The Center for Contemporary Art "Fire"

Growing up, I had many times come across precious objects, materials and items that I believed are deserving of being in a museum, not because every one in the world would find them special, but because they particularly left me in awe. I saw something incredibly significant I wish everyone else could see them too.

Visiting a museum gives the privilege to not only see historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest that are stored and exhibited, but it also gives you the opportunity to know why these objects/materials are worthy of so much value amongst the billion and one things that exist on the planet. As a lover of books and literature, I paid my first visit to a literature museum, and what I felt was a dignified sense of what is due to a person’s achievements. Not only are great authors and resources recognized, but they are permanently honored for their biographies and literary achievements that are placed in these museums. 

With the director’s Leonid Iovich Gaidai cinematography tools dated 1967

The Center for Contemporary Art "Fire" is located on 11 Marat Street and has other branches in major cultural centers of Russia. Every weekend there are activities which involve various forms of curator work helping realize exhibition and audiovisual projects, installations, performances, hold video and movie presentations, creative sessions, educational activities such as lectures, seminars, master classes, performances, excursions and much more. 

A soviet made car at the exhibition

The famous film at the exhibition was the "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style", a Russian comedy movie that was released on 1st April 1967. In this dated comic story, a Journalist Shurik traveled to the Caucasus to search for native legends and shoot a report about the local beauty and tradition, but what he finds is something entirely different. Shurik finds and falls in love with a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic girl Nina, whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local “gang”, he ends up literally stealing for the local deceitful governor. This, indeed, is a refreshing story that gives insight to an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.

Watching "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style"

The Center for Contemporary Art preserves history and allows people connect with not just Russian contemporary art, but also foreign art.

Inside the director’s studio