The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852. The Art Newspaper ranked the museum 10th in their list of the most visited art museums, with 2,812,913 visitors in 2022.
The State Russian Museum, formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list of most-visited art museums in the world.
Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Oleg Yuriyevich Buryan is a Russian artist, who lived in Moscow from the 1980s. In 2012, he moved to St-Petersburg, where he joined the St-Petersburg Union of Artists. He belongs to the first generation of post-Soviet creators, integrated in the international context.
Elena Petrovna Skuin was a Soviet, Russian–Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher. She lived and worked in Leningrad and was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.She is regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of paintingand is most famous for her still life paintings.
VitaliV is a contemporary British artist, sharing his time between the UK and Italy studios. He creates abstract art inspired by patterns in microchips. He initially referred to his artistic style based on microchips computer design as "digital art" but the term seemed too generic, and the artist soon decided in favour of "schematism" – the term he invented himself to represent his signature style. Some of his works have been laser-cut in relief and then hand-painted as 3D objects.
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Yaroslav Levchenko Yury is a Russian artist based in Greece. He is a member of the Japanese Union of Modern Artists, International Association of Art Critics, and heads the International Relations Department at the Mural Department of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg.
Yevgeny Ilyich Ukhnalev was a Russian contemporary artist and the honorary Russian state artist.
Tatiana Vasilyevna Badanina is a Russian visual artist.
Vitaly Pushnitsky is a Russian artist. He is considered one of Russia's leading contemporary artists. He is based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and is internationally recognized as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and as a creator of installations, art objects and multimedia.
Dmitry Alexandrovich Shorin is an artist and sculptor.
Alexander Romanovich Oligerov(born February 22, 1965, Temirtau, Russia) is a Russian artist and a member of the Russian Union of Artists.
Dmitry Kawarga born in Moscow, Russia is a Russian artist. Kawarga began working in his own style of "biomorphism" striving to create a synthesis of science, art and technology. His art is featured in numerous museums and is part of the permanent collection of Erarta, Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art located in Saint Petersburg.
Erarta Galleries are the three galleries established in the 2010s in London (UK), Hong Kong (China) and St. Petersburg (Russia) with a goal to promote contemporary art in the corresponding country and outside its borders. The project itself is a private institution. A promotional process is based on reinvestments from sales of art pieces back into the project. In 2016, two of these galleries were closed; only the gallery in St. Petersburg survived up to now.
Vladimir Sakhnenko was a painter and ceramist, and a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1967. He is the father of artist Ivan Sakhnenko.
Dmitry Zhukov is a Russian sculptor, known for monumental metal works made in the technique of forging, a member of the Russian Artists' Union.
Olga Lomaka is a Russian gallerist, contemporary artist and curator. Her style is known for working primarily within the pop-art movement, combining diverse materials and techniques in her pieces. Lomaka is actively exhibiting worldwide, participating in global art-fairs and biennales. She was named the Best Artist of the Year and won The Annual Award at the Aurora European Awards in Moscow in 2014. She was also awarded the title Fashion Artist of the Year by the Fashion TV Channel in Moscow in 2013.
Alex Andreev is a Russian artist working in digital painting, using virtual and augmented reality in his artworks.
