Upcoming and recent exhibitions and events 

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In 2021 the Kolodzei Art Foundation marked thirty years of encouraging a more diverse arts world and advancing knowledge of the art of Russia and Eastern Europe.
 

Tatiana Levitskaia. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10027.  September 3 - October 17, 2024. Opening reception on Thursday, September 12, 6:00-8:00. For more information https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-tatiana-levitskaia/

Natalya Nesterova: The Creative Journey. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at Harriman Institute at Columbia University, 420 W 118, 12 fl. NY, NY 10027. January 16 - March 8, 2024. Opening reception on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 6-8PM. https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/natalya-nesterova-the-creative-journey/  

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is delighted to participate in the major retrospective exhibition Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, from February 11 to July 16 2023 by lending Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid “Soul of Norton Dodge” (1978-1979) From the project Corporation for Buying and Selling Souls and other art objects. For more information https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/komar-and-melamid-lesson-history and Komar and Melmaid in America (on view until February 4, 2024)  https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/komar-and-melamid-america

CYFEST 15: Vulnerability at Deering Estate, 16701 SW 72nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33157, December 1, 2023 - January 3, 2024. For more information https://deeringestate.org/event/cyfest/  A public presentation and performance program will take place on Sunday, December 10, 2023, from 2 PM to 8PM https://deeringestate.org/event/cyfest-opening/ The exhibition comprises three layers media installation, sound, and performance—that invoke technologies developed to rediscover and affect space. The Deering Estate, a historical landmark with over 450 acres of natural landscape, including eight native ecosystems, will host a series of works expanding on the festivals theme of Vulnerability. These pieces created with CYLAND Media Art Lab engineers will be in dialogue with the historical context of the place, irrevocably connected both to the past and future, the urban and natural.  This exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab and CYLAND Foundation Inc in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation. The project\'s general sponsor is One Market Data.

Ferment: Metamorphoses and Reflections. CYFEST-14 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City, December 6, 2022 - January 3, 2023. CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the theme of fermentation through the dual lenses of art and science. Fermentation in the conventional sense is a technological process in the food industry. However, if we give it some thought, practically everything that happens over time---to animate, inanimate and even strictly material objects---falls under this definition. In the exhibition, artists explore fermentation’s versatility both as a biological process and in its more extensive metaphorical meaning.  This exhibition brings together artists practicing different media including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, video, new media and interactive installations who are interested in evoking a wide range of responses to contemporary cultural and historical context and social environment. Leonardo Journal, published in partnership with MIT Press, is dedicating its December 2022 Special issue to this theme in conjunction with 2022 CYLAND Media Art Lab 14th international festival of media art CYFEST. The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation. https://www.nationalartsclub.org/   List of Artists Alexandra Dementieva, Carla Gannis, Anna Frants, Ivan Govorkov, Elena Gubanova, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza, Iacopo Bedogni), Anne Spalter, The Josh Craig, Katran, Natalya Nesterova, Joan Snyder, Valeriy Gerlovin, Ilya Kabakov, Valentina Povarova, Alexey Titarenko, Erik Bulatov, Arsen Savadov, Petr Belenok, Chakaia Booker, David Datuna, Dasha Skorubsky-Kandinsky, Lydia Masterkova, Natalia Sitnikova, Katherine Liberovskaya, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Phill Niblock, William Hooker, Ernst Neizvestny, Dimitry Gerrman, Oleg Bourov, Mihail Chemiakin, Julia Winter, Yakov Vinkovetsky, Vasilii Bakanov, Andrew Strokov and Ivan Karpov.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending artworks to CYFEST-14: Ferment, part of Emerge 2022: Eating at the Edges. A Festival of Food Futures at the ASU MIX Center, 50 N. Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85201, November 14-20, 2022 https://emerge.asu.edu/2022/exhibits/cyfest-at-emerge/ CYLAND Media Art Lab, Arizona State University, and Leonardo ISAST,  and ASU MIX Center present the CYFEST-14: Ferment, November 14-20. The opening of CYFEST-14: Ferment on Friday, November 18 from 3 PM to 6 PM MST at ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, 50 North Centennial Way, Mesa, Arizona, USA. The project is on view until November 20, 2022. CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the theme of fermentation through the dual lenses of art and science.

