If you find yourself in Moscow this summer, do not miss out its Museum of Modern Art which houses the works of many modern and contemporary artists from all over the world with special emphasis on Russian artists as part of its permanent collection.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the brainchild of Zurab Tsereteli whose private collection of famous artworks forms the core of the museum’s treasures. Tsereteli was the president of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts from where he initiated the project of the museum and carried it through till it opened to the public in December 1999.

Some of the most renowned works of contemporary art housed in the museum are creations of Armand, Arnaldo Pomodoro and Japanese conceptualist Yukinori Yanagi. Among the current school of Russian artists whose works are displayed are Dmitry Prigov, Lena Hades, Boris Orlov, Francisco Infante and others. While the modern Russian artists are represented by Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, David Burlyuk, Alenxandra Exter and others, international masters of modern art like Picasso, Leger, Dali, Rufino Tamayo are represented by their lithographs. The Museum also showcases important works of the non-conformists of the 1950-70s whose creative works often ran against state ideologies of the Soviet regime.

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