The Museum of Nonconformist Art is the world's first center for the preservation and study of the legacy of Soviet unofficial art, founded in 1998 in the legendary art center "Pushkinskaya-10". The museum collection includes over 4,000 works, including paintings, graphics, photography, objects and digital art. Organizing more than 50 exhibitions and events annually, the museum acquaints viewers with independent art of the USSR period, and contemporary art practices from around the world.

Address: St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 53

Site: www.nonmuseum.ru
Email: nonmuseum@p-10.ru
Tel.:+7 (812) 764-48-52

The Museum of St. Petersburg Art (20th–21st centuries) is a depository of a unique collection, representing productions of the artists of Russia's Cultural Capital. At present, the collection has around 3,000 items, covering the entire Petrograd-Leningrad-St. Petersburg period in the history of arts. It includes works of different styles and trends, created in the city over the course of two centuries, from the Avant-Garde of the 1920s, post-WW-II Socialist Realism, the 'left wing' of the Artists' Union and the Underground of the 1960s–70s, and up to the post-Perestoika period and nowadays.

Address: St. Petersburg, Griboyedov Canal emb., 103

Site: http://www.mispxx-xxi.ru
Email: misp@mispxx-xxi.ru
Tel.: +7 (981) 983-84-21

The Erarta Musem of contemporary art is the first museum of contemporary art in St.Petersburg, as well as the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia. The museum opened its doors on the 30th of September 2010. The museum collection currently consists of 2,800 works of contemporary art from the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries, created by more than 300 artists from over 20 regions of Russia, which makes it the biggest Russian art museum that focuses on contemporary art in the entire country. Erarta Museum continually adds to its collection, which contains painting, graphics, sculpture, objects, installations and other forms of art and works with artists living in different regions of Russia, representing various generations and trends. The collection of the museum contains works of non-conformist artists.

Address: St. Petersburg, 29th line of Vasilyevsky Ostrov, 2

Site: https://www.erarta.com
Email: info@erarta.com
Tel.: + 7 (812) 324-08-09

The New Museum was opened on June 4, 2010. The exposition is based on a private collection of unofficial art of the Soviet period and contemporary Russian art, collected by patron of the arts, Aslan Chekhoev. The exposition of the New Museum presents works by legendary artists of the "Other Art" and classics of nonconformism: Oscar Rabin, Lev Kropyvnitsky, Lydia Masterkova, Vladimir Nemukhin, Mikhail Shvartsman, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Vladimir Weisberg, Viktor Pivovarov, participants in the "Gazanevsky movement" and the group of artists "New Artists," as well as others. The exposition of the museum also presents various groups, trends and styles of art of the second half of the XX - early XXI centuries.

Address: St. Petersburg, 6th line of Vasilyevsky Ostrov, 29

Site: https://www.novymuseum.ru
Email: info@novymuseum.ru
Tel.: +7 (906) 27-97-358

DiDi Gallery was established in 2003 and specializes in the non-official underground art of Moscow and Leningrad during the second half of the 20th century. In addition to the so-called "avant-garde of the second wave", the gallery also presents the works of some modern artists.

Addres: St. Petersburg, Bolshoy Prospect of Vasilyevsky Ostrov, 62

Site: https://didigallery.com
Email: admin@didigallery.com
Tel.: +7 (921) 945-58-55

Museum "Tsarskoye Selo collection" is the state museum of fine arts in the city of Pushkin, St. Petersburg. The collection of the museum includes more than six thousand paintings and graphic works by masters of pictorial and plastic realism of various schools and trends, from the 1910s to the present. The core of the museum is made up of work by representatives of the Leningrad avant-garde of the 20-90s of the XX century: Vladimir Sterligov, Mikhail Matyushin, Vera Ermolaeva, Lev Yudin, Konstantin Rozhdestvensky, Pavel Basmanov, and other artists who advocated for "pictorial and plastic realism." There are also Moscow avant-garde artists in the collection: Vasily Chekrygin, Boris Ender, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Tatyana Mavrina, Daniil Daran. A separate exhibition of the museum is the so-called Arefyevsky circle - one of the earliest artistic communities in the history of the Leningrad underground: A. Arefiev, R. Vasmi , Sh. Schwartz, V. Shagin, V. Gromov.

