The Moscow Kremlin Museums will host an exhibition “Saint Louis and the relics of Sainte-Chapelle. Moscow Kremlin Museums open exhibitions in the regions Exhibitions in the Kremlin

“Facing the future. Art of Europe 1945-1968"

In the difficult task of promoting Russian contemporary art abroad, this project is comparable to last year's gift to Paris and the subsequent work of our artists organized by . Before Moscow, she visited Karlsruhe and Brussels, and in the capital she sparkled with new colors, enriched by a block of additional works - she cleverly, accurately and flawlessly exposition told the general post-war history in the art of Eastern and Western Europe.

Fernand Léger
"Builders"
1951
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin

"Saint Louis and the relics of the Sainte-Chapelle"

Museums of the Moscow Kremlin

Making an elegant exposition and collecting rarities “from the world by a thread” is what the Kremlin Museums have been famous for for many years, arranging exhibitions in their tiny current spaces. And just one of those. For her, for the first time, the famous stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle church, ancient manuscripts, the reliquary of the Crown of Thorns and many other unique objects left France, supplemented in the Kremlin with works of art and artifacts of that era from their own collection, the Hermitage and other great museums.

"Double Engagement"
Stained glass from the Sainte-Chapelle
1230-1248
© Patrick Cadet / Center des monuments nationaux

7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

New Tretyakov Gallery

The change of leadership of the Biennale has caused a lot of controversy and rumors, but, as you know, they are judged by their deeds. And the main project of the current review, curated, returned us to the time of the most successful of all the biennials held in the capital, the third in a row, held in the space of the Bakhmetevsky garage in 2009 (it was curated). Hasegawa's exhibition about the meeting of two worlds - classics and current authors of contemporary art - showed an impressive block of works, united and poeticized international exhibition trends and neatly fit into the context of 20th century art from the collection of the New Tretyakov Gallery.

Pierre Huig
"Untitled / Human Mask"
2014
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, London, and Anna Lena Films, Paris

"Modernism without a manifesto"

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

The collector's two-part project, deployed in the halls of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art this autumn, opened to the general public a personal, painstakingly collected over almost a quarter of a century, and a large layer of experiments of painters who did not fit into the harmonious choir of mass propaganda and were persecuted in the USSR for formalism. Shevchenko, Barto, Istomina, Fonvizin, Rusakov, Udaltsova, Ermilova-Platova, Grinberg are just a few of them.

Edward Krimmer
"Two peasant women"
1929–1932
Collection of Roman Babichev

Ekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg claims to be the cultural capital and deservedly so. This year, at least two impressive exhibition projects took place here - a blockbuster that gave a comprehensive picture of the Russian avant-garde based on items from the collections of seven Russian museums, and a biennale review already familiar to many. Of the many biennials of contemporary art held this year in Russia, the 4th Ural (commissioner, curator of the main project Joan Ribas) presented the public with the highest level of projects, their conceptual unity (including a brilliantly prepared program of art residences) and a deep understanding of the stated topic "The New Literacy".

Alisa Prudnikova and Joan Ribas
4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art

"Cai Guoqiang. October"

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A large retrospective that united two metropolitan museums under the banner - the Tretyakov Gallery and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. The last time the Tretyakov Gallery showed the works of Lazar Lissitzky was in 1990, but only from what was in its own funds. Now, the Basel Art Museum, the Moritzburg Art Gallery, the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, the Stedelek Museum in Amsterdam, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art have been involved in the project. And even despite the fact that the exposition does not contain the most valuable items from the private archive of this master of the Russian avant-garde, designer, architect, inventor of prouns, transferred by his son to the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, the exhibition turned out to be grandiose.

El Lissitzky
"Constructor"
self-portrait
1924
Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery

The Winter Palace and the Hermitage in 1917. History was made here

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Of the numerous exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the Hermitage opened later than everyone else and turned out to be perhaps the most heartfelt. The post-revolutionary history of the great museum and its collections here again turned blood red - this is the main color of the large-scale exhibition, which every visitor willy-nilly will pass through. Through the faces of the royal family and museum staff, a difficult story is told here, which, no doubt, everyone should know.

