ARKA Gallery (Russian: Галерея АРКА, Galereja ARKA),is an art gallery located at 6 Bolshaya Morskaya Street in the historical center of Saint Petersburg City, Russia. ARKA Gallery specialized in contemporary and modern Russian and Foreign painting and fine art legacy of the Leningrad School artists of 1930-1980s.
ARKA Gallery is located between Nevsky Prospekt (75 meters) and the Palace Square and the Hermitage Museum (75 meters) in the historical building in Eclectic style belonged to banker K. Feleigsen. It was rebuilt by architect Ferdinand Miller in 1879-1880. Many years there was a Hotel d`France, some famous persons lived in it like Russian writers Ivan Turgenev and Alexey Tolstoy. Now one of the oldest exhibition spaces of modern Saint Petersburg has a display area of more than 2,100 square feet (200 m2).
ARKA Gallery was established in June 2004 by director and owner Eugenia Logvinova (Russian: Евге′ния Ло′гвинова), art historian and curator, a member of International Federation of Artists (IFA), and Art Critics and Art Historians Associations (AIS).
The name of the «ARKA» was initiated by the nearest neighborhood with Arch of General Staff Building commemorating the Russian Victory over Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, and also as a sign of special attention to the high traditions of Russian Art. The building was designed by Carlo Rossi in the Empire style and built in 1819-1829. Arch of General Staff also remarkable like an entrance to the Palace Square and new exhibition space of the Hermitage Museum inside the General Staff Building.
Since 2005 ARKA Gallery realized more than 100 exhibit projects mostly in Saint Petersburg, but also in Moscow, Tomsk, Novosybirsk, Barnaul. ARKA Gallery carries out joint projects with the major private collections and state museums of Russia. Also gallery hold some international art projects in Saint Petersburg and showed contemporary art from Italy, China, Japan, Ethiopia, Lithuania, and other countries.
Although the ARKA Gallery emphasized the work of living artists, exhibits were not limited to such works - as evidenced by its showing of Paintings of 1940-1980 by the Artists of the Leningrad School of Painting (February – May, 2013), solo exhibitions by artist Vladimir Sakson (2007), as well as the art of such oldest living masters as theatre artist and painter Muza Oleneva-Degtjareva (2007, 2010, 2011) and graphic artist Valentin Blinov.
Nikolai Romanov (b. 1957, Russia)
Igor Nelubovich (b. 1948, Russia)
Evgeny Zhavoronkov (b. 1948, Russia)
Ugo Baracco (b. 1949, Italy)
Taisia Afonina (1913-1994, Russia)
Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993, Russia)
Alexander Semionov (1922-1984, Russia)
Vitaly Tulenev (1937-1998, Russia)
Vsevolod Bazhenov (1909-1986, Russia)
Elena Skuin (1908-1986, Russia)
Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911-1978, Russia)
Gevork Kotiantz (1906-1996, Russia)
Evgenia Antipova (1917-2009, Russia)
Victor Teterin (1922-1991, Russia)
Sergei Osipov (1915-1985, Russia)
Alexei Eriomin (1919-1998, Russia)
Samuil Nevelshtein (1903-1983, Russia)
Lev Russov (1926-1987, Russia)
Nikolai Galakhov (b. 1928, Russia)
Vladimir Sakson (1927-1988, Russia)
Evgeny Chuprun (1927-2005, Russia)
Piotr Alberti (1913-1994, Russia)
Irina Getmanskaya (b. 1939, Russia)
Vladimir Chekalov (1922-1992, Russia)
Sergei Van′kov (Russia)
Юлия Вальцефер. Живопись. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2012
Николай Романов. Живопись. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2012
Пасхальный калейдоскоп. Часть 2-я. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2010
Ugo Baracco. Venezia. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2009
Валентин Блинов. Графика. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Краски Карнавала. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Николай Романов. Пейзаж. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Старинный Петербург в рисунках Валентина Блинова. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Татьяна Шубина. Железный бестиарий в Петербурге. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Иван Жупан. Живопись, графика. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Евгений Жаворонков. Живопись. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Ольга Ардовская. Объекты из металла. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Пасхальный калейдоскоп. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2008
Седьмой ежегодный фестиваль "Японская весна в Санкт-Петербурге" в галерее АРКА. Спб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2007
Игорь Иванов. Реинкарнация металла. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2007
Владимир Саксон (1927-1988). Живопись. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2007
Жизнь ангелов. Игорь Шаймарданов. Станислав Маткайтис. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2007
Александр Филиппов. Санкт-Петербург. Зима. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2007
Андрей Гонюков. Живопись. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2007
Уго Баракко. Гравюра. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2006
Японская эротическая гравюра. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2006
Олег Гуренков. Живопись. СПб, «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2006
Игорь Нелюбович. Живопись. СПб., «АРКА» арт-галерея, 2006
Николай Романов. Пейзаж. СПб., 2006
Artist Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov (1922-1984)
Artist Ugo Baracco, Venezian Master
Artist Nikolai Galakhov. Landscape paintings of 1960-1990s
Artist Nikolai Pozdneev (1930-1978)
The City of Leningrad and his citizens in paintings of 1930-1990s. Part 1
The City of Leningrad and his citizens in paintings of 1930-1990s. Part 2
Artist Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911-1978). Masterpieces of landscape paintings
Crimea in paintings od 1950-1990s. The Leningrad School
Artist Sergei Ivanovich Osipov (1915-1985). Masterpieces of paintings
Artist Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993). Masterpieces of landscape paintings
Still life in Painting of 1930-1990s. The Leningrad School. Part 1
Still life in Painting of 1930-1990s. The Leningrad School. Part 2
Still life in Painting of 1930-1990s. The Leningrad School. Part 3
Artist Nikolai Romanov. Landscape paintings of 1990-2010s
Spring Motives in Painting of 1950-1990s. The Leningrad School
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