From January 16 to April 12, 2026, the Fabergé Museum is hosting «Open world. Contemporary Art of Rostov region» exhibition, which is already the fourth in the large-scale Open World project, dedicated to the art from Russia's regions. 180 works are displayed to the audience, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, tapestries, art objects, installations, and art photography. The stylistic range ranges from realism to abstractionism, from expressionism to metamodernism.
From September 26 to November 23 the Fabergé Museum is hosting «Open world. Contemporary Art of Nizhny Novgorod region» exhibition, which is already the third in the large-scale Open World project, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. Nizhny Novgorod art is presented to the audience in a wide range of styles demonstrating the city as one of the notable centers of contemporary art. More than 120 works are displayed to the audience, including paintings, graphics, sculptures, works of art and photos.
From June 7 to August 17 the Fabergé Museum continues the «Open World» exhibition series, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and showcasing the art of different regions of Russia. The series carries on its exploration the diversity of visual art across Russia’s regions with its second instalment entitled «Open World. Contemporary Art of the Perm Region». The exhibition highlights the distinctiveness of Permian art, its unique features that reach deep into local history. Contemporary artists not only reimagine local trends like the Permian animal style or traditional wooden sculpture, they also demonstrate the link of internationally recognized figures like Sergei Diaghilev and Boris Parternak with the city of Perm.
The thematic exhibition focuses on the celebration of the complete lifting of the Leningrad siege on 27 January 1944, the Victory Day in Leningrad in May 1945 and the victory march of the Leningrad Guard on 8 July 1945, as well as the reconstruction of Leningrad after the siege.
From February 15 to March 16, 2025 the Fabergé Museum will be hosting the exhibition of the representatives of the Ural art scene of the second half of the 20th — beginning of the 21st Century.
From September 18, 2024 to January 8, 2025 the Fabergé Museum presents the exhibition of the Russian jeweler artist Ilgiz Fazulzyanov – «Into the light out of the dark». More than 100 pieces of modern jewelry art will be exposed at the Shuvalov Palace that preserves the heritage of Carl Fabergé and other prominent jewelers of the past.
From October 2023 to July 2024 the White Column Hall of the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg hosted an exhibition entitled «The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty: Russian Icons in Precious Settings from the Karisalov Family Collection and the Fabergé Museum». The exhibition, with more than 300 pieces, celebrated the art of precious icon settings as a unique form of decorative art by famous jewelry artists from Moscow and St. Petersburg: Carl Fabergé, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Antip Kuzmichev, Feodor Rückert, and many others. The concept of the exhibition traces the development of the art of precious icon settings from the 18th to the early 20th Century.
The exceptional selection of masterpieces from the collections of Mikhail Karisalov and Fabergé Museum makes this exhibition truly unique. A particular highlight among the pieces on display were the icons presented as gifts to the Russian emperors and their family members. Such artefacts have never before been exhibited before.
Starting from September 22 the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg and the «Link of Times» Cultural and Historical Foundation present an outstanding retrospective of works by Boris Grigoriev. «The World's First Master» exhibition will be located in the newly reconstructed exhibition pavilion of the Shuvalov Palace and will feature Boris Grigoriev's painted and graphic works from all periods of his career. Many of the works will be presented to public for the first time. The highlights of the exhibition will be the grandiose canvas «The Inspector General» (satirical play by Nikolai Gogol), as well as unique series of illustrations for «The Brothers Karamazov» novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, portraits of different years and South American landscapes. The new exhibition space will house about two hundred masterpieces from state and private collections – famous portraits of outstanding figures of Russian culture, pictures of Russian peasant life, of Breton characters and Parisian scenes.
On June 29, 2022 the Fabergé Museum presented its new exhibition – «Russian Folk Epics in stone» – masterpieces in precious and semi-precious stones by contemporary Ural stone carvers. The exhibition is organized by the «Link of Times» Cultural and Historical Foundation and the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg in partnership with the Foundation of the Shmotyev Family (Yekaterinburg).
The Link of Times Foundation and The Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg present the exhibition SALVADOR DALÍ. Atomic Leda and Other Representations of GALA. The exhibition is organized in partnership with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation (Figueres). The exhibition is curated by Montse Aguer, the director of Dalí Museums of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.
From 28th January till 25th March, 2020, the Russian public will receive a unique opportunity to become acquainted with the works of this genius painter. The Manege Central Exhibition Hall will host the exhibition Salvador Dalí. Magic Art, organized by the Link of Times Foundation and the Fabergé Museum in partnership with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation (Figueres) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). The exhibition will feature over 180 works by Dalí: paintings, drawings, watercolors and engravings.
From 20 March to 19 May 2019, the Link of Times Foundation and Fabergé Museum (St. Petersburg) held the large-scale exhibition ¡Viva La Vida! Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Painting and Graphic Art from Museum and Private Collections in St. Petersburg. It included over 90 works by both artists from throughout their careers. The exhibition was rounded out by photographs and documentary films on the lives and artistic careers of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
From 21 December 2018 to 12 March 2019, the Link of Times Foundation and Fabergé Museum (St. Petersburg) held the large-scale exhibition ¡Viva La Vida! Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Painting and Graphic Art from Museum and Private Collections in Moscow. It featured masterpieces made by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and told the story of the most famous married couple in 20th-century art.
On 25 November 2017, Fabergé Museum opened its exhibition Modigliani, Soutine and Other Legends of Montparnasse. For the first time, the Russian public was able to see a unique selection of paintings by the leading artists of the School of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century, collected by their contemporary and patron Jonas Netter. The exhibition featured the most famous names and most prized gems in Netter's collection: paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Maurice Utrillo, as well as artworks by Moses Kisling, Maurice Vlaminck, Andre Derain, Suzanne Valadon and other legendary masters of Montparnasse.
On 1 April 2017, Fabergé Museum opened the exhibition Salvador Dali. Surrealist and Classicist. The exhibition's scale was unprecedented in St. Petersburg, as it featured over 150 paintings and graphic works by Dali, provided by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueres (Catalonia, Spain) and other museum and private collections. The exhibition provided visitors with the chance to follow the artist's creative trajectory, beginning with the surrealist works of the 1930s that made him famous and ending with his output from the 1980s inspired by the themes of classic European art. Particular attention is given to Salvador Dali's musings on the legacy of the geniuses of the Italian Renaissance – Michelangelo and Cellini – as well as Dane's Divine Comedy.
On 3 February 2016, Fabergé Museum opened the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The vast exhibition featured 35 artworks by Frida – paintings, drawings and lithographs – both from her early period through to the end of her career, permitting visitors to witness her stylistic evolution at a glance. The exhibition was enhanced by over 100 photographs, shedding light on the various periods of Frida Kahlo's life, and by traditional Mexican clothing of the sort that the artist herself liked to wear.
