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The Museum of Russian Art
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Minneapolis, MN. 55419
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Ephemeral and Eternal: Holiday Paper Ornaments from the Soviet Union
Through January 15, 2023.

Our annual holiday show focuses on ornaments and holiday accoutrements made from or printed on paper. On display in the Lower Gallery are garlands, tree ornaments, postcards, posters, photographs, newspapers, and magazines produced in the USSR before 1966. Inexpensive and short-lived, paper ornaments are more vulnerable to the inexorable effects of time than items made from sturdier materials, and their survival in collections is indeed a miracle. Our holiday collection was thoughtfully put together by Kim Balaschak during her stay in Moscow in the late 1990s and gifted to the Museum in its entirety in 2021. Kim collected only those that were made before 1966 when it became common to mass-produce holiday decorations for sale in Soviet stores.

The exhibition includes a unique selection of folding honeycomb paper ornaments, on display for the first time at TMORA, as well as hand-made ornaments and the patterns from which such ornaments were made.

Say No to War: Political Cartoons by Ukrainian and Russian Artists
Through end of war
Mezzanine Gallery

TMORA has launched the second round of the Say No to War exhibition of political cartoons by Ukrainian and oppositional Russian artists. The Museum will continue to rotate the display, reiterating its antiwar stance, until the end of this war. We will be adding new artist names, expanding our geographic reach, and introducing new artworks until the unjust and brutal war ends. In this 2nd round of the exhibition, the new names include Serhii Fedko, Dmitry Skazhenik, Oleh Smal, Vadim Siminoga, and Leonid Storozhuk, all from Ukraine, as well as new cartoons by artists represented in the 1st round. These Ukrainian artists live through the unthinkable realities of wartime; and we, as a museum, together with the whole world, say, “Freedom and Victory to Ukraine!”

The exhibition is organized by The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in collaboration with Minnesota artist Andrey Feldshteyn, who has worked in the genre of political cartoons for four decades. At the beginning of the war, Andrey approached a number of artists with an invitation to share their works for this exhibition and they sent their amazing works to be displayed at TMORA.

Andrey writes, “Wars destroy human relationships. But political cartoonists inhabit a country of their own governed by the law of the genre. We collaborate in international projects, express our anti-war sentiment during war-time, and support colleagues who suffer persecution. At the beginning of this war, I wanted to attract artists to a collaborative project exposing the aggressor, pointing to the perpetrator, and uniting artists against our common enemy, Putin’s regime waging a war of aggression in Ukraine.

We contacted prominent masters of the genre asking them to share their recent work. The response was very positive, and now TMORA presents works by Sergey Elkin (Russia/Bulgaria), Leonid Storozhuk (Ukraine), Serhii Fedko (Ukraine), Victor Holub (Ukraine), Oleh Smal (Ukraine), Oleksiy Kustovsky (Ukraine), Yuriy Pogorelov (Ukraine/USA), Sergey Sychenko (Ukraine/Israel), Viacheslav Shilov (Russia), Denis Lopatin (Russia/France), Andrey Feldshteyn, and Alesha Stupin (Russia/USA), as well as several other artists.”

TMORA: 20 Years
Through February 20, 2023
Mezzanine galleries

The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) marks its 20th anniversary with a special exhibition showcasing the Museum’s diverse and rich collections. The exhibition unfolds TMORA’s story, in an attempt to thank all those who contributed to the Museum’s successful emergence, survival and growth, despite economic crises, pandemics, and wars. The Museum has become part of Minnesota’s rich cultural fabric and a source of visual, experiential knowledge about the vast and often troubled region that was the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, now existing as fifteen independent countries. TMORA also presents the opportunity to learn more about the diverse cultures of our fellow Minnesotans, immigrants from the region — some arriving recently to escape the perils of Putin’s regime.

The exhibition features TMORA’s permanent collection including religious icons, paintings, Soviet-era posters and artifacts, peasant crafts, samovars, toys, and other works from the collection. One of the key pieces is the first painting donated to TMORA in 2002 by the Johnson family. A special section is devoted to curiosities that the Museum has accumulated in recent years, such as a brick of tea presented to Nicholas II, when he was still an heir to the Russian throne and a prince traveling in China, a collection of Imperial-era beer bottles, a peasant hand woven floor rug with solar symbolism, and more. TMORA expresses its profound gratitude to all the donors who contributed to the Museum’s remarkable collections.

Capturing the Pristine: Minnesota Artist Peter Ustimchuk
Throguh January 15, 2023
Fireside Gallery

Peter Ustimchuk paints landscapes of Minnesota finding inspiration in his admiration and love for the pristine nature of our northern state. Born in Rivne, Ukraine in 1967, Ustimchuk grew up in a large hard-working family of eight brothers and one sister. In his teenage years, he studied at a Hermitage-affiliated art studio in his native city. In 1985–87, he was drafted into the Soviet Army and served as a designer for the Trans-Baikal military area in eastern Siberia. Released from the service, Ustimchuk applied to the Lviv Art Institute but was rejected because he was not a member of the Komsomol (Young Communist League).

Peter Ustimchuk emigrated to the US in 1989. He owns a construction company in central Minnesota and puts his heart and soul into his work and his art.

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