Today, June 3 in St. Petersburg will open the "New Museum" - the first in the city museum of modern art. The basis of the exposition is put a collection of non-Soviet and contemporary Russian art collected by the patron Aslan Chekhoev.

Among the exhibits - the classics of unofficial art Oscar Rabin , Leo Kropyvnyts'kogo , Lydia Masterkova , Vladimir Nemukhin , Michael Schwartzman , Dmitry Krasnopevtsev , Vladimir Weisberg , Viktor Pivovarov , the participants' Gazonevskogo movement, "the group" New Artists ". The pride of sots-art museum considers the work Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid «Judgement of Paris, or The Yalta Conference ».

Also in the museum are works by such contemporary artists as Aidan Salakhova , Anatoly Osmolovsky , Paul Pepperstein , Dubossarskii and Alexander Vinogradov , AEC Group F , Alexey Belyaev-Gintovt , Dmitry Gutov , Valery Koshlyakov , Vladislav Mamyshev Monroe , Konstantin Batynkov .

autumn in addition to the permanent exhibition in the museum exhibition opens late St. Petersburg artist nonconformist Eugene Mikhnov-Voitenko , monographic collection of works which is kept Chekhoev. In the "New Museum" plan to organize lectures and roundtables, as well as open a children's art studio and art club.

Museum opens on Vasilevsky Island (6 th line, 29) . Under him were allotted to three floors of the building 70 years of XIX century.

Source: lenta.ru