NYT schrijft over de toenemende repressie tegen kunst in Rusland: ‘Her Museum Was Surviving in Russia. Then the Threats Became Too Much’
Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the intimidation didn’t end.
By late 2024, Nailya Allakhverdiyeva had received plenty of signs that it might be time to quit her job running the only major contemporary art museum in Russia outside Moscow and flee the country.
Law enforcement officers had searched her apartment twice and interrogated her. Conservative activists were trying to intimidate her. And the Federal Security Service planted a fake explosive device in her museum. (The agency said it was testing for security lapses.)
Yet each time, Allakhverdiyeva chose to stay. After all, she had turned her institution, PERMM, a contemporary art museum in the industrial city of Perm, about 700 miles east of Moscow, into one of Russia’s most revered cultural institutions.
“I felt a hyper-responsibility toward the museum as a phenomenon for promoting creative freedom and toward contemporary art in general,” Allakhverdiyeva, 54, said in a phone interview from Berlin, where she settled after finally fleeing Russia at the end of 2024.
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