Visit Russia to see 10 most anticipated art events of 2016. Don't miss out on the best Moscow and St Petersburg art exhibitions, planned for 2016!  Contact Tsar Events team for more details!

1. 10 most anticipated art events in
Russia in 2016
Moscow & St. Petersburg

2. CONCEPT
Visit Russia to see 10 most anticipated art events of 2016
Don't miss out on the best Moscow and St Petersburg art exhibitions,
planned for 2016!
Contact Tsar Events team for more details!

3. MOSCOW
Moscow has always been a central point of Russian
and World’s culture. Now it remains the biggest
treasurer for every art specialist.
This is not surprising because there are over 75
museums and a great amount of art galleries and
exhibition halls – over three hundred.

4. St Petersburg is a major trade gateway, cultural, educational, and
financial center of Russia, it is a historical scientific center of Russia,
where the 1st Russian University was founded. City is known not
only for its palaces and museums but for famous concerts, night life a
top theatre festivals and the most contemporary avantgarde art
exhibitions.
ST.PETERSBURG

5. February 3 – April 30
"Frida Kahlo. Paintings and drawings from the collections of Mexico“
Fabergé Museum will open Russia's first large-scale retrospective of the famous
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Within the extensive exhibition will feature 34 works of
Frida — paintings, drawings, lithography, among them early works and the later works
of the period, which will allow to trace the stylistic evolution of the master. Will
complete the event more than one hundred photographs covering different periods of
the life of Frida Kahlo, Mexican folk costumes, such as those that loved to wear the
artist herself.
FABERGE MUSEUM ST.PETERSBURG

6. February 24 – May 31
Leon Bakst: 1866-1924
More than 150 works from the Russian Museum collection will take part in this
retrospective dedicated to the 150th birthday of this artist, stage designer and
illustrator. Bakst became famous for his theatrical sceneries when he collaborated with
the illustrious Sergei Diaghilev on his ballet and opera performances in Russia,
France, the U.S. and other countries. Bakst's costume and
decoration sketches will form a big part of the exhibition.
RUSSIAN MUSEUM ST.PETERSBURG

7. March 1 - May 15
Tony Cragg: Sculptures and drawings
Ten years after a major Moscow exhibition, British sculptor and Turner Prize laureate
Cragg is coming to Russia once again. One of the most vivid representatives of the
New British Sculpture movement will now have a retrospective in the General Staff
Building of the recently restored Hermitage, which has been configured for
showcasing modern art. The exhibition will also contain his world-famous abstract
figures with perplexed human profiles.
THE STATE HERMITAGE ST.PETERSBURG

8. March 4 - May 15
The Cranach family: between the Renaissance and Mannerism
The two Renaissance geniuses, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the
Younger, have never been shown together in Russia. This is the first attempt to unite
their subtle poetic work in one exhibition, which will include the masters' canvases,
drawings and wood carvings from museums and private collections in Germany,
Spain and Hungary.
THE STATE PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
MOSCOW

9. March 18 - June 14
Gely Korzhev: “I have the right”
This exhibition is a retrospective of the works of one of Socialist Realism’s main
artists for many years. Current director of gallery was preparing this it for many
years, while simultaneously displaying Korzhev's works in her curatorial projects in
Europe. The vision of the Korzhev will be exhibited in all its varying forms: from the
heroic-patriotic themes of the 1950s to his almost surrealistic works of the 1990s.
THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY MOSCOW

10. June 29 - August 14
The 5th Moscow Biennale of Young Art
This large-scale project, uniting young artists under 35 years of age from all over the
world, is being curated by the British art historian Nadim Samman. Samman also
came up with the main theme for the Biennale: Deep Inside.
The Biennale's principle project will be divided into two parts: one will be located at
the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura, a former 19th-century industrial building with the
other in a three-story branch of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Yermolaevsky
pereulok.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS: MOSCOW

11. July 29 - November 20
Ivan Aivazovsky- celebrating 200th Anniversary
The Tretyakov Gallery is celebrating the 200th birthday of this famous Romantic
painter a year in advance, which the world will commemorate on July 29, 2017. More
than 150 paintings and drawings from Russian museums will make up the
retrospective of this artist, who is best known for his maritime canvasses.
Aivazovsky’s most important works will be included: from “The Rainbow” to “The Ninth
Wave.” For the first time the public will see “Along the Shores of the Caucasus,” which
is normally stored in the Tretyakov Gallery's annex.
THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY MOSCOW

12. September 12 - November 13
Stephan Balkenhol
Without his public art projects it is impossible to imagine European cities today. It
seems that in each one you can find wooden sculptures that sometimes can be
mistaken for real people. This exhibition in Moscow, which has been anticipated for
three years, will unite sculptures and reliefs from the last 15 years of the artist's career,
as well as new works inspired by Moscow.
THE MOSCOW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

13. September 30, 2016 - January 22, 2017
Witnessing Time
The Museum of Contemporary Art founded by Dasha Zhukova, the girlfriend of
billionaire Roman Abramovich, will open yet another blockbuster show (the first being
the exhibition of Louise Bourgeois). At its heart are giant drawings by the American
artist and sculptor Robert Longo, executed in the style of photorealism, as well as
sketches and films by Sergei Eisenstein and apocalyptic paintings and etchings by
Francisco Goya.
GARAGE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
MOSCOW

14. September 29, 2016 - January 11, 2017
Haute Couture Fashion Houses from the Art Deco Period: from the Kyoto
Costume Institute collection
One of the most authoritative museums in its field, the Kyoto Costume Institute,
which houses the largest collection of clothing and accessories from all over the
world, will hold an exhibition at the Kremlin Museum for the first time. About 40
women's suits from the 1920s-1930s will be brought to Moscow, including those
from the legendary Lanvin, Poiret and Chanel houses, as well as vintage Cartier
and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry.
THE KREMLIN MUSEUM MOSCOW

15. October 2016 - January 15, 2017
Roma Aeterna: Masterpieces from the Vatican Pinacoteca
This exhibition promises to be an international sensation not only for its list of artists
but because most of the works very rarely leave the walls of the Vatican. Among the
highlights will be paintings by Raphael and Caravaggio, Giovanni Bellini, Guercino,
Pietro Perugino, Guido Reni and Nicolas Poussin.
THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY MOSCOW

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