State Hermitage

From the Palace of Justice in Paris through the arched passage you can get to the Holy Chapel, Sainte Chapelle, - the pearl of Gothic architecture. It was built by King Louis IX of France (Saint) in 1242-1248. as a monumental reliquary for the greatest shrines of the Christian world, and above all the Crown of Thorns of the Savior.

Consisting of two churches located one above the other, the chapel crowned with lancet turrets resembles a precious box. Filled with streams of colored light, the upper temple is an ensemble of stained-glass windows 15 meters high.

opening in One-pillar chamber of the Patriarchal Palace The exhibition as part of the cross year of cultural tourism between Russia and France will focus on three major topics: the personality of Saint Louis, the relics of the Passion of Christ and Sainte-Chapelle, created by the King of France as a worthy place to store the relics he acquired.

« The idea of ​​a joint project largely came from our French colleagues from the Center of National Monuments, - clarifies the curator of the exhibition, Doctor of Historical Sciences Olga Dmitrieva. - They were inspired by their own experience. In 2014, France celebrated the 800th anniversary of the birth of Louis with a large-scale exhibition at the ConciergerieIX. The emphasis then was on the figure of one of the most famous and beloved kings of France, whom our public knows much less. Therefore, in Moscow, it was decided not to literally repeat the concept of the Paris project.».

Exhibition curator Olga Dmitrieva
Photo: Valentin Overchenko/Moscow Kremlin Museums

An exciting story awaits the viewer, concerning the curious pages of world history, one of which is dedicated to the fate of relics.

Crown of Thorns Savior Saint Louis acquired in 1239, along with other relics of the Passion of Christ, which turned the French monarch from the Capetian dynasty into "the most Christian king."

« During the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204), the crusader army captured Constantinople, the capital of the Christian state, having at their disposal not only the city, but also the Grand Palace, the main residence of the Byzantine emperors, where relics were kept in the chapel for many centuries: the Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, the stone of the Holy Sepulcher, the spear of the centurion Longinus, the sponge on which Jesus was served vinegar with gall. The crusaders were fully aware of the value of the acquired shrines says the curator. - However, the new authorities of the Latin Empire, being in a deplorable state, deprived of resources, begin to sell and pawn relics, which in itself is shocking. Latin emperor Baldwin II goes to France for negotiations. Moreover, by that time the Crown had already been laid to the Venetians. Louis, a man of sincere faith, decides to save the shrines».

Of course, in France, this event caused a huge resonance. When the Crown, acquired for a lot of money, arrived from Venice, the king and his brother went out barefoot to meet him and carried the reliquary on their shoulders. The chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, built soon, becomes the center of the formation of a new national identity, while the king of France is perceived as the direct heir of the Byzantine emperors. On the lancet stained-glass windows of the chapel, a biblical line is consistently unfolded, while one theme is singled out - the genesis of power. The composition, starting with the history of biblical kings, ends with a window dedicated to Louis himself.

Twelve stained-glass windows from Sainte-Chapelle, dismantled in the 19th century and now stored in the Center for National Monuments, will leave France for the first time to take center stage in an exhibition at the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

"Double Engagement"
Stained glass from the Sainte-Chapelle
1230-1248
© Patrick Cadet / Center des monuments nationaux

« Stained glass is a fragile material. The first attempts to restore or replace them were made already in the 14th century, when the glass production technique was the same as inXIIIcentury, - Olga Dmitrieva continues the story. - Even the Great French Revolution did not cause much damage to glass. Excited masses of the people more encroached on sculptures and knocked royal lilies off the walls. Subsequently, after the restoration of the monarchy, an archive was arranged in Sainte-Chapelle, and light openings were bricked up to install cabinets. The dismantled glasses that ended up on the antique market ended up in museum collections over time.».

Among the seventy-five exhibits of the future exhibition - a lot of interesting artifacts that will arrive from the Louvre, the Museum of the Middle Ages (Cluny), the National Archives of France, the National Library. But not all things are transportable. The State Hermitage has shared fragile masterpieces. We are talking about Limoges enamels of the 13th century, altars and folds of ivory.

