Space where art meets life

The Russian Art Center is a private cultural project in Kaliningrad of the patron and collector Rustam Aliev, which includes a collection of works of art and a large-scale museum and leisure complex in the historic center of the city.

The main idea of the project is to present art from different historical periods, combined with a dialogue between classics and modernity. The meeting of artist and viewer, museum and collector, explorer and amateur, art and life – this is how we see the role of the Center on the cultural map of the region.

The Center’s collection includes paintings by masters of Russian painting of the second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century. , Soviet and modern art, as well as the works of the authors of the Königsberg Academy of Arts and the Nidden Artists’ Colony. The collection is decorated with porcelain from the Royal Manufactory of Berlin (KPM).

Today the collection has about 1,500 exhibits, including works by artists Ivan Ayvazovsky, Ilya Repin, Nikolai Ge, Konstantin Makovsky, Paolo Trubetskoy, Andrei Mylinnikov, Victor Popkov, Oscary Rabin, Erick Bulatova, Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dusarsky, Vladislav Mamisheva-Monroe, Franz Karla Herpel, Lovis Korinth, Keta Kolwitz, Ernst Molenhauer and many more.

At present, an active replenishment of the artistic fund of painting, sculpture, objects of decorative and applied art, as well as works of contemporary authors is being carried out. The Cultural Center cooperates with leading museums of Russia, participates in their exhibitions, provides its paintings for exhibition and is open to new interactions and implementation of joint projects.

RCI works with world leading auction houses, which allows to add the collection of Russian painting masterpieces, which for various reasons were taken abroad.

The Center is scheduled to open in 2026.