Address: St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Magazeynaya st., 40/27

Site: http://www.museum.ru/M2545
Email: tsarsk@mail.ru
Tel.: +7 (812) 466-04-60

KGallery was founded in St. Petersburg in 2005. The gallery's collection is based on the largest private collection of Russian and Soviet art, which began to form in the mid-1980s of the 20th century.The gallery's collection includes masterpieces of Russian art of the 19th-20th centuries, ranging from academic art of the mid-19th century, itinerants, artists of the "Silver" century, avant-garde art, and dozens of paintings of the greatest masters of the Soviet period, as well as a unique collection of porcelain of the 1920-1930s. In recent years, the collection has been replenished with rare examples of Soviet unofficial art of the 1930-1980s. The collection of the gallery includes the most significant works of the artists of the "Eleven" group: V.V. Vatenin, J. I. Krestovsky, Z. P. Arshakuni, V. I. Rakhina, E. P. Antipova, G. P. Egoshin, V. K. Teterina, L. A. Tkachenko, V. I. Tyulenev, B. I. Shamanov, K. M. Simun, as well as the works of artists of Leningrad non-conformism: M. M. Shemyakin, A. D. Arefiev, V. N. Shagina, R. R. Vasmi, E. L. Rukhina, G. A. Ustyugova and many others.

Address: St. Petersburg, Fontanka emb., 24

Site: http://www.kgallery.ru
Email: gallery@kgallery.ru
Tel.: +7 (812) 273-00-56

The State Russian Museum is the world's largest collection of Russian art, housed in a unique architectural complex in the historical centre of St. Petersburg. It was the first museum of Russian art, initiated by Emperor Alexander III. Later, in 1895, Emperor Nicholas II signed a decree ordering "the foundation of a special establishment named 'the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III' and the assignment of Mikhailovsky Palace with all outbuildings, services and the garden, specially acquired by the state treasury for this purpose". In May of the same year, architect Svinyin started the reconstruction of the palace interiors for accommodating future collections of art. The formal opening of the Russian Museum took place on March 19, 1898. The basis of the collection was objects and works of art handed over from the Winter, Gatchina and Alexander Palaces, from the Hermitage and the Academy of Arts, as well as from private collections donated to the museum. The museum collection contains over 400,000 exhibits, covering all major periods and trends in the history of Russian art, all main types and genres, trends, and schools of Russian art over more than a thousand years: from the X to the XXI century.The Department of Contemporary Art was created at the end of the 1980s. One of the tasks of the department was to establish the systematised collection of new, non-traditional art forms, new media and technology, installations and assemblages, video art, photography, photo-based art, and much more.

Address: St. Petersburg, Inzhenernaya st., 4

Site: https://rusmuseum.ru
Email: info@rusmuseum.ru
Tel.: +7 (812) 314-41-53

The Contemporary Art Center opened in St. Petersburg in Autumn 2004. The Center was named in honor of Sergey Kuryokhin, an acclaimed Russian musician and composer. Its central aim is to unite talented contemporary artists who perform outside mainstream pop-culture and to offer them a collaborative or individual work environment. The Sergei Kuryokhin Museum has been establishing their collection of works of art and archival materials since 2004. The collection can be divided into two structural components: the archive of Sergei Kuryokhin and contemporary works of artists representatives of the Leningrad underground, authors in one way or another connected with Pop Mechanics, and friends of Sergei Kuryokhin, as well as works by the nominees for the Sergey Kuryokhin and participants of other festivals.

Address: St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 73, 4 floor

Site: https://www.kuryokhin.net
Email: info@kuryokhin.net
Tel.: +7 (812) 322-42-23

The Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art first appeared on the city map in 2008 in St. Petersburg State University. The collection was initially based on the Diaghilev Center of Arts in 1990. The new museum has a special program of mutual work between students and teachers, developed by Yuryeva Tatiana, a professor and researcher of interdiscipinary artistic practices. The museum collection functions as a small model of the world, in which visitors can orient themselves and adjust to reality, sorting out not only scientific problems, but moral ones, too. It is important to understand the level of museum integration into student community. The Museum of Modern Art is the only one in Russia that has not only the status of a university and academic museum, but also a growing collection of modern art. The museum is considered to be a unique place for artistic experimentation and research, due to its exhibitional materials, and regular conferences hosted by the museum and faculties within the University.

