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The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. promotes the contemporary art of Russia and Eastern Europe encourages a more diverse arts world. The Kolodzei Art Foundation, a 501(c)(3) US-based non-profit corporation founded in 1991, arranges art exhibitions in museums, universities and cultural centers throughout the United States and Europe. Its Board of Directors includes distinguished business, diplomatic and cultural figures in US-European relations. The Kolodzei Art Foundation also arranges cultural exchanges and publishes books on Eatern European art. more

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Selected Upcoming and Recent Exhibitions and Lectures

In 2021 the Kolodzei Art Foundation marked thirty years of encouraging a more diverse arts world and advancing knowledge of the art of Russia and Eastern Europe.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is delighted to participate in the major retrospective exhibition Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, from February 11 to July 16 2023 by lending Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid “Soul of Norton Dodge” (1978-1979) From the project Corporation for Buying and Selling Souls and other art objects. For more information https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/komar-and-melamid-lesson-history

Ferment: Metamorphoses and Reflections. CYFEST-14 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City, December 6, 2022 - January 3, 2023. CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the theme of fermentation through the dual lenses of art and science. Fermentation in the conventional sense is a technological process in the food industry. However, if we give it some thought, practically everything that happens over time---to animate, inanimate and even strictly material objects---falls under this definition. In the exhibition, artists explore fermentation’s versatility both as a biological process and in its more extensive metaphorical meaning.  This exhibition brings together artists practicing different media including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, video, new media and interactive installations who are interested in evoking a wide range of responses to contemporary cultural and historical context and social environment. Leonardo Journal, published in partnership with MIT Press, is dedicating its December 2022 Special issue to this theme in conjunction with 2022 CYLAND Media Art Lab 14th international festival of media art CYFEST.  The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation. https://www.nationalartsclub.org/

List of Artists Alexandra Dementieva, Carla Gannis, Anna Frants, Ivan Govorkov, Elena Gubanova, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza, Iacopo Bedogni), Anne Spalter, The Josh Craig, Katran, Natalya Nesterova, Joan Snyder, Valeriy Gerlovin, Ilya Kabakov, Valentina Povarova, Alexey Titarenko, Erik Bulatov, Arsen Savadov, Petr Belenok, Chakaia Booker, David Datuna, Dasha Skorubsky-Kandinsky, Lydia Masterkova, Natalia Sitnikova, Katherine Liberovskaya, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Phill Niblock, William Hooker, Ernst Neizvestny, Dimitry Gerrman, Oleg Bourov, Mihail Chemiakin, Julia Winter, Yakov Vinkovetsky, Vasilii Bakanov, Andrew Strokov and Ivan Karpov.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending artworks to CYFEST-14: Ferment, part of Emerge 2022: Eating at the Edges. A Festival of Food Futures at the ASU MIX Center, 50 N. Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85201, November 14-20, 2022 https://emerge.asu.edu/2022/exhibits/cyfest-at-emerge/ CYLAND Media Art Lab, Arizona State University, and Leonardo ISAST,  and ASU MIX Center present the CYFEST-14: Ferment, November 14-20. The opening of CYFEST-14: Ferment on Friday, November 18 from 3 PM to 6 PM MST at ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, 50 North Centennial Way, Mesa, Arizona, USA. The project is on view until November 20, 2022. CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the theme of fermentation through the dual lenses of art and science.

ID ART/TECH: Selections from Kolodzei Art Foundation and Frants Family Collections, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, March 12 – August 14, 2022. The exhibition features works by forty-five Russian, Ukrainian and Russian-American artists and explores the meanings of ID– from the concept in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID), through creative articulations across time and media.https://tmora.org/2022/02/10/id-art-tech-selections-from-kolodzei-art-foundation-and-frants-family-collections/

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending the work by Ukrainian artist Arsen Savadov (born 1962 in Kyiv; lives and works in Kyiv and New York), Feeling – Reason – Memory – Will – Conscience - The postmortem Existence. 1993. (Photo emulsion, mixed media on linen, 40 x 40 inches) to the exhibition Who Writes History? at the ArtsWestchester Gallery, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, New York, April 23 – July 3, 2022. https://artswestchester.org/who-writes-history/

