PERMM – the first and only in the Russian museum of modern art outside the two capitals. In 2008, the initiators of this ambitious experiment became a gallery owner Marat Gelman and Senator Sergey Gordeev. The beginning of the Permian period in contemporary art – exhibition “Russian Povera”, which became the business card of the museum PERMM. Today PERMM – it’s not just a museum of modern art, but also a modern museum, that is, an interactive platform for collective action of artists, audiences, curators, politicians, sociologists.
PERMM Museum of Modern Art’s mission is to transform urban space humanization of industrial zones, the formation of cultural and leisure activities, improving tourist attraction of the city. Projects provoked by a museum excite the public, create a unique social background by involving in a discussion of each resident and guest Perm.
Since 2009, the museum PERMM exhibitions of Alexander Brodsky, Valery Koshlyakov Alexander Slusarev, groups «AES + F», «Blue Noses”, “The Gospel Project” Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva, curatorial projects “Yakscho. Ukrainian art at the turn of the “Katie Tar and” Maximum / concrete. New canon by Eugenia Kikodze, the exhibition” The Best Photos of Russia “and Perm Biennial of Graphic Art” Boomerang “.