Address: St. Petersburg, Lieutenant Shmidt emb., 11/2, second floor

Site: https://diaghilevmuseum.ru
Email: diaghilevmuseum@spbu.ru
Tel.: +7 (812) 363-66-49

Borey Art Center was created in 1991 as a fundamentally new structure in the field of art and culture. Borey is a civic initiative, brought to life by a group of like-minded people aiming to build a cultural center whose doors are open to artistic initiatives. The main objective of the center is to present a wide cross-section of artistic and intellectual life in order to develop criteria for evaluating contemporary art. Boreas responds to all genres and trends in art. For 20 years, the center has held more than one thousand two hundred exhibitions and art events and published more than one and a half hundred books. Borey Art Center regularly hosts literary evenings, philosophical readings, and presentations of books and magazines.

Address: St. Petersburg, Liteyny prospect, 58

Site: http://borey.ru
Email: borey.info@gmail.com
Tel.: +7 (812) 275-38-37

"Mitki-art-center" (Museum of the art group "Mitki") is one of the creative centers of St. Petersburg. The museum was founded in February 2006 by members of the creative association "Mitki", under the patronage of the Governor of St. Petersburg V. Matvienko, as an artist's workshop, exhibition and creative center. On February 9, 2006, the museum exposition was officially opened. The museum hosts art exhibitions, creative meetings, poetry evenings, concerts, book presentations, master classes. The main focus of the museum is contemporary avant-garde and independent art.

Address: St. Petersburg, Marata st., 36/38

Site: http://mitki-art.ru

D137 was founded in St. Petersburg in 1996. The name of the gallery comes from a loading dock located on Krestovsky Island, where the first exhibitions and concerts were held. Since 2000, the gallery has been working on Nevsky Prospect in the house 90-92, where the gallery hosts interesting exhibitions and events from the cellar of the house– personal exhibitions of Timur Novikov, George Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev – Monroe, Edward Lucie-Smith, Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones) and others. Among the artists of the gallery are well-known masters, whose works are in the largest museum and private collections, as well as young St. Petersburg authors. In 2010, the gallery rebranded itself as the Art Club D137 and, along with exhibition activities, began conducting various artistic (including charitable) actions, round tables, film shows dedicated to contemporary art, and creative meetings with artists and cultural figures, concerts. The also began publishing books and catalogues.

Address: St. Petersburg, Rubinstein st., 15-17

Site: http://www.d137.ru
Email: info@d137.ru
Tel.: +7 (981) 687-60-51

The permanent display in the Mikhail Matyushin's House focuses on the main stages of the development of avant-garde culture in Russia and shows the diversity of St. Petersburg avant-garde art of the 1920s – 1930s. On display are memorabilia of the Matyushin's family, paintings and drawings by Mikhail Matiushin, Elena Guro, Alexey Remizov, Nikolay Kulbin, Vladimir Sterligov and followers of Kazimir Malevich and Pavel Filonov; books, manifestos, brochures, photographs and other unique materials, connected with the history and the evolution of the avant-garde movement in Russia. The display consists of two sections: the first one is dedicated to avant-garde before and after 1917, and the second – memorial part – includes the reconstructed studio of Mikhail Matyushin and the room of Elena Guro.

Address: St. Petersburg, Professora Popova st., 10

Site: https://www.spbmuseum.ru
Email: gmi@spbmuseum.ru
Tel.: +7 (812) 234-42-89

The Mihail Shemyakin Foundation was opened in 2002 in the center of St. Petersburg (Sadovaya st, 11). The premises were transferred to Mikhail Shemyakin by the Government of St. Petersburg on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin. Later, оn the basis of the foundation, the Mikhail Shemyakin Center was organized, which regularly hosts exhibitions of works by M. Shemyakin and his contemporaries, as well as lectures, master classes, performances, concerts, film screenings, and excursions. An important area of the Center's work is research activities, such as the "Imaginary Museum" by Mikhail Shemyakin, a unique method of analysis and classification of images from the history of world art, developed by the artist.

