Marat Helman was fired from the Permm Museum of Contemporary Art

The authorities of the Perm Territory terminated the employment contract with the director of the Permm Museum of Contemporary Art, the famous Galerist Marat Gelman, reports Echo of Moscow. Earlier, the intention of the authorities to dismiss Helman RIA Novosti was confirmed in the administration of the region.

“We confirm this information,” the agency’s interlocutor said, without specifying the date when it is planned to terminate the employment contract and announce the competition for the replacement of the vacant position.

Information that the acting The Minister of Culture of the region Igor Gladnev decided to terminate the fixed -term employment contract with the director of the regional state autonomous institution "Museum of Modern Art" Helmann appeared in the local Business Perm edition on Wednesday in the morning. It was emphasized that the termination of the employment contract is carried out in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 278 of the Labor Code, which allows the employer to dismiss the manager at any time, regardless of whether the head of the guilty actions was committed, and without explanation.

The day before, the governor of the region Viktor Basargin instructed the regional control and accounting chamber to check the organization of the white nights in Perm 2013, whose development director is Helman.

Claims to the exhibition arose among the authorities of the region in connection with the participation of the artist Vasily Blondov in it. His exposition included a series of cartoons on the topic of the upcoming Olympics in Sochi.

In total, four exhibitions were closed at the festival, which are, including the exposition with photographs of Moscow protests, as well as the project of the artist Artyom Loskutov "Occupy Perm" was canceled.

In the comments, officials then equated the "Russophobic demonstrations" of artists with the propaganda of Goebbels.

Then the regional prosecutor’s office began checking the budget of the festival and the legality of payments to Helmann.

PermM is the first and so far the only museum of contemporary art outside the two capitals in Russia, the institution’s website says. In 2008, the initiators of its creation were galleryist Marat Gelman and Senator Sergey Gordeev. Gelman headed the museum since the end of 2008.