ID ART/TECH: Selections from Kolodzei Art Foundation and Frants Family Collections, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, March 12 – August 14, 2022. The exhibition features works by forty-five Russian, Ukrainian and Russian-American artists and explores the meanings of ID- from the concept in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID), through creative articulations across time and media. https://tmora.org/2022/02/10/id-art-tech-selections-from-kolodzei-art-foundation-and-frants-family-collections/

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending the work by Ukrainian artist Arsen Savadov (born 1962 in Kyiv; lives and works in Kyiv and New York), Feeling - Reason - Memory - Will - Conscience - The postmortem Existence. 1993. (Photo emulsion, mixed media on linen, 40 x 40 inches) to the exhibition Who Writes History? at the ArtsWestchester Gallery, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, New York, April 23 - July 3, 2022. https://artswestchester.org/who-writes-history/

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending the work by Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn to the exhibition BLOOM! A Celebration of Spring at the National Arts Club, New York, May 10 - June 22 This seasonal exhibition will feature works by Fabrizio Arrieta, Carlos Quintana, Larry Poons, Mark Tobey, Will Barnet and selections from the Permanent Collection. The show will also pay tribute to the Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn (1951- 2020) with an installation of a major work from his Reflections series. https://www.nationalartsclub.org/exhibitions

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is glad to participate in the 40th anniversary of the Museo Tamayo (Mexico City) by lending Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid Soul of Norton Dodge (1978-1979) From the project Corporation for Buying and Selling Souls and other art objects to the exhibition Beyond the Trees Beyond the Trees traces the historical, political and cultural events that marked the years that spanned the construction and opening of the Museo Tamayo (1979-1981), through five exhibition nuclei that occupy all the museum\'s spaces. The fifth nucleus of the exhibition takes us through a series of works that were produced between 1979 and 1981, and which have set the tone for cultural production, mainly in the United States, Europe and Latin America.” Exhibition on view from December 11, 2021 to April 30, 2022. https://www.museotamayo.org/exposiciones/mas-alla-de-los-arboles

It\'s About Time to Launch the Quick Brown Fox Again... Isn\'t It? (Самое время снова запустить быструю коричневую лису Не так ли?). Russian-American art exhibition at All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Delegatskaya st., 3 Moscow, (Всероссийский музей декоративного искусства, ул. Делегатская, 3, Москва), January 20-February 20, 2022. Opening reception on Thursday, January 20, 2022. https://damuseum.ru/en/exhibitions/samoe-vremya-snova-zapustit-bystruyu-korichnevuyu-lisu-ne-tak-li/

COSMOS and CHAOS: CYFEST-13 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, December 14, 2021 - January 6, 2022. Cosmos and Chaos: CYFEST-13 exhibition explores artistic images for Cosmos and Chaos. What do we have in mind today by reaching out to those philosophical notions?  What inspirations and interpretations these ideas bring and how they relate to each other.  This exhibition brings together artists practicing different media including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, video, new media and interactive installations who are interested in the above proposed topic and evoking a wide range of responses to space exploration, climate change, contemporary cultural and historical context and social environment. The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab (cyland.org) in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation.

The list of artists includes: Anna Frants, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov, Clea T. Waite, Ilya Kabakov, Chakaia Booker, Konstantin Khudyakov, Leonid Lazarev, Francisco Arana Infante, Victoria Burge, Valentina Povarova, Lydia Masterkova, Alexander Ney, Dmitri Plavinsky, Petr Belenok, Dimitry Gerrman, Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Natalya Nesterova, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Eduard Steinberg, Natalia Sitnikova, Valery Koshlyakov.
Leonardo Journal devoted a special issue to CYFEST-13: Cosmos and Chaos. https://leonardo.info/leonardo

Anatoly Zverev (1931-1986). Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 12th Floor, International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, NYC. The show runs from October 28 until December 17, 2021. The exhibition features artworks from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Explore the exhibition https://harriman.columbia.edu/anatoly-zverev-exhibit/ For more information visit: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/anatoly-zverev-selections-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation/

Anatoly Zverev as a Cultural Phenomenon: Remembering the Artist on December 2, 2021, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Tatiana Kolodzei and Natalia Kolodzei of the Kolodzei Art Foundation will discuss the artist Anatoly Zverev and his legacy. Introduction by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia Slavic Department/Harriman Institute), with recorded remarks by art historian/curator Maria Plavinsky and artist/art collector Natalia Kostaki. Hybrid Event. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC. For registration and information: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/anatoly-zverev-as-a-cultural-phenomenon/

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talk CYLAND has become a part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021! Join us for an on-line interdisciplinary conversation Communities and Collaborative Art Practice from Local to Global, Participants: Katherine Liberovskaya, David Weinstein, Carol Parkinson, Sergey Teterin. Introduction: Natalia Kolodzei. https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/antidisciplinary-topographies/

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks CYLAND - Saturday, 29 May 2021 (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) 1PM NYC. Save and Re-Sound: Preserving and Archiving Sound Art and Experimental Music. Panelists: Phill Niblock, Jonathan Hiam, Carol Parkinson, Katherine Liberovskaya, Sergey Komarov. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei. 1 hour online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into Russian. Video recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkjGoGAbke0&t=1s is the link to the event in English.

