«ZILART» is a museum and exhibition center, opened in 2025 in the Moscow district of the same name.
The museum was founded by Andrey and Elizaveta Molchanov; its program is based on a collection of works of art that has been amassed over more than twenty‑five years. The collection includes over eight thousand items, and it continues to be actively expanded.
The museum’s exhibition program is built primarily on its own collection, which unites Russian avant‑garde, Soviet unofficial art, Russian and international contemporary art, a unique body of works of traditional African art, works by classics of Russian and world photography, furniture in the Russian style of the early 20th century, decorative and applied arts, and many other areas.
The museum’s exhibition projects, developed by the ZILART museum team, curators, and art historians, bring together works from different eras and by different authors, revealing the continuity of artistic exploration and creating a vivid image of the development of the visual language of the 20th and 21st centuries.
