Three galleries of contemporary Russian art abroad

Last year the revenue of the Sotheby's auction house  from the sale of Russian art in London was £14.2 million ($18.9 million) – the best result since 2014 – also three new world price records were set as part of the auction. Even the most ardent skeptics have to admit: Russian art of today is one of the most dynamically developing areas of the international art market. Introduced in this piece, 3 foreign organizations that try to support this interest and specialize mainly on Russian art.

White Space Gallery, London

White Space Gallery

White Space Gallery is one of the first galleries of Russian art in London, and many Russian artists abroad are still exhibited there and there only. The gallery was founded in 2001, Anna and Michael, Stonelake. The gallery's collection holds works by Dmitry Prigov, Oleg Kulik, Sergey Bratkov, Olga Chernysheva, Boris Mikhailov, Antanas Sutkus, and other recognized contemporary artists. Besides exhibitions, White Space Gallery are performances and plays. Among the favorites of the gallery exhibitions are "Abstraction / Constructivism: Dmitry Konradt and Richard Pare" (2013), "the Mirror and Pomegranates: Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky" (2012) and "Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky" (2007). A number of works by artists represented in the gallery, is included in the collections of the Tate Museum (London), National Museum of modern art (Oslo), the Museum of photography Huis Marseille (Amsterdam) and others.

Till September 15, you can see an exhibition of works by five contemporary Russian artists – Tanya Antoshina, Vita Buivid, Olga Tobreluts, Lera Nibiru and Gluklya (Pershina-Yakimanskaya) – "Women at work: the overthrow of the feminine in post-Soviet Russia". 1st Floor, 6 Pall Mall East

Russiantearoom Gallery, Paris

Margo Ovcharenko, "Rita with a cigarette" (2008), from the collection of Russiantearoom Gallery

Russiantearoom Gallery was founded in 2007 by Liza Fetisova. Now it's still the only gallery in Europe that exhibits modern Russian photography. In the gallery's collection of works there are already accomplished masters, who have become a part of the history of photography – Antanas Sutkus, Sergey Maximishin, Evgeny Mokhorev and Igor Mukhin, as well as young talented artists, including Oleg Dou and Margo Ovcharenko. The gallery represents photographers from other parts of the world, too, though to a lesser extent. It is, first and foremost, Mexico's Fernando Brito, Australia's Chris Fortescue and Japanese, Shunsuke Ohno. All of them, according to the gallery, are on a quest for "beauty truth, or truth beauty."

In recent years the gallery has been hosting up to two exhibitions a year, but you can always see the permanent exhibition. The gallery is  right in the centre of Paris, on Montmartre. 74 rue Joseph de Maistre

ARTiculate, London

Pavel Pepperstein, "The Kandinsky tower" (2007), from the collection of ARTiculate

ARTiculate is not a gallery but a nonprofit foundation, set up in 2007 by a collector Lyuba Galkina, a former owner of her own gallery Lada Komarova and an art historian Nana, Zhvitiashvili. All works in the foundation's collection represent references of contemporary artists to the legacy of Russian avant-garde. That is, formally, the gallery exhibits art that is not only Russian, however, it shows the contribution of Russian art in the world art history. Among the collection – work of many artists, including Olga Chernysheva, Pavel Pepperstein, Yuri Avvakumov, Kira Wagner, Louise Bourgeois, Semen Faibisovich. The foundation doesn't have an offline-gallery, but they regularly organize exhibitions and educational events in support of Russian contemporary art in London.