Institute of Russian Realist Art, Moscow, Russia

The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA) is a private institution which brings back the social traditions of Russian artistic patronage. The IRRA museum and exhibition centre was opened in December 2011. The IRRA art collection is widely regarded as one of the best collections of the Russian realist school of painting of the 20th century.

The IRRA museum and exhibition centre was opened on December 1, 2011 in one of the old buildings of the former cotton-printing factory built in the "Zamoskvorechye" district of Moscow at the end of the 19th century. Three floors of exhibition space totaling over 4,500 square meters offer approximately 500 works of Russian and Soviet art. IRRA occupies one of the old buildings of the Moscow printing factory, located in Zamoskvorechye opposite the Moscow Novospassky Monastery. After redevelopment and restoration of the walls of the factory building, built in the late XIX century, the museum premises were equipped with the latest engineering communications and special equipment designed to maintain the museum's mode of storage of works of art. At present, the technical equipment of the IRRI building meets modern standards accepted in the world's largest museums.

The halls of the first floor familiarise viewers with the present-day life in Russia, including works by such famous members of the Moscow school of painting as Viktor Kalinin, Alexey Sukhovetsky, Vladimir Telin, Nikolay Zaitsev, Vyacheslav Stekolschikov, Nikolay Solomin; the works of outstanding Leningrad painters Andrey Mylnikov, Yevsey Moiseenko, Boris Ugarov, Vyacheslav Zagonek; and artists from Vladimir, including Kim Britov, Vladimir Yukin, and Mikhail Izotov. Works by artists from Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Vologda, Vyatka, Sergiev Posad, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russian towns are also on display. The IRRA museum and exhibition facilities occupy one of the old buildings of the former cotton-printing factory located in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow near the Novospassky Monastery.

The second floor of the Institute of Russian Realist Art displays the Soviet art collection of the second half of the 20th century. At its centre are works by the major painters of the 1960s including “National Artists”, and full members of the Russian Academy of Arts Gely Korzhev, the brothers Sergey and Alexey Tkachev, Viktor Ivanov, Petr Ossovsky, Dmitry Zhilinsky and Tair Salakhov. The painters of this generation have continued the traditions of Russian artistic culture, and many of them, like Viktor Popkov, have dedicated their works to dramatic events in the contemporary life of Russia, with all of its difficulties and contradictions.

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Three floors of exhibition space totaling over 4,500 square meters offer approximately 500 works of Russian and Soviet art. The halls of the third floor display one of the most important sections of the museum collection, Soviet art from the first half of the 20th century, including works by outstanding figures such as Arkady Plastov, Sergey Gerasimov, Alexander Deineka, Yury Pimenov, Georgy Nissky, Isaak Brodsky and other painters.

Since December 2011, the exposition of paintings from the IRRI collection is available to a wide range of Russian and foreign viewers interested in the cultural tradition of the national realistic school. Every first Saturday of the month, there are lectures and master classes for the whole family. Individual and group excursion programs are available in Russian and English. Students of art lyceums and students of art universities can visit the museum for free.
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