The Diaghilev Contemporary Art Museum (russian: Музей современных искусств им. С.П. Дягилева СПбГУ) is a state museum of
contemporary Russian art
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ...
located at
St. Petersburg and affiliated with
St. Petersburg State University.
History
The museum was established in 2008 as one of the departments of St. Petersburg State University and on the basis of the collection of the Diaghilev Art Centre (1990-2008). The founder and the first director of the museum was Yurieva Tatiana, SPBU professor of Art history, art critic and americanist, one of the creators of the Diaghilev Art Centre
[(en) Yurieva, Tatiana; Staniukovich-Denisova, Ekaterina; Ershov, Gleb. Curatorial Approaches at the Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art at Saint-Petersburg State University: Representations of Art in Synchronous and Diachronic Aspects, in Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles, vol. 11. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2021, pp. 827–835. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2111-08-60 rchive/ref>
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Collection
The collection of the museum contains more than 300 items and includes paintings, sculptures, graphics and artworks in other media. The core of the collection is formed by the works of Leningrad independent artists of 1960-1980s, such as Alexandr Baturin, Anatoly Basin, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Anatoly Vasiliev, Gleb Bogomolov, Anatoly Belkin, Alek Rapoport, Georgy Kovenchuk
Gaga (Georgy Vasilyevich) Kovenchuk ( rus, Гага (Георгий Васильевич) Ковенчук; 2 December 1933 — 3 February 2015). Soviet and Russian artist and writer. Gaga was an artist, painter, graphic artist, book artist and p ...
, Nikolai Timkov
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (russian: Тимко́в Никола́й Ефи́мович; August 12, 1912 – December 25, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artis ...
, Yevgeny Ukhnalyov
Yevgeny Ilyich Ukhnalyov (russian: link=no, Евгений Ильич Ухналёв; 4 September 1931 – 3 September 2015) was a Russian artist. He was a founding member of the Russian ''Guild of Heraldic Artists'' and the creator of many state ...
, Vyacheslav Mikhaylov, Valery Lukka, Levon Lazarev.
References
External links
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Diaghilev Contemporary Art Museum at Goskatalog of museums of Russia
Diaghilev Contemporary Art Museum on the Russian Museums website
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University museums in Russia
Art museums and galleries established in 2008
Contemporary art galleries in Russia
2008 establishments in Russia
Art museums and galleries in Saint Petersburg