Founded in 1993 by The New Academy of Fine Arts at The «Pushkinskaya-10″ Arts Centre. The founder and the first director was Timur Novikov. Director (from 2002) – Kseniya Novikova.

«Exhibitions by the artists of The New Academy, by the contemporary neo-classicists of St Petersburg and Moscow, by the artists from Western and Eastern Europe who are close to this trend, as well as exhibitions of classic art from the Museum’s collection are constantly organized.» (T. Novikov.)
More than 150 exhibitions by Russian and foreign artists have been organized in the halls of the Museum as well as on other exhibition venues in Russia and abroad. Until 2002 Timur Novikov’s open studio had been working in the exhibition hall. A part of the Museum’s funds has been handed over to the collections of The State Russian Museum, The Tretyakov Gallery and The Hermitage.

Exhibitions: «The Images of the Russian Ascetics of Piety in Photographs of the 19th – 20th Centuries» (1997), «V. Yu. Mamyshev-Monroe in the Contemporary Photography» (1999), «Count F. I. Tolstoy» (engravings and bas-reliefs, 1999), «Kukryniksy on Modernism» (1999), photographs from the film «The Golden Section, or the Red Square» (the cinema club «The Artistic Will», 2000), «Viktor Tsoy: Painting, Graphic Arts, Sculpture» (from the cycle «The Musicians’ Secret Life», 2002), «Drawings by Old Masters» (2002), personal exhibitions by T. Fyodorova (2000), S. Ostrov and Ye. Ostrov (2000), O. Tobreluts (2000), A. Morozov (Moscow, 2003), O. Maslov and V. Kuznetsov (2003), etc. In the framework of the annual festival «The Japanese Week» exhibitions by I. Tadasi (2000) and N. Yamasaki (2002) took place.

THE NEW ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS (NAII)

An artistic union founded in December of 1989 on Timur Novikov’s initiative by the members of The «New Artists» Group (the creation of the union was preceded by Timur Novikov’s idea of «The New Academy of All Sorts of Arts» which he expressed in 1985). The first members of NAII were T. Novikov, G. Guryanov, D. Yegel’skiy, K. Goncharov and V. Tuzov; later B. Matveyeva and S. Bugayev (Africa) joined them. From 1990 NAII is a part of The «Free Culture» Society.

NAII aims at preserving classical aesthetics in the contemporary artistic practice. It propagandizes neo-academism as an artistic trend that ought to occupy key positions in St Petersburg art. Its activity includes exhibition, museum, enlightening and pedagogical work. NAII organizes groups of beginner artists where they study under the guidance of specialists the traditional technique of fine arts, theory and history of art, modern technologies and practices in the context of preserving the traditional aesthetics. From 1997 the classrooms for these studies are situated in the Mikhaylovskiy Castle (part of the Russian Museum). NAII publishes books on the problems of contemporary art. In 1998 T. Novikov’s book «The New Russian Classicism» which became a manual for the beginner followers of neo-academism was issued.

The New Academy of Fine Arts Museum has been working since 1993; exhibitions by contemporary artists who belong to the neo-academic trend are constantly held in it. Exhibitions in major museums in Russia and in the West are organized regularly. Part of the funds has been handed over to the collections of The Russian Museum and The Tretyakov Gallery. In 1997 the movement of «The New Serious» formed among the neo-academists.

