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The Kolodzei Collection of 
Russian and Eastern European Art

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Introduction

Tatiana Kolodzei started her collection fifty five years ago. The joint collection of Tatiana Kolodzei and her daughter Natalia Kolodzei has now grown to seven thousand art objects, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photography, digital and kinetic art, video, interactive installations, by more then 300 artists from Russia, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The Kolodzei Art Collection chronicles five 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.

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 such well known artists of the 1960's and 1970's as Ilya Kabakov, Komar and Melamid, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Pyotr Belenok, Eric Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Bela Levikova, Mikhail Shvartsman, Oleg Vassiliev, Leonid Sokov, Antatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Lamm, Valeri Yurlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Tonys Vint, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, and many others. There are artists of the 1980's and 1990's such as 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, and others.

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).

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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Selected list of artists

A - B - C - D - E - F -G -H -I - J -K - L -M -N -O - P - R -S - T -U - V -W - Y -Z

Natalia Abalakova, Gia Abramishvili, Andrei Abramov, Afrika (Sergei Bugaev), Semen Agroskin, Yurii Albert, Nikita Alekseev, Nadya Anfalova, Boris Anisfeld, Aleksandr Anufriev, Alena Anosova, Siim-Tanel Annus, Tatiana Antoshina, Alexander Artemonov, Juri Arrak, Yuri Avvakumov, Valeriy Ayzenberg

Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Alexander Bandzeladze, Andrei Basanets, Edward Bekkerman,  Pyotr Belenok, Anatolii Belkin, Ludmila Belova, Leonid Berlin, Yuri Berishvili, Anna Birshtein, Andrei Bilzho, Ilmars Blumbergs, Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Farid Bogdalov, Sergei Bordachev, Leonid Borisov, Borukh (Boris Shteinberg), Andrei Budaev, Eric Bulatov, Olga Bulgakova, Oleg Bourov, Grisha Bruskin

Genia Chef, Mihail Chemiakin, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Marina Chernikova, Sergey Chernov, Mikhail Chernyshev, Ivan Chuikov, Mamut Churlu,

Irina Danilova, Kirill Danelia, Tatiana Daniliyants, David Datuna, Ruma Daurova, Alexandra Demetieva, Andrei Demykin, Sergei Denisov, Alexander Djikia, Vitalii Dlugy, Asya Dodina, Olga Chemokhud-Doty, Lucien Dulfan

Gia Edzgveradze, Henry Elibekian, Maria Elkonina, Natalia Elkonina, Alla Esipovich

Vladimir Feoktistov, Nikolai Filatov, Andrei Filippov, Katya Filippova, Anna Frants, Aleksandr Freidin

Nadezhda Gaiduk, Aladin Garunov, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Dimitry Gerrman, Marina Gertsovskaia, Gnezdo (Mikhail Roshal, Gennadii Donskoi, Viktor Skersis), Clara Golitsyna, Serge Golovach, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Nonna Goriunova, Aleksei Grigoriev, Joseph Grinberg, Andrey Grositsky, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov

Serge Hollerbach,

Temur Iakobashvili, Francisco Infante, Michael Ioffe, Engel Iskhakov,

Ilya Kabakov, Karlo Kacharava, Viacheslav Kalinin, Natalia Kamenetskaia, Otari Kandaurov, Tatiana Kandaurova, Anton S. Kandinsky, Dasha Skorubsky Kandinsky, Andrei Karpov, Marina Karpova, Elena Kallistova, Victor Kazarin, Andrus Kasemaa, Roustam Khamdamov, Aleksander Kharitonov, Ilgizar Khasanov, Vera Khlebnikova, Konstantin Khudyakov, Aleksei Khvostenko, Georgy Kizevalter, Komar and Melamid, Marina Koldobskaya,Viacheslav Koleichuk, Ivan Kolesnikov, Valery Koshlyakov, Marina Kolotvina, Valerii Kolotvin, Maria Konstantinova, Natta Konysheva, Aleksandr Kosolapov, Natalia Kostaki, Georgy Kovenchuk, Zhanna Kovenchuk, Boris Kozlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Evgeni Kropivnitsky, Lev Kropivnitsky, Valentina Kropivnitskaia, Mikhail Koulakov, Ene Kull, Vladimir Kupriyanov

Leonid Lamm, Olga Lamm, Yefim Ladyzhensky, Yuliya Lanina, Leonhard Lapin, Luka Lasareishvili, Leonid Lazarev, Rostislav Lebedev, Valentina Lebedeva-Lesin, Malle Leis, Tatiana Levitskaia, Vladimir Lemport, Bela Levikova, Georgii Litichevsky, Alexander Lozovoy

Igor Makarevich, Aleksandr Maley, The Martinchiks (Svetlana Martinchik, Igor Stepin), Lydia Masterkova, Konstantin Malakhov, Raul Meel, Andrei Medvedev, Katya Medvedeva, Sasha Meret, Artem Mirolevich, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov, Igor Molochevski

Tatyana Nazarenko , Natalia Nesterova, Ernst Neizvestny, Vladimir Nemukhin, Olga Nenazhivina, Igor Nezhivoi, Alexander Ney, Igor Novikov,

Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Shimon Okshteyn

Valerii Pianov, Gregory Perkel, Alexander Petrov, Leonid Pinchevsky, Vladimir Piatnitskii, Viktor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Urmas Plomipoo, Sergei Poliakov, Slava Polishchuk, Slava (Svyatoslav) Ponomarev, Pyotr Pushkarev,

Oscar Rabin, Andrei Roiter, Mikhail Roginsky, Miroslava Romanova, Sirje Runge, Samuil Rubashkin

Vitalii Sazonov, Aidan Salakhova, San San Kara (Alexander Karasev), Elena Sarni, Elena Schepetova, Natalia Shibanova, Anatoly Shuravlev, Eduard Shteinberg, Mikhail Shvartsman, Alexander Sigutin, Alexander Sitnikov, Natalia Sitnikova, Anatoly Shuravlev, Oleg Slepov, Anatolii Slepyshev, Yuri Sobolev, Oleg Sohanievich, Leonid Sokov, Ullo Sooster, Birute Stancikaite, Vyacheslav Syssoev

Margarita Tatieva, Yuri Tcharny, Marina Telepneva, Alexander Terebenin, Alexei Tyapushkin, Alexey Titorenko, Leonid Tishkov, Igor Tiulpanov, Oleg Timchenko, Olga Tobreluts, Inna Topolskaya, Dmitri Topolsky, Mikhail Turovsky, Oleg Tselkov, Mamuka Tsetskhladze, Alexander Tumanov, Natalia Turnova,

Oleg Vassiliev, Yakov Vinkovetsky, Aili Vint, Mare Vint, Tonis Vint, Vadim Voinov, Alexander Volkov, Andrei Volkov, Valerii Volkov, Diana Vouba, Sergei Volokhov, Lusy Voronova,
Julia Winter

Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Valery Yershov, Alexander Yelagin, Alexander Yulikov, Valeri Yurlov,

Liudmila Zaripova, Annamukhamed Zaripov, Alexander Zakharov, Boris Zhutovsky, Gennadii Zubkov, Anatolii Zverev,

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