Exhibitions prepared with the department

Svetlana Prokopyeva 

She is a curator and co-curator of numerous exhibitions, including international exhibition projects such as:

• ‘Views of Rome and its Suburbs’ (2000);

• ‘Gospel Stories in the Visual Arts’ (2001);

• ‘French Art of the 17th – first half of the 20th century from the Collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus’ (2003);

• ‘German Art of the 17th – early 20th centuries. Painting and Graphics from the Funds of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus’ (2004);

• ‘Chisel Painting: Raphael’s Works in Engravings by European Masters from the Collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus and a Private Collection’ (2009);

• ‘Polish Fine Art of the second half of the 18th – first half of the 20th centuries from the Funds of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus’ (2009);

• ‘Slovak Symphony of Masters from Kovačica’ (2009);

• ‘Normandy in Painting’ from the collection of the Association ‘Normandy in Painting’ (Caen, France) (2010);

• ‘Boris Zaborov. Painting. Picture. Sculpture’ (2010);

• ‘Royal Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800’ from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2012);

• ‘Artists of the Paris School from Belarus’ from the collections of Belgazprombank, the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus and private collections (2012);

• ‘Marc Chagall: Life and Love’ from the collection of the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) (2012);

• ‘Polish Ceramics of the 18th–20th centuries from the Collection of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom’ (2013);

• ‘Hungarian Rhapsody. Artists of Szolnok’ from the collection of the Janos Damjanich State Museum in Szolnok (2013);

• ‘Intersections and Continuity in Mayenne’ (2013);

• ‘Robert Genin. In Search of Paradise’ (2014);

• ‘Mater Dei: Iconography of One Love’ from the collections of the Academy of Arts named after Pietro Vannucci, Office for the Protection of Historical, Artistic and Ethno-Anthropological Values of Perugia (National Gallery of Umbria), Savings Bank of Perugia (Italy) and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (2015);

• ‘Meeting with Britain: English Art of the 18th–19th centuries from the Collection of the State Art Collection of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus and the National History Museum of the Republic of Belarus (2015);

• ‘French Book Illustration of the late 19th – early 20th century’ from the collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (2016);

• ‘Masters of Polish Drawing’ from the collections of the Podlaskie Museum in Białystok and the District Museum in Suwałki (2017);

• ‘Ernst Barlach – Kaethe Kollwitz. Overcoming Existence’ (2017);

• ‘Equos. Koń. Horse’ from the collections of the Museum of Southern Podlasie (Biała Podlaska, Republic of Poland) and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (2018);

• ‘Aleksander Szturman (1869–1944). Artist on a Journey’ from the collection of the Podlaskie Museum in Bialystok (2018);

• ‘Latvia – 100. History, Art, Traditions’ from the collection of the National History Museum of Latvia (2018);

•        ‘Nadya. To the 115th Anniversary of the Birth of Nadezhda Khodosevich’ from private collections in France and the collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (2019);

• ‘German Painting and Engraving of the 17th – early 20th centuries in the collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus’ (2020);

• ‘Lisa Sotilis – Giorgio de Chirico. Sculpture and Graphic Arts’ from the private collection of Lisa Sotilis (2021);

• ‘There is a beautiful land…’ Italian masterpieces from the collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus’ (2021).

Yuliya Lisay 

Curator and co-curator of exhibition projects:

• ‘Old Lithuania’ in the works of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (from the funds of the Lithuanian Art Museum (Vilnius) and the M. K. Čiurlionis Museum (Kaunas) (2008);

• ‘Jan Chrucki. To the 200th anniversary of the birth’ (2010);

• ‘Stanislav Zhukovsky. (1875–1944)’ (2015);

• ‘Chamber portrait in the first half of the 19th century’ (2015);

• ‘Vilna Album of Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński’ (from the funds of the Lithuanian Art Museum, 2016);

• ‘Memorial Landscape of Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya’ (2017);

• ‘Napoleon Orda. Illustrated encyclopedia of the country’ (from the collections of the National Museum in Krakow, 2017);

• ‘Russian Impressionism’ (2019–2020);

• ‘Ferdynand Ruszczyc. To the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth’ (2020–2021);

• ‘Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya’ (2022).

Viktoriya Vinichenko 

She is a curator of the exhibition project ‘The Unknown about the Known. What Flowers Say’ (2022).

Darya Bartoshuk 

Curator and co-curator of exhibition projects:

• ‘Charmed by a Miracle’ – solo exhibition of Vasily Zvontsov from the collection of the Memorial Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin ‘Mikhailovskoye’ (2018);

• ‘Winter outside the Window’ (2018);

• ‘Landscape Classics’ (2019);

• ‘Picturesque Painting’. Artists of the ‘Jack of Diamonds’ Society’ from the collections of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (2020);

• ‘Mythological and Biblical Subjects in the Visual Arts. Painting, Graphics and Sculpture from the Collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus’ (2020);

• World of Childhood (2020);

• ‘Orientalism in the Fine Arts’ (2020);

• ‘Manor World of a Bygone Era. Stanislav Zhukovsky’ (2021).

frequently asking questions

Where can I park an automobile?

The closest parking spot is along the Karl Marx Str. (paid parking)

Can I enter in the outdoor clothes?

No, it is not according to the museum rules. Please, leave it in the cloacroom. 

What should I leave in the cloakroom?

All oversized bags, backpacks and packages larger than 30x40x20 cm, as well as umbrellas, must be checked in to the cloakroom or left in the storage room. Bottles of water cannot be brought into the exposition, you can drink water in the lobby or museum cafe on the 1st floor.

Сan i enter the exposition with a baby stroller?

Yes, we welcome visitors in the 0+ age category.