Kolodzei Art Foundation
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The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. promotes the contemporary art
of Russia
and the former Soviet Union. The Kolodzei Art Foundation often utilizes the artistic resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, one of the world’s largest private collections, with over 7,000 artworks by over 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The Foundation has held exhibitions at such museums as the Hermitage Museum
, the State Tretyakov Gallery
, the State Russian Museum, the Central House of Artists, National Center for Contemporary Art, Harriman Institute
at Columbia University
, MARS Contemporary Art Center, the Chelsea Art Museum
, the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
, the Bergen Museum of Art and Science, the MADI Museum, and elsewhere.
There are now over 300 artists in the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The Collection includes works by such well known artists of the 1960s and 1970s as Ilya Kabakov
, Komar and Melamid
, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin
, Pyotr Belenok, Erik Bulatov
, Ivan Chuikov, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Bela Levikova, Mikhail Shvartsman, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Lamm, Valeri Yurlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Anatoly Zverev
, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Dmitri Plavinsky, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vladimir Yakovlev, and many others. There are artists of the 1980s and 1990s such as Andrei Budaev, Shimon Okshteyn, Farid Bogdalov, Olga Bulgakova, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Genia Chef, Leonid Borisov, Andrei Karpov, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Sergei Volokhov, Valery Koshlyakov, Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Filipov, Semen Agroskin, Mamut Churlu, Tatiana Antoshina, and others.
), formed the Kolodzei Art Foundation shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Tatiana’s daughter, Natalia Kolodzei (an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts), is the Executive Director. Robb Report
called Natalia Kolodzei "the person to know" regarding Russian art, and "one of the most influential of Russia's young cultural figures."
Not Toys?! State Tretyakov Gallery in conjunction with 3rd Moscow Biennale) 2009
From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, New York 2008
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), 2007, and Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, New York, 2008
Olga Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings. Objects. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2007
Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects. Contemporary Art Center MARS and State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg 2007
Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005-2006
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, Brooklyn, New York, 2006
Historic MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay to Argentina in 20th Century. MADI Museum, Dallas, Texas, 2006
Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961 – 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. International Print Center New York, 2005. The exhibition was also presented during Russian Nights Festival in Los Angeles 2006.
Perestroika + 20: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York. 2005-2006.
Young American Artists of Today. Festival of American Contemporary Culture American Autumn in Moscow. Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2005 and Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey. 2006 (article NYT, January 29, 2006).
Finding Freedom: Forty Years of Soviet and Russian Art. Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ and Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida. 2004.
Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations). State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 2004-2005.
Dmitri Plavinsky—A Retrospective: Paintings, Works on Paper and Installations. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 2004
The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent artworks to the exhibition Abstract Art XXth Century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2001-2002
Hurricane of Time: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection Villa Ormond, Sanremo
, Italy. 2000
Works on Paper: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City. 1994, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (1999), Bergen Museum of Art (2000)
100 Artists from Tatiana & Natalia Kolodzei Collection, State Museum of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent
. 1989
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
of Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and the former Soviet Union. The Kolodzei Art Foundation often utilizes the artistic resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, one of the world’s largest private collections, with over 7,000 artworks by over 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The Foundation has held exhibitions at such museums as the Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
, the State Tretyakov Gallery
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection,...
, the State Russian Museum, the Central House of Artists, National Center for Contemporary Art, Harriman Institute
Harriman Institute
The Harriman Institute, the first academic center in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was founded at Columbia University in 1946, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, as the Russian Institute....
at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, MARS Contemporary Art Center, the Chelsea Art Museum
Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Art Museum is a contemporary art museum located at 556 West 22nd Street on the corner of Eleventh Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City....
, the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of St. Petersburg College in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The museum houses a permanent collection which includes paintings by Abraham Rattner and contemporary Florida sculpture including modern art by Abraham Rattner, Esther Gentle,...
, the Bergen Museum of Art and Science, the MADI Museum, and elsewhere.