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending the work by Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn to the exhibition BLOOM! A Celebration of Spring at the National Arts Club, New York, May 10 - June 22 “This seasonal exhibition will feature works by Fabrizio Arrieta, Carlos Quintana, Larry Poons, Mark Tobey, Will Barnet and selections from the Permanent Collection. The show will also pay tribute to the Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn (1951- 2020) with an installation of a major work from his Reflections series.” https://www.nationalartsclub.org/exhibitions

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is glad to participate in the 40th anniversary of the Museo Tamayo (Mexico City) by lending Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid “Soul of Norton Dodge” (1978-1979) From the project Corporation for Buying and Selling Souls and other art objects to the exhibition Beyond the Trees “Beyond the Trees traces the historical, political and cultural events that marked the years that spanned the construction and opening of the Museo Tamayo (1979-1981), through five exhibition nuclei that occupy all the museum's spaces… The fifth nucleus of the exhibition takes us through a series of works that were produced between 1979 and 1981, and which have set the tone for cultural production, mainly in the United States, Europe and Latin America.” Exhibition on view from December 11, 2021 to April 30, 2022. https://www.museotamayo.org/exposiciones/mas-alla-de-los-arboles

It's About Time to Launch the Quick Brown Fox Again... Isn't It? (Самое время снова запустить быструю коричневую лису… Не так ли?). Russian-American art exhibition at All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Delegatskaya st., 3 Moscow, (Всероссийский музей декоративного искусства, ул. Делегатская, 3, Москва), January 20-February 20, 2022. Opening reception on Thursday, January 20, 2022. https://damuseum.ru/en/exhibitions/samoe-vremya-snova-zapustit-bystruyu-korichnevuyu-lisu-ne-tak-li/

COSMOS and CHAOS: CYFEST-13 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, December 14, 2021 - January 6, 2022. Cosmos and Chaos: CYFEST-13 exhibition explores artistic images for Cosmos and Chaos. What do we have in mind today by reaching out to those philosophical notions?  What inspirations and interpretations these ideas bring and how they relate to each other.  This exhibition brings together artists practicing different media including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, video, new media and interactive installations who are interested in the above proposed topic and evoking a wide range of responses to space exploration, climate change, contemporary cultural and historical context and social environment. The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab (cyland.org) in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
The list of artists includes: Anna Frants, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov, Clea T. Waite, Ilya Kabakov, Chakaia Booker, Konstantin Khudyakov, Leonid Lazarev, Francisco Arana Infante, Victoria Burge, Valentina Povarova, Lydia Masterkova, Alexander Ney, Dmitri Plavinsky, Petr Belenok, Dimitry Gerrman, Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Natalya Nesterova, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Eduard Steinberg, Natalia Sitnikova, Valery Koshlyakov.
Leonardo Journal devoted a special issue to CYFEST-13: Cosmos and Chaos. https://leonardo.info/leonardo

Anatoly Zverev (1931-1986). Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 12th Floor, International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, NYC. The show runs from October 28 until December 17, 2021. The exhibition features artworks from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Explore the exhibition https://harriman.columbia.edu/anatoly-zverev-exhibit/ For more information visit: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/anatoly-zverev-selections-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation/

Anatoly Zverev as a Cultural Phenomenon: Remembering the Artist on December 2, 2021, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Tatiana Kolodzei and Natalia Kolodzei of the Kolodzei Art Foundation will discuss the artist Anatoly Zverev and his legacy. Introduction by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia Slavic Department/Harriman Institute), with recorded remarks by art historian/curator Maria Plavinsky and artist/art collector Natalia Kostaki. Hybrid Event. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC. For registration and information: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/anatoly-zverev-as-a-cultural-phenomenon/

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talk CYLAND St Petersburg RU has become a part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021! Join us for an on-line interdisciplinary conversation Communities and Collaborative Art Practice from Local to Global, Participants — Katherine Liberovskaya, David Weinstein, Carol Parkinson, Sergey Teterin. Introduction — Natalia Kolodzei. https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/antidisciplinary-topographies/

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks CYLAND - Saturday, 29 May 2021 (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) 1PM NYC. Save and Re-Sound: Preserving and Archiving Sound Art and Experimental Music. Panelists: Phill Niblock, Jonathan Hiam, Carol Parkinson, Katherine Liberovskaya, Sergey Komarov. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei. 1 hour online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into Russian. Video recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkjGoGAbke0&t=1s is the link to the event in English.  

