A New Museum of Art of Russia and the Global South

Abstract

The Russian Art Gallery, a large federal museum, is being built in Sevastopol. The new museum will feature a collection of Russian art of the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries and art of the Global South. The gallery is part of a project to build cultural and educational centers in four Russian cities in order to decentralize cultural life and base it in the country’s regions. The Russian Art Gallery aspires to gradually introduce the art of the Global South to the public and potentially become a new cultural center that will set trends and make meaning. At the same time, the museum seeks its own unique character. When the museum opens, two exhibitions are to be organized to show a view of the same era from two different corners of the world. The exhibitions are expected to exhibit works by Aleksandr Deyneka who perceived a perfect society in his own unique way, and those by Diego Rivera, a renowned Mexican painter. The museum’s collection of contemporary Latin American art will be the first in Russia; therefore, it should represent all the main types of art and major cultural phenomena of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Keywords

• russian art gallery
• global south
• russian art
• global south art
• latin american art
• cultural and educational center