Casket with the image of Christ in glory, crucifixion and saints
France, Limoges
first decade of the thirteenth century.
State Hermitage
Photo: S.V. Suetova, K.V. Sinyavsky

"Madonna and Child", late XIII - early XIV century. State Hermitage. Photo: A. M. Koksharov
The head of a staff depicting the scene of the Annunciation, second quarter of the 13th century. State Hermitage. Photo: S. V. Suetova, K. V. Sinyavsky

Door of a diptych depicting the Passion of Christ
middle of the thirteenth century
State Hermitage
Photo: A.M. Koksharov

The reign of Saint Louis was the heyday of the book business. The curator of the exhibition pays special attention to manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts. Quite curious are the documents related to the veneration of Louis himself and the process of his canonization, including manuscripts describing the inquiry into his holiness conducted by the Roman curia.

« The exhibition will also include portraits of Louis himself. Very rare polychrome wooden sculpture from the town of Poissy, where he comes from and where the necropolis of his six children, including his beloved daughter Isabella, is located", - continues Olga Dmitrieva.

"The Miracle of Saint Louis". Miniature from the handwritten book of Guillaume de Saint Pathu "The Life and Miracles of Saint Louis", 1330-1340,
"Louis IX administers justice." Miniature from the handwritten book of Guillaume de Saint Pathu "The Life and Miracles of Saint Louis", 1330-1340, National Library of France (BNF)

"Louis IX and Marguerite of Provence enter the ship." Miniature from the handwritten "Book of the Acts of His Majesty St. Louis", 1401-1500, National Library of France (BNF)
Bottom cover of Sainte-Chapelle Gospels, 1260-1270?, National Library of France (BNF)

Goya, Dali, Klimt, Schiele, Titian, Gaudi, Murakami, Cattelan: The Art Newspaper Russia editors have chosen the most interesting exhibitions of the new year in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which you probably won't want to miss

Salvador Dali. "Caprichos" by Goya. Series of 80 engravings. "No". 1977. From the collection of Boris Fridman. Photo courtesy of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin

"Caprichos". Goya and Dali
The main building of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
From January 24 to March 12

An exhibition of engravings will open the year Francisco Goya And Salvador Dali, on which 41 etchings by a 19th-century artist are adjacent to 41 engravings created 180 years later. Hypocrisy, injustice, laziness, sleeping human consciousness, fear - a gallery of vices dressed in fantastic images by Spanish geniuses, differs little from today. But the museum warns against hasty conclusions: Dali himself, on one of the etchings of the exposition, depicted his predecessor in the form of a mysterious sphinx lying against the backdrop of the desert. An impressive lecture program is devoted to interpretations of works in the exposition. But besides it, each pair of “caprichos” is preceded by a literary commentary by Goya himself, explaining, along with satirical overtones, the mystical origins of his characters. The etchings arranged in pairs draw in an additional game: sometimes Salvador Dali simply follows his predecessor without intruding into the image, but often takes the plots to another plane, introducing additional characters and new details.

Type of HPP-2. V-A-C

"Double engagement". Stained glass from the Sainte-Chapelle. France, 1230-1248. Patrick Cadet / Center des monuments nationaux

"Saint Louis and the relics of the Sainte-Chapelle"
Patriarchal Palace of the Kremlin Museum
March 2 to June 4

The French king, whose name is associated with the heyday of the Gothic style in France, was a keen collector of Christian relics. Starting with the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ, he collected more than 20 sacred objects: from a particle of the Cross of the Lord to the Spear of Destiny. All of them were kept in the Sainte-Chapelle - the chapel-reliquary, which also has the most complete ensemble of stained-glass windows of the 13th century. Some of them were dismantled six centuries later. Now, thanks to the Center of National Monuments of France, stained glass windows, along with other masterpieces of French Gothic art from the Louvre, the Cluny Museum, the National Libraries and Archives of France, can be seen in Moscow.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Triennial of Contemporary Art
Garage Museum
March

Garage curators scoured Russia's cities from Kaliningrad to Vladikavkaz to find the most notable regional artists and the art that best captures the zeitgeist. The exposition will highlight seven areas that reflect the same artistic trends in different territories of the vast country. The exposition, in addition to the museum, will also be located in Gorky Park, and all selected artists, who turned out to be more than 60, will be invited to the opening.

Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch. 1920. Paper, watercolor, ink, brush. Yaroslavl Art Museum

"Poste restante. Collections of the Russian avant-garde from regional museums. Part II
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
March 30 to May 28

The project, the first part of which was included in the rating of the best exhibitions of the year by our newspaper, in the new year will present about 100 works of Russian avant-garde from the time of the Civil War, the transition to the NEP and collectivization. From curator Andrey Sarabyanov again expect unknown works, never before exhibited in Moscow.

