Oleg Vassiliev was born in Moscow in 1931 and was one of the leading figures in the Russian "unofficial" art movement. Since 1990, the artist lives and works in New York. 
In his art Vassiliev combines the traditions of Russian Realism of the 19th century with the Russian avant-garde of the beginning of the 20th century. Vassiliev’s principal themes, which were born while he was in Russia and continue to the present day, are his memories of home and houses, roads, forests, fields, friends and family. 
Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations) reflects the artist’s career from 1949 to the present day.

Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations)

Andrew Solomon

Amei Wallach

Yevgenia Petrova

Margarita Tupitsyn

Victor Tupitsyn

Ilya Kabakov

Eric Bulatov

Natalia Kolodzei

Arts & Photography

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Book for exhibition "Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon" at. General Staff Building, the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. October 25, 2005 - February 25, 2006. The exhibition has been organized by The State Hermitage Museum, in the collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA), Atellier II Gallery of Art ( Moscow ), Kultur Kontakt Foundation ( Vienna , Austria ), Pechatny Dvor Printers ( St. Petersburg ), Dean Publishers ( St. Petersburg ) and Free Culture Foundation ( St. Petersburg ). Vadim Voinov was born 1940 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg ) and lives and works in St. Petersburg . In his works, Voinov uses a technique he himself created--functional collage--intended to reconstruct the history of Czarist, revolutionary, Soviet and contemporary Russia . In the 1960’s and 1970’s Voinov studied the history of early St. Petersburg architecture. An art historian himself, he published articles and undertook archeological expeditions. His devotion to archeology and understanding of the significance of each object introduced into his work a historical significance. He developed functional collage beginning in 1979. The objects used in Voinov’s works acquire a new historical meaning. Voinov’s works are laconic in their composition. For this installation Voinov chose the unrenovated interiors of the General Staff Building on Palace Square . The exhibition consists of collages and installations made of authentic found objects on themes connected with the newest history of Russia . There are 73 works represented in the exhibition, installed in five rooms. Each group of collages and separate installations are thematically connected and titled: Red Wall; Circle-The father of a square; The Viennese Set; and others. The installation of the exhibition is an artwork in itself. The book for the exhibition includes 17 essays with 110 illustrations. Each copy of the catalogue is marked by an original, unique object: a stamp from the 1920’s-1940’s with the image of a soldier ("Voinov" can be translated into English as "soldier"). Edition: 500 copies.

Vadim Voinov: The State Hermitage Museum under a Full Moon

Vladimir Matveev

Tatiana Kolodzei

Irina Karasik

Andrei Chezhin

New Angelarium (English and Russian Edition)

Vasiliy Tsereteli

Kolesnikov Denisov

Liya Adashevskaya

Sergey Popov

co-published by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc.

Alexandre Sitnikov was born in 1945. He lives and works in Moscow. Sitnikov graduated from the Surikov Art Academy in 1972. Drawing his inspiration on a variety of sources, from Surrealism to Egyptian art, his paintings are brightly colored and heavily layered. Combining color with surreal symbolical imagery, the artist often has recurring subjects in his art his family, self-portraits, or composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Alfred Schnittke, as well as allegorical and mythological motifs. In his art, the interplay of color relationships and its connotations and drama where geometrical and sensual, emotional and rational create an intellectual playground with humanitarian signs and symbols of civilization. Sitnikov is the recipient of the National Award of Russia in Fine Arts and member of the Russian Academy of Arts. The book Alexander Sitnikov reflects the artist s career from 1963 to the present day and was published in conjunction with artist retrospective exhibition Olga Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings. Objects. at the State Tretyakov Gallery. (the book is in English and Russian)

Alexander Sitnikov (English and Russian Edition)

Alexander Borovsky

Barbara Thiemann

Knigi WAM

From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation. Catalogue for the exhibition at the Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN, September 15, 2018 - February 10, 2019. The project Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation is a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, covering three generations of artists, from the 1960's to the present. The show includes paintings, works on paper, photography, video, and interactive installations. Arranged thematically, the exhibition features the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists. It is a visual exploration of the development and accomplishments of women artists from Russia emphasizing the importance of media experimentation for contemporary Russian women artists in defining their identity.

From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation

Alison Hilton

Maria Zavialova

Kolodzei Art Foundation

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