Factory-kitchen museum. Tretyakov Gallery branch in Samara

In May 2024, the Factory Kitchen opened in Samara, the first branch of the Tretyakov Gallery. The architecture of the museum’s exposition was handled by Yulia Napolova, founder of the PS Culture bureau. «Our task was to create the heart of the museum, which would always beat and fill the entire space of the Factory Kitchen with life. The overall architectural composition of the exposition unfolds like Lissitzky’s Proun. The central point is an art installation of the Soviet kitchen, to which the viewer comes, moving in a spiral. It is also the starting point of the story about the construction of the building and the personality of its author, the architect Ekaterina Maximova, the first female architect in the Soviet Union. This is the story of avant-garde, feminism, constructivism, industrial design and the new era, which, despite all its complexity, provided opportunities for development and self-realization,» says Yulia Napolova.