Museums of Russia: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Opens in Moscow the Second Building of its Division of Private Collections

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts opens in Moscow to the public the second building of the Division of Private Collections, which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. Come as a result of an initiative of the famous literary critic and collector Ilya Samoilovych Zilberstein and current president of the Museum Irina Antonova, the Division have furthered a relationship between the collectors and the Museum to a new level. Since it’s inception the department already received about 40, donated by the grantors, collections and individual gifts. Currently, the museum collection has over seven thousand works of Russian and Western European art XV-XX centuries.

The second building of the Department of Private Collections will represent a new "Apartment-museum" exhibition project, which will allow the viewer to immerse himself in authentic private environments of the artists, architects and collectors, where everyday objects and artworks will shape a distinct creative ambience. An architect’s Jacob Chernihov (1889-1951) studio appears as drafting bureau, belonging to the futuristic dreamer-designer, and an apartment of the collector Igor Sanovich (1923-2010) - as a sophisticated art installation, built of museum-quality works. Leonid Tishkov (born in 1953) comes with his spatial study, inspired by his findings from the archive belonging to obscure 1920s artist Dmitry Tarkhov, an atmosphere of Sternberg-Alfeevsky household is conveyed by the three-dimensional reconstruction of the workroom, where several generations of artists had spent their lives. Moscow collector Roman Babichev (born in 1957) shows a collection of works by the 1920 -1940s artists.

This project will continue the tradition that breathed life into "An Atelier of Dmitry Krasnopevtsev" exposition, the rooms with an artist’s Tatyana Mavrina heritages and Helena Makaseyeva’s collection in the Department’s of Private Collections building.