Moskovskiy Dom Fotografii
White-cube contemporary art center in a renovated building, with a soaring atrium and rehabilitated Soviet-era photography.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Moscow House of Photography traces Alexander Rodchenko, the radical nineteen-twenties photographer whose tilted, geometric images were denounced as bourgeois formalism, forcing him to publish a formal confession in nineteen thirty-five. It follows what came next: propaganda work, expulsion from the Union of Artists in nineteen fifty-one, and the slow restoration of his name through his wife's efforts. Curator Olga Sviblova later founded Russia's first state institution devoted to photography here, on Ostozhenka street. His negatives sat half-forgotten for decades before that.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
«Гараж»
Soviet-era restaurant reborn as a contemporary art space behind a glowing polycarbonate shell in a city park.
Winzavod
Former wine and beer factory turned sprawling contemporary art cluster of galleries, studios and cafes.
Музей русского импрессионизма
Converted candy factory galleries devoted to overlooked masters of Russian Impressionist painting.
New Tretyakov Gallery
Soviet modernist gallery of twentieth and twenty-first century Russian art beside a graveyard of toppled Soviet statues.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Neoclassical museum whose vaults once secretly held Dresden's rescued Old Master paintings.
State Pushkin Museum
Empire-style noble mansion with soaring Ionic columns, tracing the poet's life and era through room after room of manuscripts and portraits.