Alexander Isachev Art Gallery
The history of exhibition activities of the Rechitsa Local History Museum began in 1990, when exhibitions of paintings, graphics and arts and crafts began to be regularly held in the city. In December 1998, the exhibition hall of the Rechitsa Local History Museum was opened at Sovetskaya Street 30 (now the Crafts Center). In September 2007 in the historical part of the city in the restored building — an architectural monument of the late XIX — early XX century, was opened an art gallery, which later — in 2015 was named after our famous fellow countryman Alexander Isachev.
In the building of the art gallery there are two exposition halls. One of them presents a permanent exhibition of paintings and graphic works by Alexander Isachev from the funds of the Rechitsa Local History Museum. This collection is the only state collection of the artist's works in the Republic of Belarus.
The name of A. Isachev is widely known to the lovers of painting in our country and abroad. During his short life Alexander Isachev painted about 500 paintings and hundreds of graphic works. The artist's works are kept in museums and private collections in Western Europe, the Middle East, the USA, Russia and Belarus.
The funds of the Rechitsa Local History Museum contain 5 paintings and 25 graphic works by the master, as well as a memorial complex, which includes more than a hundred museum items. The largest owner of the artist's heritage was the collector Georgy Mikhailov (St. Petersburg). The largest private collection of A. Isachev's works in the Republic of Belarus belongs to Oleg Orlov (Minsk).
Currently, the works of Alexander Isachev in free access can be seen only in the exhibition hall of the art gallery of the Rechitsa Local History Museum.
Hundreds of articles have been written about the life and work of the artist in newspapers and magazines of union, republican and local importance, radio and TV programs have been prepared, dozens of catalogs and albums of the artist's works have been published. A. Alai made a full-length documentary film "Don't cry about me..." at the Belarusfilm studio in 1987.
The second hall of the art gallery hosts changing exhibitions from the funds of the local history museum, collections of museums of the republic and private collections. Over the years of the art gallery's existence, large-scale exhibition projects of regional, republican and international formats have been realized within its walls, including: the exhibition of paintings by the People's Artist of the USSR M. A. Savitsky "Figures on the Heart" from the funds of the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History (Minsk); the exhibition of works by A. Krivichanina "Window to the World" from the funds of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (Minsk); the exhibition of works by A. Krivichanina "Window to the World" from the funds of the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History (Minsk); exhibition of works by A. Krivichanina "Window to the World" (St. Petersburg); lithographs by S. P. Zhukova (St. Petersburg), exhibition "Treasures of the church libraries of the Gomel and Turov dioceses", exhibition "Dnieper Ferry" based on the results of the International Art Plein air tour through the museums of Gomel and Chernigov region and others.
In May 2022 the art gallery became one of the creative locations of the Republican cultural and sports festival "Vytoki. Krok da Alimpu".
In 2007, 2010 and 2015, anniversary exhibitions of Alexander Isachev's paintings and graphic works from private collections and the fund of the Rechitsa Local History Museum were held.
Joint and solo exhibitions of Rechitsa artists: Vladimir Gursky (Tuteishy), Maxim Pozharitsky, Dmitry Atamanchuk, Vadim Strelcheny and other artists have enjoyed success.
More than 10 exhibition projects were held in the gallery together with Eugene Shetykhin, the last of which reflected his creative activity in the People's Republic of China.
The museum staff in the art gallery presents a wide range of cultural services. The museum staff is in constant search of new interesting ideas and projects, is set for dialog and creative cooperation with everyone who together with us will contribute to their successful realization.