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks CYLAND – 10 April 2021 (20:00 St. Petersburg RU)
Space Exploration: “All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 
Panelists: Olesya Turkina, Alexandra Dementieva, Andrey Bartenev. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei Video recording link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGDKMJkpiP4 - is the link to the event in Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvBbg11uLvE - is the link to the event in English.

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talk CYLAND – 6 March 2021 12 PM NYC (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) Education Challenges: Contemporary Art in Academic Environment. Panelists: Alan Boldon, Gediminas Urbonas, Nina Czegledy, Silvia Burini, Sophia Kudriavtseva. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei (1 hour online discussion in English with simultaneous translation into Russian) Video recording link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajOrxIBfJ4

PERCEIVE COSMOS | EXPLORE CHAOS. SPECIAL LEONARDO JOURNAL VIRTUAL LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) talks CYLAND on February 17, 2021 at 12 PM EST (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) Join an online conversation of the contributors of February's upcoming English-Russian special issue of Leonardo journal, “COSMOS and CHAOS,” created in collaboration with CYFEST international media art festival. This conversation will brought together artists, scientists, researchers, art historians from art institutions, associations, museums and universities across the world: IAA SETI Permanent Committee, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, Arizona State University School of Earth and Space, Concordia University, CYLAND MediaArtLab, Kolodzei Art Foundation, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg State University, University of Strathclyde, Leonardo/ISAST. In this dialogue, the authors of Leonardo/CYFEST special issue will discuss contributed papers and ask each other about the ways to perceive, explore and conceptualize humanity and the Universe as represented in the opposition of cosmos and chaos. To learn more about the special issue of Leonardo journal, “COSMOS and CHAOS,” check out this link. Participants: Annick Bureaud, Daniela de Paulis, Alexandra Dementieva,. Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Bettina Forget, Elena Gubanova, Natalia Kolodzei, Olesya Turkina, Saskia Vermeylen, Diana Ayton-Shenker, Lydia Griaznova, Moderator: Erica Hruby, Editorial Director, Leonardo journal Video recording link: https://youtu.be/fgqDRZg6ybs

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) talks CYLAND - Art Data: Collecting, Preserving and Displaying Digital on December 12, 2020 at 12 PM EST (20:00 St. Petersburg RU) – Panelists: Christiane Paul, Anna Frants, Lev Manovich, Anne Spalter, moderator: Natalia Kolodzei. The discussion will be held online in English with simultaneous translation into Russian & lasts for one hour. Video recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d2sJH5PdAo

ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, March 2–April 30, 2020. Opening Reception on Monday, March 2, 2020. 
ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION explores ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings — from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID) — from the forms of sociopolitical functioning of portraits of Soviet Nonconformism to the images of mass culture, aesthetics of ID cards, passport picture and social networks. This exhibition brings together a collection of experiential-based ideas and projects mediated by technologically progressive visualization methods, as well as paintings, drawings, photography, video, and sculpture from the Frants Family Collection and Kolodzei Art Foundation.The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art Lab in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation. In May of 2019, ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION was on display at Ca’ Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Venice, Italy.
Public program: March 13 at 7pm a panel discussion and visual presentation Contemporary Art in Academic Environment focusing on the strategies and problems of education process in the field of digital art, effective instruments of practical and theoretical learning, and multidisciplinary project based approach. The speakers include Ellen K. Levy, Christopher Fynsk, Anna Frants, moderated by Natalia Kolodzei. This program is organized in conjunction with the ID.ART:TECH EXHIBITION.
The list of artists includes Martha Wilson, ORLAN, Faith Ringgold; Cyland MediaArtLab artists and interactive works by Anna Frants, Ludmila Belova, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov, Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev, Alexander Terebenin, a special selection of contemporary sound art from Cyland Audio Archive. A selection from Frants Family collection includes works by Valentin Gromov, Tatiana Kuperwasser, Tatiana Glebova, Leon Nissenbaum, Solomon Rossine, Rikhard Vasmi, and a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation includes works by Petr Belenok, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Erik Bulatov, Asya Dodina, Rimma Gerlovina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Slava Polishchuk, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya Kabakov, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Douglas Davis, Leonhard Lapin, Natalia Nesterova, Samuil Rubashkin, Leonid Sokov, Oleg Vassiliev, Alexander Yulikov, Anatoly Zverev.

