Art-Center 'Pushkinskaya, 10', Independent art centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Art-Center Pushkinskaya 10 is an arts centre in Saint Petersburg that occupies multiple floors of a building on Pushkinskaya Street. It contains exhibition galleries, artist studios, and displays contemporary artworks.
In 1989 independent artists, musicians and other underground figures moved into a building on Pushkinskaya Street that had been vacated for major repairs. In 1992 they founded the humanitarian fund Free Culture, later reorganised as the Society Free Culture, which still runs the centre. In 1998 the Society opened Russia's first Museum of Nonconformist Art in the building, which also houses more than 30 studios.
The centre displays works by artists who resisted state control and provides working and exhibition space for living creators today. The rooms still carry traces of this artistic independence and invite visitors to experience current work from the local art scene.
The centre occupies a former residential building at Pushkinskaya Street 10, a short walk from Mayakovskaya and Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro stations. Entry to the courtyard and the vertical John Lennon street is free, while individual galleries and the two museums keep their own opening times. The annual birthday festival Prazdnik Doma opens on the last Saturday of June, so check the programme before travelling.
The centre operates under a collective system where artists themselves decide on exhibitions and programmes. This democratic structure makes it a rare example of artist self-governance in the Russian context.
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