Perm Museum of Contemporary Art

{{Short description|Museum in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia}}

{{Expand Russian|topic=struct|Пермский музей современного искусства|date=November 2015}}

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Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM) ({{langx|ru|Пермский музей современного искусства (ПЕРММ)}}) is an art gallery in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia, that officially opened in spring 2009.{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/travel/perm-russias-emerging-cultural-hotspot.html?_r=0 | date = 22 July 2011 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Finn-Olaf | last = Jones | newspaper = The New York Times | title = A Bilbao on Siberia’s Edge?}}{{cite web | url = http://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/the-urals/perm/sights/museums-galleries/museum-contemporary-art-permm | access-date = 10 November 2015 | publisher = Lonely Planet | title = Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM}} It holds changing exhibitions, festivals, artist talks, lectures, workshops, concerts and performances. It is housed in a former tram depot at 24 Gagarina Boulevard. Yelena Petrova is its director.{{cite web | url = http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1838/perm-museum-appoints-new-head-qa-with-yelena-petrova | date = 12 December 2013 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Tatyana | last = Grishina | publisher = Calvert 22 Foundation | work = The Calvert Journal | title = Accounting for taste: The new head of Perm Museum of Contemporary Art speaks out}}

Perm Museum of Contemporary Art was devised by and is the legacy of its former founder, director and curator Marat Gelman.{{cite web | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/culture/9390313/marat-guelman-interview.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151119134838/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/culture/9390313/marat-guelman-interview.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 19 November 2015 | date = 10 July 2012 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Masha | last = Charnay | work = The Daily Telegraph | publisher = Rossiyskaya Gazeta | title = Interview with Moscow art curator Marat Guelman}} Gelman was sacked in June 2013 amid fallout over showing Vasily Slonov's exhibition Welcome! Sochi 2014 that satirised the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.{{cite news | url = http://rbth.com/society/2013/06/28/perm_authorities_wage_war_on_contemporary_art_27567.html | date = 28 June 2013 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Yan | last = Shenkman | newspaper = Russia Beyond the Headlines | title = Perm authorities wage war on contemporary art}}{{cite web | url = https://news.artnet.com/art-world/russian-dissident-leaves-for-montenegro-plans-a-new-space-215521 | date = 9 January 2015 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Lorena | last = Muñoz-Alonso | publisher = Artnet |title = Russian dissident leaves for Montenegro, plans a new space}}{{cite news | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/russias-brief-shining-moment-the-city-of-perm-and-its-meandering-dance-withhistory/article25968031/ | date = 15 August 2015 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Mark | last = Mackinnon | newspaper = The Globe and Mail | title = Russia's brief, shining moment}} Before this, in 2010, the Financial Times praised PERMM as "one of the most spectacular galleries of modern art in Russia."{{cite news | url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72de03c4-4697-11df-9713-00144feab49a.html | date = 13 April 2010 | access-date = 10 November 2015 | first = Charles | last = Clover | newspaper = Financial Times | title = Perm: City tries culture to stem exodus}}

PERMM, Perm State Art Gallery and Perm Krai Museum are situated close to each other and form a museum complex. The museum was previously housed in the former Stalinist ferry building, known as the Perm River Station Hall on the banks of the Kama River but had to move as the building was unsafe.{{cite news | url = http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/court-orders-perm-museum-to-leave-hazardous-building/491669.html | date = 17 December 2013 | access-date = 11 November 2015 | first = D. | last = Garrison Golubock | newspaper = The Moscow Times | title = Court Orders Perm Museum to Leave Hazardous Building}}