"The Link of Times" Cultural and Historical Foundation and the Fabergé Museum, with the support of their long-standing partner Gazprom, present "Konstantin and Vladimir Makovsky: Earthly Love and Heavenly Love", an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of two brothers from a celebrated artistic dynasty. Running from 3 June to 13 September 2026, the project marks the 180th anniversary of Vladimir Makovsky's birth.
From 2 to 16 April, the Fabergé Museum will open "IN TRANSIT", an exhibition of contemporary Russian artists held as part of the First International Transport and Logistics Forum and dedicated to transport — an integral part of human life.
"The Link of Times" Cultural and Historical Foundation and the Fabergé Museum present an exhibition and publishing project dedicated to the graphic series created by the great Russian artist Boris Grigoriev for Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov". The series of 58 sheets will be on display from 14 to 26 March 2026 in the White Column Hall of the Fabergé Museum and will also be published as a separate album with accompanying texts from the novel.
From 16 January to 12 April 2026, the Fabergé Museum is hosting "Open World. Contemporary Art of the Rostov Region", the fourth exhibition in the large-scale "Open World" project devoted to art from Russia's regions. On display are 180 works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, tapestries, art objects, installations and art photography. Styles range from realism to abstraction and from expressionism to metamodernism.
From 26 September to 23 November, the Fabergé Museum is hosting "Open World. Contemporary Art of the Nizhny Novgorod Region", the third exhibition in the large-scale "Open World" project, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. Nizhny Novgorod art is presented in a wide range of styles, demonstrating the city's role as one of the notable centres of contemporary art. More than 120 works are on display, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures, art objects and photographs.
From 7 June to 17 August, the Fabergé Museum continues its "Open World" series, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and showcasing art from different regions of Russia. The second instalment, "Open World. Contemporary Art of the Perm Region", continues to explore the diversity of visual art across the country's regions. The exhibition highlights the distinctive character of Permian art and its deep roots in local history. Contemporary artists not only reimagine local traditions such as the Permian animal style and traditional wooden sculpture, but also demonstrate the ties that internationally recognised figures such as Sergei Diaghilev and Boris Pasternak had with the city of Perm.
This thematic exhibition focuses on the celebration of the complete lifting of the Siege of Leningrad on 27 January 1944, 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 15 February to 16 March 2025, the Fabergé Museum will host an exhibition of artists from the Ural art scene of the second half of the 20th and the early 21st century.
From 18 September 2024 to 8 January 2025, the Fabergé Museum presents "Into the Light out of the Dark", an exhibition of the Russian jeweller and artist Ilgiz Fazulzyanov. More than and100 pieces of contemporary jewellery art will be on display Graphic at the Shuvalov Palace, Art which preserves the heritage of Carl Fabergé and other prominent jewellers of the past.
From October 2023 to July 2024, the White Column Hall of the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg hosted "The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty: Russian Icons in Precious Settings from the Karisalov Family Collection and the Fabergé Museum". With more than 300 pieces, the exhibition celebrated the art of precious icon settings as a unique form of decorative art practised by famous jewellers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, including Carl Fabergé, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Antip Kuzmichev and Feodor Rückert. The concept of the exhibition traced 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 the Fabergé Museum made this exhibition truly unique. A particular highlight was the group of icons presented as gifts to the Russian emperors and their family members — artefacts that had never before been exhibited.
From 22 September, 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" will be located in the newly reconstructed exhibition pavilion of the Shuvalov Palace and will feature Boris Grigoriev's paintings and graphic works from every period of his career. Many of the works will be shown to the public for the first time. Highlights include the monumental canvas "The Inspector General" (after Nikolai Gogol's satirical play), a unique series of illustrations for Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov", portraits from various years and South American landscapes. The new exhibition space will house around two hundred masterpieces from state and private collections: famous portraits of outstanding figures of Russian culture, scenes of Russian peasant life, and depictions of Breton figures and Parisian scenes.
On 29 June 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 organised by the Link of Times Cultural and Historical Foundation and the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg in partnership with the Shmotyev Family Foundation (Yekaterinburg).
"The Link of Times" Foundation and the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg present "Salvador Dalí. Atomic Leda and Other Representations of Gala". The exhibition is organised in partnership with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation (Figueres) and curated by Montse Aguer, director of the Dalí Museums of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.
From 28 January to 25 March 2020, the Russian public has a unique opportunity to discover the works of this genius painter. The Manege Central Exhibition Hall will host "Salvador Dalí. Magic Art", organised 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 more than 180 works by Dalí: paintings, drawings, watercolours and engravings.
From 20 March to 19 May 2019, "The Link of Times" Foundation and the Fabergé Museum (St. Petersburg) held the large-scale exhibition "¡Viva la Vida! Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera". Painting from Museum and Private Collections in St. Petersburg. It included more than 90 works by both artists spanning their entire careers, complemented 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 the 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 by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and told the story of the most famous married couple in 20th-century art.
On 25 November 2017, the 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 from 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 works by Moïse Kisling, Maurice Vlaminck, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon and other legendary masters of Montparnasse.
On 1 April 2017, the Fabergé Museum opened "Salvador Dalí. Surrealist and Classicist". The exhibition's scale was unprecedented in St. Petersburg, featuring more than 150 paintings and graphic works by Dalí provided by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation in Figueres (Catalonia, Spain) and other museum and private collections. The exhibition gave visitors the chance to follow the artist's creative trajectory, from the surrealist works of the 1930s that made him famous to his output of the 1980s inspired by themes from classic European art. Particular attention is given to Dalí's reflections on the legacy of the geniuses of the Italian Renaissance — Michelangelo and Cellini — as well as to Dante's Divine Comedy.
On 3 February 2016, the Fabergé Museum opened the first large-scale retrospective of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The vast exhibition featured 35 works by Frida — paintings, drawings and lithographs — from her early period through to the end of her career, allowing visitors to trace her stylistic evolution at a glance. The exhibition was enhanced by more than 100 photographs illuminating various periods of Frida Kahlo's life, and by traditional Mexican clothing of the kind the artist herself liked to wear.
