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# Marina Loshak said many interesting things in a recent interview
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/marina-loshak-v-nedavnem-interviu-skazala-mnogo-interesnykh-veshchei/
- Published: 2024-11-13T06:31:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:09.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Interviews, Art, Moscow, Museums, Observations

Marina Loshak said many interesting things in a recent [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SUTzNytV0s&ref=theparnassian.com). But as someone who has been inseparably bound up with museums for almost ten years, and who has been collecting art for about as long, and a rather original, non-standard collection at that, I found the following passage especially important:

“…let us not forget that life is long, and the problems that exist in museums today, and the collections that ought to remain in circulation, <…> and \[the work of\] the artists who over the last 30 years of our life have given so much to art, and not only Russian art, \[all this\] will now be taken on by collectors. There is nothing terrible in that.

As for collectors of contemporary art, they are my heroes. Because these are people who, in essence, have already become institutions. I am astonished at how quickly this is developing. People buy entire exhibitions, buy installations and keep them whole. Producing art is very important. That is what marks a serious collector. Who produced art among us before the word \[appeared\]? Shchukin and Morozov, who commissioned Matisse and Bonnard. Works that became the most important in their oeuvre. Collectors will now take on this task, they will preserve art, they already have it, they will work with it, record it, archive it, talk about it. Now I shall say a terrible thing, for which they will all kill me. Perhaps I should not say it, I don't know… But in the end, time passes and everything ends up in museums. I very much hope that the times to come will be more right, in the sense that private collections will not be expropriated because of historical circumstances. I hope they will be received voluntarily as gifts or bought. That is how all museums exist.”