V-A-C Foundation

V-A-C Foundation
Founded 2009
Founder Leonid Mikhelson
Focus Arts
Location
Area served
European Union, Russian Federation, United States
Key people
 Leonid Mikhelson, Greta Mavica
Website www.v-a-c.ru

V-A-C Foundation is an international non-profit private organization founded in 2009 with an emphasis on supporting contemporary art exhibitions and projects emerging from Russia and the former Soviet Union.

History

Founded in 2009 by businessman and philanthropist Leonid Mikhelson, the V-A-C Foundation is a nonprofit organization that initiates, supports, presents, and preserves contemporary art projects by internationally-based visual and multidisciplinary artists, with a particular emphasis on artists located in, or emerging from, the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union.[1]

In 2015, architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to design the foundation's museum space in Moscow.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Laying The Foundations". Financial Times. May 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "V-A-C Foundation unveils plans for Renzo Piano-designed museum for Moscow". The Art Newspaper. January 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Billionaire Builds a Big Museum for Russia's Tiny Art Market". Bloomberg. June 14, 2018.


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