RIDGINA Gallery

The “Ridzhina” Gallery is one of the first private galleries in Moscow, opened on September 11, 1990. Its founders were the owner of the “European Trade Bank” Mikhail Litvak, Vladimir and Regina Ovcharenko, in whose honor the gallery was named. The gallery immediately declared itself as an active institution focused on non-commercial contemporary art, open to experiments and radical gestures. From 1990 to 1994, the art director/curator/exhibitor of the gallery was the artist Oleg Kulik, who created many high-profile projects. Among them were the installation festival “Animalistic Projects” in 1992 and the exhibition project “Self-Standing Art” for the painting exhibition of Oleg Holosi, where the paintings were installed on movable structures controlled by teenage boys, thus turning an ordinary painting project into a large-scale installation-performance.

In 1995, the gallery was closed and resumed activities in 1999. Since 2000, Sergey Bratkov has been working with “Ridzhina” on a permanent basis. In April 2010, a branch of the gallery was opened in London, UK — “Regina London”, which existed until 2013. In May 2013, Vladimir Ovcharenko created the contemporary art auction and art space VLADEY.Title: RIDZHINA Gallery
Source: http://www.reginagallery.com/ru/
Title: Regina Gallery
Source: http://www.reginagallery.com/ru/
Status: active
Website
Locations
Start: 1990
End: 1992
Address: Preobrazhenskaya Square (Malaya Cherkizovskaya St.)
City: Moscow
Country: Russia
Start: 1992
End: 1995
Address: Myasnitskaya St., 40 (European Trade Bank premises)
City: Moscow
Country: Russia
Start: 1999
End: 2007
Address: 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 22
City: Moscow
Country: Russia
Start: 2007
Address: 4th Syromyatnichesky Lane, 1 (CSI “Winzavod”)
City: Moscow
Country: Russia
History
Start: 1990.09.11
Events:

Gallery opening. Founders: Mikhail Litvak, Regina and Vladimir Ovcharenko

Start: 1990
End: 1994
Events:

Oleg Kulik is the art director of the gallery

Start: 1991.10.12
End: 1991.10.26
Events:

The painting exhibition of Oleg Holosi took place at the Central House of Artists. Exhibition project by Oleg Kulik “Self-Standing Art”

Start: 1992.03.15
End: 1992.04.15
Events:

The installation festival “Animalistic Projects” was held. The festival consisted of seven separate projects by artists Anatoliy Osmolovsky, Tetyana Mashukova, Yuriy Leiderman, Oleg Kulik, Boris Orlov, Igor Chatskin, and Vadim Fishkin.

Start: 1994
Events:

Gallery participation in the international fair ART COLOGNE

Start: 1995
End: 1999
Events:

Temporarily closed

Start: 2010.04
End: 2013
Events:

Branch of the gallery opened in London, UK — Regina London

Start: 2013
Events:

Creation of the contemporary art auction Vladey