This exhibition will acquaint visitors with the work of Leonid Kolibaba, a renowned St. Petersburg-based sculptor, graphic artist and educator, and member of the Ozerki Artists’ Village informal art group. It will spotlight approximately 70 of the artist’s sculptures and graphic artworks from over the years, exploring his most frequently revisited subjects: people’s everyday lives and the world they live in. The works are of a philosophical and mythological bent, focusing on themes such as history, war, power and faith, and invoking images of Christian saints, literary characters, and his contemporaries. Kolibaba accords a special place in his art to the subject of maternity and the image of Isis, which he uses in multiple permutations as a symbol of “the beginning of all beginnings”, encompassing all stages of human life from conception to death. Through images with multiple meanings, Kolibaba also explores inviolable spiritual truths in his series of watercolours, monotypes and mixed media works.
Leonid Kolibaba’s thematic series draw on ancient mythology and folklore, with allegoric images filled with the earthly and cosmic energies that sustain the world of living nature. This goes a long way towards explaining Kolibaba’s love of wood, a medium most conducive to an object’s harmonious interaction with the environment.
Improvement Committee of St. Petersburg, ANO Free Artists of St. Petersburg and Logistic group "Admiral" has assisted in making this exhibition possible.
“He Conquered Both Time and Space...” 225th Anniversary of Alexander Pushkin’s Birth
7 June—9 December 2024
This is the first ever large-scale exhibition held in the Russian Museum to address the genius of Russian and world culture, whose anniversary will be an international event. The museum rich depositories enable to characterize the oeuvre of the great writer most fully and diversely and to reconstruct the cultural and historical background, which witnessed the formation and heyday of Pushkin’s unique talent.
Military Parades: Porcelain and Watercolour
15 December 2023—13 May 2024
The exhibition is dedicated to a hundred-year-old tradition of producing decorative “military plates” depicting imperial army uniforms. Besides plates, the exhibition includes drawings and lithographs that served as sources or preliminary studies for paintings by such famous artists of the “uniform” genre.
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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