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks CYLAND – 10 April 2021 (20:00 St. Petersburg RU)
Space Exploration: "All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 
Panelists: Olesya Turkina, Alexandra Dementieva, Andrey Bartenev. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei Video recording link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGDKMJkpiP4 - is the link to the event in Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvBbg11uLvE - is the link to the event in English.

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talk CYLAND – 6 March 2021 12 PM NYC (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) Education Challenges: Contemporary Art in Academic Environment. Panelists: Alan Boldon, Gediminas Urbonas, Nina Czegledy, Silvia Burini, Sophia Kudriavtseva. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei (1 hour online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into Russian) Video recording link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajOrxIBfJ4

PERCEIVE COSMOS | EXPLORE CHAOS. SPECIAL LEONARDO JOURNAL VIRTUAL LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) talks CYLAND on February 17, 2021 at 12 PM EST (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) Join an online conversation of the contributors of February\'s upcoming English-Russian special issue of Leonardo journal, “COSMOS and CHAOS, created in collaboration with CYFEST international media art festival. This conversation will brought together artists, scientists, researchers, art historians from art institutions, associations, museums and universities across the world: IAA SETI Permanent Committee, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, Arizona State University School of Earth and Space, Concordia University, CYLAND MediaArtLab, Kolodzei Art Foundation, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg State University, University of Strathclyde, Leonardo/ISAST. In this dialogue, the authors of Leonardo/CYFEST special issue will discuss contributed papers and ask each other about the ways to perceive, explore and conceptualize humanity and the Universe as represented in the opposition of cosmos and chaos. To learn more about the special issue of Leonardo journal, “COSMOS and CHAOS,” check out this link. Participants: Annick Bureaud, Daniela de Paulis, Alexandra Dementieva,. Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Bettina Forget, Elena Gubanova, Natalia Kolodzei, Olesya Turkina, Saskia Vermeylen, Diana Ayton-Shenker, Lydia Griaznova, Moderator: Erica Hruby, Editorial Director, Leonardo journal Video recording link: https://youtu.be/fgqDRZg6ybs  

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) talks CYLAND - Art Data: Collecting, Preserving and Displaying Digital on December 12, 2020 at 12 PM EST (20:00 St. Petersburg RU)  Panelists: Christiane Paul, Anna Frants, Lev Manovich, Anne Spalter, moderator: Natalia Kolodzei. The discussion was held online in English with simultaneous translation into Russian & lasted for one hour. Video recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d2sJH5PdAo

ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, March 2–April 30, 2020. Opening Reception on Monday, March 2, 2020. Panel discussion on March 13 at 7pm.
ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION explores ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings - from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID) — from the forms of sociopolitical functioning of portraits of Soviet Nonconformism to the images of mass culture, aesthetics of ID cards, passport picture and social networks. This exhibition brings together a collection of experiential-based ideas and projects mediated by technologically progressive visualization methods, as well as paintings, drawings, photography, video, and sculpture from the Frants Family Collection and Kolodzei Art Foundation.The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation. In May of 2019, ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION was on display at Ca’ Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Venice, Italy.
Public program: March 13 at 7pm a panel discussion and visual presentation Contemporary Art in Academic Environment focusing on the strategies and problems of education process in the field of digital art, effective instruments of practical and theoretical learning, and multidisciplinary project based approach. The speakers include Ellen K. Levy, Christopher Fynsk, Anna Frants, moderated by Natalia Kolodzei. This program is organized in conjunction with the ID.ART:TECH EXHIBITION.
The list of artists includes Martha Wilson, ORLAN, Faith Ringgold; Cyland MediaArtLab artists and interactive works by Anna Frants, Ludmila Belova, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov, Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev, Alexander Terebenin, a special selection of contemporary sound art from Cyland Audio Archive. A selection from Frants Family collection includes works by Valentin Gromov, Tatiana Kuperwasser, Tatiana Glebova, Leon Nissenbaum, Solomon Rossine, Rikhard Vasmi, and a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation includes works by Petr Belenok, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Erik Bulatov, Asya Dodina, Rimma Gerlovina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Slava Polishchuk, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya Kabakov, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Douglas Davis, Leonhard Lapin, Natalia Nesterova, Samuil Rubashkin, Leonid Sokov, Oleg Vassiliev, Alexander Yulikov, Anatoly Zverev.

