Kolodzei Art Foundation
The Kolodzei Art Foundation often utilizes the artistic resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, one of the world's largest private collections, with over 7,000 artworks by over 300 artists from Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Its Board of Directors includes distinguished business, diplomatic and cultural figures in US-European-Russian relations.
The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art is now one of the world's largest private art collections, containing over 7,000 works by over 300 artists, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and videos, all from Russia and the former Soviet Union from the 1950s through today.
The Collection was started by Tatiana Kolodzei in Moscow during the late 1960s at the height of the Cold War.
The Collection includes works by such well known artists of the 1960s and 1970s as Ilya Kabakov, Komar and Melamid, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin, Pyotr Belenok, Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Francisco Infante, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Bela Levikova, Mikhail Shvartsman, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Leonid Lamm, Valeri Yurlov, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Anatoly Zverev, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Dmitri Plavinsky, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vladimir Yakovlev [ru] , Ernst Neizvestny, Natalya Nesterova, and many others.
There are artists of the 1980s and 1990s such as Igor Novikov, Andrei Budaev, Shimon Okshteyn, Dimitry Gerrman, Farid Bogdalov, Asya Dodina, Slava Polishchuk, Olga Bulgakova, Valerii and Natasha Cherkashin, Irina Danilova, Genia Chef, Leonid Borisov, Andrei Karpov, Evgenii Gorokhovskii, Sergei Volokhov, Valery Koshlyakov, Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Filipov, Semen Agroskin, Mamut Churlu, Tatiana Antoshina, and others.
Tatiana's daughter, Natalia Kolodzei (an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts), is the Executive Director.
Robb Report called Natalia Kolodzei "the person to know" regarding Russian art, and "one of the most influential of Russia's young cultural figures.
[3] (either by the Kolodzei Art Foundation or featuring works from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art) Personal Spaces – Interactive Multimedia Works by Anna Frants, Carla Gannis, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov.
State Tretyakov Gallery in conjunction with 3rd Moscow Biennale) 2009 From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
Contemporary Art Center MARS and State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg 2007[8] Vadim Voinov.
Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2005 and Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey.
2001-2002 Hurricane of Time: Selections from the Kolodzei Collection Villa Ormond, Sanremo, Italy.
Russian Academy of Arts Hodara, Susan, Artistic Expression in a Repressive State, New York Times, November 30, 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/in-purchase-ny-an-exhibition-of-artwork-by-artists-who-worked-in-the-soviet-union.html?_r=0