SERGEI VOLOKHOV: THEORY OF REFLECTION. SELECTIONS FROM THE KOLODZEI ART FOUNDATION - Opening reception on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 from 6 to 8pm at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 12th Floor International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, NYC. The show runs until December 18, 2019. For more information visit: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-opening-sergei-volokhov-theory-reflection-selections-kolodzei-art-foundation

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is pleased to lend the works from the collection to ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION at Ca’ Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Zattere, Dorsoduro 1392, Venice. Boat stop: Zattere. Media Preview: May 8 at 11 AM. Opening Night: May 10 at 6 PM. The exhibition runs from May 5 – June 28, 2019. ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings – from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID). The exhibition organized by CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Center for the Studies of Russian Art CSAR. Curators: Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Valentino Catricalà, William Latham, Lydia Griaznova. The exhibition include contemporary artists from Russia, Italy, Great Britain, USA, Belgium, France, Norway as well as artworks by the classics of the 20th century. Among the exhibit’s participants are the New York underground guru of sound art and renowned minimalist composer Phill Niblock, Russian experimental artist and fashion designer Andrey Bartenev, artist and curator of the Central Asia Pavilion at the 55th Venetian Biennale Ayatgali Tuleubek, St. Petersburg artist, curator, winner of Sergei Kuryokhin Award and Innovation Prize Peter Belyi, distinguished Russian artist and founder of sots art Erik Bulatov and others. The project’s exposition is a visual examination of the subject of identification: from the forms of sociopolitical functioning of portraits of Soviet non-conformism to the images of mass culture, aesthetics of ID cards, passport picture and social networks. The project will unite in one space the Soviet nonofficial art from Frants Family Collection and Kolodzei Art Foundation, video-, sound-, net-art, photography, installation and everyday objects. Frants Family Collection, include artworks by Rikhard Vasmi, Tatiana Glebova, Valentin Gromov. And Kolodzei Art Foundation will features works by: Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Oleg Vassiliev, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Erik Bulatov, Petr Belenok, Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Leonhard Lapin, Samuil Rubashkin, Sergei Volokhov, Alexander Yulikov click here for the press-release 

