Kolodzei Art Foundation
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The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc.[1] promotes the contemporary art of Russia and the former Soviet Union . The Kolodzei Art Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation founded in 1991, arranges art exhibitions in museums, universities and cultural centers throughout the United States, Russia and Europe. Its Board of Directors includes distinguished business, diplomatic and cultural figures in US-European-Russian relations. In addition, the Kolodzei Art Foundation provides art supplies to artists in Russia and the former Soviet Union , arranges Russian-American cultural exchanges and grants financial stipends to artists for the purpose of studying and working in the United States .
Exhibitions
The Kolodzei Art Foundation coordinates, finances, transportation, insurance, and other related costs of conducting exhibitions. All exhibitions are non-commercial (the works are not for sale) and open to the public. The Kolodzei Art Foundation borrows artwork from various private and public sources for the purpose of arranging exhibitions throughout the United States , Russia and Europe . In particular, the Kolodzei Art Foundation takes advantage of the opportunity to borrow works for these exhibitions from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The joint collection of Tatiana Kolodzei and her daughter, Natalia Kolodzei, has now grown to over 7,000 objects, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, by more than 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union . The Kolodzei Collection chronicles four decades of Russian and Soviet nonconformist art from the post-Stalinist era to the present.
Recent Exhibitions
Recent exhibitions curated or supported by the Kolodzei Art Foundation include Vadim Voinov: The State Hermitage under a Full Moon at the State Hermitage Museum[2](St. Petersburg), Works on Paper: Soviet and Russian Art 1955-2005 from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art at the Brooklyn College Library (Brooklyn, NY), Young American Artists of Today at the Central House of Artists (Moscow) and the Bergan Museum of Art and Science(Paramus, NJ), and Historic MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay to Argentina in 20th Century at the MADI Museum (Dallas, Texas).
Publishing Books on Soviet and Russian Art
Books published or sponsored by the Kolodzei Art Foundation include Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations); Art Constitution: The Illustrated Constitution of the Russian Federation; Vadim Voinov: The State Hermitage Museum under a Full Moon; and Hurricane of Time. Turn of the Century, Close of the Millennium. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art (1960 - 2000).
Russian-American Cultural Exchanges and Artists in Resident Program
The Kolodzei Art Foundation seeks to encourage and promote the advancement and development of former Soviet artists by arranging for the artists to take up residence for the purpose of studying and working in the United States . In addition to arranging the necessary financing for such trips, the Kolodzei Art Foundation helps organize and coordinate such necessary matters as transportation, accommodations, and academic work opportunities for the artists. The completion of many of these arrangements will primarily be accomplished by way of personal contacts made by the Kolodzei Art Foundation's Directors. The application process is open to the public and requires artists to submit written proposals demonstrating their entitlement to participate in this program. Applications are reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors or their representatives.
Funding for the Kolodzei Art Foundation's activities is derived exclusively from charitable contributions made by public and private sources, including individuals and corporations. These charitable contributions are solicited from several sources. For example, the Kolodzei Art Foundation receives contributions from art supply companies, art collectors and patrons around the world with whom Ms. Kolodzei has worked in the past, persons who have visited the collection in Moscow , and other persons and organizations interested in supporting the arts. The solicitations may be both oral and written. Distributions from these accounts are made only in furtherance of the organization's charitable, cultural, and educational activities, as described by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and only after the Kolodzei Art Foundation’s Board of Directors, in its absolute discretion, has given approval to such distributions. All funds raised by the organization are applied towards expenses related to the organization's charitable, cultural, and educational activities.
[edit] Artists in the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
Natalia Abalakova, Gia Abramishvili, Andrei Abramov, Semen Agroskin, Yurii Albert, Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Juri Arrak
Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Alexander Bandzeladze, Andrei Basanets, Pyotr Belenok, Anatolii Belkin, Leonid Berlin, Ilmars Blumbergs, 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, Mikhail Chernyshev, Ivan Chuikov, Mamut Churlu
Irina Danilova, Ruma Daurova, Vitalii Dlugy, Asya Dodina
Gia Edzgveradze, Henry Elibekian, Maria Elkonina, Natalia Elkonina
Vladimir Feoktistov, Nikolai Filatov, Andrei Filippov,
Rimma and Valeri Gerlovin, Dimitrii Gerrman, Marina Gertsovskaia, Gnezdo (Mikhail Roshal, Gennadii Donskoi, Viktor Skersis), Eduard Gorokhovsky, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Nonna Goriunova
Temur Yakobashvili, Francisco Infante, Engel Iskhakov
Ilya Kabakov, Karlo Kacharava, Viacheslav Kalinin, Natalia Kamenetskaia, Otari Kandaurov, Tatiana Kandaurova, Andrei Karpov, Marina Karpova, Elena Kallistova, Aleksander Kharitonov, Aleksei Kvostenko, Georgy Kizevalter, Komar and Melamid, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Ivan Kolesnikov, Marina Kolotvina, Valerii Kolotvin, Natta Konysheva, Aleksandr Kosolapov, Natalia Kostaki, Georgy Kovenchuk, Zhanna Kovenchuk, Boris Kozlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Evgeni Kropivnitsky, Lev Kropivnitsky, Valentina Kropivnitskaia, Mikhail Koulakov, Ene Kull
Leonid Lamm, Leonhard Lapin, Luka Lasareishvili, Valentina Lebedeva-Lesin, Malle Leis, Tatiana Levitskaia, Vladimir Lemport, Bela Levikova, Georgii Litichevsky
Igor Makarevich, Lydia Masterkova, Konstantin Malakhov, Raul Meel, Andrei Medvedev, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov
Natalia Nesterova, Ernst Neizvestny, Vladimir Nemukhin, Igor Nezhivoi
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
Valerii Pianov, Alexander Petrov, Leonid Pinchevsky, Vladimir Piatnitskii, Viktor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Slava Polishchuk
Oscar Rabine, Andrei Roiter, Mikhail Roginsky, Samuil Rubashkin
Vitalii Sazonov, Aidan Salakhova, SanSan (Alexander Karasev), Natalia Shibanova, Eduard Shteinberg, Mikhail Shvartsman, Alexander Sigutin, Alexander Sitnikov, Natalia Sitnikova, Oleg Slepov, Anatolii Slepyshev, Yuri Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Ullo Sooster, Birute Stancikaite
Margarita Tatieva, Aleksei Tiapushkin, Igor Tiulpanov, Oleg Timchenko, Mamuka Tsetskhladze, Natalia Turnova
Oleg Vassiliev, Yakov Vinkovetsky, Aili Vint, Mare Vint, Tonis Vint, Vadim Voinov, Diana Vouba, Sergei Volokhov
Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Valeri Yurlov
Alexander Zakharov, Anatolii Zhuravlev, Boris Zhutovsky, Gennadii Zubkov, Anatolii Zverev
[edit] References
- Kolodzei Art Foundation and Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
- Vadim Voinov: The State Hermitage under a Full Moon from the Hermitage website
- Norton Dodge and Alla Rosenfeld, eds. From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
- Soviet Nonconformist Art
- Norton Dodge
