Gallery 'Our Artists'

About museum

Gallery 'Our Artists' has existed since 1995. In 2004 it created its own museum-type exhibition space in a three-storey building in Borki on the Rublyovo–Uspenskoye Highway; in the autumn of 2012 it moved to central Moscow, to 2 Sechenovsky Lane. Both premises were designed by the well-known Moscow architect Evgeny Ass.

The gallery's main focus is Russian art of the early 20th century. An important area of work is acquainting the public with the output of Russian artists who were first-wave émigrés: Yuri Annenkov, Léon Bakst, Alexander Benois, Natalia Goncharova, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Zinaida Serebriakova, Alexander Serebriakov, Savelii Sorin, Nikolai Tarkhov, Pavel Tchelitchev, Elena d'Ettingen and others. Gallery 'Our Artists' was the first in Russia to present the work of émigré artists Sergey Polyakov, Sergey Sharshun, Andrei Lanskoy and Nicolas de Staël at the exhibition 'Russian Abstraction in Mid-20th-Century France' (2006) and organized two retrospective exhibitions of Pavel Tchelitchev (2006/2007, 2011).

The gallery focuses on systematic private collections. Two exhibitions — 'Exhibition of Paintings from Private Collections in Memory of Solomon Shuster (1934–1995)' (2005) and 'In Memory of the Collector Alexander Zavolokin' (2010) — demonstrated the personal and artistic scope of these collectors. A number of projects were devoted to the 'second avant-garde' — the Sixtiers: 'Vasily Sitnikov' (2009), 'Not All Cooper' (2010), 'Alexander Kharitonov. Resurrection' (2012), 'Weisberg. From Color to Light' (2018). All the gallery's exhibitions are accompanied by catalogs or monographs.

The gallery collaborates with museums, exhibiting their works in its shows ('Russian Abstraction in Mid-20th-Century France' (2006), 'Aristarkh Lentulov. The Flesh of Things' (2014) and others) and, at museums' requests, providing works from private collections.