ZILART museum

ZILART is a museum and exhibition centre opened in Moscow in 2025. It is located on the peninsula that used to be a large automotive factory ZIL, and recently transformed into a distinctive urban district. The museum was founded by Andrey and Elizaveta Molchanov, whose art collection has been assembled over more than twenty-five years. The museum’s exhibition program is primarily based on its own collection that includes over eight thousand pieces and continues to grow. It includes Russian avant-garde art, Soviet unofficial art, contemporary Russian and international art, a unique body of traditional African art, works by leading Russian and international photographers, early twentieth-century Russian style furniture, decorative and applied arts, and many other fields. Exhibition projects developed by the ZILART Museum team in collaboration with curators and art historians bring together works from different periods and by different artists. These projects reveal continuity in artistic exploration and create a living picture of how visual language has evolved throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.