Galina Osetsimskaya
Осецимская Галина Романовна
November 1995
Born1936
Moscow
Died2000
Moscow
Known forcollection of Soviet Nonconformist Art and Russian contemporary art
SpouseIgor Osetsimsky

Galina Osetsimskaya (Russian: Гали́на Рома́новна Осеци́мская, 1936 — 2000) was a collector of Soviet Nonconformist Art and Russian contemporary art.

Biography

Galina Osetsimskaya and Pavel Pepperstein at the exhibition "New Russian Collections"
Curator Pyotr Shirkovsky and collector Galina Osetsimskaya

The emergence of Soviet Nonconformist Art started in the 1950s with the death of Joseph Stalin and the relaxation of censorship during Nikita Khrushchev's cultural thaw. The underground art wasn't prosecuted anymore, though the artists who were experimenting and challenging the canons of socialist realism had to work covertly, and the works were not permitted for public display.[1][2]

At the time Galina Osetsimskaya, a professional translator and state employee, became passionate with unofficial art in the 1960s. She befriended Alexei Tyapushkin, Andrew Grositsky and other artists, visited numerous apartment exhibitions and even hosted the display of Dmitri Vrubel's early works at her own home.[3] Although Osemitskaya obtained a number of artistic works through the 1970s, she made a conscious decision to collect and exhibit contemporary art in the early 1980s. In subsequent years for what started as a more or less random collection of works, based on her intuition, quickly grew into an impressive catalog of the most important Soviet and Russian artists of Perestroika and the 1990s.[4][5]

Collection

By the end of 1990s the collection owned by Galina Osetsimskaya included over 300 works by more than 60 artists, including Valery Aizenberg, Nikita Alexeev, Sergei Anufriev, Alexey Beliaev-Gintovt, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Alexander Vinogradov, Dmitri Vrubel, Andrey Grositsky, Georgy Guryanov, Dmitry Gutov, Vladimir Dubossarsky, Francisco Infante-Arana, Ilya Kabakov, Georgy Kiesewalter, Oleg Kulik, Rostislav Lebedev, Yuri Leiderman, Igor Makarevich, Bogdan Mamonov, Andrei Monastyrski, Arkady Nasonov, Vladimir Nemukhin, Timur Novikov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Georgy Ostretsov, Pavel Pepperstein, Viktor Pivovarov, Anatoly Slepyshev, Olga Tobreluts, Alexey Tyapushkin, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Olga Chernysheva, Ivan Tschuikov, et al. The art critics rated the collection as museum-quality for its volume and comprehensiveness.[6][7] It was first presented at the Art Manege fair in Moscow in 1999. After Galina Osetsimskaya passed away in 2000, her husband Igor Osetsimsky took the duties to expand and exhibit the collection. In 2018 he provided Moscow-based Garage Museum of Contemporary Art the archive of his wife's notes and recordings for research, digitalization and conservation in Garage's Russian Art Archive Network.[8]

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Hedrick Smith (September 23, 1974). "Modernist Art in Soviet A Legacy of 50's Thaw". The New York Times. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Michelle Korbø. "Russian Art After Perestroika". Kopenhagen News. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Галина Осецимская" [Galina Osetsimskaya] (in Russian). Искусство. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Russisk kunst e er Perestrojka-Osetsimsky-samlingen" (PDF). Sorø Kunstmuseum. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Михаил Боде (2003). "Профессия: коллекционер" [Profession: The Art Collector]. Искусство (in Russian). 2 (526).
  6. ↑ Алексей Мокроусов (December 18, 2000). "Своя коллекция" [One's Own Collection]. Ведомости. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  7. ↑ Оксана Хмара (2000-12-19). "В Московском центре искусств покажут частные коллекции" [The Moscow Center Of Arts Plans To Put Private Collections On Display] (in Russian). Коммерсантъ. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Фонд Галины Осецимской" [Galina Osetsimskaya's Archive]. RAAN. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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