Street Art Museum
The Street Art Museum is located in an active production facility in the east of St. Petersburg.
Address:
St. Petersburg, REVOLUTION HIGHWAY, 84 /entrance from Industrial Avenue/
Telephone:
(812) 448-15-93, ext. 415
About the street art museum :
The principles of combining industrial post-Soviet aesthetics, the naked nerve of real life and young street art in public space can be called the main theses of the project.
Located in a working factory far beyond the historical center and the main arteries of the city’s cultural life, the museum has become a point of attraction for an active audience for the second season. The territory of the Museum is divided into two zones - a permanent exhibition at the existing production of the Laminated Plastics Plant and a public area where temporary exhibitions and public events are held.
In the closed area of the plant there is a permanent collection of monumental murals by contemporary street artists, or “murals” as they are commonly called in the graffiti community. Now the permanent collection of the museum consists of approximately 20 works by contemporary street artists: Pasha 183 and Timofey Radi, Kirill Kto and Nikita Nomerz, Escif and other authors.
A significant number of frescoes are located inside existing workshops. The enterprise occupies almost 11 hectares of the industrial zone. According to rough estimates, this is about 200 thousand square meters of surface, which is devoted to the work of street artists from all over the world. The museum's public space is a unique multi-format space that combines industrial aesthetics, street art and elements of urban creative space.
In addition to the open exhibition in the former boiler room and industrial buildings, the large gravel courtyard hosts events every weekend. Each event is inextricably linked with the alternative world of the street, located on the border of society and the inner space of a small person.
The main requirement for the choice of means of expression was the ability to fit the methods and forms of contemporary art into the spatial landscape of the street. History of the plant:
The plant at 84 Revolution Highway began its history in 1945.
At that time, insulators were manufactured here for the country’s electrical grid, which was destroyed by the Great Patriotic War. And only 11 years later - in 1956, when the country had recovered and it was possible to create not just functional, but also beautiful interiors, the plant launched production of DBSP - “decorative laminated paper plastics”. This material, for example, is used to decorate elevators, escalators, trains and kitchen countertops. In the USSR, the plant was the largest production site of its industry, and in the 90s it shared the fate of Soviet industry.
Investors, including the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum, Dmitry Zaitsev, who received the plant towards the end of the troubled years, were more than once offered to build a residential area or a shopping and entertainment complex in its place. The idea for the Museum came spontaneously, after a graffiti party that took place in one of the workshops abandoned in the 90s in the summer of 2011.
Already in 2012, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the private cultural institution “Museum of Street Art St. Petersburg” at the address Russia, St. Petersburg, Revolution Highway, 84.
The principles of combining industrial post-Soviet aesthetics, the naked nerve of real life and young street art in public space can be called the main theses of the project.
Located in a working factory far beyond the historical center and the main arteries of the city’s cultural life, the museum has become a point of attraction for an active audience for the second season. The territory of the Museum is divided into two zones - a permanent exhibition at the existing production of the Laminated Plastics Plant and a public area where temporary exhibitions and public events are held.
In the closed area of the plant there is a permanent collection of monumental murals by contemporary street artists, or “murals” as they are commonly called in the graffiti community. Now the permanent collection of the museum consists of approximately 20 works by contemporary street artists: Pasha 183 and Timofey Radi, Kirill Kto and Nikita Nomerz, Escif and other authors.
A significant number of frescoes are located inside existing workshops. The enterprise occupies almost 11 hectares of the industrial zone. According to rough estimates, this is about 200 thousand square meters of surface, which is devoted to the work of street artists from all over the world. The museum's public space is a unique multi-format space that combines industrial aesthetics, street art and elements of urban creative space.
In addition to the open exhibition in the former boiler room and industrial buildings, the large gravel courtyard hosts events every weekend. Each event is inextricably linked with the alternative world of the street, located on the border of society and the inner space of a small person.
The main requirement for the choice of means of expression was the ability to fit the methods and forms of contemporary art into the spatial landscape of the street. History of the plant:
The plant at 84 Revolution Highway began its history in 1945.
At that time, insulators were manufactured here for the country’s electrical grid, which was destroyed by the Great Patriotic War. And only 11 years later - in 1956, when the country had recovered and it was possible to create not just functional, but also beautiful interiors, the plant launched production of DBSP - “decorative laminated paper plastics”. This material, for example, is used to decorate elevators, escalators, trains and kitchen countertops. In the USSR, the plant was the largest production site of its industry, and in the 90s it shared the fate of Soviet industry.
Investors, including the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum, Dmitry Zaitsev, who received the plant towards the end of the troubled years, were more than once offered to build a residential area or a shopping and entertainment complex in its place. The idea for the Museum came spontaneously, after a graffiti party that took place in one of the workshops abandoned in the 90s in the summer of 2011.
Already in 2012, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the private cultural institution “Museum of Street Art St. Petersburg” at the address Russia, St. Petersburg, Revolution Highway, 84.
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Telephone:
(812) 448-15-93, ext. 415
Address:
St. Petersburg, REVOLUTION HIGHWAY, 84 /entrance from Industrial Avenue/
