MUSEUM OF PEACE

One of the main goals of the Foundation for Support, Development and Promotion of Peace Ideas “Peacemaker” is to create an International Museum of Peace.

There are a great many bright and talented people, yet not everyone has the opportunity and the skill to show their talent.

The Peacemaker Foundation proposes to create a single exhibition space that would include several countries in different parts of the world, where works of art reflecting ideas of the improvement and transformation of the world could be gathered.

The principal task of such an exhibition space is to help undiscovered talents and to collect works of art relevant to the theme of the International Museum of Peace, while the display of such works will allow people to discover unexplored corners of the world.

The list of exhibits may include various works from all genres of art: painting, graphic art, photography, sculpture. The principal task of such exhibitions should be to help people, if only for a moment, to step aside from the bustle of everyday life and domestic problems, and to demonstrate how diverse the world can be.

Concept:

The “Museum of Peace” is a unique collection of works of contemporary art. Each artist presents one original work that embodies the direction and individual style of his or her creative practice. In every country where the exhibition is held, visitors will see the full diversity of the exposition as a whole, as well as the individuality of each master in particular. The International Museum of Peace will exhibit the collection of works in several countries, so that people in different corners of the world may see works of contemporary art that develop the ideas of peace.

We consider it important to gather in a single exhibition space artists who understand and express in their works the full significance of maintaining peace on the planet, and who regard as their principal task the improvement and transformation of the world through art.

About the project:

The Peacemaker Foundation has already begun creating the International Museum of Peace. Such well-known Russian masters as Nikas Safronov, Zurab and Vasily Tsereteli, Daniil Fedorov and many others have contributed to assembling the collection. The works have already been transferred to the International Museum of Peace. In conditions of an endless struggle for survival, of growing social stratification and of acts of aggression, it is at times very difficult to discern the line between good and evil. To us at the Peacemaker Foundation it is evident that the only right path toward improving the situation in the world lies in uniting people on the basis of mutual trust, expanding cultural ties, and carrying out joint charitable projects.

Historically, in every age, it has been art — in all its manifestations and genres — that has acted as a true peacemaker. Through a creative understanding of the surrounding world, painters and sculptors, photographers and performers convey to our hearts that which is so important to preserve for ourselves and for future generations — peace and calm, purity and morality.

AIMS:

- Creation of a collection of works and art objects of our time

- Globalisation of the ideas of peace

- A creative and peacemaking rethinking of the surrounding world

- Attracting the attention of artists and of society to peacemaking ideas

- Authors’ awareness of the mission of creation through art

EXHIBITIONS HELD IN 2014

Opening in Moscow (Russia), Central House of Artists — 28.12 2013

Qiqihar (PRC) — June 2014

Harbin (PRC) — July 2014

Seoul (South Korea) — August 2014

Amsterdam (Netherlands) — September 2014

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Yuri Evgenyevich Safronov

Vladimir Yakovlevich Stankovich

Sergey Meshchaninov

Eduard Pominov

Konstantin Kolomensky

Yefim Kolodkin

EXPERT COUNCIL:

1. Anatoly Andreyevich Bichukov (People’s Artist of the RSFSR, professor)

2. Konstantin Vasilyevich Khudyakov (Russian artist working in the genre of digital art technique, President of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Chairman of the Board of the M’Ars Gallery, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation)

3. Nikas Stepanovich Safronov (Soviet and Russian artist).