Natalia Kolodzei - The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art

The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art

The Kolodzei Art Foundation often utilizes the artistic resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art is now one of the world's largest private art collections, containing over 7,000 works by over 300 artists, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and videos, all from Russia and the former Soviet Union from the 1950s through today. The Collection was started by Tatiana Kolodzei in Moscow during the late 1960s at the height of the Cold War.

There are now over 300 artists in the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. The Collection includes works by such well known artists of the 1960s and 1970s as Ilya Kabakov, Komar and Melamid, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Pyotr Belenok, Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Bela Levikova, Mikhail Shvartsman, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Lamm, Valeri Yurlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Anatoly Zverev, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Dmitri Plavinsky, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vladimir Yakovlev, and many others. There are artists of the 1980s and 1990s such as Andrei Budaev, Shimon Okshteyn, Farid Bogdalov, Olga Bulgakova, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Genia Chef, Leonid Borisov, Andrei Karpov, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Sergei Volokhov, Valery Koshlyakov, Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Filipov, Semen Agroskin, Mamut Churlu, Tatiana Antoshina, and others.

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