, Zagonek and others. On the other hand - the art of club and apartment exhibitions of the "underground" represented in works by Arefiev, Weisberg, Rabine, Yankilevsky, Tselkov and others.

Shots from photo and cinema chronicles, music, poetry and feature films of the 1960-80s will help to reconstruct the "image of the epoch" (on the analogy of such exhibitions as the Art of Stalin's Epoch and the Agitation for Happiness).

The exposition will include more than 200 works from the Russian Museum collection, the Ludwig Museum in Aachen (Germany) and several private collections. The exhibition became possible with the contribution of the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation.

Sponsor of the exhibition - British American Tobacco Russia.

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Katya Medvedeva
Painting and Graphic Art
30th Anniversary of the Artist's Oeuvre
6 April - 9 May 2006
Marble Palace

The one-woman show of the artist Katya Medvedeva is held in the rooms of the Marble Palace from 6 April to 9 May 2006. It comprises 60 works of the 1970s-2000s.

For more than 20 years Katya Medvedeva has been known in the artistic world as a master of naive painting. Her works are exhibited in Russian state museums, German, French, American and Japanese galleries of contemporary art and private collections. 2006 is a jubilee year for Katya Medvedeva and admires of her art, celebrating the 30th anniversary of her creative oeuvre.

The Russian Museum introduces the works from private collections (Alina the Angel, King the Sunflower, Nostalgia, St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, Giselle, Flower of Consolation, Michael the Archangel, Sufferings of My Mother, Swan Lake, Righteous Men on the Judgement Day) and works from the Collection on Black Velvet. Some of these works were exhibited in West European countries (2004) and the Alexander Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The collector of her works Grigory Pelman calls the oeuvre of Katya Medvedeva 'the painting of open soul'.

Katya Medvedeva has shown her works in Nice twice. The White Nights of Staraya Ladoga attracted the viewers' attention. The exhibition was organised by Rene Guerra, professor of Slavonic studies and renowned collector of Russian art. Buying this work Rene Guerra asked Marc Chagall, who also appreciated it, to inscribe the canvas under the surname of the artist: 'Katya Medvedeva is a Russian talent. She loves colour, as well as I do".

The St Nicholas of Myra exhibition was opened in the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum on 30 March. The show comprises about 150 works, including icon, sculpture, embroidery, objects of personal godliness, church utensils, icon painting tracings, created in the 12th-20th centuries.

The exhibition continues the tradition of exhibiting works of Old Russian art from the collection of the Russian Museum, started by exhibitions dedicated to the image of Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ in Christian Art and Culture (14th - 20th Centuries), 2000, and the Mother of God: We Worship Thy Immaculate Image, 1995.


Image: Vremia Peremen

Russian Museum - Benois Wing
2 Griboyedov Canal (Metro station: Nevsky Prospekt).
Russia, 191186, St. Petersburg

Marble Palace
5/1 Millionnaya Str. (Metro station: Nevsky Prospekt)

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