Festival of contemporary art in a traditional museum. XIV festival “Contemporary art in a traditional museum”
Perhaps the most advanced and one of the most popular art festivals among city residents, “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum,” which, as usual, is held with the support of the Culture Committee and the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, is changing its format this year.
Firstly, it will be limited only to museum and exhibition spaces on Vasilyevsky Island. Secondly, it acquired a main theme: “Hyperlocal: Great Discoveries.” In addition, a person has appeared who is personally responsible for everything that will happen at the festival “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum - 2015”: this is Alisa Prudnikova, director of the Ural branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art, commissioner and artistic director of the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Today she has been announced as a guest curator of the festival.
The festival will be held in the city from September 26 to October 25, 2015 for the 13th time. Its organizers remain unchanged - the PRO ARTE Foundation and the North-Western branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA). The opening will take place on Saturday, September 26, at 12.00, in the Artmuza creative cluster on the 13th line of V.O, no. 70-72. It is here - again for the first time in the history of the festival - that an exhibition will be organized that brings together all of its projects. The exhibition will present “replicas” of works sold in museums, the results of research done by students of St. Petersburg universities in museums participating in the festival, an installation by Yekaterinburg artist Vladimir Seleznev and a photo project by students of the Moscow Rodchenko School under the direction of Vladislav Efimov. The exhibition is entitled identically to the theme of the entire festival: “Hyperlocal: Great Discoveries.” “Artmuza” will become the central platform of the festival.
Other projects of the upcoming “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum” are also already known.
The icebreaker "Krasin"
Branch of the Museum of the World Ocean in St. Petersburg
Project: “Symphony of winds and pendulums”
Museum of Contemporary Arts. S.P. Diaghilev
Project: “Difficult Questions”
Authors: “School of a Young Artist” (St. Petersburg)
Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts
Project: “She. Title of artist"
Authors: Maria Godovannaya, Yaroslav Volovod, Yana Mikhalina (St. Petersburg)
Central Museum of Soil Science named after. V.V. Dokuchaeva
Project: “Luxury Monsters”
Museum-apartment of A. I. Kuindzhi
Branch of the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts
Project: “The Museum in Itself”
Authors: MishMash (Misha Leikin, Masha Sumnina, Moscow)
Central Research Geological Exploration Museum
named after academician F. N. Chernyshev
Exhibition "Large Meteor Trap"
More detailed information can be found on the forum website: www.proartefestival.ru
Of course, one cannot but be concerned about the difficult accessibility of festival spaces due to the renovation of the Vasileostrovskaya metro station, which will last until July 2016. However, the city has already taken a number of actions to facilitate travel within and outside the island. And the organizers are offering an alternative to the traditional option to overcome transport problems: bicycle parking will be installed next to each festival site. However, on the opening day there will also be free buses for everyone.
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The festival “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum” has existed since 2000. Every year, several contemporary Russian and foreign artists get the opportunity to realize their projects in large and small classical museums of the city. For a whole month, traditional museum storage facilities are transformed into places where contemporary art is demonstrated. Over the 15 years of the festival’s existence, 70 St. Petersburg museums took part in it, and 170 projects were implemented by artists from 11 countries.
From September 23 to October 22, the festival “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum” will be held in St. Petersburg in the museums of the Petrograd Side, organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation with the support of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg and the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. All museums and events during the festival can be visited with a single ticket.
Artists from 7 countries will take part in the festival, who will present 12 personal and collective projects in 8 museums. For a whole month, traditional museum storage facilities will be transformed into places where contemporary art is displayed.
Projects by contemporary artists will be dedicated to the general theme of the festival “Facts and Fictions”. Each exhibition project echoes the museum’s exposition and will fit into the museum space.
In addition to exhibition projects, the program includes lectures, art mediations, excursions, film screenings and meetings with artists. For parents who want to attend the festival themselves and are ready to begin introducing their child to contemporary art, a special children's route has been created. During the festival, the route sheet will be available for free at any participating museum.
The festival will open with a central exhibition in Poterna of the Peter and Paul Fortress, which will link all this year's projects. Each artist prepares an art object for her, telling about his festival project.
Those who want to find out which museum is definitely worth visiting can start their route from the central exhibition in Postern, and then visit all the museums of the festival over the course of a month.
Participating museums:
- Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology,
- Museum of Dreams of Sigmund Freud,
- Museum of Political History of Russia,
- Museum-apartment of S. M. Kirov,
- Museum of the History of Photography,
- Museum of the St. Petersburg Avant-Garde - Matyushin House,
- Museum-apartment of the Elizarovs.
Transport:
On Saturday, September 23, from 12:00 to 17:30, free festival buses will run between the museums.
You can view the festival's exhibition projects during museum opening hours. Pre-registration is required for accompanying program events.
On September 14, the festival “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum” opens. Over the course of a month, St. Petersburg museums will become platforms for projects by contemporary artists, and various meetings and art events will be held in the city. "Paper" I have selected several interesting events of the upcoming festival.
Photo by Andy Friberg from the Caretaker Project
The annual festival “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum” has been held in St. Petersburg since 2000. Over the course of thirteen years, 65 city museums took part in it, and 170 projects were created for it by artists from eleven countries. It is expected that the festival will reconcile the traditional art familiar to city residents with objects and installations, public art and new high-tech art of our time. It also allows St. Petersburg residents to take a fresh look at museum spaces. “Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum” will officially open at noon on September 14 in the Peter and Paul Fortress, to the left of St. John’s Bridge. On Saturday and Sunday, special free bus routes will operate for festival guests: from 12:00 to 18:00, buses will transport St. Petersburg residents along four routes every 15–20 minutes. The route map can be obtained now at the office of the organizing fund “PRO ARTE”, at the opening of the festival, in participating museums and on the buses themselves. For the convenience of visitors, volunteers will work at all festival bus stops.