Zinaida Serebryakova. "Behind the toilet" ("Self-portrait"). 1909. State Tretyakov Gallery

Retrospective of Zinaida Serebryakova
State Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane
April 4 to July 30

The Tretyakov Gallery, as well as the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, already hosted exhibitions of the artist a couple of years ago. Now the visitors will have a retrospective with an exhaustive set of paintings not only from Russian museums, but also from the Parisian fund of the artist, private English and French collections. For the first time the viewer will get acquainted with decorative panels Zinaida Serebryakova for the Belgian baron's villa Jean Brower who were considered dead during the Second World War, but miraculously survived and were found in 2007 in the basement of that very villa. A large gallery of portraits will be diluted with a series of paintings dedicated to the behind-the-scenes life of the Mariinsky Theatre, as well as landscapes and sketches for the murals of the Kazan Station.

Giorgio De Chirico. "Nostalgia for Infinity". Piazza d'Italia

"De Chirico. Nostalgia for infinity"

April 19 to July 23

For the exhibition of the founder of metaphysical painting and forerunner of surrealism Giorgio De Chirico exhibits were provided by the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Foundation Giorgio and Isa De Chirico, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The artist's work will be presented very widely: about 100 works of art from painting and sculpture to theatrical costumes. The audience will also be reminded of the Russian trace in the work of the avant-garde master. Living in Paris with a Russian actress Raisa Gurevich-Krol, de Chirico created the costumes for Diaghilev's performance "Ball" - they, as well as archival photographs and materials, will become an additional decoration of the exposition.

Vasily Vereshchagin. "Walking on Water" 1903. State Russian Museum

Vasily Vereshchagin. To the 175th anniversary of the birth"
Russian Museum
April - July

Historians joke that the only accepted ever Vereshchagin the award was the Order of St. George for the defense of the Samarkand fortress. The impulsive, self-centered, freedom-loving battle painter loved to travel and took part in all the hostilities that fell in his fate. The retrospective exhibition of the artist will show 220 works by the master, including the famous Balkan and Turkestan series, many landscapes, as well as ethnographic sketches and graphics. The exposition will be decorated with items from the Ethnographic Museum associated with Vereshchagin's numerous trips.

Anselm Kiefer. "Velimir Khlebnikov". 2004-2010 Phillips

Anselm Kiefer to Velimir Khlebnikov
State Hermitage
May 31 to September 3

That the "Chairman of the Globe" Velimir Khlebnikov inspires the cabalist Anselm Kiefer, the world community learned when Kiefer's work “To Velimir Khlebnikov. The Doctrine of War: Battles was sold at a Phillips summer auction for £2.4 million in 2016. It turned out that Kiefer constantly rereads the poems of the futurist translated into German. In his fantastic retrospective installation in Paris and London, he illustrated Velimir Khlebnikov's mathematical theory of civilizational clashes in history. It can be seen in the Hermitage, where 18 more large-scale works will be added to it.

Sagrada Familia. Photo by Bernard Gagnon

"Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona»
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
May 22 to September 10

Instead of reading a guide to Barcelona, ​​at the end of spring it will be possible to come to the exhibition. Sketches and models of the most outstanding buildings of the Art Nouveau master, as well as a collection of photographs from the archives of the Catalan College of Architecture, will be shown at MMOMA. The architect left behind 18 buildings, and 12 of them are in Barcelona. First of all, this is the famous Sagrada Familia Cathedral, on which the architect worked for 43 years and to which a separate section will be devoted to the exposition. Four others will focus on his residential buildings, the creation of the Guell Palace, the history of collaboration with the main customer, the industrialist Eusebi Güell, and furniture, the author of which was also an architect. The exposition will end with the documentary "Dali and Gaudí" from the Spanish Film Archive, which is natural, if we remember that Salvador Dali called the architecture that inspired the Surrealists "the most original phenomenon in the history of art."

