Please join us in unveiling two new exhibitions at TMORA. 

Open viewing 7:00 – 9:00 PM, remarks by Executive Director Mark J. Meister, Curator Dr. Masha Zavialova, Collectors Inna and Ruvim Braude, and Director of The Saint John’s Bible at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Tim Ternes will take place at 7:45 PM in the Main Gallery.

Featuring music by Daniel the Violinist.

Tickets: Free admission for TMORA Members. Click to join.

$14 General Admission | $12 Senior Admission (65+) | Student & Active Military $5 | Children 0-13 FREE

TMORA Shop will be open throughout the evening. There will be a cash bar and complimentary sweets available.

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Featured Image:

Yevgeny Ukhnalev
This is Mine, 1989
Oil on canvas, 63″ x 46″
Collection of Inna and Ruvim Braude

About the Exhibitions:

Leningrad Underground: Unofficial Artists of the Soviet Era

Collection of Inna and Ruvim Braude

This exhibition allows a glimpse into the reclusive world of Leningrad‘s unofficial art – a microcosm of free thought and artistic experimentation amidst the heavily censored Soviet universe of constraints and taboos. Drawn from the Ruvim and Inna Braude collection, the show features fifteen artists – including some of the movement’s most renowned – Alexander Arefiev, Alek Rapoport, Yevgeny Abeshaus, Alexander Gurevich, Alexander Manusov, Evgeny Ukhnalev, and others. Post-Soviet works by these artists are also included.

The Museum thanks the Braude family for sharing these works with the Minnesota public and for their perceptive and discerning judgment exercised in the creation of this collection.

Alexander Gurevich
Agrippa Street, 1990
Oil on canvas, 40″ x 47″
Collection of Inna and Ruvim Braude

Leningrad Underground: Unofficial Artists of the Soviet Era will be on view in the Main Gallery July 22 – October 22, 2023.

Icons of the Late Empire: Story and Art

Collection of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

TMORA presents an exhibition of religious icons drawn from the collection of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville, MN.

In 2021, HMML received a large donation of Russian icons from the estate of Edmund Gronkiewicz, a polyglot, a deacon, and a Knight of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta.

Most of the icons date from the 19^th century. Of all the treasures of Russian religious art, 19^th century icons are the least explored, emerging into the contemporary art scene as artworks of great interest to collectors and museums.

St. Catherine of Alexandria, 19th century
Tempera and gilding on wood with pearl and glass beading and metal foil cover with paste stones
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Art Collection

Icons of the Late Empire: Story and Art will be on view in the Main Gallery July 22 – November 19, 2023.