Tuesday, Friday to Sunday 12:00 – 20:00
Wednesday to Thursday 12:00 – 21:00
Closed Mondays
Ticket office closes 30 minutes
before Museum closing time
Dear visitors! Note that the AZ Museum will be closed from April 1 due to the exposition change.
born 1933
"A TOTAL INSTALLATION IS NOT BEING ROLLED BACK, BUT EMBODIES THE FIGURE OF A PROGRESSIVE CAPTURE, BEING A SORT OF EPIDEMIC WITHOUT BORDERS AND A FORM. A POWER OF A TOTAL INSTALLATION NOT IN ITS SOCIAL, BUT IN A PERSONAL ACTION. EACH PERSON HAS AND WILL HAVE A COMPLETELY UNSOCIALIZED, INDIVIDUAL PAST."
Ilya Kabakov is a painter, experimenting with various forms of abstractionism. In the 1960s, he was an active participant of the dissident artistic expositions in the Soviet Union and abroad. Since 1989 Kabakov has been living and working away from Russia. The artist developed the concept of the "total installation". His works integrate different kinds of art, and a viewer literally could enter the world of the artist, see it from inside, feel it and become a part of it. Ilya Kabakov’s works are in permanent connections in the Tretyakov Gallery, Hermitage, the Russian Museum and other foreign and Russian museums.
By metro
We recommend travelling to Mayakovskaya metro station. The walk to the AZ Museum will take around five minutes. After leaving the station, turn first to the right into the alley, then moving forward, at the first intersection, turn left to 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya street. Walk a few meters. AZ Museum will be on your right.
By car
There are paid parking spaces on either side of 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya street or in the nearest alleys. Parking is limited, and on weekends and public holidays, the parking lots may be full.
