Museum of Contemporary Art on Mayakovskaya. Single ticket for all venues

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that specializes entirely in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its opening, the museum has expanded its scope of activities many times and received recognition from the general public. Today the museum is one of the most active participants in the artistic life of the capital.

The museum opened its doors on December 15, 1999 with the support of the Moscow Government and the Moscow Department of Culture. The founder and director of the museum was Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts. His personal collection, consisting of more than 2,000 works by famous artists of the 20th century, laid the foundation for the museum's collection. Later, the museum’s funds were significantly replenished, and currently it is one of the most representative collections of Russian art of the 20th century.

Today the museum is located on five sites in the historical center of Moscow. The main building, which houses the permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions, is located on Petrovka Street, in the former mansion of the merchant Gubin, built according to the design of the architect Matvey Kazakov. In addition, the museum has four magnificent exhibition spaces at its disposal:

a five-story building in Ermolaevsky Lane;
spacious gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard;
the ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard;
house of merchant Vasily Gorbunov on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street.

Collection

The museum's collection represents the main stages of the development of the avant-garde. Most of the collection consists of works by Russian authors, but the exhibition also includes works by foreign artists: graphic works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Giorgio de Chirico, sculptures by Salvador Dali, Armand and Arnaldo Pomodoro, paintings by Henri Rousseau and Françoise Gilot, installations Yukinori Yanaga.

The core of the museum's collection consists of works by classics of the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century. Many works purchased at auctions and in galleries in Europe and the USA were returned to their homeland from abroad. Among them are paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vladimir Tatlin, Pavel Filonov and Wassily Kandinsky, sculptures by Alexander Archipenko and Ossip Zadkine. In addition, the museum is proud of its unique collection of works by the Georgian primitivist artist Niko Pirosmani.

An impressive section of the exhibition is dedicated to the work of nonconformist artists of the 1960-1980s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Oscar Rabin, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Shvartsman, Oleg Tselkov and others.

The museum supports the development of contemporary art in Russia and is constantly expanding its collection. Now the contemporary art section presents works by Boris Orlov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulik, Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Andrey Bartenev and other artists.

Operating mode:

Monday-Sunday - from 12:00 to 20:00;
Thursday - from 13:00 to 21:00;
The third Monday of every month is a day off.

Ticket prices

Single ticket for all venues:

standard ticket - 500 rubles;
discount ticket - 200 rubles.

Tickets to Petrovka, 25:

discount ticket - 150 rubles.

Tickets for Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10:

standard ticket - 350 rubles;
discount ticket - 150 rubles.

Tickets for Ermolaevsky Lane, 17:

discount ticket - 100 rubles.

Tickets for Tverskoy Boulevard, 9:

standard ticket - 150 rubles;
discount ticket - 50 rubles.

Tickets for Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, 15:

standard ticket - 250 rubles;
discount ticket - 100 rubles.

Benefits are established for the following groups of visitors: students of secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions, pensioners of the Russian Federation, working disabled people of II and III classes, full-time students of universities of the Russian Federation, persons under 18 years of age, members of large families, conscripts, illegally repressed and rehabilitated citizens of the Russian Federation.

Free entry to all venues: children under 7 years of age, full-time full-time students of art and architectural universities, faculties of universities specializing in the field of art, members of the Academy of Arts, the Association of Art Critics of the Russian Federation and the Unions of Artists, Architects, Designers and Journalists of the Russian Federation, employees of museums of the Russian Federation, members of ICOM, children- disabled people, orphans and children without parental care, unemployed disabled people of class I and II, participants and veterans of the Second World War, students of educational institutions - shelters, rehabilitation centers, centers for social assistance to families and children, heroes of the USSR, heroes of the Russian Federation, full holders of the Order of Glory .

MMSI is considered one of the leading cultural centers of the capital.
At the heart of exhibition activities Moscow Museum of Modern Art - personal collection of Zurab Tsereteli.
The museum owns four buildings in the center of Moscow.
On Petrovka 25 works by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others are stored.
Building in Ermolaevsky Lane is the main exhibition space of MMSI; original and significant exhibitions of the project are held here.
Buildings on Gogolevsky and Tverskoy boulevards are used for holding interesting symposiums, exhibitions and creative meetings.
All information The museum is available in English.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA)- the first state municipal museum in Russia demonstrating Russian and foreign art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded in 1999 with the support of the Moscow Government and the Department of Culture, MMSI has been considered one of the leading cultural centers in the capital for more than 15 years.

