Every year, when we are in Sukhum, we come to the gallery for an exhibition. But we must remember that they work only on working days from 10.00-17.00. There is no exact schedule anywhere, I specifically asked the caretaker. In general, the site is not very informative. Tickets for 200 rubles. There are two halls on the ground floor of the bank in an Art Nouveau building, which used to also belong to a commercial bank. We got to the exhibition of watercolors by Batala Japua. Very worthy! I liked the Old Wall series. Graffiti on the themes of works by Giacometti, Dufy and Guttuso. In the second hall, an exhibition is being prepared for Victory Day on September 30. But we have already seen some of the work before.
The building of the central exhibition hall, which houses the Abkhazian National Art Gallery, caught fire in Sukhum.
Acting Minister of Culture Dinara Smyr said that almost everything was burned down.
It's a pity((((
The entire collection of the gallery (about 4,000 works of art) was irretrievably lost during a fire on the night of January 20-21, 2024. This is one of the largest cases of one-time destruction of cultural heritage items in modern history.