SERGEI VOLOKHOV: THEORY OF REFLECTION. SELECTIONS FROM THE KOLODZEI ART FOUNDATION - Opening reception on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 from 6 to 8pm at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 12th Floor International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, NYC. The show runs until December 18, 2019. For more information visit: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-opening-sergei-volokhov-theory-reflection-selections-kolodzei-art-foundation

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is pleased to lend the works from the collection to ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION at Ca’ Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Zattere, Dorsoduro 1392, Venice. Boat stop: Zattere. Media Preview: May 8 at 11 AM. Opening Night: May 10 at 6 PM. The exhibition runs from May 5 – June 28, 2019. ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings - from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID). The exhibition organized by CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Center for the Studies of Russian Art CSAR. Curators: Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Valentino Catricalà, William Latham, Lydia Griaznova. The exhibition include contemporary artists from Russia, Italy, Great Britain, USA, Belgium, France, Norway as well as artworks by the classics of the 20th century. Among the exhibit’s participants are the New York underground guru of sound art and renowned minimalist composer Phill Niblock, Russian experimental artist and fashion designer Andrey Bartenev, artist and curator of the Central Asia Pavilion at the 55th Venetian Biennale Ayatgali Tuleubek, St. Petersburg artist, curator, winner of Sergei Kuryokhin Award and Innovation Prize Peter Belyi, distinguished Russian artist and founder of sots art Erik Bulatov and others. The project’s exposition is a visual examination of the subject of identification: from the forms of sociopolitical functioning of portraits of Soviet non-conformism to the images of mass culture, aesthetics of ID cards, passport picture and social networks. The project will unite in one space the Soviet nonofficial art from Frants Family Collection and Kolodzei Art Foundation, video-, sound-, net-art, photography, installation and everyday objects. Frants Family Collection, include artworks by Rikhard Vasmi, Tatiana Glebova, Valentin Gromov. And Kolodzei Art Foundation will features works by: Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Oleg Vassiliev, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Erik Bulatov, Petr Belenok, Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Leonhard Lapin, Samuil Rubashkin, Sergei Volokhov, Alexander Yulikov click here for the press-release 

From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), 5500 Stevens Ave S. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55419, September 15, 2018 – February 10, 2019.
The project Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation is a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, covering three generations of artists, from the 1960’s to the present. The show includes paintings, works on paper, photography, video, and interactive installations. Arranged thematically, the exhibition features the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists. It is a visual exploration of the development and accomplishments of women artists from Russia emphasizing the importance of media experimentation for contemporary Russian women artists in defining their identity. 
The first generation consists of artists who began their careers at the time of Khrushchev\'s “Thaw” of the 1950’s and took part in the first, crucial, unofficial exhibitions of the 1970’s, including Lydia Masterkova, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, Tatiana Levitskaia, and Rimma Gerlovina. The next generation includes artists who participated in the initial exhibitions and others who became involved in the early 1980’s, including Natalia Nesterova, Tatyana Nazarenko, Olga Bulgakova, Anna Birshtein, Natalia Shibanova, Lusy Voronova, Diana Vouba, Svetlana Kalistratova, and Valentina Lebedeva-Lesin. The latest generation is made up of artists whose works date from post-perestroika and post-Soviet period from the late 1980\'s to the present, including Irina Danilova, Natalia Kamenetskaia, Alexandra Dementieva, Alla Esipovich, Marina Koldobskaya, Tatiana Antoshina, Irene Caesar, Elena Kallistova, Marina Kolotvina, Victoria Kovalenchikova, Natalia Elkonina, Dorothee Chemiakine, Marina Karpova, Anna Frants, Tatiana Krol, Elena Gubanova, Ludmila Belova, Olga Tobreluts, Aidan Salakhova, Katya Filippova, Elena Sarni, Svetlana Martinchik, Marina Gertsovskaia, Alena Anosova, Marina Chernikova, Natalia Abalakova, Innessa Levkova-Lamm, Olga Lamm, Tatiana Daniliyants, Julia Winter, and Natalia Sitnikova. #NonConformismToFeminisms

For more information visit http://tmora.org/2018/04/30/from-nonconformism-to-feminisms-russian-women-artists-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation/

Panel discussion - Managing Your Art Collections on Monday, November 19 at 7:00 PM at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. Art lovers do you wonder how to manage, organize, catalogue, care and store works from your collection? The panelists will offer updates on trends in the art industry, the importance of proper storing and planning for collections, and how to address issues related to conservation and restoration of fine art, as well as related topics such as lending to museum exhibitions and engaging with other collectors.  Speakers: Laura Stirton Aust, paper conservator and Edie Meyer, Vastari.  Moderated by NAC member, curator and collector,  Natalia Kolodzei. For more information: http://www.nationalartsclub.org/default.aspx?p=.NETEventView&ID=3864524&qfilter=&type=0&ssid=323204&chgs=

 
Eduard Gorokhovsky:  From Siberia to Moscow, Selected Works on Paper from the Kolodzei Art Foundation – opening reception on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 6-8pm at Harriman Institute Atrium, Columbia University, 420 W 118th Street, NYC, 12th floor. The show runs until March 30, 2018 This exhibition features selected drawings from the 1960s and early 1970s by prominent Russian artist Eduard Gorokhovsky (1929-2004) while he was living and working in Novosibirsk and drawings and artist’s prints from his Moscow period.     more information.