Johann Groot. "Owl sitting on a bough." 1750s From the collection of the State Museum Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo"

The Groot brothers: portrait painter and animal painter. German Artists at the Russian Court"
Bread House of the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"
From June 1st to September 17th

The summer exhibition at Tsaritsyno is dedicated to the German portrait painters of the 18th century, who connected their lives with Russia and played a huge role in the development of Russian painting. Georg Groot best known for his fine portraits Elizabeth Petrovna(for example, in the form of Flora) and her courtiers, and his brother Johann turned out to be the very first animal painter at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, giving the basis for an entire school of animal painters. The workshop of Johann Groot was visited in admiration by the whole court - the animals and birds depicted by him were so realistic. The exhibition in Tsaritsyno, which will show about 60 works collected from museums in both capitals and private collections, will open the amazing and touching world of wild animals of the 18th century and pets at the court of the first Russian empresses.

Paolo Veronese. Apollo and Marsyas. Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin

Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. The Golden Age of Venetian Painting"
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
June - end of August

The legacy of the Venetian school of painting is one of the brightest pages in the history of the Italian Renaissance. The Venetians, who found themselves aloof from the Italian mainland feudal wars, experienced the joy of life extremely fully, transferring the sensual beauty of the world and bright color into their works. So far, it has not been reported which masterpieces the viewer will see at the exhibition opening the summer season, it is only clear that they will reflect the period from the heyday of the school to its extinction in creativity. Tintoretto. Another distinguishing feature will be the genre diversity of canvases, of which there will be about 40 in the exhibition - from the portrait beloved by Venetian masters to religious and mythological subjects. Tickets, apparently, should take care of in advance.

Aristarkh Lentulov. "Call". ("Ivan the Great belltower"). 1915. Photo: Tretyakov Gallery

Aristarkh Lentulov. To the 135th anniversary of the birth"
Theater Museum. A.A. Bakhrushina. main building
Summer

Aristarkh Lentulov was a tireless experimenter. He wrote both in the spirit of expressionism and in the style Cezanne, after a trip to France, he switched to cubo-futurism, creating one of his most famous paintings - St. Basil's Cathedral. One of the founders "Jack of Diamonds", the artist was afraid of repetition, which the upcoming exhibition should tell about. Her museum plans to make it quite large-scale and promises to show the audience 24 works of the period 1910-1920s.

Pavel Filonov. "Cows". 1914. Russian Museum

"Dreams of World Bloom"
Russian Museum
August - November

The centenary of the October Revolution was reflected in the programs of most museums and galleries, which we have already discussed. The St. Petersburg Russian Museum also decided to comprehend the consequences of the events of 1917 in the history of art. The exposition of the exhibition "Dreams of World Heyday" will include a large number of works Paul Filonova, who devoted the whole poetic hymn "Sermon on the sprouting of the world" to the "world flowering" - the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bsymbolic flowering and germination both in society and in painting. In addition to him, the exhibition will feature works Kazemir Malevich, Alexander Deineka, Alexander Samokhvalov and other artists from the museum's collection, who, despite differences in manner and political views, shared their views on the post-revolutionary future with equal enthusiasm.

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. "1918 in Petrograd". State Tretyakov Gallery

"Someone 1917"
State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
September 27 — January 14, 2018

The exhibition should not only show the iconography of the images of the revolution, but also reflect the internal discussions, the intense struggle of artistic movements and ideas of the early 20th century. The exposition is conceived as a large-scale one: it will be possible to learn about the thoughts and feelings with which the artists met the revolution, using the example of 120 works, including canvases Nesterov, Petrov-Vodkin, Serebryakova, and Filonov, Rodchenko, Kandinsky, Malevich. To show the contrast between painting and the real life of exhausted and starving people, the exhibition will be supplemented with photographs and newsreels of those years. To tell about one of the most significant events in recent history, the revolution of 1917, the Tretyakov Gallery selected exhibits not only in the regions of Russia, but also abroad: in the Pompidou Center, the Tate Gallery, the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, museums in Spain, Greece, Israel.

