Russian Art Archive Network

An international online platform, initiated by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, bringing together archives on Russian art from the postwar period to the present
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Catalogue

A regularly updated catalogue of the archives, documents, and other materials in the Russian Art Archive Network
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Thematic Selections

Cross-cutting lists of archive materials brought together based on theme, genre or movement from various collections in the RAAN catalogue
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Research

Research and articles based on materials from the archives; interviews with experts, critics, and artists; firsthand stories about the personal archives in the collections
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Tantssoyuz Information and Research Center

  • Andrei Korolenko Archive
  • Kipling Dance Team Archive

Archive of Artistic Life in Zapolyarye

  • Archive of the Art Scene in Apatity

Tomsk Contemporary Art Archive

  • Tomsk Contemporary Art Archive

Archive of Voronezh Contemporary Art

  • Archive of Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art

Belgorod Oblast Art Scene Archive

  • Belgorod Oblast Art Scene Archive
  • Belgorod Oblast Archive of Experimental Underground Music

Smolensk Archive: A Different Local History, Russia

  • The Collection of Smolensk Archive: A Different Local History

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

  • Nikolai Nasedkin archive
  • Documentation of Creative Projects by the Baltic Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
  • Documents of Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Projects
  • Documentation of Creative Projects by the Siberian branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
  • Leonid Bazhanov Collection
  • Alexandra Mitlyanskaya Archive
  • Maria Dreznina Archive

Tikhaya Studio, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

  • Tikhaya Studio Archive

Saratov Contemporary Art Archive

  • The Saratov Contemporary Art Archive

Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia

  • Victoria gallery archive

Yeltsin Center

  • Marina Sokolovskaya Archive

Centre for Culture CC19

  • Centre for Culture CC19 Archive

Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts

  • Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts Archive
  • Nizhny Tagil Artists’ Foundation

Togliatti Museum of Fine Art, Russia

  • Togliatti Museum of Fine Arts archive

Museum of contemporary art PERMM

  • Museum of contemporary art “PERMM” foundation

Archive of Contemporary Art in Krasnodar Krai

  • Archive of Contemporary Art in Krasnodar Krai
  • Sochi Art Scene Archive

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia

  • Street art archive
  • Moscow Art Magazine archive
  • Alexander Kamensky archive
  • Alexei Shchusev archive (The Archive of the All-Russia Agricultural and Artisanal Industrial Exhibition)
  • Andrei Remizov (Chirkov) Archive
  • Boris Sveshnikov Archive
  • Vadim Zakharov archive
  • Vladimir Nemukhin Archive
  • Vladimir Uflyand Archive
  • Gennady Abramov Archive
  • Georgy Kursanov Achive
  • Ivan Sotnikov Archive
  • Igor Mukhin Archive
  • Igor Pyatkin archive
  • Lena Popova Archive
  • Lyalya Kuznetsova Archive
  • Margarita Masterkova‑Tupitsynа and Viktor Agamov‑Tupitsyn archive
  • Muza Yegorova (Yegorova-Troitskaya) archive
  • Olga Danilkina archive
  • Serge Sédrac archive
  • Sofya Adlivankina Archive
  • Francisco Infante-Arana Archive
  • Archive of the Alternative Culture of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Archive of the New Drama movement (1990–2010s)
  • Archive of Evgenii Garkusha’s project I Am Not An Artist
  • Archive of Prewar Soviet Periodical Literature About Japanese Contemporary Art
  • Garage Video Documentation
  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art institutional archive
  • Garage Interviews
  • Sergei Gordeev Book Collection
  • L Gallery archive
  • Galeev Gallery Archive
  • Art Projects Foundation archive
  • Andrei Khlobystin archive
  • Viktor Pivovarov archive
  • Vladislav Mamyshev‑Monroe archive
  • Vyacheslav Kuristyn library
  • George Kiesewalter archive
  • Elena Kovylina archive
  • Igor Makarevich archive
  • Igor Palmin archive
  • Joseph Backstein archive
  • Irina Aktuganova and Sergey Busov archive
  • Leonid Talochkin archive
  • Lyubov Gurevich Archive
  • Mikhail Nazarov archive
  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art archive
  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art archive in St. Petersburg
  • Natalia Ovsyannikova Archive
  • Natalia Samkova archive
  • Nina Zaretskaya (TV Gallery) archive
  • Oleg Karavaichuk Archive
  • Sergey Chubraev archive
  • Stanislav Savitski archive
  • Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
  • Navicula Artis Gallery Archive
  • Moscow Pallete Gallery archive
  • Shkola Gallery archive
  • Factory of Found Clothes Group/FFC archive
  • Garage Interviews. Conversations with Artists, Curators, and Art Historians
  • An Undying Flow of Ideas: Ephemera from Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery
  • The Very Words. A Poetic Selection by Garage
  • Trips Out of Town archive and MANI Buchgalterium Anthology
  • Vasily Sitnikov archive
  • Vladimir Alejnikov archive
  • Vladimir Supik Archive
  • Gogol Center Archive
  • Archive of Sergey Borisov
  • Meyerhold Center Archive
  • Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe's Things
  • Andrei Monastyrski's video diary
  • Inclusive Practices in Culture
  • The Artist's Book. Independent Publishing Practices. A Thematic Selection by Garage
  • Anthologies of the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI)
  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Theater Archive
  • XL Gallery archive
  • Galina Smirnskaya Archive
  • Gennady Prikhodko collection
  • Institute of Contemporary Art and Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Archive
  • Margarita Gromova archive
  • Natalia Kamenetskaya archive
  • Aidan Gallery archive

