The Seven Winds Charitable Art Foundation

The Seven Winds Charitable Art Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Artists and Talented Youth was created on the initiative of art collector and philanthropist Nikolai Evgenyevich Malygin.

Since 2011, the Seven Winds Foundation has been conducting exhibition, publishing, educational and organizational activities in Russia and abroad aimed at achieving the only goal formulated by the founder of the foundation as follows: “We must do everything to ensure that talented Russian artists become known all over the world“.

The Seven Winds Foundation has organized and held more than 40 exhibitions, including exhibitions in state museums of fine arts and private galleries in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Volgograd and other Russian cities. We have published several art albums and filmed a movie.

The collection of the Seven Winds Foundation includes several thousand pieces by Russian artists, including works by Boris Messerer, Mikhail Shemyakin, Pyotr Zverkhovsky, Alexander Florensky, Nikolai Gushchin, Valentin Yustitsky, Gleb Vyatkin, Evgeny Chubarov, Vladimir Favorsky, Stanislav Azarov, Nikolai Arzhanov, Zaven Arshakuni Boris Glubokov, Alexander Zverev, Konstantin Sutyagin, Svetlana Sutyagina, Elena Sivishkina, Olga Pluzhnikova, Mikhail Tikhonov, Elena Utenkova, Igor Kamyanov, Nadezhda Krestinina, Irina Zatulovskaya, Yulia Kartoshkina, Sergei Belousov, Maria Ivanova and other artists.

Our foundation provides constant support to contemporary Russian artists in promoting their creative work in Russia and other countries – in Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, the USA, China and Finland.

A special area of our activity is popularization of contemporary Russian art through the organization of art exhibitions and projects in small towns of the Russian Federation.