Takashi Murakami. "Kaikai". 2000-2005. 2000-2005 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Private collection. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin

Takashi Murakami retrospective
Garage Museum
September

In the fall, Garage will offer an opportunity to get acquainted with the art of one of the most expensive and fun contemporary Japanese authors — Takashi Murakami. This is the first Russian retrospective of a pop art artist who combines manga with contemporary art and design in an original way. Jobs with Eared Mr. Dobom- the alter ego of the 54-year-old "scammer", posters with the most incredible cartoons and sculptures in neon colors - just what you need in the autumn season. They decided to strengthen the impact of such art many times over by playing on contrasts: the exhibition will include ancient Japanese paintings and engravings from the collection of the Museum of Art of the Peoples of the East and the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. According to the already established tradition, the exhibition will leave the museum to the adjacent Arts Square, where a monumental sculpture by Murakami will appear. Its name is still kept secret.

TV Lambert ("Lambert") 21-S-502 stationary kinescope. Museum of Science and Industry

"Encyclopedia of Television"
VDNH, Pavilion No. 64 "Optics"
September-October – January 2018

Guests of the autumn exhibition at VDNKh will be offered to learn all the secrets of television - from Soviet broadcasting to the most rated modern programs. It will show the equipment used by the first Russian television people: from cameras to recording and projection installations from the collections of Russian museums, television studios and TV channels. It has not yet been announced whether the exposition will be interactive, but what can be seen and heard for sure is archival footage from the filming, mock-ups of studio scenery, as well as costumes, props, funny fragments from TV programs and musical themes for them.

Egon Schille. "Klimt in a blue coat". Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin

Drawings by Klimt and Schiele from the collection of the Albertina Museum
Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin
Mid October - mid January 2018

The Albertina Museum in Vienna, in exchange for Impressionist paintings, provided the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin 120 graphic works Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. The latter considered himself a student of Klimt, and it is known that during their first meeting, Klimt not only agreed to exchange his work for a drawing by an artist 28 years younger, but also bought several works, noting: “Why do you want to exchange with me? You still draw better." Subsequently, Klimt patronized the artist, introducing him to profitable buyers and exhibiting his works along with his own. A grateful student made his portraits and drawings, one of them - "Klimt in a blue robe" - will most likely be seen in the exhibition.

Maurizio Cattelan. Installation at the Frieze Art Fair. Photo: Timothy Schenck; courtesy of Frieze Projects

Maurizio Cattelan exhibition
Multimedia Art Museum
From October 30 to December 17

The exhibition of the brawler has been long awaited in Russia since the artist, breaking the word that he was leaving art forever, exhibited his works at the Paris Mint last year. It is unlikely that the Multimedia Art Museum will allocate a special room for a selfie with a golden toilet bowl - a recent masterpiece cattelana which is now in New York's Guggenheim Museum. But you can definitely count on the famous stuffed animals with their heads stuck in the wall, and provocative wax sculptures. Who knows, maybe the Italian will create a piece specifically for the Russian exhibition.

UPD:project canceled

Sergei Eisenstein on the set of the film "Old and New" ("General Line"). 1929 Gelatin silver print. State Central Museum of Cinema

"Eisenstein. Revolution in art"
State Hermitage
November 7 - March 5

In the past year, Moscow museums devoted several projects to the personality of an eccentric director, artist and teacher. The Garage Museum compared the works Eisenstein with creativity Francisco Goya and Robert Longo, and in the Multimedia Art Museum a large project with fragments from films, posters, scenery sketches and drawings by the author opened the celebration of the anniversary season. Little is known about what exactly will be shown at the exhibition in St. Petersburg. On the one hand, this may be another project under the sign of the Great Revolution with the demonstration of the film "October" and the study of the director's influence on revolutionary Soviet cinema. On the other hand, the project can reveal Eisenstein with his graphics, visual and theatrical solutions as an innovator, “revolutionizing” art as such. “If it weren’t for the revolution, I would never have ‘split’ the traditions, only the revolutionary whirlwind gave me the main thing - the freedom of self-determination,” he wrote in his autobiography.

Chaim Soutine. "View of Sere". 1921

Retrospective of Chaim Soutine
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin
November 11 — February 19, 2018

Painting by one of the brightest representatives of the Paris School Chaimy Soutine the Moscow audience could see in 2011, at an exhibition of artists of the Paris School. On it, he was represented by the largest number of works. This year, the Pushkin Museum, together with the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, is preparing a retrospective of an expressionist who painted naked so as not to wear out his clothes and starved himself until he painted still lifes with herrings or bloodied bull carcasses.

