Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

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The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow ( MAMM ) ( Russian Мультимедиа Арт Музей, Москва ) is a state art museum in Moscow with a focus on contemporary art and multimedia projects. It emerged from the Moscow House of Photography and the School of Photography and Multimedia and today has an exhibition area of ​​around 9,000 square meters.

Emergence

The MAMM was founded in 2001 in the Moscow House of Photography, a photography museum that had been in existence since 1996, and was reopened to the public in October 2010 after five years of renovation work. Olga Swiblowa is the director of both the Moscow House of Photography and MAMM .

activities

The MAMM aims to familiarize a wider audience with contemporary and multimedia art. Its purpose is to inform the public about important developments in contemporary art and to encourage the interaction of its visitors with its collections and exhibition projects. For these purposes, in addition to the exhibitions in its own premises, it also organizes ongoing exhibitions in other Moscow institutions, e.g. B. in the New Manege or the Cervantes Institute , in the rest of Russia and abroad, z. B. in Shanghai , Paris or Tallinn . In cooperation with the Moscow House of Photography, around 100 catalogs and themed books have now been published. An average of 30–35,000 visitors per month visit the museum complex.

The museum maintains u. a. a reference library for its visitors with publications on photography, contemporary art and the effects of art on society. Lectures on the history of classical and modern art are held in the auditorium on the ground floor of the MAMM. It also promotes the exchange of artists and photographers with other European art institutions.

location

The museum is located southwest of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Kropotkinskaya metro station on the corner of Ostoshenka Street (Russian: ул. Остоженка, д. 16 ) and Lopukhinsky Street. It is open every day except Monday from noon to 9 p.m.

Exhibition selection

  • 2011: Alexander Rodchenko Revolution in Photography (December 17, 2009 - March 17, 2010); Arctic (September 8-18, 2011); Fascinating Documents from the Archive of Artistic Photography in the Rhineland (AFORK) (May 19 - July 7, 2011).
  • 2012: Alec Soth - La Belle Dame sans Merci in the Central Exhibition Hall , Manege (Moscow) .
  • 2012: The Magic of Animation (December 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013); Ariadne's Thread (November 27-28, 2012); Charlie Chaplin (November 30, 2012 - February 14, 2013).
  • 2012: Liu Bolin : Hide in the City .
  • 2013: Utopia and Reality? El Lissitzky , Ilja and Emilia Kabakow (September 17 - November 17, 2013); Oscar Rabin Graphics. 1950s - 1960s (July 18 - September 8, 2013); Playtime - Videogame Mythologies (July 18 - September 8, 2013).
  • 2014: Arkadiy Shaikhet Photographs 1932–1941 (September 19 - November 23, 2014); Russia in VOGUE (October 16 - December 14, 2014); FREEDOM NOT GENIUS Works from Damien Hirst's collection (September 30, 2013 - February 2, 2014).
  • 2015: Alfred Eisenstaedt The Father of Photojournalism (April 15 - May 24, 2015); Rodchenko School. Generation Next (September 23 - October 29, 2015); Russia. 20th century in photographs 1918–1940 (October 7 - November 9, 2015); Dmitri Baltermants Arbat Square (November 5 - November 13, 2015).
  • 2016: Cristina García Rodero Open-Mouthed (February 17 - March 17, 2016); Modernism in Japanese photography. 1930s. Osamu Shiihara (March 11th - May 9th 2016); Hein Gorny New Objectivity and Industry. Products and Image Design 1920s – 1930s in Germany (April 15 - June 19, 2016); ZERO group : Günther Uecker , Heinz Mack , Otto Piene (September 24 - November 13, 2016).
  • 2017: Michail Prischwin Photographs and Diaries. 1929-1936 (February 3 - March 26, 2017); Jeanloup Sieff Master of high style (June 1 - August 6, 2017).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] . In: Российская газета , October 12, 2010, accessed September 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: "Russian Dreams". Retrieved September 24, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.russiandreams.info
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Coordinates: 55 ° 44 ′ 30 "  N , 37 ° 35 ′ 54.9"  E