The exhibition «The Russian Museum at ZILART. Masterpieces of Art from the Second Half of the 20th Century. A Gift from Peter and Irene Ludwig» is located on the second floor of the museum. For the first time, it features more than 100 works by Western and Russian artists, which were donated to the State Russian Museum by the well‑known German collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig.
The exhibition showcases the main trends in art of the second half of the 20th century: American pop art and hyperrealism, German neo‑expressionism and painting from the GDR, Cuban and Latin American schools, Moscow conceptualism and figurativism. Among the authors whose works can be seen at the exhibition are Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Joerg Immendorf, Marcus Lupertz, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Werner Tubke, Belkis Ayon, Claudio Bravo, Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Viktor Pivovarov, Igor Makarevich, Dmitry Zhilinsky and Natalia Nesterova.
