In September 2004 Sergey Kuryokhin Foundation in St.Petersburg has acquired a permanent home - Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center. The city Government allocated the building of former Priboy cinema in Vasilievsky Island as a basis for a new institution.

Sergey Kuryokhin Foundation was founded in 1997, shortly after the renowned composer and musician’s untimely death in July 1996. Since then the Foundation has been involved in multifaceted artistic, cultural and charitable activities. Their annual culmination is SKIF - Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival.

For most of his life Sergey Kuryokhin was the focal point of everything artistically challenging, creative and groundbreaking first in the city of St.Petersburg, then nationally and eventually internationally. SKIF has tried to play the same role for a few brief days and nights every April. Now with a permanent home, Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center will become a meeting point, a platform and a venue for creative dialog of many various art forms – something Sergey Kuryokhin always tried to achieve in his life performances, records, films, TV shows, and even political actions.

Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center occupies a 2 store building which contains:

Ground floor with a cafe;
concert, theater and cinema hall 1500 capacity ;

The 1st floor foyer a stage and space for performances and installations;

Our activities include several international annual festivals like modern arts festival SKIF (Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival), world music festival Ethnomechanica, electronic arts festival Electro-Mechanica, amator film festival Megapolis.

We have monthly concert programs, film screenings, exhibition and installations.

This year 2009, in December, we start a Sergey Kuryokhin Award – a special price for the best achievements in modern arts.