Mission
The Kolodzei Art Foundation, founded in 1991, arranges art exhibitions in museums, universities and cultural centers throughout the United States, Russia and Europe. Its Board of Directors includes distinguished business, diplomatic and cultural figures in US-European-Russian relations. The Kolodzei Art Foundation also arranges Russian-American cultural exchanges, grants financial stipends to artists for the purpose of studying and working in the United States, provides art supplies to artists in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and publishes books on Russian art. It is a US-based public foundation (501(c)3 status).The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
The Kolodzei Art Foundation often utilizes the artistic resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art is now one of the world’s largest private art collections, containing over 7,000 works by over 300 artists, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and videos, all from Russia and the former Soviet Union from the 1950’s through today. The Collection was started by Tatiana Kolodzei in Moscow during the late 1960’s at the height of the Cold War.There are now over 300 artists in the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The Collection includes works by such well known artists of the 1960s and 1970s as Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov, Russian Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в , is a Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish descent, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island...
, Komar and Melamid
Komar and Melamid
Komar and Melamid is an artistic team made up of Russian-born American graphic artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid . In an artists’ statement they said that “Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together...
, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin
Vladimir Nemukhin
Vladimir Nemukhin is a Russian artist. Nemukhin studied under the direction of Petr E. Sokolov and later Pavel Kuznezov)...
, Pyotr Belenok, Erik Bulatov
Erik Bulatov
Erik Bulatov is a Russian artist born in Sverdlovsk in 1933 and raised in Moscow. His father was a communist party official who died in World War II at Pskov, and his mother fled Poland at age 15 in support of the Russian Revolution. Bulatov's works are in the major public and private collections...
, Ivan Chuikov, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Bela Levikova, Mikhail Shvartsman, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Lamm, Valeri Yurlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Anatoly Zverev
Anatoly Zverev
Anatoly Zverev was a Russian artist, a member of the non-conformist movement and a founder of Russian Expressionism in the 1960s. He spent all of his life in Moscow....
, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Dmitri Plavinsky, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vladimir Yakovlev, and many others. There are artists of the 1980s and 1990s such as Andrei Budaev, Shimon Okshteyn, Farid Bogdalov, Olga Bulgakova, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Genia Chef, Leonid Borisov, Andrei Karpov, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Sergei Volokhov, Valery Koshlyakov, Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Filipov, Semen Agroskin, Mamut Churlu, Tatiana Antoshina, and others.
Founders
Tatiana Kolodzei, along with supporters from the US and Europe (including Norton DodgeNorton Dodge
Norton Townshend Dodge was an American economist who has amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union...
), formed the Kolodzei Art Foundation shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Tatiana’s daughter, Natalia Kolodzei (an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts), is the Executive Director. Robb Report
Robb Report
The Robb Report is an American, English-language, luxury-lifestyle magazine featuring products — including automobiles, real estate and watches — for affluent connoisseurs.-History:...
called Natalia Kolodzei "the person to know" regarding Russian art, and "one of the most influential of Russia's young cultural figures."
Selected exhibitions
(either by the Kolodzei Art Foundation or featuring works from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art)Not Toys?! State Tretyakov Gallery in conjunction with 3rd Moscow Biennale) 2009
From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, New York 2008
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), 2007, and Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, New York, 2008
Olga Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings. Objects. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2007
Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects. Contemporary Art Center MARS and State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg 2007
Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2005-2006
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, Brooklyn, New York, 2006
Historic MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay to Argentina in 20th Century. MADI Museum, Dallas, Texas, 2006
Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961 – 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. International Print Center New York, 2005. The exhibition was also presented during Russian Nights Festival in Los Angeles 2006.
Perestroika + 20: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York. 2005-2006.
Young American Artists of Today. Festival of American Contemporary Culture American Autumn in Moscow. Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2005 and Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey. 2006 (article NYT, January 29, 2006).
Finding Freedom: Forty Years of Soviet and Russian Art. Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ and Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida. 2004.
Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations). State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 2004-2005.
Dmitri Plavinsky—A Retrospective: Paintings, Works on Paper and Installations. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. 2004
The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent artworks to the exhibition Abstract Art XXth Century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2001-2002
Hurricane of Time: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection Villa Ormond, Sanremo
Sanremo
Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival...
, Italy. 2000
Works on Paper: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City. 1994, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (1999), Bergen Museum of Art (2000)
100 Artists from Tatiana & Natalia Kolodzei Collection, State Museum of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent
Tashkent
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...
. 1989
Publications featuring the Kolodzei Art Collection
- Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Edited by Natalia Kolodzei. 2007. ISBN 978-0-9815195-0-0.
- Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects. Introduction by Evgenia Petrova and essays by Charlotta Kotik, Donald Kuspit, José Pierre, Natalia Kolodzei, and Jenifer Borum. Palace Editions, 2006. ISBN 9783938051801
- Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Museum, 2005.
- Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations). General Editor: Natalia Kolodzei, with essays by Amei Wallach, Andrew SolomonAndrew SolomonAndrew Solomon is a New York-born bisexual writer on politics, culture, and psychiatry who lives in New York and London. He has written for publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Artforum, on topics including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan,...
, Natalia Kolodzei, Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Victor and Margarita Tupitsyn, and Oleg Vassiliev. Published by Palace Editions, the State Russian Museum and the Kolodzei Art Foundation, in collaboration with the State Tretyakov Gallery. ISBN 0-9754829-2-0. - The Hurricane of Time. Turn of the Century, Close of the Millennium. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art (1960 - 2000). Essays by Tatiana Kolodzei, Natalia Kolodzei, Alison Hilton, Valery Turchin, Enrico Crispolti. ISBN 0-9754829-0-4
- Olga Bulgakova (ISBN 9780975482964) and Alexander Sitnikov (ISBN 9780975482988) Including essays by Alexander Borovsky, Barbara Thiemann, Natalia Kolodzei, Alexander Rozhin and Natalia Sitnikova. Moscow: Knigi WAM, 2007
- The "Art Constitution", the Illustrated Constitution of the Russian Federation. Editors: Sergey Denisov, Ivan Kolesnikov, and Peter Voice, with essays by Zurab TsereteliZurab TsereteliZurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli is a Georgian-Russian painter, sculptor and architect who holds the office of President of the Russian Academy of Arts.- Life :...
, Natalia Kolodzei, Ekaterina Dyogot, and Irina Kulik Moscow: Alpha-Press, in collaboration with the Moscow Museum of Modern ArtMoscow Museum of Modern ArtThe Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Moscow, Russia. It was opened to public in December 1999. The project of the Museum was initiated and executed by Zurab Tsereteli, president of the Russian Academy of Arts....
and the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. ISBN 0-9754829-1-2. - Sergey Kalinin and Farid Bogdalov: Session of the Federal Assembly. Moscow, 2004. ISBN 0-9754829-3-9.
See also
- Norton DodgeNorton DodgeNorton Townshend Dodge was an American economist who has amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union...
- Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist ArtNorton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist ArtThe Dodge Collection is the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art in existence.The collection was amassed by an economics professor from the University of Maryland, Norton Dodge, from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika. The collection comprises roughly 20,000 works of art and...
- Ilya KabakovIlya KabakovIlya Kabakov, Russian Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в , is a Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish descent, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island...
- Oleg Vassiliev (painter)
- Moscow Museum of Modern ArtMoscow Museum of Modern ArtThe Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Moscow, Russia. It was opened to public in December 1999. The project of the Museum was initiated and executed by Zurab Tsereteli, president of the Russian Academy of Arts....
- Bulldozer ExhibitionBulldozer ExhibitionBulldozer Exhibition was an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on September 15, 1974...
- Soviet Nonconformist ArtSoviet Nonconformist ArtThe term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953-1986 outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism...
- Afrika (artist)