Russian culture abroad: The exhibition “Kazimir Malevich and Russian Avant-Garde” presented in Amsterdam

More than 500 paintings from various collections are presented at the exhibition “Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde”, which officially opened on October 19, 2013 in the City Museum of Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum). 

According to curators of the exhibition, it is the largest in the last 20 years exposition of works of the artist, who is known as a pioneer and one of the founders of abstract art. Stedelijk Museum has the largest collection outside of Russia of his paintings. There are also exhibits from the collections of Nicholas Khardzhiev, George Costakis and other collections.

In addition to Malevichs paintings, the exhibition involves the works of such representatives of abstract art, as Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova, Vasily Kandinsky and Mikhail Larionov, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Nadezhda Udaltsova.

According to the Stedelijk Museum, “this exhibition is a tribute to the artist and his contemporaries, as well as the culmination of the Year of Russia in the Netherlands and the Netherlands in Russia”. The exhibition in the museum will include lectures, themed evenings, symposium on private art collections, film screenings dedicated to the avant-garde art.

The exhibition runs until February 2, 2014. After that, it will go to Bonn, where it will be presented from March 11 to June 22 in the exhibition hall “Bundeskunsthalle”, and then – at the Tate Gallery in London where it can be seen from July 17 to October 26.