Address: St. Petersburg, Sadovaya st., 11

Site: https://mihfond.ru/
Email: mail@mihfond.ru
Tel.: +7 (812) 310-25-14

Cultural Center Gromov is a multi-purpose art space of St. Petersburg. It was opened in September 2016. The Cultural Center Gromov has its own collection of contemporary art. The collection includes hundreds of works by artists of various trends, from representatives of the Russian avant-garde to our immediate contemporaries. The Gromov collection is one of the largest private collections representing contemporary St. Petersburg art from the second half of the 20th century to the present day.

Address: St. Petersburg, Gromova st., 4

Site: https://dkgromov.org
Email: mail@dkgromov.org
Tel.: +7 (921) 967-17-77

Museum AZ, one of the youngest and most dynamically developing private museums in Russia, was opened on May 27, 2015, in the heart of Moscow. The museum was named with the initials of the brilliant russian artist Аnatoly Zverev, who remains a prominent figure in the culture of the second half of the 20th century. The AZ Museum today aims to honor the legacy of Zverev and his contemporaries of an artist and his contemporaries alive and relevant. The AZ Museum fund holds more than 2,500 works of Anatoly Zverev and his contemporaries, including works by the non-conformist artists of the second half of the twentieth century, and the archive documents associated with the life and art of Anatoly Zverev, letters, prose and poetry, treatises on the art. The museum's collection is permanently evolving as new works and items of interest are brought in, after undergoing strict artistic selection.

Address: Moscow, 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya st., 20-22

Site: https://museum-az.com
Email: info@museum-az.com
Tel.: +7 (495) 730-55-26

The Garage Archive Collection aims to provide an academic platform for the study of Russian contemporary art in an international context. Since the first archive was transferred to the Garage museum in 2012, the collection has continued to expand thanks to new donations and acquisitions. Today, it includes documentation from Moscow galleries, the personal archives of artists and collectors, the Museum's institutional archive, an archive of art press, and other materials. The core of the Garage Archive Collection is the Art Projects Foundation archive. In its first year, the collection was supplemented with donations from Elena Selina, Aidan Salakhova, Irina Meglinskaya, and Elena Bakanova, who transferred the archives of XL, Aidan, and Shkola galleries, materials on exhibitions at L Gallery in the early 1990s, and the electronic exhibitions archive of Paperworks Gallery. Every year, new archives are added as part of the Museum's acquisitions strategy. In 2018, Garage began acquiring archives related to the history of underground and contemporary art in Leningrad and St. Petersburg. The Museum chose not to move those archives to Moscow, but to leave them in the city where they were compiled. The St. Petersburg archives in the Garage Archive Collection include that of art historian and archivist of the local art scene Andrei Khlobystin; the archive on Sergey Kuryokhin compiled by Sergey Chubraev; and Irina Aktuganova and Sergei Busov's archive covering several of the city's key art institutions (including Cyber Femin Club, Techno Art Center, Experimental Sound Gallery, and the Museum of Sound). The Russian Art Archive Network (RAAN) was launched in 2017. Initiated by Garage, it aims to promote Russian art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Address: Moscow, Krymsky Val st., 9, building 32

Site: https://garagemca.org/ru/archive-collection-and-raan
Email: research@garagemca.org
Tel.: +7 (495) 645-05-20

The National Center for Contemporary Art was founded in 1992 and includes an active exhibition, museum, and research activities. Since its inception, the NCCA has initiated a number of large-scale projects that have influenced the development of Russian contemporary art and the formation of its image in an international context. Important areas of the NCCA's activities include the formation of a collection and the creation of an archive of contemporary Russian and foreign art, the development of curatorial practices, and an exchange of regional and international projects. Today the NCCA is a network of contemporary art centers in eight cities of the country: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, Vladikavkaz, Samara, Tomsk.

