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The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. promotes the contemporary
art of Russia and the former Soviet Union. The
Kolodzei Art Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
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. more
Selected
Upcoming and Recent Exhibitions and Lectures
From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women
Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
Chelsea
Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West 22nd
Street, New York, NY 10011, November 13, 2008 – February 7,
2009. Opening Reception Tuesday, December 9, 2008, from
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
On Saturdays, January
24, 31, and February 7 at 3 pm, Gallery talks will
be led by exhibition curator Natalia Kolodzei. Ms. Kolodzei,
Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation and co-owner
of the Kolodzei Collection (containing over 7,000 pieces by
over 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union),
will discuss the artworks in this exhibition, as well as the
history of Russian women artists, Non-Conformist and
contemporary Russian art from the time her mother, Tatiana
Kolodzei, started their Collection in Moscow (during the
1960’s, at the height of the Cold War) through today. Tours
free with Museum admission.
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Moscow
- New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of
Russian and Eastern European Art. National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA),
Zoologicheskaya 13, Moscow, from October 16 to November
11, 2007. Opening reception on October 15, 2007 at 5:00 PM.
Chelsea
Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West 22nd
Street, New York, NY 10011, February 22 - June 14, 2008.
Opening reception Wednesday, February 27, 6-9PM. more
Olga
Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings.
Objects. State
Tretyakov Gallery, Krymsky val 10, Moscow, November 2
- 25, 2007. Opening reception on November 1 at 4 PM.
Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects.
Contemporary Art Center MARS (Pushkarev Pereulok 5,
Moscow) from May 17 to June 17, 2007 and at State Russian Museum (Marble Palace,
Millionnaya str., 5/1, Saint Petersburg) from July 26,
2007 to September 3, 2007.
A 336 page hard cover
book with introduction by Evgenia Petrova and essays by Charlotta Kotik, Donald Kuspit, José Pierre,
Natalia Kolodzei, and Jenifer Borum is published to accompany Shimon Okshteyn:
Dialogue with Objects
by Palace Editions, the publishing house of the State Russian
Museum.
The book documents Shimon Okshteyn’s artistic development from
his early Russian period through a 25- year career in the United States.
The book is published in both English and Russian
languages and is the first comprehensive reference
publication on the artist. ISBN:
9783938051801
Modern
and Contemporary - Russian Art Week in London– Public
Lecture: Natalia
Kolodzei, the Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art
Foundation, New Jersey, and owner of the Kolodzei Collection
of Russian and Eastern European Art,
spoke on Trends in Russian Art
following Perestroika on Tuesday, February 13,
2007 at Sotheby’s,
34–35 New Bond Street, London.
Vadim
Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. General
Staff Building, the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
October 25, 2005 - April 24, 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, 2900 Bedford
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. January 18 - March 31, 2006.
Historic
MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay to
Argentina in 20th Century. MADI Museum, 3109 Carlisle
Street, Dallas, Texas.
February 17, 2006 - June 18, 2007.
Moscow
Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961
– 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian
and Eastern European Art.
International Print Center New York, 526 West 26th Street,
Room 824. September
13-
October 22, 2005.
The exhibition is also presented
during Russian Nights Festival in Los Angeles.
Perestroika
+ 20: Selections
from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European
Art.
Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420
West 118 Street, 12th floor, New York. September 28 - January
2006.
Young
American Artists of Today. Festival of American
Contemporary Culture American Autumn in Moscow.
Central House of Artists, Krymsky Val, 10. November 4 - 27,
2005. Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey.
February 9, 2006 - March 11, 2006.
Finding
Freedom: Forty Years of Soviet and Russian Art. Bergen
Museum of Art and Science (Paramus, NJ); Leepa-Rattner Museum
of Art (Tarpon Springs, Florida).
Oleg
Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations). State
Russian Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Russian Museum
(St. Petersburg)
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Dmitri
Plavinsky—A Retrospective: Paintings, Works on Paper and
Installations. State
Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).
Selected
Publications
Oleg
Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations).
General Editor: Natalia Kolodzei, with essays by Amei Wallach,
Andrew Solomon, 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. 182 pp, 156 color plates, 13 color and 14 b/w
documentary photographs. (Russian edition also available).
ISBN: 0-9754829-2-0.
To buy the book contact kolodzei@kolodzeiart.org
or visit amazon.com.
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).
(Exhibition catalogue), with essays by Tatiana Kolodzei,
Natalia Kolodzei, Alison Hilton, Valery Turchin, Enrico
Crispolti, 25 color illustrations, 60 pp. ISBN:
0-9754829-0-4 more
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