The concept of exhibition activities is based The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a personal collection of Zurab Tsereteli, a famous sculptor and president of the Russian Academy of Arts, which allows us to trace the main stages in the development of modern Russian and foreign art. The museum's policy involves a gradual change in thematic exhibitions and the organization of special projects aimed at enabling visitors with different levels of experience to perceive various forms of contemporary art.

The Museum of Modern Art owns four buildings, located around the Boulevard Ring in the center of Moscow.

Main building - on Petrovka, 25. It houses part of the museum's permanent collection and hosts temporary exhibitions. The building is equipped with special equipment for people with disabilities. In recent years it has been undergoing large-scale reconstruction.
Five floors given over to the needs of the museum in a house from the early 20th century at the address: Ermolaevsky Lane, 17(MMSI in Ermolaevsky). This building is now the main exhibition space of MMSI.
Gallery at 9
Ancient building Russian Academy of Arts at Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 also built according to the design of Matvey Kazakov and serves as a venue for numerous international exhibition projects, symposiums and conferences .

Petrovka, 25

At Petrovka, 25, exhibitions are held regularly. This is symbolic, since the former merchant mansion, built at the end of the 18th century, became at the beginning of the 20th century the alma mater for many outstanding cultural figures of that time - it seems to preserve their shadows and voices. The rich museum collection includes works by Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others, whose works were purchased at auctions and in galleries in Europe and the USA and returned to their homeland.

The MMMA on Petrovka offers works by Russian avant-garde artists, as well as works by their foreign colleagues. Thus, the museum’s collection contains masterly graphics by Fernand Léger, Giorgio de Chirico and works by Salvador Dali and Arman. Here the works of the artist Niko Pirosmani and the works of leading nonconformist artists of the 1960s–1980s Ilya Kabakov, Oscar Rabin, Anatoly Zverev and others found their home. The museum strives to show a panorama of modern cultural life and therefore does not remain aloof from the latest trends, replenishing its a collection of works by representatives of contemporary art - Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Dmitry Prigov, etc.

Exhibitions on Petrovka, 25 are constantly updated, and therefore you can visit here many times, learning new talented works by artists of the 21st century and past times. Thus, at one of the exhibitions the projects of Antonio Gaudi were presented (many unique drawings and models of buildings that have become the adornment of Barcelona), and at the other - an interactive installation by contemporary artist Alexandra Dementieva: examples of the latest technological method of creating images.

Ermolaevsky, Gogolevsky, Tverskoy

The MMSI site on Ermolaevsky Lane hosts no less original and significant exhibitions. As many as five floors were dedicated to the needs of the museum in a building from the early 20th century, so the building in Ermolaevsky is the main exhibition space of the MMSI. In 2017, visitors saw here the retrospective project of Valery Aizenberg “MIGRATIO”, demonstrating contemporary Russian art through the prism of the work of the brightest artist of the 80s, as well as the anniversary exhibition of the outstanding photo artist Sergei Borisov “Zeitgeist” in intriguing black and white colors, a large-scale video installation by Alexandra Mitlyanskaya “Between Past and Future” and much more.

The ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 serves as a venue for numerous international exhibition projects, symposiums and conferences.

Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard, 9, located in the space of the former creative workshop of Zurab Tsereteli, well remembers its owner, his guests and the atmosphere of creativity that reigned here, so today the most significant and conceptual events of Moscow cultural life take place there.

Museum mission

MMSI considers one of its tasks to be the organization of an extensive exhibition program, thanks to which one can see both retrospectives of famous artists of the 20th century and works by emerging masters of visual culture, and in addition, attend events as part of festivals of various sizes. The museum actively cooperates with young artists, supporting their endeavors in the two-year School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”, located in the building on Petrovka, 25. Here you can listen to a course of lectures on Russian and foreign art of the 20th and 21st centuries, get acquainted with the art market and new technologies visual arts, try to understand the current problems of modern culture. Among other things, the museum also offers numerous children's programs: for example, the art studio "Fantasy" welcomes children from 5 to 12 years old, conducts children's master classes, excursions and training courses.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Ermolaevsky Lane is one of five exhibition venues acquired by Zurab Tsereteli for his brainchild. The branch is located in a building built in 1915, the former property of the capital's architectural society. After the dissolution of the organization, several owners changed, and in the end it went to an enterprising master. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Ermolaevsky Lane was used for personal and thematic exhibitions; it is now closed and being converted into an Educational Center.