"Routes" , Museum of Urban Electric Transport
The project of St. Petersburg artists Evgenia Machneva and Alena Tereshko is dedicated to one of the oldest tram routes in St. Petersburg and the only one connecting the city and the suburbs. Tram route No. 36 runs parallel to the Peterhof road and was originally supposed to connect the Narva outpost - through Strelna, Peterhof and Oranienbaum - with Krasnaya Gorka, but in the end the tram can only take you to Strelna. The artists created an installation on the theme of long trips on tram 36 at the Museum of Urban Electric Transport. In its center is a nine-meter trellis, which presents a panorama of the tram route based on the memoirs of Evgenia Machneva. The second part of the installation is a video work by Alena Tereshko, consisting of images of a trip on this tram. From Tuesday to Sunday. Excursions at 10:00, 11:30, 14:00, 16:00 Sredny Avenue V.O., 77,250 rubles. There are benefits
"The Caretakers"
American photographer Andy Friberg is a series of portraits of caretakers of the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Tretyakov Gallery. Work on the photo series began by chance, in 2008, when a photographer from San Francisco took several photographs of caretakers at the Hermitage. Later, as he continued his work, Friberg began to pay special attention to the similarities between the female caretakers and the paintings in the halls they looked after. Every day from 10:30 to 20:00 Sovereign Bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress 150 rubles. There are benefits
"Jump to the City" , Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
Presents an exhibition project for the 280th anniversary of the birth of the great Moscow architect Matvey Fedorovich Kazakov(1738 - 1812). The exhibition “Matvey Kazakov and pre-fire Moscow” will be the first retrospective of the architect’s work in recent decades. The exhibition will be open from December 5, 2018 to March 10, 2019 in the Enfilade of the main building of the Museum of Architecture at 5/25 Vozdvizhenka Street.
Kremlin reconstruction project. Corps for the Grand Dukes. Facade from the Trinity Gate. 1797. Sheet from 1 album of State-owned buildings by M.F. Kazakov. Paper, ink, watercolor, iron gall ink. 51.0x66.5 Photo: State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva
Valuable exhibits will be seen for the first time
At the exhibition, many materials will be presented to the general public for the first time: original author's projects, architectural graphics, engravings and series of drawings by Kazakov, three-dimensional models of the most significant buildings. Particularly valuable exhibits of the exhibition will be the famous “Kazakov’s Albums” stored in the Museum of Architecture. The drawings of private and public buildings were created under the guidance of the architect within the framework and are a real encyclopedia of the architecture of pre-fire Moscow at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries.
Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery. Project of the iconostasis in the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene. Facade. Paper, ink, watercolor. 65.6x50.0. Photo: State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva
Architectural graphics and watercolors by Kazakov’s contemporaries provide a wealth of material on the history of many public and residential buildings in the city in the second half of the 18th century. Pre-fire views of the city will allow today, at the beginning of the 21st century, to visually restore the appearance of long-gone, “Cossack” Moscow. Visitors will see how, in the strict era of classicist architecture, “Gothic” and “Russian” trends penetrated into fashion, and thanks to authentic objects of decorative and applied art and furniture of that time, they will be able to feel the spirit of Moscow life of the century before last.
The exhibition will be based on works from the collections of the State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev, as well as graphic materials from the funds of the State Historical Museum, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin. Works from the State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, the All-Russian Museum of A.S. will also be presented. Pushkin, the Russian State Historical Archive and the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.
M.F. Kazakov. View of the pavilions on Khodynskoye Field from the South-Western side. Paper, pen, ink. 48.8x65.3 Photo: State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva
In honor of the architect’s 280th birthday, the Museum will release a catalog including articles by leading researchers in the field of history and art history, where most of the creative graphic heritage of Matvey Kazakov will be presented.
F.Ya.Alekseev. View of Ivanovskaya Square in the Moscow Kremlin. 1810s Canvas, oil. 82.8x112.7 Photo: State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva
F.Ya. Alekseev and students. View of the Senate in the Kremlin. 1800s 31x51;5; 43.6x64.4 Photo: State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva
Table, 19th century. Photo: State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva
Russian pseudo-gothic
Matvey Kazakov is an outstanding Russian architect, one of the founders of Russian classicism and the most famous representative of Russian pseudo-Gothic. Getting an education at an architectural school Dmitry Ukhtomsky, he learned the basics of architecture from treatises Vitruvius, Palladio and Vignola. Kazakov also absorbed a love for ancient Russian architecture. He honed his talent through hard work and deep study of the works of his predecessors. This is how a characteristic feature of Kazakov’s creative style was formed - a combination of classical and ancient Russian architecture.
First working under the guidance Vasily Bazhenov in the Expedition of the Kremlin building, by 1786 Kazakov led the Expedition and in fact became the leading architect of Moscow. The architect designed the Senate building in the Kremlin, the new building of Moscow University, the House of the Noble Assembly, the Golitsyn and Pavlovsk hospitals, the Petrovsky Travel Palace, and estates Demidova, Gubin and Baryshnikov, and many other buildings that are firmly included in the list of architectural attractions of Moscow. The Baryshnikov estate, in which the AiF editorial office is located, is also the creation of Matvey Kazakov.
Adam V., engraver: Khoshtein E. Moscow. Petrovsky entrance palace. Architect Kazakov M.F. General view from the road. 1840s Paper, chromolithography, gouache, whitewash, varnish. 24.9x34.0 cm. Photo:
