The intermuseum artistic exhibition “Life After Life” showed how Petersburg artists explore the themes of death and immortality through visual art (painting, graphics, sculpture).
A 3D tour will give you access to the works created from 1725 to 2019 by artists such as Alexei Venetsianov, Karl Bryullov, Pyotr Klodt, Fyodor Bruni, Mark Antokolsky, Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov, Vasily Polenov, Alexander Golovin, Ilya Repin, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Ivan Bilibin, Nikolai Roerich, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Alexandre Benois, Vladimir Sterligov, Alexander Arefev, Pavel Kondratev, Marc Chagall, Yevsey Moiseyenko, Andrei Mylnikov, and also contemporary artists such as Uldus Bakhtiozina, Anatoly Belkin, Alexander Zagoskin, Vladimir Kustov, Vyacheslav Mikhailov, Denis Patrakeev, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Nikolai Sazhin, Konstantin Simun, Dmitry Shagin, Mikhail Chemiakin, and many others.
Twenty-three museums participated in the project, including the Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and other museums from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and other Russian cities from Krasnodar to Pskov. Works from 30 private collections were also included in the exhibition.
Idea: Pavel Prigara
Curator: Elizaveta Pavlycheva
Artistic consultant: Vitaly Pushnitsky
Exhibition design: Alexander Kriventsov / «Tsirkul» Architectural Company
Graphic design: Anastasia Nesudimova
Exhibition soundtrack: Misha Mishchenko
Exhibition fragrance: Floriental Comme des Garçons / St Petersburg
Bookshop: 11:00-20:45
Manege Café: 11:00-20:30
VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE “Life After Life” exhibition
With loans from major State museums and private institutions:
The State Hermitage Museum
The State Russian Museum
The State Tretyakov Gallery
The Museum of 20th and 21st Century St Petersburg Art
The State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO
The Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps
The National Pushkin Museum
The State Museum of Urban Sculpture
The State Museum of the History of Religion
The State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
The Peterhof State Museum Reserve
The State Museum St Isaac’s Cathedral
A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum
The Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko
Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House
The Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts
The New Museum of Aslan Chekhoev
The Pereslavl-Zalessky State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve
The Pskov State United Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve
The St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture of I. E. Repin at the Russian Academy of Arts
The Radishchev State Art Museum in Saratov
Mikhail Chemiakin Foundation
Marina Gisich Gallery
Anna Nova Gallery
Private collections