Moscow-Thessaloniki 2009
Typos Thessalonikis, 11.08.2009
After the Viennese Kunsthistorisches
Museum and the 53rd Venice Biennale, works
from the collection of Stella Art Foundation will be presented in Thessaloniki in the
context of the Second Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennale under the general
title Moscow-Thessaloniki 2009.
The core exhibition
of the Moscow-Thessaloniki 2009 program
is held under the title Subjective
Visions / Work from the collection of Stella Art Foundation and will be staged
at the Thessaloniki
Cultural Center
of the National Bank's Educational Foundation (Vasilissis Olgas Str. 108) from September
19 till November 11.
Some words about Stella Art Foundation
Stella Art
Foundation is a non-commercial institution established in November 2004 at the
initiative of Stella Kesaeva. Key objectives of the Foundation are to
facilitate cultural exchanges, promote the work of Russian artists and create a
contemporary art museum in Moscow. The
Foundation takes very active part in all the major international events dedicated
to contemporary art (documenta, Venice Biennale) and has collaborations with some
of the most significant museums worldwide (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Venetian
Ca' Rezzonico). Simultaneously, the Foundation implements an extensive charity program. The Subjective Visions exhibition is just
one version in a whole cycle of independent shows of works from the collection
of Stella Art Foundation, which was launched in October 2008 with an exhibition
at the Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum under the title That Obscure Object of Art and was continued this year with another
version, this time at the Venetian Ca' Rezzonico, in the context of the
parallel program of the Venice Biennale. The common moment of all these exhibitions
is that the all the works shown in them belong to the collection of Stella Art
Foundation. The exhibition at the National Bank's Educational Foundation is curated
by Thalea Stefanidou.
The artists
The
exhibition will feature works of the following artists: Nikita Alexeyev, Yuri Avvakumov,
Vagrich Bakhchanian, Olga Chernysheva, Michael Craig-Martin, Eugenia Yemets, Elena
Yelagina and Igor Makarevich, Alexandra Galkina, Alexander Glinitsky, Dmitry Gutov,
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Alex Katz, Maria Konstantinova, Joseph Kosuth, Oleg
Kulik, Robert Mappelthorpe, Andrei Monastyrsky, Ilya Trushevsky, Stas Polnarev,
Dmitry Tsvetkov, Spencer Tunick.
The program
"Moscow-Thessaloniki 2009" will be supplemented with various projects
to be presented in Thessaloniki
during the same period and to be announced soon. In the context of this
program, Stella Art Foundation is publishing a colour catalogue.
The Subjective Visions project is implemented
by the Stella Art Foundation (Moscow) in cooperation
with the National Bank's Educational Foundation and artBox.gr | creative arts
management and sponsored by Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennale.
Useful information
Exhibition will
be open as follows: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00
to 18:00, Fridays, 10:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 21:00. The attendance for the public
will be free. Group attendance should be arranged in advance with the National
Bank's Educational Foundation at 2310 295.170-1.
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