Cultural Center and Gallery "Elohovskiy Gallery": Mansion of the 17th-19th Centuries in Moscow

Moscow

Elohovskiy Gallery

Cultural center-gallery in the cellars
of the XVII - XIX centuries

Realized

The mansion on Elohovsky passage
is a federal cultural heritage site

XVII c.

construction date

The entrance area is symbolically divided into three colors: dark gray, red, and white, where gray symbolizes the past, red — the present, and white — a pure, bright, unexplored future

History

The Elohovskiy Gallery Cultural Center is located in a house with a history, which that is a cultural heritage site of federal significance. However, this late classicist mansion was visually "overshadowed" by the flamboyant restaurant "Razgulyai", squeezed between the monument wall and the neighboring house. It was this late addition, that had no protective status, that became the most striking detail of a new gallery. There was a wrought iron fence at the place of the restaurant entrance in the 19th century.

2017 – 2019

design and implementation period

Concept

The Elohovskiy Gallery is about paying attention to our heritageand preserving history BY collecting and uniting classical and contemporary Russian Art on its terriotory AND BY creating an environment for communication and conscious dialogue. A desire to leave a better world for future generations.

500 m²

object area

In the 1980s, local mosaics appeared on the brick vaults, and despite not being part of the protected heritage, it was decided to preserve it as it will become a cultural value in the future.

Solution

The architectural firm decided to restore the fence, glaze it and turn it into the main facade.

Preservation and conservation: restoration of the 17th century brick vaults, restoration of the lime stone, preservation of the Soviet mosaics, preservation and recreation of the 17th century molded window railings.

order project

The main exhibition and lecture space is located under historical vaults of the 17th century. Marianna Petrenko became an ideological inspirer, curator, manager and partner of Elohovskiy Gallery