Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts

Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts
Established 2009
Location Russia, Saint Petersburg, 27/2 Marshal Tukhachevsky St. (Business Hotel «Karelia», II floor)
Type Sculpture Gallery
Director Sophia Kasim
Website www.sculptureinrussia.com

The Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts (Russian: Галерея Современной Скульптуры и Пластики), or Sculpture Gallery, is an art gallery in Saint Petersburg which was opened in 2009. Its founder and director is Sophia Kasim.

The Sculpture Gallery is the first modern exhibition center in St. Petersburg, which was created for exhibition and popularization this kind of art. It mainly deals with exhibitions, including traveling, exchanging and landscape. It is included in the All-Russia Museum Registry.

The tendency of contemporary Russian and foreign sculpture development is in high light, from the second part of 20th century till nowadays. Theme exhibitions take place three times a year and they show the variety of branches, styles and schools of such plastic arts as sculpture, object, installation and miniature. The materials are very different, from traditional (metal, wood, stone) to unusual (cellulose, foam plastic, cardboard).

One of the features of the gallery is exhibiting of landscape sculpture. According to the founders’ idea, exhibitions of landscape sculpture in the gallery give an opportunity to realize challenging projects, to show broad spectrum of people the works which are very difficult to exhibit and to draw attention of professionals and connoisseurs of this kind art.

Artists

Oleg Zhogin Oleg (sculpture), Alexander Molev (sculpture), Iulia Muradova (sculpture, graphics), Vladimir Zhukov (painting, graphics), Tarasy Troshin (sculpture), Yevgeny Dukhovny (sculpture), Marina Spivak (sculpture), Alexander Pozin (sculpture), Inna Pozina (sculpture), Galina Pisareva (sculpture, painting), Sergey Borisov (sculpture), Idar Ishemgulov (sculpture), Vitaly Vargachev (sculpture), Andrey Efimov (sculpture), Mikhail Edomsky (sculpture, painting), Yevgeny Rotanov (sculpture)

Exhibition projects

Publications

Album Sculpture Gallery-2009 (pdf)

External links

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