National Centre for Contemporary Arts

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National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA) in Moscow is a museum, exhibition space and research center focused on contemporary Russian art within the global art world. It was founded in 1992 by nonconformist artists from the Soviet era and aimed to develop contemporary Russian art in an international context.

In 2012, the Ministry of Culture rejected a plan to build a new Moscow headquarters. In 2016, the NCCA and all its branches were merged into the ROSIZO building, and in 2020 the museum was taken over by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The NCCA has nine branches across Russia, in Vladikavkaz, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Tomsk. Before the 2020 merger, it held 72 exhibitions involving 919 artists (56 group shows and 16 solo shows).