Address: Moscow, Zoologicheskaya st., 13, building 2

Site: www.ncca.ru
Email: pr@ncca.ru
Tel.: +7 (499) 254-06-74

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that concentrates its activities exclusively on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inauguration, the Museum has expanded its strategies and achieved a high level of public acknowledgement. Today, the Museum is an energetic institution that plays an important part on the Moscow art scene.The Museum was unveiled on December 15, 1999, with the generous support of the Moscow City Government and the Moscow City Department of Culture. Its founding director was Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts. His private collection of more than 2,000 works by important 20th century masters is the core of the Museum's permanent display. The Museum's permanent collection represents main stages in formation and development of the avant-garde. The majority of exhibits are by Russian artists, but the display also includes some works by renowned Western masters. Many works have been acquired in European and American galleries and auction houses, and thus returned from abroad to form an integral part of Russian cultural legacy. An extensive section of the permanent display is devoted to Non-Conformist art of the 1960s-1980s. The creative activity of these masters, now well-known in Russia and abroad, was then in opposition to the official Soviet ideology. Among them are Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Oscar Rabin, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Schwartzman, Oleg Tselkov, and more.

Address: Moscow, Petrovka st., 25

Site: http://www.mmoma.ru
Email: research@mmoma.ru
Tel.: +7 (495) 231-44-08

The New Tretyakov Gallery is a branch of the Tretyakov Gallery, located in Moscow on Krymsky Val in the Muzeon Park. The opening of the first exhibition took place in 1986. The museum presents masterpieces of 20th century art, as well as current trends of the 21st century: avant-garde, socialist realism, non-conformism. The museum's collection includes more than 5,000 works of art of the XX-XXI centuries. This is one of the largest collections where you can view the works of the Russian avant-garde of the 1900-1920s, presented by artists Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Lyubov Popova. In 2014, a large collection of contemporary art by Leonid Talochkin became part of the museum.

Address: Moscow, Krymsky Val st., 10

Site: https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru
Email: tretyakov@tretyakov.ru
Tel.: +7 (495) 957-07-27

ART4 is a museum of contemporary Russian art. Its story begins in 2007, when Igor Markin opened the Moscow's first private museum of contemporary art in the city center. Igor Markin's collection includes about 1,500 works by 150 authors. Most of the collection is made up of works by representatives of the so-called "second wave of the Russian avant-garde": Anatoly Zverev, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Mikhail Grobman, Yuri Zlotnikov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Dmitry Plavinsky, Yulo Sooster, Eduard Steinberg, Alexander Kharitonov, Vladimir Yakovlev and others. The collection also includes works by representatives of the Moscow Conceptual School: Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, etc .; Sots Art : Erik Bulatov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Boris Orlov and others; New artists: Sergei Bugaev (Africa), Georgy Guryanov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Timur Novikov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and others. The collection includes works by Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, Oleg Kulik, Aleksey Kalima, Yuri Shabelnikov, Valery Koshlyakov, Pavel Pepperstein, Leonid Purygin, Semyon Faibisovich, Oleg Tselkov, as well as works by many young promising authors: Evgeny Antufiev, Dunya Zakharova and many other.

Address: Moscow, Khlynovsky tupik, 4

Site: https://www.art4.ru
Email: k@art4.ru
Tel.: +7 (499) 136-56-56

M'ARS is one of the first non-state contemporary art galleries, founded in 1988. It is both a Center for Contemporary Art and a gallery. The interdisciplinary projects of the Center are focused on engaging the viewer in an interactive environment and interacting with the outside world through art, while the exhibition space hosts projects and festivals with the participation of both Russian and foreign artists. The Center also regularly hosts music concerts, educational festivals, lectures and public talks, as well as the MARS CINEMA SPACE educational cinema lecture hall. On the basis of the Center, there is the Curiosity Media Lab - an educational laboratory for media experiments. The collection of the MARS Center contains more than three thousand works of Russian and foreign artists of the 20th century.