From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), 5500 Stevens Ave S. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55419, September 15, 2018 – February 10, 2019.
The project Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation is a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, covering three generations of artists, from the 1960’s to the present. The show includes paintings, works on paper, photography, video, and interactive installations. Arranged thematically, the exhibition features the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists. It is a visual exploration of the development and accomplishments of women artists from Russia emphasizing the importance of media experimentation for contemporary Russian women artists in defining their identity. The first generation consists of artists who began their careers at the time of Khrushchev's “Thaw” of the 1950’s and took part in the first, crucial, unofficial exhibitions of the 1970’s, including Lydia Masterkova, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, Tatiana Levitskaia, and Rimma Gerlovina. The next generation includes artists who participated in the initial exhibitions and others who became involved in the early 1980’s, including Natalia Nesterova, Tatyana Nazarenko, Olga Bulgakova, Anna Birshtein, Natalia Shibanova, Lusy Voronova, Diana Vouba, Svetlana Kalistratova, and Valentina Lebedeva-Lesin. The latest generation is made up of artists whose works date from post-perestroika and post-Soviet period from the late 1980's to the present, including Irina Danilova, Natalia Kamenetskaia, Alexandra Dementieva, Alla Esipovich, Marina Koldobskaya, Tatiana Antoshina, Irene Caesar, Elena Kallistova, Marina Kolotvina, Victoria Kovalenchikova, Natalia Elkonina, Dorothee Chemiakine, Marina Karpova, Anna Frants, Tatiana Krol, Elena Gubanova, Ludmila Belova, Olga Tobreluts, Aidan Salakhova, Katya Filippova, Elena Sarni, Svetlana Martinchik, Marina Gertsovskaia, Alena Anosova, Marina Chernikova, Natalia Abalakova, Innessa Levkova-Lamm, Olga Lamm, Tatiana Daniliyants, Julia Winter, and Natalia Sitnikova.The catalogue for the exhibition is available - From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation at Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis. (ISBN: 9780981519524, soft cover, 60 pp.) Introduction by Maria Zavialova, Foreword by Alison Hilton, Essay by Natalia Kolodzei #NonConformismToFeminisms For more information visit http://tmora.org/2018/04/30/from-nonconformism-to-feminisms-russian-women-artists-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation/

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is pleased to lend Komar & Melamid’s The Soul of Norton Dodge. 1978-1979 From the project Corporation for Buying and Selling American Souls to the exhibition KOMAR & MELAMID at MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art), 25 Petrovka street, Moscow, March 22 — June 9, 2019.

Panel discussion - Technology's Impact on the Art Industry Today and Predictions for the Future on on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. Why have businesses and organizations in the art world been so hesitant to adopt new technologies? How are new players working to break down that general resistance? How do we see the art world evolving as technology has a bigger impact? The Art Innovators Alliance (AIA) is a newly-founded association of business leaders committed to advancing the art industry through innovation and technology. Hear from AIA founders and other experts on art and technology as they discuss the wide-reaching impact of technology in the art world. Panelists include Bernadine Wieder, CEO Vastari; Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief, Artnet and Adam Fields, CEO, ARTA and will focus on the significance of increased adoption for the industry's future, bringing efficiencies and wide-reaching changes to the way art businesses operate. Moderated by NAC member, curator, collector, Natalia Kolodzei.

Panel discussion - Managing Your Art Collections on Monday, November 19, 2018 at 7:00 PM at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. Art lovers do you wonder how to manage, organize, catalogue, care and store works from your collection? The panelists will offer updates on trends in the art industry, the importance of proper storing and planning for collections, and how to address issues related to conservation and restoration of fine art, as well as related topics such as lending to museum exhibitions and engaging with other collectors.  Speakers: Laura Stirton Aust, paper conservator and Edie Meyer, Vastari.  Moderated by NAC member, curator and collector,  Natalia Kolodzei. For more information: http://www.nationalartsclub.org/default.aspx?p=.NETEventView&ID=3864524&qfilter=&type=0&ssid=323204&chgs=

 
Eduard Gorokhovsky:  From Siberia to Moscow, Selected Works on Paper from the Kolodzei Art Foundation – opening reception on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 6-8pm at Harriman Institute Atrium, Columbia University, 420 W 118th Street, NYC, 12th floor. The show runs until March 30, 2018 This exhibition features selected drawings from the 1960s and early 1970s by prominent Russian artist Eduard Gorokhovsky (1929-2004) while he was living and working in Novosibirsk and drawings and artist’s prints from his Moscow period.     more information.

Personal Spaces – Interactive Multimedia Works by Anna Frants, Carla Gannis, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov. National Arts Club, Gregg Gallery, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, February 26 - March 24, 2018. Opening Reception February 27, 2018, 6-8pm.

