Marat Guelman is a Russian art collector, gallery owner and art manager, who has been behind some of the most important art initiatives connected to Russia in the last thirty years. Born in 1960. One of the first contemporary art dealers in the USSR — in 1990 opened one of the first private galleries of contemporary art. He arranged personal exhibitions of Andy Warhol (Alter Ego, 1994) and Joseph Beuys (“Leonardo's Diary”, 1994), supervised numerous exhibition projects in the Manezh, the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. In 1995, together with Gleb Pavlovsky, he created the “Foundation for Effective Politics”. From June 2002 to February 2004 he was the Deputy General Director Russia's 'Pervy Kanal' television channel. In 2008, Guelman ran the exhibition Russian Povera in Perm. The exhibition included the works of the most prominent Russian artists of today. Marat is the former director of Perm Museum of Modern Art PERMM. In 2014 he moved to Montenegro for the implementation of a new cultural project.