Goichmans Gallery
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The Russian professor and artist Wladimir Goichman’s art is for display in the Goichman’s Gallery. In total, Nanoq possesses 111 of Goichman’s Arctic paintings. Goichman was born in Russia in 1903 and died in Finland in 2001. He painted his paintings on his many trips to the Arctic areas. Goichman’s daughter Julia Starikova donated 54 paintings to the museum after her father’s death. In 2007, Nanoq received an additional 57 paintings as a deposition from the Fram Museum in Oslo. The paintings are permanently on display at the museum in the Goichman’s Gallery.
More than 20 exhibitions featuring Goichman’s work have been held all over Europe; in Russia, England, Poland, Sweden and Norway. In Finland there have been held more than ten exhibitions containing Goichman’s paintings. The most important ones where at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum in 1983, the Art Museum of Rauma in 1988 and the Retrospect Exhibition in Vihermaailma 1993. In 1996, Goichman’s paintings where on show in London during the exhibition called “The Arctic”. The event was dedicated to the centenary of Polar research and arranged by the Royal Geographical Society. His Memorial exhibition was held at Galleria Regina in Turku 16.12.2001-28.01.2002.
