New Dawn

In the early 1990s, as the Soviet Union dissolved and borders reopened, a new generation of artists across Eastern Europe began to paint with an unprecedented sense of freedom.

New Dawn brings together works acquired during those transformative years — a moment when artistic expression, long restrained by ideology and isolation, found new energy and emotional intensity. These paintings reflect a Europe in transition: intimate, restless, and deeply human.

Created in Russia and Eastern Europe during the years immediately following the end of the Cold War, the works reveal a powerful return to personal vision, symbolism, and experimentation. Figures, memories, and dreamlike scenes emerge through bold color, expressive gesture, and raw emotional force.

More than a geographic collection, New Dawn is a journey into a historic turning point — when artists rediscovered the freedom to explore identity, imagination, and the complexities of a changing world.

The works were gathered during travels in the early post-Soviet years, when a new artistic voice was emerging across the region. Together they form a poetic document of a cultural rebirth: a moment when painting, once again, could breathe freely.