Kolodzei Art Foundation

The Kolodzei Collection

The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art consists of over 7,000 works, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, digital and kinetic art, video, and interactive installations, by more than 300 artists from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Tatiana Kolodzei started her collection sixty years ago. The joint collection of Tatiana Kolodzei and her daughter Natalia Kolodzei has now grown to seven thousand art objects. The Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection chronicles six decades of nonconformist and contemporary art from the Khrushchev' Thaw to the present. Tatiana Kolodzei organized many exhibitions in the former Soviet Union of works by nonconformist artists. She was one of the curators of the famous exhibition in September 1975, which took place in the House of Culture at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh). In February 1991, with the support of American sponsors and admirers of the Kolodzei collection, Tatiana and Natalia Kolodzei established the Kolodzei Art Foundation for cultural, educational, and charitable purposes. The Foundation organizes non-profit exhibitions in museums and cultural centers in US, Europe, Russia and others countries, publishes books, provides art supplies to artists and sets up cultural exchanges. Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. (est. 1991) is a US-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public foundation. The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. promotes the contemporary art of Russia and Eastern Europe and encourages a more diverse arts world. In the collection there are art works by artists such as Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Pyotr Belenok, Eric Bulatov, Lydia Masterkova, Ivan Chuikov, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Bela Levikova, Mikhail Shvartsman, Oleg Vassiliev, Leonid Sokov, Anatolii Zverev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Lamm, Valeri Yurlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Tonys Vint, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Andrei Budaev, Shimon Okshteyn, Farid Bogdalov, Olga Bulgakova, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Genia Chef, Leonid Borisov, Andrei Karpov, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Sergei Volokhov, Valery Koshlyakov, Anatoly Shuravlev, Semen Agroskin, Tatiana Antoshina, Anton Ginzburg, and others.

Press & Publications

There have been numerous articles about the collection in the American Press (e.g. *Forbes*, June 2008; The New York Times, July 28, 1990; *Art and Antiques*, March 2006; *RobbReport*, New York Newsday, Nov. 30, 1987; The Daily Oklahoman, April 29, 1994; *Connections*, Nov. 1995, and many others), as well as a CNN cultural program in 1993. European newspapers and leading magazines that have written about the collection include *Art* (German), 4/84 & 5/89; *Beaux Arts* (France), Nov., 1988; *ArtChronika*, 2/2001; *Elle*, Jan. 1998, *SlovoWord*, 2002, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), July, 1988, and others. There are many publications in Russian Press (The Moscow Times, October 20, 1992, The Moscow Tribune, Aug. 4, 1993 and Aug. 10, 1995, and others).

Exhibitions

Works from the collection have been frequently shown in exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Russia, including *100 Artists from Tatiana & Natalia Kolodzei Collection*, State Museum of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent (1989); *Works on Paper: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection*, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City (1994); Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY (1999), Bergen Museum of Art (2000); *Hurricane of Time: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection* Villa Ormond, SanRemo, Italy (2000); *Abstract Art XXth Century*, State Russian Museum (2001 - 2002); *Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art.* National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), (2007); *From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation*, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2009), *Concerning the Spiritual in Russian Art, 1965-2011*. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, (2013); *This Leads to Fire: Russian Art from Non-Conformism to Global Capitalism. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation*, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA, (2014-2015).

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