Address: Moscow, Pushkarev lane, 5

Site: https://centermars.ru/
Email: admin@centermars.ru
Tel.: +7 (495) 623‑66-90

Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM) was founded in 2009 by gallerist Marat Guelman, with the support of Perm Krai governor Oleg Chirkunov and senator Sergei Gordeev. Initially, the museum was a key element to a major regional program with the intent of transforming Perm's cultural life through a new cultural policy, known colloquially as the Perm Cultural Revolution. The "Perm wave" in Russian contemporary art began with PERMM's exhibition Russian Povera (curated by Gelman), which opened in the river terminal in 2008. It presented a Russian version of arte povera and featured works by key Russian contemporary artists. Many of those works were later acquired for the museum's collection, which today comprises over 1,300 items. PERMM has become an important cultural center on the regional and national levels: today it works with Perm artists and communities, studies the national art scene, and organizes international exhibitions.

Address: Perm, Gagarin boulevard, 24

Site: https://permm.ru
Email: nallakhverdieva@permm.ru
Tel.: +7 (342) 254-35-76

Museum of Odessa Modern Art (MOMA) was built on the basis of the collection of Mikhail Knobel in 2008. The exposition reflects the stages of development of the Odessa Art School from classical modernism to the latest trends in the visual arts, including apartment exhibitions of non-conformists of the 70s, as well as the first unauthorized art action in the USSR - "Exhibition on the fence" of non-conformist artists.

Address: Odessa, Belinskogo st., 5

Site: http://msio.com.ua
Email: msiodessa@gmail.com
Tel.: +38 (048) 759-10-18

NT-Art Gallery (founded in 2006), opened in Odessa on 20th of December, 2007. At the heart of the gallery is the collection of its owners, which includes more than 2,000 first-class paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and installations from the 2nd half of the XX century to the present day. The collection is characterized by its wide scope and panoramic presentation of regional schools (representing all art centers of national importance: Kiev, Carpathians, Crimea, Lviv, Kharkov), and various areas of Ukrainian art of the past and present centuries. However, the main part of the collection is the art of the Odessa artists of several generations; and above all, its unique collection of works of nonconformist artists and representatives of the modern art of the late XX – early XXI centuries.

Адрес: Odessa, Lidersovsky boulevard, 5, office №166

Site: http://nt-art.net
Email: work@nt-art.net
Tel.: +38 (048) 785-59-34

The Odessa Literary Museum was organized in 1977. It is one of the largest regional museums in Ukraine. The palace of the Gagarin princes, an architectural monument designed by the architect Ludwig Otton, was allocated for the museum. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum regularly hosts exhibitions, literary evenings, concerts of classical and jazz music, book presentations, and conferences. The museum contains a collection of works by nonconformist artists of the second half of the 20th century.

Address: Odessa, Lanzheronovskaya st., 2

Site: http://museum-literature.odessa.ua
Email: litmuseum.odesa@ukr.net
Tel.: +38 (048) 722-33-70

Kharkiv Municipal Gallery – is a platform for socio-cultural initiatives of artist, curators, and cultural figures that has become an integral part of the Ukrainian art scene over the years of its existence. Kharkiv Municipal gallery was created in 1996 and became the first gallery with the municipal country. The gallery mainly works with Ukrainian artists. Artists of the gallery: Borys Kosarev (1897 – 1994), Vagrich Bakhchanyan (1938-2009), Borys Mykhailov, Vitalii Kulikov (1935-2015), Viktor Gontarov (1943—2009), Sergiy Bratkov, Pavlo Makov, Eduard Yashin, Oleksii Borysov, Olexander Ridnyi, Volodymyr Kochmar, Artem Volokitin, Roman Minin, Gamlet Zinkіvskyi and many others.

Address: Kharkiv, Chernyshevska st., 15

Site: https://mgallery.kharkov.ua
Email: kh.mgallery@gmail.com
Tel.: +38 (057) 706-16-20

PinchukArtCentre is an international centre for contemporary art of the 21st century. It is an open platform for the artists, the art work, and society. Its definite innovative profile is aimed at the dynamic interlacing of new production, presentation, and collection, bridging both national identity and international challenge. It is an ideal venue for masterworks and workgroups by outstanding artists of our time which reflect and represent the complexity of the world, transforming it into a unique and new form. This sustainable model focuses the center's work on the following fields of activity: collection, exhibitions, projects, communication, education, publications and research.PinchukArtCentre is the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centre in Central and Eastern Europe. It was launched in September 2006 by the Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk as a main cultural project of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. With its intense and dynamic exhibition and education programs, the art centre provides an outstanding opportunity to view the very best works of the Ukrainian and international contemporary artists. The PinchukArtCentre collection includes works of non-conformist artists.

