Collection of Saint Petersburg the Russian Museum, Málaga

By means of a hundred pieces dating from the period between the XV and

XX centuries that are specially selected for Málaga, in addition to the works,

each year two temporary exhibitions will be integrated. Agreement signed

by Málaga City Council and the mother Museum in St. Petersburg, allows a

permanent dialog between Russian artistic creation and visitors.

The collection

Works chosen for the first year cover from icons inspired by the Byzantine

tradition to the socialist realism of the Soviet era: an impressive set of pieces

ranging from the small size up to monumental pieces. These works bear

witness to the rich Russian artistic legacy in the past few centuries, with

worldwide and well-known names of the Russian and Soviet art, such as

Repin, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Rodchenko o Chagall, until other authors that will

be a discovery for visitors. Here these latter will also find a centre that, in

addition, will offer two temporary exhibitions each year, with works selected

from among the more than 400,000 ones that the State Russian Museum

treasures in St. Petersburg.

These works will be continuously enveloped by a non-stop and varied cultural

offer by means of guided tours, film screenings and concerts that help

to know the great wealth of the Russian art in the best way: from orthodox

devotion that represent icons with a gold background, to the middle-class

tradition of portrait or landscape, to the great upheavals of the cubist,

cube-futuristic and constructivist avant-gardes, and to the social message

of socialist realism. All the ups and downs of the Russian art will be present

in the Collection of Russian Museum, St. Petersburg/ Málaga, which is the

first stable and permanent relationship between a Russian museum and a

Spanish city.

The permanent exhibition of the Collection of the Russian Museum,

St. Petersburg/Malaga is divided into nine thematic areas: the old

Russian art, the XVIII century, Romanticism in Russia, Realism, Realism

with Russian topics, the movement of “World of Art” and Neoprimitivism,

the Avant-garde, Socialist Realism and art in the Melting

Era that was experienced after the death of Stalin.