Osnova Gallery

Established: 2014
Locations: Moscow / Russian Federation
Website: https://osnovagallery.com/

UN goals

At OSNOVA we want to share and cultivate interpersonal passion and seriousness about emerging arts. The collector should really care, know and understand his artist. [...] (Collectors from the same generations as our artists) collect young art to support it — to live and change together with it.

About Osnova Gallery

Osnova is a Moscow-based gallery that was founded in 2014 by Alena Kurmasheva and Dmitry Vetrov. A few years before, they started their journey by creating an online gallery, and today, Osnova is one of the most prominent emerging galleries in Russia and Eastern Europe with a leading position in the contemporary art world.

Representing emerging and mid-career artists, Osnova aims to combine traditional, established qualities of a cultural institution and the vibrant, dynamic approach of an art space, which is present on the international art scene. In their practices, artists, represented by Osnova Gallery, are highlighting topical global processes by being reactive and responsive to the current socio-political issues. The gallery successfully creates a space for dialogue between eastern and western artistic practices. Working with both Russian and international artists and curators, Osnova Gallery is extensively engaging with the local community, communicating a proactive and supportive approach to the artistic practice, vision, and understanding of what contemporary art is today.

Two of Osnova’s artists were selected as exhibitors for the Russian Pavilion at the upcoming 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.