Personal Spaces - Interactive Multimedia Works by Anna Frants, Carla Gannis, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov. National Arts Club, Gregg Gallery, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, February 26 - March 24, 2018. Opening Reception February 27, 2018, 6-8pm.

This exhibition brings together a collection of experiential-based ideas and projects built around the idea of interaction between the viewer and an artwork, an individual and a society, mediated by technologically progressive visualization methods. Technology can be viewed as an instrument for artists to offer reflections on the role of information in society; cultural mechanisms; the boundary between the real and the virtual; and the use of mass media as instruments for manipulation and control. Some of the works are inspired by the artists’ own experiences and create an illusion of the individual taking on a paradoxical and timeless sojourn into the ideal — an entirely “personal” space constructed of inanimate objects from the past. Other works offer journeys through imaginary epochs represented by classical forms, historical images and creative associations, while additional works explore female identity through the artist turning the camera on herself as a character for role playing in digital narratives. The exhibition explores artworks that are immersive, participatory, performative and kinetic, all from the vantage point of the phenomenological experience. It is organized in collaboration with CYLAND MediaArtLab and the Kolodzei Art Foundation. more info

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 7:00 PM – panel discussion and visual presentation - Collecting, Preserving, Displaying and Lending Digital Media-Based Art at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City. Anne Spalter (The Anne and Michael SpaIter Digital Art Collection), Anna Frants (CYLAND Media Art Lab), Carla Gannis will address the issues of collecting, preserving, and curating these dynamic, ephemeral, fragile and vulnerable works or techniques that rely on digital technology in creative and display processes; moderated by Natalia Kolodzei. more info 

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works to the exhibition Commemorating the Russian Revolution, 1917/2017 at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey from October 14 to February 18, 2017.  Public program and reception on November 7, 2017.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works to the exhibition Varieties of Nonconformism: Unofficial Art from the Former Soviet Union at Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst, Massachusetts from October 9, 2017 to February 4, 2018.

Exhibition “Russian Émigré-Artists in the USA. 1950-2017. Presented by the Kolodzei Art Foundation” in conjunction with the 10th Annual Independent Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, Downtown Community TV Center, DCTV, 87 Lafayette St., NYC, October 20-22, 2017. 

Natalia Kolodzei participates in Translations & Dialogues: The Reception of Russian Art Abroad, Collecting Russian Art roundtable (in memory of Norton Dodge) in Venice, Italy October 25 – 27, 2017. Three-day international conference, co-organized by the Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR) at the University Ca\' Foscari in Venice, the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture, Inc. (SHERA) and the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC).

Oleg Vassiliev: Metro Series & Selected Works on Paper from the Kolodzei Art Foundation – Opening reception  on January 23, 2017 from 6 to  9pm at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor, NYC. The gallery talk is on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 6pm info. The show runs until March 31, 2017.  For more information visit: http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-opening-oleg-vassiliev-metro-series-selected-works-paper

St. Peter’s Church and the Kolodzei Art Foundation are pleased to present What Remains: Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk at Narthex Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave (at 54^th Street) New York City, March 18 – May 9, 2016. Opening reception on Thursday, April 7, 2016 from 6pm to 9pm more  

The Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned Space Exploration, Photographed by Leonid Lazarev the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (420 West 118 Street, 12th Floor) from Monday, March 21 to Friday, May 20. Opening reception for the exhibition on Monday March 21 from 6 to 8 pm. For more information visit http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/kolodzei-art-foundation-presents-dawn-manned-space-exploration-photographed-leonid-lazarev

This Leads to Fire: Russian Art from Non-Conformism to Global Capitalism. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577, September 14, 2014 to January 11, 2015. This Leads to Fire features selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, one of the most extensive collections of nonconformist and contemporary Russian art in the world.  The exhibition will include works ranging from the 1950s through the period of Glasnost and contemporary art. It will be organized into five parts that explore the origins of Nonconformist art, the developments of Moscow Conceptualism, Sots Art, the influence of the Russian avant-garde in geometric abstraction, and the coercive legacy of Socialist Realism. This Leads to Fire will familiarize viewers with an important and underappreciated body of work, but also demonstrate the challenges these artists still pose to both mainstream Russian culture and the globalized art world. The exhibition is curated by Sarah Warren, Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College, the State University of New York. Public programs: Neu First Wednesday Lecture, Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 pm Masha Gessen: Russian Power; 
Conversation: Collecting Art in Russia, Tuesday, November 18, 11 am Join Natalia Kolodzei in a conversation about collecting art in Russia. 
Neu First Wednesdays Media Lecture: Artists Speak–Vitaly Komar, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4:30 pm. more . For direction and more information visit Neuberger Museum of Art

Finding Freedom in Russian Art, 1961-2014. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Collection of Dr. Wayne F. Yakes. Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 710 East St. Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70503, August 30 to December 6, 2014. Opening reception Friday, September 19, 2014. The works in this exhibition will highlight the evolution of non-conformist and independent art in Russian from a time of rigid censorship to the new Russia. The works, spanning 1961 to 2014, reflect the major wave of Russian alternative culture and describe the history of non-conformist art processes and movements. The exhibition will also highlight the rich diversity of art that emerged and survived during the past forty years of the then Soviet Union and contemporary Russia.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending paintings by Oleg Vassiliev to the exhibition Oleg Vassiliev: Space and Light at Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, September 02, 2014 to December 31, 2014. 

