ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum

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The ART.4U Contemporary Art Museum
ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum is located in Moscow
ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum
Location within Moscow
EstablishedMay 2007
LocationMoscow, Russia
Coordinates55°45′28″N 37°36′11″E / 55.7578°N 37.6031°E / 55.7578; 37.6031
Websitewww.art4.ru

ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum is a museum of contemporary Russian art located in Moscow, Russia. It was opened to the public in May 2007. A privately owned institution, it houses the collection of Igor Markin.[1]

The Collection[edit]

The Museum often lends works in its permanent collection to exhibitions organized by other institutions in Russia and worldwide, such as in the National Centre for Contemporary Arts 2009 exhibition, "In Pursuit of Meaning: Alexander Ney"[2] and, more recently, in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art's 2012 retrospective "Leonid Sokov: Point of View".[3]

The collection includes works of artists:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kishkovsky, Sophia (June 15, 2007). "Art4.ru, a contemporary art museum opens in Moscow". The New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  2. ^ Masha Kovalevsky (October 10, 2009). "Alexander Ney at the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow". ArtMargins.com. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  3. ^ "Official MMOMA Press Release for "Leonid Sokov: Point of View" (English)". Mmoma.ru. Retrieved August 6, 2012.

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