Exhibitions and actions: 1989 — «The Neo-Academists», the lecture hall of the «Knowledge» Society in Liteyniy Pr.; 1990 — an exhibition and a scientific conference «Youth and Beauty», The House of Scientists on the Dvortsovaya Embankment; 1991 — «Neo-Academism», The Museum of V. I. Lenin — The Marble Palace; 1992 — «The Secret Cult», The Marble Palace; 1994 — «Renaissance and Resistance», The State Russian Museum; 1996 — «St Petersburg of the End of the Second and the Beginning of the Third Millennium in Yuliya Strausova’s Sculpture», The Summer Garden; «The New Artists in the Eighties», The Nevskaya Curtain of The Peter and Paul Fortress; «The Ray Art of Neo-Classicism», The Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow; «The New Russian Classicism», The «Yutempus» Gallery, Vilnius; 1997 — «The New Academy in the Pavlovsk Palace»; «The New Russian Classicism», Art-Manege, Moscow; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; «An Artistic Project: An Alternative Museum», The Marble Palace; 1998 — «Neo-Academism and Electronics», The Centre of the Art of Photography; «The New Russian Classicism in Photography», The «Art-Collegium» Gallery; «An Intervention Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of «The Artistic Will»", Gallery 103; «Swan Lake: T. P. Novikov», The «Navicula Artis» Gallery; «T. Novikov in Cinema and Photo Documents», Gallery 103; 1999 — «The New Positive Processes», Mikhailovskiy Castle; An Exhibition of Works of Painting, Graphic Arts and Sculpture from the Collection of The New Academy of Fine Arts Museum, The Reserve Palace in Pushkin; the concert of the laureates of The «St Petersburg Decadence» Festival «Dark Nights», the Zoo; «Neo-Academism and Electronics», The State Centre of Contemporary Art, Nizhniy Novgorod, Gorodets, Sarov, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl’; 2000 — «Horizons: Timur Novikov», The «Navicula Artis» Gallery; a retrospective exhibition of T. Novikov’s works, Tver’ Regional Picture Gallery, Ryazan’ City Museum of Fine Arts; «The Artistic Will: The 100th Anniversary of the War in Art», The Museum of the Political History of Russia; «The Heirs of Sparta: Photographs from the Collection of The New Academy of Fine Arts Museum», Sinebryukhov’s Museum, Helsinki; «The Lost Ideals of the Happy Childhood: Timur Novikov», Aydan-Gallery, Moscow; «The Russian Neo-Academism», The Museum of Arts, Bornholm, Denmark; «The Decline of the German Romanticism», The «Terpsichore» Gallery; 2001 — «Between Earth and Heaven», The Museum of Contemporary Art, Ostende, Belgium; «The St Petersburg Play of Light», The «D-137″ Gallery; «Timur Novikov’s Image in the Russian Art of the 20th Century», The «D-137″ Gallery; 2002 — «Die Griechische Klassik: Idee oder Wirklichkeit», The Martin Gropius Museum, Berlin; «Aeronautics and Seafaring», The «D-137″ Gallery; «Necro-Romanticism», The State Museum of Urban Sculpture; «The Musicians’ Secret Life: Viktor Tsoy. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures», The New Academy of Fine Arts Museum; 2003 — An exhibition of photographs from the collection of The New Academy of Fine Arts Museum, The Russian House, Berlin.

Members of The New Academy of Fine Arts: Ye. Andreyeva, A. Barov, A. Belyayev-Gintovt, Ye. Berezovskaya, G. Borisov, S. Borisov, S. Bugayev (Africa), V. Buyvid, A. Ventslova, A. Verkhovtsev, S. Vikharev, I. Vishnyakov, G. Vorobyov, K. Goncharov, G. Guryanov, I. Dmitriyev (Moscow), D. Yegel’skiy, N. Zhernovskaya, A. Zhuravlyov (Moscow), G. Ivashenko, A. Kitayev, Ye. Kitayeva, M. Koldobskaya, O. Kotel’nikov, V. Kuznetsov, I. Kuksenayte, O. Kulik, Yu. Lesnik, S. Makarov, V. Mamyshev-Monroe, O. Maslov, B. Matveyeva, A. Mashkov, A. Medvedev, A. Milagros, I. Movsesyan, A. Molodkin, A. Mushtavinskiy, P. Nikolayev, T. Novikov, Ye. Orlov, Ye. Ostrov, S. Ostrov, L. Petrauskas, A. Popov, M. Rozanov, V. Rumyantsev, O. Sarkisyan, M. Sinyakova-Urechina, B. Smelov, A. Sokolov, A. Salakhova (Moscow), Yu. Strausova, A. Sinyagin, O. Tobreluts, I. Topol’skaya, D. Topol’skiy, V. Tuzov, O. Turuina, V. Ukhalova, A. Fyodorov, T. Fyodorova, D. Fursey, A. Khlobystin, V. Tsoy, Ye. Sheff, S. Shutov (Moscow).

Address: 191040, Pushkinskaya St., 10 (entrance from Ligovskiy Pr., 53,
office No. 405, Wing B).
Working days and hours: Saturdays and Sundays from 3 p. m. till 7 p. m..