Address: Kiev, Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna st., 1/3-2

Site: https://pinchukartcentre.org
Email: info@pinchukartcentre.org
Tel.: +38 (044) 490-48-06

Mystetskiy Arsenal is a national cultural and art museum complex in Kiev, created in 2006. The complex is located in the heart of Pechersk, one of the three historical parts of Kiev. Mystetskiy Arsenal is the flagship Ukrainian institution of culture, which integrates various types of art in its activities - from contemporary art, new music and theater to literature and museums. The collection of the Arsenal includes works of non-conformist artists.

Address: Kiev, Lavrska st., 10-12

Site: https://artarsenal.in.ua
Email: office@artarsenal.gov.ua
Tel.: +38 (044) 288-52-25

Château de Chamousseau is the estate of the renowned Russian and American artist, sculptor, and art historian Mikhail Shemyakin. Built in the 18th centruy, today the castle houses the Shemyakin Academy and Art Center, where students study and undergo artistic training. There are several buildings on the castle's grounds, including a huge artist's library, a research art laboratory, and a space to host workshops. The main office of the Mikhail Shemyakin Center is located in St. Petersburg, at the address: Russia, St. Petersburg, st. Sadovaya, 11

Address: Château de Chamousseau, 36320, Villedieu-sur-Indre

Site: https://mihfond.ru
Tel.: +33 254 26-91-87

The Musée Maillol is an art museum located in the 7th arrondissement at 59-61, rue de Grenelle, Paris, France.The museum was established in 1995 by Dina Vierny, a model for sculptor Aristide Maillol, and is operated by the Fondation Dina Vierny. The museum presents the works of Maillol, (drawings, engravings, paintings, sculptures, decorative art, original plaster and terracotta work) along with other works from Vierny's private collection, such as works by Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Robert Couturier, and Jacques Villon, Works of Russian artists (Soviet Nonconformist Art ), including Eric Bulatov, Oscar Rabine, and Vladimir Yankilevsky and many others.

Address: 59-61 rue de Grenelle, 75007, Paris

Site: https://www.museemaillol.com
Email: eapprederisse@museemaillol.com
Tel.: +33 1-42-22-59-58

The Research Center for Eastern Europe (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) was founded in 1982. Its founder and first director (until 2008) was Professor Wolfgang Eichwede. The initial task of the Center was to study unofficial culture in the USSR and Eastern European countries (mainly in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany).The Research Centre for East European Studies (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa – FSO) is an independent research institute attached to the University of Bremen. It is funded jointly by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs and the State of Bremen. Founded during the Cold War in 1982, the FSO today focuses on two goals: the (re)examination of societies and cultures in the Eastern Bloc, and the analysis of contemporary developments in the post-Soviet region.

Address: Germany, Klagenfurter Straße 8, D-28359 Bremen

Site: https://library.utoronto.ca
Email: fso@uni-bremen.de
Tel.: 0421-218-6960

The Kolodzei Art Foundation 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 from the 1950s through today.The Kolodzei Art Foundation, founded in 1991, arranges art exhibitions in museums, universities and cultural centers throughout the United States, Russia and Europe. The Collection was started by Tatiana Kolodzei in Moscow during the late 1960s 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, 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 [ru] , Ernst Neizvestny, and many others. There are artists of the 1980s and 1990s such as Igor Novikov, Andrei Budaev, Shimon Okshteyn, Dimitry Gerrman, Farid Bogdalov, Asya Dodina, Slava Polishchuk, Olga Bulgakova, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Irina Danilova, Genia Chef, Leonid Borisov, Andrei Karpov, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Sergei Volokhov, Valery Koshlyakov, Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Filipov, Semen Agroskin, Mamut Churlu, Tatiana Antoshina, and others.

