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# The New Jerusalem Museum Opens "Light Between Worlds", a Large-Scale Exhibition Project Combining Two Significant but Little-Studied Collections of Art of the 1920s and 1930s: the Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan…
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- Published: 2025-06-03T06:32:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:52.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Coming Up, The East, Art, Museums

The New Jerusalem Museum has opened "Light Between Worlds", a large-scale exhibition project that brings together two significant but little-studied collections of art of the 1920s and 1930s: that of the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and that of the New Jerusalem Museum itself.

Both collections were formed in difficult conditions, when many works of modernist art lay outside the official cultural field. The Nukus collection, created through the selfless labours of Igor Savitsky, has preserved outstanding examples of Russian and Uzbek modernism that for decades remained unrecognised by the official artistic system.

The New Jerusalem collection began to take shape later, in the mid-1980s, when the museum was still housed on the territory of the monastery. The building of a holding of works by twentieth-century artists became possible thanks to the efforts of the then director, Vasily Nizhegorodov, and the enthusiasm of the museum's staff, some of whom still work at the institution today.

The exhibition presents more than 160 works by 40 artists, including such masters as Alexander Volkov, who created a unique synthesis of Eastern and European artistic traditions; Alexander Shevchenko, who developed the theory of "colour dynamics"; Solomon Nikritin; and Kliment Redko. The project invites a fresh look at the artistic processes of the 1920s and 1930s, going beyond the simplified opposition of the avant-garde and Socialist Realism. The display reveals this period as a time of intense creative searching, experiment and the forging of a new visual language.

The exhibition is organised by the New Jerusalem Museum together with the Art and Culture Development Foundation of Uzbekistan and will run until 8 November.

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