V-A-C Foundation


V-A-C Foundation is an international non-profit private organization founded in 2009 with an emphasis on supporting contemporary art exhibitions and projects emerging from Russia and the former Soviet Union.

History

Founded in 2009 by businessman and philanthropist Leonid Mikhelson, the V-A-C Foundation is a nonprofit organization that initiates, supports, presents, and preserves contemporary art projects by internationally-based visual and multidisciplinary artists, with a particular emphasis on artists located in, or emerging from, the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union.
In 2015, architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to design the foundation's venue in Moscow.