Address: 123, South Adelaide Avenue #1N
Highland Park, New Jersey, 08904

Site: http://www.kolodzeiart.org
Email: kolodzei@kolodzeiart.org
Tel.: 1 732 545-8425

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in the Houston Museum District, Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 6,000 years of history with approximately 64,000 works from six continents. With more than 62,000 works of art, the majority of the museum's collection lie in the areas of Italian Renaissance painting, French Impressionism, photography, American and European decorative arts, African and pre-Columbian gold, American art, and post-1945 European and American painting and sculpture. Other facets of the collection include African-American art and Texas painting. Emerging collection interests of modern and contemporary Latin American art, Asian art, and Islamic art continue to strengthen the museum's collection diversity.The museum collection also features Russian art.The collection contains works by (of) Russian avant-garde artists - Marc Chagall, Alexander Rodchenko, Mikhail Larionov, Vasily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova etc.The collection also includes works of famous Russian photographers: Maria Snigirevskaya, Gennady Bodrov, Alexander Lapin, Vladimir Kuprianov, Nikolay Bakharev, Alexey Titarenko, Boris Mikhailov, Boris Smelov, Andrey Chezhin, Sergey Leontiev.

Address: 1001, Bissonnet, Houston, Texas, 77005

Site: https://www.mfah.org
Email: guestservices@mfah.org
Tel.: +1 713 639-7300

The Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art from the acclaimed Dodge Collection, American art from the 18th century to the present, and six centuries of European art with a particular focus on 19th-century French art. The Zimmerli is also noted for its holdings of works on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs, original illustrations for children's books, and rare books. Museum was founded in 1966 as the Rutgers University Art Gallery to celebrate the university's bicentennial. The gallery was expanded in 1983 and renamed the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. The 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.[8] It was gift of Norton and Nancy Dodge in 1991. More than 20,000 works by close to 1,000 artists reveal a culture that defied the politically imposed conventions of Socialist Realism. All media are represented, including paintings on canvas and panel, sculpture, assemblage, decorative objects, installations, works on paper, photography, video, artists' books and self-published texts called samizdat. This encyclopedic array of nonconformist art extends from about 1956 to 1986, from the beginning of Khrushchev's cultural "thaw" to the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika. The collection includes art made in Russia, as well as many examples of nonconformist art produced in the Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. In addition, the Zimmerli has seven archives associated with Soviet nonconformist art. Collectively, these archives include more than 50,000 items.

Address: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248

Site: http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu
Email: MorseCenter@zimmerli.rutgers.edu
Tel.: +1 848 932-7237

The Nasher Art Museum opened in 2005 and houses over 13,000 works of art, including works by Andy Warhol, Berkeley L. Hendrix, Christian Marklay, Dario Roblito and Cara Walker. The museum was named after Raymond Nasher, a Duke University graduate.From 1992 to 2003, the museum built a significant collection of modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Russian artists. With its concentration on post-Soviet works by Russian emigres, the Nasher Art Museum offers a unique experience for American visitors. The concentration on post-Soviet works by Russian émigrés makes it a unique collection in the U.S. The collection includes pre-Soviet era, Soviet era, and works by both state-recognized and non-conformist artists. The largest component of the collection consists of second-generation non-conformist artists from the Brezhnev era into the post-Soviet period, including artists such as Komar and Melamid. The collection is currently undergoing scholarly evaluation. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created an online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience.

Address: 2001, Campus Drive Durham, NC 27705

Site: https://nasher.duke.edu
Email: museumdirector@duke.edu
Tel.: +1 919 684-3370

The mission of the University of Toronto Library is to foster the search for knowledge and understanding in the University and the wider community. The library provides innovative services and comprehensive access to information, founded upon its own developing resources as one of the leading research libraries in the world. The electronic archive, "Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat" (PSDS), includes a database of Soviet samizdat periodicals, electronic editions of selected samizdat journals, illustrated timelines of dissident movements, and interviews with activists. The Project aims to make rare materials more widely available and to provoke questions about the trajectories of groups and individuals within the varied field of Soviet dissidence and nonconformist art.

Address: 130 St. George St.,Toronto, ON, M5S 1A5

Site: https://library.utoronto.ca
Email: librarihelp@utoronto.ca
Tel.: 416-978-8450