This exhibition brings together a collection of experiential-based ideas and projects built around the idea of interaction between the viewer and an artwork, an individual and a society, mediated by technologically progressive visualization methods. Technology can be viewed as an instrument for artists to offer reflections on the role of information in society; cultural mechanisms; the boundary between the real and the virtual; and the use of mass media as instruments for manipulation and control. Some of the works are inspired by the artists’ own experiences and create an illusion of the individual taking on a paradoxical and timeless sojourn into the ideal — an entirely “personal” space constructed of inanimate objects from the past. Other works offer journeys through imaginary epochs represented by classical forms, historical images and creative associations, while additional works explore female identity through the artist turning the camera on herself as a character for role playing in digital narratives. The exhibition explores artworks that are immersive, participatory, performative and kinetic, all from the vantage point of the phenomenological experience. It is organized in collaboration with CYLAND MediaArtLab and the Kolodzei Art Foundation. more info

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 7:00 PM – panel discussion and visual presentation - Collecting, Preserving, Displaying and Lending Digital Media-Based Art at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works to the exhibition Commemorating the Russian Revolution, 1917/2017 at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey from October 14 to February 18, 2017.  Public program and reception on November 7, 2017. 

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works to the exhibition Varieties of Nonconformism: Unofficial Art from the Former Soviet Union at Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst, Massachusetts from October 9, 2017 to February 4, 2018.

Exhibition “Russian Émigré-Artists in the USA. 1950-2017. Presented by the Kolodzei Art Foundation” in conjunction with the 10th Annual Independent Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, Downtown Community TV Center, DCTV, 87 Lafayette St., NYC, October 20-22, 2017. 

Natalia Kolodzei participates in Translations & Dialogues: The Reception of Russian Art Abroad, Collecting Russian Art roundtable (in memory of Norton Dodge) in Venice, Italy October 25 – 27, 2017. Three-day international conference, co-organized by the Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR) at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture, Inc. (SHERA) and the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC).

Oleg Vassiliev: Metro Series & Selected Works on Paper from the Kolodzei Art Foundation – Opening reception  on January 23, 2017 from 6 to  9pm at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 W. 118th Street, 12th floor, NYC. The gallery talk is on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 6pm info. The show runs until March 31, 2017.  For more information visit: http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-opening-oleg-vassiliev-metro-series-selected-works-paper

St. Peter’s Church and the Kolodzei Art Foundation are pleased to present What Remains: Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk at Narthex Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave (at 54^th Street) New York City, March 18 – May 9, 2016. Opening reception on Thursday, April 7, 2016 from 6pm to 9pm more  

The Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned Space Exploration, Photographed by Leonid Lazarev the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (420 West 118 Street, 12th Floor) from Monday, March 21 to Friday, May 20. Opening reception for the exhibition on Monday March 21 from 6 to 8 pm. For more information visit http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/kolodzei-art-foundation-presents-dawn-manned-space-exploration-photographed-leonid-lazarev

This Leads to Fire: Russian Art from Non-Conformism to Global Capitalism. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577, September 14, 2014 to January 11, 2015. This Leads to Fire features selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, one of the most extensive collections of nonconformist and contemporary Russian art in the world.  The exhibition will include works ranging from the 1950s through the period of Glasnost and contemporary art. It will be organized into five parts that explore the origins of Nonconformist art, the developments of Moscow Conceptualism, Sots Art, the influence of the Russian avant-garde in geometric abstraction, and the coercive legacy of Socialist Realism. This Leads to Fire will familiarize viewers with an important and underappreciated body of work, but also demonstrate the challenges these artists still pose to both mainstream Russian culture and the globalized art world. The exhibition is curated by Sarah Warren, Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College, the State University of New York. Public programs: Neu First Wednesday Lecture, Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 pm Masha Gessen: Russian Power; 
Conversation: Collecting Art in Russia, Tuesday, November 18, 11 am Join Natalia Kolodzei in a conversation about collecting art in Russia. 
Neu First Wednesdays Media Lecture: Artists Speak–Vitaly Komar, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4:30 pm. more    
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Finding Freedom in Russian Art, 1961-2014. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Collection of Dr. Wayne F. Yakes. Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 710 East St. Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70503, August 30 to December 6, 2014. Opening reception Friday, September 19, 2014. The works in this exhibition will highlight the evolution of non-conformist and independent art in Russian from a time of rigid censorship to the new Russia. The works, spanning 1961 to 2014, reflect the major wave of Russian alternative culture and describe the history of non-conformist art processes and movements. The exhibition will also highlight the rich diversity of art that emerged and survived during the past forty years of the then Soviet Union and contemporary Russia.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending paintings by Oleg Vassiliev to the exhibition Oleg Vassiliev: Space and Light at Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, September 02, 2014 to December 31, 2014. 

