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ARKA Gallery ({{lang-rus|Галерея АРКА|r=Galereja ARKA}}),is an art gallery located at 6 Bolshaya Morskaya Street in the historical center of Saint Petersburg City, Russia. ARKA Gallery specialized in contemporary and modern Russian and Foreign painting and fine art legacy of the Leningrad School artists of 1930-1980s.

Location

ARKA Gallery is located between Nevsky Prospekt (75 meters) and the Palace Square and the Hermitage Museum (75 meters) in the historical building in Eclectic style belonged to banker K. Feleigsen. It was rebuilt by architect Ferdinand Miller in 1879-1880. Many years there was a Hotel d`France, some famous persons lived in it like Russian writers Ivan Turgenev and Alexey Tolstoy. Now one of the oldest exhibition spaces of modern Saint Petersburg has a display area of more than 2,100 square feet (200 m2).

History

ARKA Gallery was established in June 2004 by director and owner Eugenia Logvinova ({{lang-rus|Евге′ния Ло′гвинова}}), art historian and curator, a member of International Federation of Artists (IFA), and Art Critics and Art Historians Associations (AIS).^[4]

The name of the «ARKA» was initiated by the nearest neighborhood with Arch of General Staff Building commemorating the Russian Victory over Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812, and also as a sign of special attention to the high traditions of Russian Art. The building was designed by Carlo Rossi in the Empire style and built in 1819-1829. Arch of General Staff also remarkable like an entrance to the Palace Square and new exhibition space of the Hermitage Museum inside the General Staff Building.

Since 2005 ARKA Gallery realized more than 100 exhibit projects mostly in Saint Petersburg, but also in Moscow,^[5] Tomsk, Novosybirsk,^[6] Barnaul.^[7] ARKA Gallery carries out joint projects with the major private collections and state museums of Russia. Also gallery hold some international art projects in Saint Petersburg and showed contemporary art from Italy,^[8] China,^[9] Japan, Ethiopia,^[10] Lithuania,^[11] and other countries.

Although the ARKA Gallery emphasized the work of living artists, exhibits were not limited to such works - as evidenced by its showing of Paintings of 1940-1980 by the Artists of the Leningrad School of Painting (February – May, 2013),^[12] solo exhibitions by artist Vladimir Sakson (2007),^[13] as well as the art of such oldest living masters as theatre artist and painter Muza Oleneva-Degtjareva (2007, 2010, 2011) and graphic artist Valentin Blinov.

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1. ^Коммерсант, № 134, July 24, 2004.
2. ^{{cite web| url=http://arka-gallery-spb.com/|title=ARKA Gallery Website}}
3. ^ARKA Gallery at the Museums of Russia Art Portal {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123201001/http://www.museum.ru/m3146 |date=January 23, 2013 }}
4. ^ARKA Gallery at the Museums of Russia Portal {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123201001/http://www.museum.ru/m3146 |date=January 23, 2013 }}
5. ^ARKA Gallery presented Vladimir Sakson at Artesania Art Fair in Moscow
6. ^Северная Пальмира глазами художников // Вечерний Новосибирск, 2008, 28 марта.
7. ^Токмаков В. Белые ночи в Барнауле // Российская газета, 2008, 5 июня.
8. ^[https://archive.is/20130418014553/http://www.tv100.ru/news/Festival-italjanskogo-iskusstva-otkryvaetsja-v-Peterburge/ ARKA Gallery presented "Venezia" by italian artist Ugo Baracco]
9. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20100106040721/http://www.mahoo.com.cn/infodetail.aspx?id=6935 ARKA Gallery presented abstract art by contemporary chinese artist Van Youan]
10. ^Янкович К. Из Эфиопии привезли «маскалей» // Смена, 2005, 16 декабря.
11. ^ARKA Gallery presented Arts and Crafts from Lithuania
12. ^ARKA Gallery presented Paintings of 1940-1980 by the Artists of the Leningrad School {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123201001/http://www.museum.ru/m3146#news |date=January 23, 2013 }}
13. ^Петрова Л. Лопух как символ революции // Невское время, 2007, 15 марта.
14. ^ARKA Gallery presented Art Project "Easter Kaleidoscope".
15. ^Дружинина Е. Берёза сама меня выбрала // Шанс, 2007, № 30, 9 марта.
16. ^Логвинова Е. Муза и деньги // Free Time, 2006, №1 (92), C.30.