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works by Yuri Sobolev to the exhibition Isles of Yuri Sobolev at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Ermolayevsky lane 17, Moscow, September 15, 2014 to November 9, 2014.

Art of Oleg Vassiliev: Discovering 20th Century Russian Masters. The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 14, 2011 - February 2012. For more information visit TMORA website. 

The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent artworks to the exhibition Authorized for Export from the USSR… at Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina", Moscow. The show on view from June 22 until October 2, 2011.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending artworks to the exhibition Hostages of Voids at the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) in conjunction with 4th Moscow Biennale. The show is on view from September 24 to November 13, 2011.

Concerning the Spiritual Tradition in Russian Art. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Curated by Natalia Kolodzei. Opening Reception on Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 6 to 8 pm at Chelsea Art Museum Home of Miotte Foundation 556 West 22nd Street (@ 11th AVE) New York City Museum hours: Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm Thursdays 11am - 8pm. On Saturdays, April 30, May 7, May 28, June 4, and June 11 at 4 pm gallery talks will be led by exhibition curator Natalia Kolodzei. Ms. Kolodzei, Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation and co-owner of the Kolodzei Collection, will discuss the artworks in this exhibition, as well as the history of Non-Conformist and contemporary Russian art from the time her mother, Tatiana Kolodzei, started their Collection in Moscow through today. Tours free with Museum admission. The reception is on Thursday, May 5, 6 to 9pm. 
On Thursday, June 2 from 6-8pm New Review Poetry Evening and Reception (click here for more info). 
On Thursday, June 9 from 6-8pm SLOVOSFERA - the literary, musical and visual evening with Gennady Katsov (text) and Julian Milkis (clarinet).

The exhibition continues through June 18, 2011. Click here for the press-release or visit www.chelseaartmuseum.org.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned Space Exploration, Photographed by Leonid Lazarev at Russia World Forum, March 29-30, U.S. Senate, Washington DC and Russian Cultural Centre, Washington DC. The exhibition at Russian Cultural Centre continues through June 20, 2011.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent fifteen works on paper to the exhibition No Exit Art: Works on Paper by Nonconformist Artists from the 1950s through the End of Soviet Era to the Museum of Russian Art, 80 Grand St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. The show runs from November 13, 2010 to January 14, 2011.

The Kennan Institute and the Kolodzei Art Foundation present Moscow Grafika: Artists’ Prints 1961 – 2009. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The exhibit will be on view from March 12 to July 20, 2010 at the Woodrow Wilson Center, located at: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004.There will be an opening reception on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 4 to 6PM.
Moscow Grafika includes works in various mediums of printmaking, including linocut, etching, screenprint, monotype and lithography. Dating from 1961 through the present, the works represent trends in historic non-conformist art as well as traditional and digital mediums in printmaking by artists who worked or working in Moscow. Several generations of non-conformist and independent artists are represented in the exhibition, they include those who began their careers during Khrushchev’s "thaw" of the 1960’s and 1970’s who took part in the first unofficial exhibitions; artists who began working in the perestroika (late 1980\'s) and the post-perestroika periods; as well as artists who entered the scene more recently during the post-Soviet years. 
Artists represented in Moscow Grafika include Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Valeriy Gerlovin, Yuri Albert, Grisha Bruskin, Andrei Budaev, Ivan Chuikov, Andrei Filippov, Tatiana Levitskaia, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Alexander Kosolapov, Valentina Kropivnitskaia, Igor Makarevich, Marina Karpova, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov, Georgii Litichevsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Victor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Aidan Salakhova, Oscar Rabin, Marina Telepneva, Leonid Tishkov, Yuri Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Oleg Tselkov, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky and Alexander Zakharov

A Selection of Video Works from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art during 2010 World Arts Olympus, Queen Mary, Long Beach, California, June 17- 21, 2010. A Selection of Video Works from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art brings together a selection of video works exploring the varied manifestation in video art by Russian artists in their homeland and in America. The selection includes video works by Anna Frants, Valeriy Ayzenberg, Marina Gertsovskaia, Alena Anosova, and Oleg Arnautov and Vera Nekludova, Freedom as a Citation from the Explanatory Dictionary of 2007. These videos were included in the exhibition Moscow - New York  = Parallel Play at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York in 2008. 

