« The exhibition "The Contemporary Russian Icon" is being held in the United Kingdom. »

The opening of the exhibition "The Contemporary Russian icon" will take place on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 18:30 in the exhibition room of the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the United Kingdom, at First floor, 37 Kensington High Street, London W8 5ED.

The exhibition coincides with the opening in 2014 of the Russia/UK Year of Culture, and takes place during the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, which is celebrated in 2013.

The opening ceremony will be attended by Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Alexander Yakovenko, Russian compatriots, and representatives of scientific, business and social circles in Great Britain.

The exhibition has been organized by the St. Gregory the Theologian Charity Foundation and the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the United Kingdom.

The exhibition has been organized with support from the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Diocese of Sourozh of the Moscow Patriarchate, the St. George the Victorious Fund, Gazprom Mining Urengoy LLC, StratinvestRu LLC and Nordic Star LLC.

The exhibition includes more than 50 works of contemporary religious art, representing the work of four Russian icon painting workshops and six individual master icon painters from Estonia. The exhibition sets out to display the contemporary phenomenon of the revival of the Russian iconographic tradition.

Exhibitors include the “Arkhangeliko” art workshop, the Art & Restoration Workshops of the Danilov Monastery, the “Moscow Icon” workshop, and the “Sophia” icon painting school, along with six individual icon painters: Vladimir Anshon, Alexander Balyayev, Ivan Dimov, Igor Ilyin, Sergei Minin, and Ilya Ragozin.

The exhibition is open on weekdays from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. from 11 until 17 December.