Art Fund in the city of Dushanbe

Better than any other art gallery in the city, but strangely not very well known due to lack of communication, this is the place to visit in Dushanbe for those interested in contemporary art.

The Art Foundation (or Art Academy), located in a dilapidated Soviet-era building, concentrates a large number of art studios. Painters, sculptors, and masters of applied arts gladly welcome visitors.

An ideal place where you can directly meet contemporary artists among their works, with the possibility to buy.

In addition, their studios are located in a large complex that houses workshops that fulfill government orders for decorative works, as well as many artifacts from the Soviet period.

Among them is the main dismantled statue of Lenin in Dushanbe, melted down in 1924 along with bronze cannons from the Tsarist period, which was replaced by a statue of Ismoil Somoni in Friendship Square.

Overall a very picturesque atmosphere.