16 July — 11 October 2026
Stepan Erzia. A Mythology of Sculpture
Work by the sculptor who carved quebracho and algarrobo: in his hands wood holds shapes impossible in marble.
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On the same subject
15 May — 7 September 2026 · 17 days left
A hundred artists, designers and makers from across Russia, chosen by the project’s curator. This year’s theme is the image of the future held by those who work with the inheritance of their forebears. In the exhibition complex on Revolution Square.
10 June — 11 October 2026
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Tretyakov bought icons in the nineties, a few years before his death. Of this part of his collecting least is known. Sixty-odd panels of the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, many of them shown for the first time: the Novgorod «Predsta Tsaritsa» of the fifteenth century, the Igorevskaya Virgin of Tenderness from the beginning of the sixteenth, work of the tsars’ and the Stroganov masters, got together with the help of dealers and of men who knew old things. Apart from these it is told how the icons came into the rooms of the Gallery and how they travelled Europe in 1929–1932; second floor of the Engineering Building.
4 August — 1 November 2026
Over seven hundred objects: sculpture and painting of Russian Buddhism, almost none of it shown before. More than a hundred sculptures were conserved for the opening.
27 March — 1 November 2026
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More than 150 sheets that almost never leave the store: pastel sheds under light and movement and is rarely shown. Halls 49–54.