Lazar Lissitzky

El Lissitzky
Jewish Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
November 16 — February 4, 2018 Popular materials

From Venetian art to artists of the thaw period, from Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin to Salvador Dali, here are 14 important exhibitions of the year to add to your calendar.

"Caprichos". Goya and Dali

Francisco Goya.« caprichos» . Series of 80 etchings. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1799

The State Museum of Fine Arts continues to combine contemporary art with classical art: this time, not only the Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura appeared in this perspective, but also the Spaniards Francisco Goya and Salvador Dali. A small exhibition in the main building presents etchings from the Caprichos series by both authors. However, if Goya's series is a satirical reflection on the crisis of contemporary Spain, then Dali cruelly sneers at Goya's existing plots, adding new characters to the compositions and changing the names of the etchings. The era of romanticism and postmodernism of the twentieth century collide in a dialogue, visual and literary.

Triennial of Contemporary Art

When: March 2017

On the anniversary of the October Revolution, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is launching a revolutionary program introducing Muscovites to contemporary artists from all over Russia, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. The first triennial will feature more than 60 artists selected by curators across the country. They also identified seven trends that have become common to all regions, as well as the main masters, whose influence goes far beyond the boundaries of their native city or region. The theme of the exhibition will be the spirit of the times and social trends that determine regional artistic processes. “Our idea is to show the current cross-section of Russian contemporary art and start interacting with the regions,” Garage director Anton Belov commented on the triennial.

"Thaw»

Vladimir Gavrilov. "Cafe. Autumn day", 1962

The arrival of spring is met in Moscow with the onset of the "Thaw" - at the exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery they will show the traditional for the turn of the 50s-60s artists - Pimenov, Gavrilov, Salakhov, Popkov. The exposition presents several thematic sections - from "The Best City on Earth" to "Atom - Space" - and tells not only about the achievements of the Khrushchev era, but also about the conflicts of this historical period. “This was the most important era not just of art, but of human worldview and its embodiment in all possible artistic forms,” Zelfira Tregulova, director of the Tretyakov Gallery, talks about the thaw era.

“Facing the future. Art of Europe 1945–1968»

Where: Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin; st. Volkhonka, 12

Yves Klein."Blue Globe (RP 7)”, 1988. Copy from the original in 1957, made after the death of the artist

The thaw will come not only to the Tretyakov Gallery, but also to the whole of Moscow - the Pushkin Museum, Gorky Park and the Museum of Moscow, where, in addition to exhibitions, lectures, master classes and discussions will be held. And if the Tretyakov Gallery will show Russian art of the Khrushchev era, then the Pushkin Gallery will show European post-war artists who fought for peace after the overthrow of totalitarian dictatorships and invented new utopias. Two hundred masters from Western and Eastern Europe are presented at the exhibition in a variety of art forms, from paintings and photographs to media art and actionism.

Ugo Rondinone "Your age and my age and the age of the rainbow"

Where: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, st. Krymsky Val, 9, building 32

One of the most hype contemporary artists of recent years, successfully conquering fairs and biennials, the Swiss Ugo Rondinone will present a special exhibition at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art as part of Garage Square Commissions. Hugo specially recorded a video message to the children, in which he asked them to draw a rainbow - a symbol of love, fearlessness and the joy of life. Children from 4 to 10 years old, participants of Garage educational programs and children from orphanages, will become full co-authors of Rondinone - their works will be shown on the wall along the museum.

Saint Louis and the relics of the Sainte-Chapelle»

Where: Moscow Kremlin Museums, One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarchal Palace

"The Baptism of Christ". stained glass from Sainte Chapelle, Paris, circa 1270-1280

Fans of medieval art can rejoice: in the spring, the Kremlin will show monuments from the era of the French king Louis Saint - stained glass windows and relics of the Sainte-Chapelle chapel, as well as works from the Louvre collection, the Cluny Museum of Medieval Art, the National Library and the National Archives. Many works are truly unique and leave France for the first time, among them are Limoges enamels and high Gothic jewelry, as well as the reliquary of the Crown of Thorns from the early 19th century, which will become one of the main exhibits. The exhibition is accompanied by a large-scale educational program, more about which can be found on the website dedicated to the exhibition.

