Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art is the first and the largest private contemporary art center in Russia which unites galleries, educational programs, studios, workshops and showrooms. By bringing together all areas of modern culture in one space open to a wide audience, Winzavod supports contemporary Russian art and creates a comfortable environment for its development.

On the basis of Winzavod, the Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art was created, its strategic directions are New Names,  Winzavod.Gravitation and the Art Industry.

Winzavod.Gravitation is an exhibition, publishing and public programmes whose task is to assemble an anthology of contemporary art. Every year Winzavod.Gravitation presents a large-scale exhibition, the theme of which is determined by a guest curator, and publishes a catalogue book, which includes documentation of the exhibition and research on a given theme with the involvement of external experts.

Now the New Names direction includes the Open Studios project.

The key project of the Art Market direction is the Association of Galleries, established in 2020 on the initiative of the Moscow galleries of Contemporary Art and the Winzavod Foundation. The project represents the interests of the art industry at private, governmental and international levels.

WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Market — a joint initiative of the CCA Winzavod and the Format One publishing house, aimed at supporting the modern Russian art market. An opportunity for independent artists and creative associations to present their works on a par with galleries, foundations, publishing houses. For visitors, the market is a space for getting to know the authors personally, expanding the collection with works by novice and already established artists at affordable prices.

In the spring of 2022, a program of additional measures to support the artistic community was launched. The initiative is aimed at providing opportunities for artists, curators and other institutions to work in the creative community. The central project in the program was the Artists' Spaces.

You can learn more about the support of the artistic community from Sofia Trotsenko's interview for The Blueprint.

Sofia Trotsenko, founder of the Winzavod Contemporary Art Support Fund:

"We were scared of course, but first of all we were scared that we wouldn't be able to make an actual statement. It seems to me that everything has succeeded, and that's what contemporary art is to live in tension. I don't remember a period, except for very short periods of time, when contemporary art would feel absolutely calm and free, in free flight".

Today, the main mission of Winzavod is to support and develop contemporary Russian art.