Today in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will hold a press conference on the 10 th anniversary of the museum and the opening of the Jubilee program

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Today, December 14, at 16:00 in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka, 25) will hold a press conference on the 10 th anniversary of the museum and the opening of the Jubilee program.

At a press conference made by:

Zurab Tsereteli , Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Andrei Tolstoy, head of the scientific department of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Yuri Avvakumov , curator of the project "Open Doors Day»

Zelfira Tregulova, curator of the exhibition "Socialist realism: an inventory of the archive. Art 1930-1940-s »

Alexander Sysoenko, Deputy. Director General ROSIZO //Victoria Zubravskaya, head of the exhibition department ROSIZO

Elena Selina, curator of the program "Moscow-date»

As part of the commemorative program Moscow Museum of Modern Art will open three major exhibition of the project:

Open Day: mansion - Gymnasium - Hospital - Museum of
Russia's art 1989 -2009 years from the museum's collection
Opening on December 15 at 19:00 (Petrovka 25)
Project museum and Yuri Avvakumov.

new display on three floors of the building on Petrovka unites more than 200 major works by Russian artists from the museum collection. These works, created over the past 20 years (1989-2009), reflect the diversity of new conceptual solutions and means of expression, including the most modern technology. The hero of this project is the building of the museum - a mansion in the historic center of Moscow, who survived multiple shift periods and destinations. The past is not going away without a trace and will certainly interfere with the lives of future generations, our goal - to show how this could happen, and make these imaginary layers transparent. Spaces that were once the rooms of the mansion, the school classes, or chambers of the hospital, and now have rooms of the museum freely into one another. Doors are removed from the hinges, they are no longer a barrier and symbolize the absolute openness of today's artistic process. Many of the works presented here for the first time exhibited in the halls of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Socialist realism: Inventory Archives
Art 1930-40-x years from the collection GMVTS "ROSIZO»
To the 50 anniversary of the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO»
Opening December 16 at 19:00 (Gogol Boulevard, 10 )
curator of the project - Zelfira Tregulova

exhibition is the first time in Moscow a unique collection of works of Soviet art 1930-40's, stored now in the collections "ROSIZO. The history of this collection is inseparable from the history of the country and by successive political regimes. The presented work demonstrates how ideological approach of the authorities was to art and artistic production, even during the thaw. Works like a "give away" that portrayed in their lives - not "light path", and heavy existence, devoid of light, joy and hope. These paintings depict scenes of working meetings, rallies and discussions, work in a factory, in carpet factories, in the hot shop, a grocery store and in the culinary department.

On this day in the halls of the museum on Gogol Boulevard opened two exhibitions of works from the collections "ROSIZO": "Holidays and weekdays. Art 1970-80-ies, "and" The Art of Russian masters. 90 State Collection of Unique Musical Instruments ».

Konstantin Zvezdochetov. "Do not stand»
Within the program "Moscow-date»
Opening December 17 at 19:00 (Ermolaevsky lane 17)
curated program -- Elena Selina

Konstantin Zvezdochetov - one of the greatest artists of the actual Russia's art. He is one of the most prominent defendants apartment exhibitions in the gallery APTART - the center of unofficial art 1980's, the leader of the "new wave", an active member of the Amanita, one of the most vivid manifestation of the Russian underground 1980's and "playing coach" of the "Champions world "early 1990. It is practically the only one of the members of both groups, leaving the noble artistry even in the most difficult years for contemporary art. Most exhibiting artists in Moscow, Konstantin Zvezdochetov never had a full retrospective in the capital. The project "could not hold", organized jointly with the XL Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the program "Moscow-date, to fill that gap.

In addition, as part of the commemorative program in December 2009 until April 2010 in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art held a series of lectures, master classes and round tables, which will be attended by prominent artists, critics, art historians and curators.

Channel : press release MMSI