"De Chirico. Nostalgia for infinity»

Where: State Tretyakov Gallery, st. Krymsky Val, 10

Giorgio de Chirico. "Song of Love", 1914

The Tretyakov Gallery continues to acquaint the Moscow audience with the work of Italian masters. Not as large as at the Vatican, but no less spectacular, the Giorgio de Chirico exhibition, prepared together with the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation, will open here. Such a retrospective is taking place for the first time, before that the paintings of the Italian metaphysician were exhibited in 1929, and the etchings - in the 1930s.

Giorgio Morandi

Where: Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, st. Volkhonka, 14

Giorgio Morandi. Still life, 1948

If the Tretyakov Gallery shows the surrealistic de Chirico, then the Pushkin Museum will present an anthology of the work of another master of the first half of the 20th century - Giorgio Morandi. More than 40 years after the Morandi exhibition in 1973, the museum will present a retrospective that includes all stages of the master's work from early metaphysics and avant-garde works to the classic Morandi still lifes, thanks to which he received recognition. In addition, the exhibition presents the artist's graphics, including etchings and engraving boards.

"Anselm Kiefer - Velimir Khlebnikov"

Where: State Hermitage

Anselm Kiefer. "Osiris and Isis", 1985

Anselm Kiefer's first solo exhibition will open at the Hermitage at the end of spring. However, it will not be just a retrospective, but a dedication of the German artist to the Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov. Both are united by the theme of war: in Khlebnikov it is expressed in a cycle that occurs on water and land once every 317 years, while in Kiefer it is expressed in reflections on the theme of Nazism and the Holocaust. “I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like lighthouses. I swim towards them, from one to the other. I was lost without them,” Kiefer says of poetry.

Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto. The Golden Age of Venetian Painting"

Where: Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, st. Volkhonka, 12

When: June - end of August

Paolo Veronese. Apollo and Marsyas, second half of the 16th century

Although it is difficult to surprise a sophisticated viewer with Venetian art, it is impossible not to captivate them. Reaching its heyday in the 16th century in the works of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, the Venetian school is considered one of the pinnacles of the development of Italian painting in the entire history of art. It is these artists who will be presented at the exhibition, where you can see about 40 paintings.

« Someone 1917»

Where: State Tretyakov Gallery, st. Krymsky Val, 10

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. "In Petrograd", 1918

Although the centenary of the revolution will not be the main leitmotif of this year's exhibitions, the curators of the State Tretyakov Gallery will still pay considerable attention to it. The exhibition is dedicated primarily to the artists who experienced the revolution, and presents two sections - figurative peacemakers and non-objective utopians. Nesterov, Kandinsky, Serebryakova, Petrov-Vodkin, Klyun, Malevich - all of them can be seen at the exhibition "Someone 1917".

Takashi Murakami

Where: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Takashi Murakami,Kaikai. 2000-2005

A lover of bright colors and recognizable labels Takashi Murakami will be exhibited in Moscow for the first time - Garage is preparing a large exposition, which will also include graphics and animation and works by Japanese masters from the collections of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin and the State Museum of Oriental Art. Five sections of the exhibition will be devoted to the master's work since the 90s and will touch upon various phenomena of Japanese culture, embodied in the work of Murakami. The artist is called the Japanese Andy Warhol, he can also be compared with Yayoi Kusama - both artists have their own, very specific style and collaborate with fashion brands.

Drawings by Klimt and Schiele from the collection of the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Where: Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, st. Volkhonka, 12

Egon Schiele. Youth in purple cassock with folded hands, 1914

Although Italian exhibitions make up the majority of this year's program, in fact it is under the banner of cultural cooperation between Austria and Russia. At the end of the year, the Pushkin Museum will open an exhibition of two of the most famous artists of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries - Klimt and his follower, no less famous Schiele. The main emphasis is on graphics - both masters are not only good painters, but also excellent draftsmen, and the collection of the Vienna Albertina is one of the best graphic collections in the world.

"Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic"

Where: Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg, Embankment of the Fontanka River, 21

Salvador Dali. "Atomic Leda", 1949.

The first large-scale exhibition “Salvador Dali. Surrealist and Classic” will open at the Faberge Museum on April 1 and will run until July 2. The exposition will present works from the Spanish fund "Gala - Salvador Dali", private and museum collections. In total, the exhibition will feature more than 150 graphic and pictorial works of the artist. Tickets for Salvador Dali. Surrealist and Classic” are already on sale.