Marina Gisich Gallery is one of the first contemporary art galleries in St. Petersburg, founded in 2000 by Marina Gisich. Today, the gallery occupies one of the key positions in the contemporary art market in Russia. Since its opening, the gallery's circle of authors has included recognized masters (Gleb Bogomolov), iconic artists of the last decades of Russian art, as well as representatives of the younger generation of artists who have formed in recent years. There are currently more than 30 leading contemporary artists from Russia and European countries in the gallery's "pool".
Since 2010, the gallery has been actively participating in international contemporary art fairs such as Vienna Contemporary, ARCO Madrid, Art Paris, and Contemporary Istanbul. In 2016, the gallery became the only invited participant from Russia at the Volta NY fair as part of the Armory Show. Since 2017, he has been participating in the Art Miami Fair, as part of Miami Art Week. Since October 2019, the gallery has been a member of the Board of the Association of Galleries of Russia.
The gallery cooperates with foreign artists, and also actively works with major museums and foundations of contemporary art in Russia and Europe, among them: the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, the New Museum of Aslan Chekhoev, the EKATERINA Cultural Foundation, the Breus Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art of St. Petersburg, PERMM, The Museum of Moscow, Waino Aaltonen Museum, Fondacio Sorigue, Fondation Wilmotte, Aksenov Family Foundation, V. Smirnov and K. Sorokin Foundation and others.
Marina Gisich Gallery consistently works to promote Russian contemporary art on the domestic and international markets. Over the past few years, a number of major projects have been carried out under the curatorial supervision of the gallery, the most significant of which are: the opening of the Ural Vision Gallery (Yekaterinburg), the exhibition "Crystallizations. Contemporary Art from St. Petersburg" (Waino Aaltonen Museum, Finland).
