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.
On January 28, the Moscow-based private Museum of Anatoly Zverev for the first time presented the exhibition at the State Russian Museum. The project “Icons / Faces / Masks” opened at the Marble Palace and features portraits by the Sixtiers and by several contemporary artists. The exposition includes pieces by Anatoly Zverev, Oleg Tselkov, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Eduard Steinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Grisha Bruskin, Sergey Shutov and others.
The exhibition ”Icons / Faces / Masks” examines metamorphoses in portraiture of the 20th and 21st centuries and marks the 90th anniversary of Anatoly Zverev (1931–1986), one of the brightest representatives of the Moscow nonconformist art movement of the 1960-s. In 2021 this art project was realized with great success in the AZ Museum in Moscow, but for the Marble palace new design project was created that included modern expositional solutions. Also 20 more art works were added in the Saint Petersburg exhibit.
The exposition includes the most striking artworks by Anatoly Zverev, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Dmitry Plavinsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Oleg Tselkov, Mikhail Shemyakin, Leonid Kropivnitsky, Mikhail Shpindler, Boris Sveshnikov and Vyacheslav Kalinin, Eduard Steinberg, Leonid Purygin, Ivan Lubennikov, Natalia Nesterova, Leonid Rotar, Natalia Turnova, Grigory Bruskin and photographs of artists captured by Anatoly Brusilovsky and Igor Palmin.
Polina Lobachevskaya, the curator of the exhibition, chose these famous lines of lyric poetry by Afanasy Fet as the inspiration for the project: “A lot of magical changes of a dear face…” because the exposition is centered on the drama of the face.
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.