The undoubted architectural merits of the building are demonstrated by its façade facing the roadway. Six columns of the Corinthian order support a portico with a balustrade over the upper floor of the building. The frames of the window openings on the second floor, ending in triangular pediments, are also noticeable.

The building was designed by architect Dmitry Markov; this is the most significant work of the former deputy chairman of the society of architects. Its leaders were the famous architects Shekhtel and Shchusev, which did not save the organization from dissolution in 1932. The building itself acquired the status of a cultural heritage site at the federal level, protecting it from encroachments on changing its external appearance.

Anniversary exhibition of the photographer

Among the last events before the repurposing that the Moscow Museum of Modern Art carried out on Ermolaevsky Lane was an exhibition of the photographer Sergei Borisov for his 70th birthday. The exhibition is located on two floors, occupying several rooms. The first spacious room presents earlier works dating back to the early 80s of the last century. We recognize the portrait of Viktor Tsoi, even before recognition and fame (1986). Below is a photo of Smokers, where Grebenshchikov lights a cigarette with Georgy Guryanov.

The remaining photographs are arranged in one row and occupy the entire perimeter of the room. What stands out is the large format photograph on the end wall of the hall, depicting the stele of the monument to space explorers with a man running upward. Among the images placed in this room, the photograph Ascent is the latest, taken in 2002.

The second hall, where the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane exhibited the works of Sergei Borisov, is smaller than the previous one. There is a noticeable stand containing printed publications about the photographer, as well as numerous periodicals that published his photographs.

The works hung here are united by one characteristic feature inherent in the work of Sergei Borisov. Any historical monuments, buildings and structures serve only as a background for the characters, their actions or static poses. The large photograph shows a carnival against the backdrop of the Bolshoi Theater, showing primarily not the theater, but the action outside its walls. In smaller photographs, the Kremlin, Luzhniki and Moscow University serve as the background.

Studio 50A is the brainchild of Sergei Borisov

The smaller room is dedicated to the initial stage of Borisov’s creativity, Studio 50A, which he created. On the far wall is a selection of sleeves for gramophone records of Soviet and Russian pop stars, decorated with their ceremonial portraits, in which the photographer then specialized. Nowadays, these means of recording and reproducing sound are practically forgotten; record players have survived in small quantities. Pop performers of the 80s and later continue to give preference to Borisov when photographing for various needs.

Both the envelopes and the walls of the room dedicated to Studio 50A show the current veterans of the stage as very young, and if they visited the exhibition, it was not without nostalgia. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Ermolaevsky Lane did not leave one of its latest exhibitions without an announcement. And the hero of the day hardly stinted on personal invitations to the heroes and sponsors of his own works. True, not all the heroes survived to this day, as the large photo of Vysotsky on the right wall reminds us of this.

Another Borisov hall

To get to the last room, which the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane has allocated for Borisov’s exhibition, you need to use the interfloor staircase. The twilight that reigns here is illuminated only by glowing colored lights, and it is unknown whether this is an ordinary New Year's garland or an avant-garde work.

This spacious room also displays works for adults, which is why the exhibition is accessible to visitors over 18 years of age. The work Student, whose heroine is depicted topless, stands out for its large dimensions. We will not be ashamed to show a couple of photographs completely in the Nude style, if they have a place to be here. The expression and outrageousness of a dancer with irons is obvious, but a girl with an oar evokes no more emotions than a statue in the park. In general, the retrospective of the works of the most popular photographer quite successfully represents his work and the spirit of a bygone era. The German title of the exhibition is Zeitgeist, which translates as Zeitgeist, and the reviewer agrees with this.

Works by Alexandra Mitlyanskaya

In parallel with the previous one, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane held another exhibition. Attentive readers of the review read its announcement in the title photo of the museum entrance. The darkened room is equipped with several screens of different sizes, placed both on the walls and on the floor of the room. The thing is. What is unusual about the genre of Alexandra Mitlyanskaya’s works is short, almost fleeting videos.

The exhibition is called Between the Past and the Future, repeating the title of one of the works of the young artist. A lonely character sat down on the seashore. It seems. On the table for small tennis. A recently trimmed tree stands apart from branches that have already grown after the same procedure was carried out earlier. The author's rich associative thinking has already acquired many interpretations, mostly of an abstruse nature.

Already in December of this year, 2017, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Ermolaevsky Lane will again welcome visitors. It was announced that it will perform the functions of cultural education, becoming the Educational Center of the museum association. Well, there is enough exhibition space in the rest of its buildings. You can remember a visit to Petrovka, or Gogolevsky Boulevard.