Nikita Korytin

Background

Since 2010, he has been working at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts as director.

He is the curator of such large–scale museum projects as the I-VI International Mezzotint Festivals (2011-2021). The author of the ideas of such major projects in recent years as the exhibition "In memory of the past for the future. The post-war gift of the Hermitage Museum" (2016), the "Skilful Verb" Award for Mass Media and journalists covering issues of culture and art, named after V.Y. Matveev in Yekaterinburg (2016-2021).

Under his leadership, new museum buildings were opened - the Museum of Naive Art (2017), the Hermitage-Ural Center and the Restoration and Preservation Building (2021), the Denisov-Uralsky Stone Carving Center (2021).

The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art museum in the Urals, many of its collections are of global importance - an extensive collection of Ural art casting of the XIX–XX centuries, as well as a collection of the Russian avant-garde of the 1910s-1920s. The museum is the organizer of the world's only International Festival of Mezzotint. In 2021, the Hermitage-Ural center was opened on the basis of the museum.