Kolodzei Art Foundation, and Barbarian Art Gallery by Natasha Akhmerova, in collaboration with Phenomena Project are pleased to present Valery Yershov: Lost Wanderings at White Box, 329 Broome Street, New York, New York. The exhibition will run from February 26 to March 11, 2010. Opening reception: Friday, March 5, 6:30 – 11 pm.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent artworks to the exhibition Not Toys?! at the State Tretyakov gallery (September 23 - November 8, 2009 in conjunction with 3rd Moscow Biennale

From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, November 13, 2008 – February 7, 2009. Opening Reception Tuesday, December 9, 2008, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. click here for the press-release or visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/
On Saturdays, January 24, 31, and February 7 at 3 pm, Gallery talks will be led by exhibition curator Natalia Kolodzei. Ms. Kolodzei, Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation and co-owner of the Kolodzei Collection, will discuss the artworks in this exhibition, as well as the history of Russian women artists, Non-Conformist and contemporary Russian art from the time her mother, Tatiana Kolodzei, started their Collection in Moscow through today. Tours free with Museum admission
The exhibition From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation is a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, and covers three generations, from the 1960’s to the present. The show includes work in many media - painting, works on paper, photography, and video. This exhibition is arranged thematically and features the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists. Twenty five artists, ranging in age from 30 to over 80, represent several stages in the evolution of non-conformist and independent art in Russia. The exhibition is a visual exploration of the development and accomplishments of women artists from Russia. The event is designed to generate public awareness of Russian women in art, and to empower women artists to pursue their calling. List of artists: Lydia Masterkova, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, Rimma Gerlovina, Maria Elkonina,  Bella Levikova, Natalia Nesterova, Tatyana Nazarenko, Olga Bulgakova, Anna Birshtein, Marina Telepneva, Tatiana Levitskaia, Nadezhda Gaiduk and Valentina Lebedeva. The latest generation is made up of artists whose works date from post-perestroika and post-Soviet period from the late 1980\'s to the present, including Natalia Kamenetskaia, Alla Esipovich, Marina Koldobskaya, Marina Gertsovskaia, Tatiana Antoshina, Natalia Elkonina, Marina Karpova, Irina Salnikova, Anna Frants, Anna Brochet, Elena Kallistova and Natalia Sitnikova.

Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. 
Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, February 22 - May 17, 2008. Opening reception Wednesday, February 27, 6-9PM.  click here for the press-release or visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/. National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Zoologicheskaya 13, Moscow,  from October 16 to November 11, 2007.  (click here for press-release in Russian language)
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art was shown at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow in 2007 and, with its opening in New York, forms an art-meeting of the visual cultures. The exhibition highlights the artistic axis of the two cities, representing Russian artists living or working in these two art capitals and creating with their art an international context and distinctive intellectual plastic Russian "rhyme" in the art community. The works reflect the major current of Russian culture and describe the history of art processes and movements from the 1960s to the present. Moscow - New York = Parallel Play is a follow up to From Leningrad to St. Petersburg: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection, exhibited in 2003-04 at the Chelsea Art Museum in honor of the 300th Anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. There are 100 works by sixty artists presented in the show, including Petr Belenok, Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, Leonid Lamm, Francisco Arana Infante, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Anatolii Slepyshev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Dmitri Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin, Eduard Shteinberg, Shimon Okshteyn, Natalia Nesterova, Olga Bulgakova, Igor Novikov, Valery Koshlyakov, Asya Dodina, Slava Polishchuk, Alexander Zakharov, Sviatoslav Ponomarev, Tatiana Antoshina. 
 

Olga Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings. Objects. State Russian Tretyakov Gallery, Krymsky Val 10, Moscow, November 2 - 25, 2007. Opening reception on November 1 at 4 PM.. For more information visit www.tretyakov.ru
Olga Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov belong to the generation of artists beginning in the 1970s.  Their works have been exhibited widely in Russia, Europe and the United States and are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery. This is the first joint retrospective exhibition for the couple. In conjunction with this exhibition, Olga Bulgakova (ISBN: 9780975482964) and Alexander Sitnikov (ISBN: 9780975482988) have been published in both English and Russian languages. These books include essays by Alexander Borovsky, Barbara Thiemann, Natalia Kolodzei, Alexander Rozhin and Natalia Sitnikova.

Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects. Contemporary Art Center MARS (Pushkarev Pereulok 5, Moscow) from May 17 to June 10, 2007. 
The exhibition Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects is traveling to the State Russian Museum (Marble Palace, Millionnaya str., 5/1, Saint Petersburg) from July 26, 2007 to September 3, 2007. Opening reception on July 26 at 4 PM.