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, USA

  • Moscow Archive of New Art

The Research Centre for East European Studies (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa), Germany

  • Boris Groys and Natalya Nikitina archive
  • Igor Golomshtok archive
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Bolotyan IlmiraPoor Yuri! Or the Story of a Friendship
Nohrina YanaFactory of Found Clothes Institutions
Shirokostup OlgaArtistic Practices and Their Own Public: A Local History of Artistic Processes in Apatity
Kozlov DmitryLeningrad writers of the 1950s-1970s in Vladimir Uflyand’s photoalbum
Lugamanova RayaInclusive Practices at Garage. Visitors with Developmental Disabilities
Lugamanova RayaInclusive Practices at Garage
Kirillova AleksandraLeonid Talochkin's [social] circle. A to Z index. II
Kirillova AleksandraLeonid Talochkin's [social] circle. A to Z index. I
Skotnikov KonstantinLocal Histories of Art. Novosibirsk
The Second Conference of the Russian Art Archive Network
Gakhova IrinaIndependent TV Shows on Art. Nina Zaretskaya Archive (TV Gallery Art Media Center)
Tarasova NastyaArticles on unofficial Soviet art
Udovydchenko MariaCyber‑Femin‑Club in St. Petersburg
Udovydchenko MariaYou wanna party? You got it!
Kotyleva AnastasijaMalevich’s Garden
Udovydchenko MariaAesthetic Extremism
Kotyleva AnastasijaKharms Characters
Kotyleva AnastasijaExhibitions on the bridge
Kotyleva AnastasijaThe Movement of a Tea Table Toward Sunset
Kotyleva AnastasijaSVOI
Udovydchenko MariaThe Stubnitz ship of the arts in St. Petersburg
Udovydchenko MariaIn Memory of Poor Lisa
Udovydchenko MariaCruel Picnics
Osminkin RomanArt Education in the Transition Period. The First Post‑Soviet Institutions
The First Conference of the Russian Art Archive Network
Frimmel SandraLegalize niches. The Leonid Talochkin Collection of Nonconformist Art as Soviet cultural heritage
Hänsgen SabineIgor Kholin. Bio-Inter-View. Video by Sabine Hänsgen
Israilova MarinaApartment Galleries: An Experiment in Non-Critical Research
Stolyarov DenisJB-4-3-V7393. Between Spring And Summer, Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism
Erofeev AndreiInterview with Jean-Hubert Martin, one of the curators of the exhibitions Paris — Moscow and Moscow — Paris
Pugina MarinaRecapturing the Initiative. Art Self‑Organizations in Perm, 2014–2020
Ershkova AlexandraAn interview with Sasha Ershkova, a former cashier at Garage Museum, on her experience in sketching visitors
Khlobystin AndreiSt. Petersburg Archive and Library of Independent Art. The Experience of Total Archiving [1]
Udovydchenko MariaKonstantin Goncharov and the Strict Young Man Fashion Gallery
The Pure Sound of a Clay Whistle Toy
ZIPThe Living/Dead Nook
Kotyleva AnastasijaThe exhibition Unofficial Art to Perestroika: From the History of Leningrad’s Art Scene, 1949-1989
Udovydchenko MariaDo It Yourself: A Practical Independence Course for Women in St. Petersburg
Obukhova SashaArtistic Projects Foundation Chronicle
Lugamanova RayaMonroe. How I fell in Love
Trubitsyna AntoninaSelf-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia since 2000
Trubitsyna Antonina“We are totally fine!” Interviews with quarantined self-organizations
Documents on the history of Soviet non-conformist art in the archive of The Research Centre for East European Studies
Klassen MariaMaria Klassen on her work at the archive of the Research Center for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Rosenfeld AllaAlla Rosenfeld on the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection and the Zimmerli Art Museum
Monastyrsky AndreiAndrey Monastyrsky on the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI)
Norton and Nancy Dodge Archival Holdings of Nonconformist Art