Marina Loshak

Marina Devovna Loshak (, , surname Boskis; born November 22, 1955, Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. She was the director of the Pushkin Museum from 2013 to 2023.

Biography

Marina Loshak was born in 1955 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR in a white collar family. She graduated from the Odessa University as a philologist. Later, she worked in the Odessa State Literature Museum and researched the literature of the 1920s.

In 1986, she moved to Moscow to work in the Mayakovsky Museum. From 1989 to 1991, she curated the corporate art collection of the Stolichnyi Bank. Later in 1998, she also became the Chief Manager for Public Relations at the SBS Bank and curated its collection as well.

Recognition

Loshak is the member of the Member of the Expert Councils of the Kandinsky Prize and the Russian Cultural Foundation. She is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Personal life Loshak is a collector of naive art and headdresses.

She married Viktor Loshak (born 1952), a Russian journalist and editor. Their daughter Anna Mongait (née Loshak, born 1978) is a journalist and TV presenter.