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works by Yuri Sobolev to the exhibition Isles of Yuri Sobolev at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Ermolayevsky lane 17, Moscow, September 15, 2014 to November 9, 2014.

Art of Oleg Vassiliev: Discovering 20th Century Russian Masters. The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 14, 2011 - February 2012. For more information visit TMORA website. 

The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent art works to the exhibition Authorized for Export from the USSR… at Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina", Moscow. The show on view from June 22 until October 2, 2011.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending artworks to the exhibition Hostages of Voids at the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) in conjunction with 4th Moscow Biennale. The show is on view from September 24 to November 13, 2011.

Concerning the Spiritual Tradition in Russian Art. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Curated by Natalia Kolodzei. Opening Reception on Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 6 to 8 pm at Chelsea Art Museum Home of Miotte Foundation 556 West 22nd Street (@ 11th AVE) New York City Museum hours: Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm Thursdays 11am - 8pm. On Saturdays, April 30, May 7, May 28, June 4, and June 11 at 4 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, will discuss the artworks in this exhibition, as well as the history of Non-Conformist and contemporary Russian art from the time her mother, Tatiana Kolodzei, started their Collection in Moscow through today. Tours free with Museum admission. The reception is on Thursday, May 5, 6 to 9pm. 
On Thursday, June 2 from 6-8pm New Review Poetry Evening and Reception (click here for more info). 
On Thursday, June 9 from 6-8pm SLOVOSFERA - the literary, musical and visual evening with Gennady Katsov (text) and Julian Milkis (clarinet).

The exhibition continues through June 18, 2011. Click here for the press-release or visit www.chelseaartmuseum.org.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned Space Exploration, Photographed by Leonid Lazarev at Russia World Forum, March 29-30, U.S. Senate, Washington DC and Russian Cultural Centre, Washington DC. The exhibition at Russian Cultural Centre continues through June 20, 2011.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent fifteen works on paper to the exhibition No Exit Art: Works on Paper by Nonconformist Artists from the 1950s through the End of Soviet Era to the Museum of Russian Art, 80 Grand St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. The show runs from November 13, 2010 to January 14, 2011.

The Kennan Institute and the Kolodzei Art Foundation present Moscow Grafika: Artists’ Prints 1961 – 2009. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The exhibit will be on view from March 12 to July 20, 2010 at the Woodrow Wilson Center, located at: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004. There will be an opening reception on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 4 to 6PM.  
Moscow Grafika includes works in various mediums of printmaking, including linocut, etching, screenprint, monotype and lithography. Dating from 1961 through the present, the works represent trends in historic non-conformist art as well as traditional and digital mediums in printmaking by artists who worked or working in Moscow. Several generations of non-conformist and independent artists are represented in the exhibition, they include those who began their careers during Khrushchev’s "thaw" of the 1960’s and 1970’s who took part in the first unofficial exhibitions; artists who began working in the perestroika (late 1980's) and the post-perestroika periods; as well as artists who entered the scene more recently during the post-Soviet years.  more.

Kolodzei Art Foundation, and Barbarian Art Gallery by Natasha Akhmerova, in collaboration with Phenomena Project are pleased to present Valery Yershov: Lost Wanderings at White Box, 329 Broome Street, New York, New York. The exhibition will run from February 26 to March 11, 2010. Opening reception: Friday, March 5, 6:30 – 11 pm.

The Kolodzei Art Foundation lent artworks to the exhibition Not Toys?! at the State Tretyakov gallery (September 23 - November 8, 2009 in conjunction with 3rd Moscow Biennale

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