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Academic Hall of the Mikhailovsky Palace

times of change. exhibition
st. petersburg, russia

Grand and majestic, the State Russian Museum is a sprawling complex of palaces and gardens with over 400 current exhibits.  The museum was Russia’s first state museum and now houses over 400,000 pieces of art.  The Mikhailovsky Palace housed the entire collection early in the museum’s history.  It now houses the permanent collection featuring oil paintings, sculptures, and graphics.  The Stroganov Palace, Marble Palace and St. Michael’s Castle were acquired by the museum in the 1990s and now house exhibits as well.

The museum strives to include every genre of art.  Along with the “Times of Change” exhibit, some other current exhibits are “Russian Art in the Context of World Art Process”, an exploration of international contemporary art, and “The Avant-Garde in Russia”.

The Marble Hall of the Marble Palace

Exhibit Press Release:
The Times They Are A-Changing

On April 27, the State Russian Museum opened the Times of Change exhibition in the Benois Wing of the Mikhailovsky Palace.

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.

For more information on the exhibit, please visit The State Russian Museum at http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/