Modern and Contemporary - Russian Art Week in London– Public Lecture: Natalia Kolodzei, the Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, New Jersey, and owner of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, spoke on Trends in Russian Art following Perestroika on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at Sotheby’s, 34–35 New Bond Street, London

Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. General Staff Building, the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. October 25, 2005 - April 24, 2006.
The exhibition has been organized by The State Hermitage Museum, in the collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA), Atellier II Gallery of Art (Moscow), Kultur Kontakt Foundation (Vienna, Austria), Pechatny Dvor Printers (St. Petersburg), Dean Publishers (St. Petersburg) and Free Culture Foundation (St. Petersburg).
Vadim Voinov was born 1940 in  Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and lives and works in  St. Petersburg. In his works, Voinov uses a technique he himself created--functional collage--intended to reconstruct the history of Czarist, revolutionary, Soviet and contemporary Russia.  In the 1960’s and 1970’s Voinov studied the history of early St. Petersburg architecture.  An art historian himself, he published articles and undertook archeological expeditions.  His devotion to archeology and understanding of the significance of each object introduced into his work a historical significance.  He developed functional collage beginning in 1979.  The objects used in Voinov’s works acquire a new historical meaning.  Voinov’s works are laconic in their composition.  
For this installation Voinov chose the unrenovated interiors of the General Staff Building on  Palace Square .  The exhibition consists of collages and installations made of authentic found objects on themes connected with the newest history of Russia .  There are 73 works represented in the exhibition, installed in five rooms.  Each group of collages and separate installations are thematically connected and titled:  Red Wall; Circle-The father of a square; The Viennese Set; and others. The installation of the exhibition is an artwork in itself.
The catalogue for the exhibition includes 17 essays with 110 illustrations.  Each copy of the catalogue is marked by an original, unique object: a stamp from the 1920’s-1940’s with the image of a soldier (“Voinov” can be translated into English as “soldier”).  The catalogue is published in Russian and English.

For more information visit: www.hermitagemuseum.org

Works on Paper: Soviet and Russian Art 1955-2005 from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. January 18 - March 31, 2006. Curatorial Talk and reception on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. 

Historic MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay to Argentina in 20th Century. MADI Museum, 3109 Carlisle Street, Dallas, Texas. The opening reception on Friday, February 17, 2006 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. 
Lecture: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 7:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 4, 2006 at noon
Lectures are free. Optional lunch $7.00 Tatiana Kolodzei and her daughter, Natalia Kolodzei, will talk about the challenges of collecting art during the Communist era. The Kolodzeis have published four books on Russian art and were recently named by Art and Antiques as among the top 100 collections in the United States. The collection started 40 years ago in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and now contains more than 7,000 works by over 300 artists. Many of the works in the Kolodzei Collection are by "Non-Conformist" artists trained in top art schools but who followed their own paths rather than that imposed by the State. For more information visit: www.madimuseumdallas.org

Moscow Grafika: Artists\' Prints 1961 – 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. September 13- October 22, 2005 at the International Print Center New York, 526 West 26th Street. The Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, September 22nd, 6-8 p.m. For more information click here (Adobe Reader required)
Artists represented in Moscow Grafika include Yuri Albert, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Farid Bogdalov, Grisha Bruskin, Andrei Budaev, Olga Bulgakova, Ivan Chuikov, Andrei Filippov, Valeryi Gerlovin, Marina Gertsovskaia, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya Kabakov, Marina Karpova, Komar & Melamid, Otari Kandaurov, Alexander Kosolapov, Lev Kropivnitsky, Valentina Kropivnitskaia, Leonid Lamm, Georgy Litichevsky, Igor Makarevich, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov, Ernst Neizvestny,Victor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin, Mikhail Roginsky, Scherer & Ouporov, Alexandre Sitnikov, Natalia Sitnikova Yuri Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Marina Telepneva, Oleg Tselkov, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky and Alexander Zakharov.
International Print Center, New York is located in Chelsea on 26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues at 526 West 26th Street, Room 824. Hours are 11- 6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. For additional information call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNYs website www.ipcny.org
The exhibition was also presented at Russian Nights Festival in Los Angeles.

Perestroika + 20:  Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 West 118 Street, 12th floor, New York . September 28 to January 2006. Gallery Talk by Natalia Kolodzei, followed by a reception on Thursday, November 10 from  6-8 PM.
The exhibition Perestroika + 20:  Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art features works by 21 artists from Russia. The works selected for the show construct a cultural image of  Russia  in the last 20 years by presenting work by a wide range of artistic trends.  Artists represented in Perestroika +20 include: Komar & Melamid, Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev, Natalia Nesterova, Tatyana Nazarenko, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Leonid Borisov , Olga Bulgakova, Marina Karpova, Marina Kolotvina, Valentina Lebedeva, Tatiana Levitskaia, Valerii Pianov, Alexander Sitnikov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Farid Bogdalov, Dimitry Gerrman, Vladimir Kanevsky, Alexander Kozhin, Alexander Ney, and Oleg Slepov.

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