Vadim Sidur Museum

About museum

The Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Moscow, dedicated to the work of Vadim Sidur, a sculptor, artist and poet known in Russia and abroad and a prominent representative of Soviet unofficial art, was opened in 1987 in the Perovsky District. More than 15,000 people visited the exhibition in seven weeks, and in 1989 it received official museum status. Today the Vadim Sidur Museum is part of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and serves as a place for storing and presenting the artist's legacy, as well as a platform for discussion of current cultural issues. The museum's collection contains more than 1,000 of Sidur's works, archival materials and photographs of the sculptor. The exhibition, prepared by the museum together with the artist Anna Titova, represents an intersection of different levels of artistic and social reality: from analysis of forms and materials in Sidur's work to a reassessment of the museum's role and the public's potential in the production of historical memory.