Russian "Visions"
Katerina
Zacharopoulou, Ethnos tis Kyriakis, 23.08.2009
After Vienna
and Venice, the collection of the Moscow-based Stella
Art Foundation comes to the National Bank's Educational Foundation in the
context of the Second Thessaloniki
Biennale.
Thessaloniki is receiving works from the
collection of the Stella Art Foundation in the context of the Second Thessaloniki
Biennale, thereby staging another important cultural event and keeping
live interest of the public to what is going on in our northern capital.
So far, Biennale
has hosted exciting exhibitions raising issues relating to the form in which an
institution like Biennale can work systematically, as well as the engagement of
various city sites in such activities.
Subjective
This time,
the site hosting the collection will be the amazing building of the National
Bank's Educational Foundation (Vasilissis Olgas Str. 108), where the Subjective Visions exhibition will be
held.
It will be very
interesting to see works from the collection of a Foundation established in Moscow in 2004 at the initiative of Stella Kesaeva to
promote cultural exchanges, popularize work of Russian artists and create a contemporary
art museum in Moscow.
The Foundation's
collection – thanks, among other things, to its continuous presence in other events
where works of Russian artists are exhibited – has already received a "residence
permit" in the international art community. As a
result, exhibitions of some pieces from the collection have already been
held at the Venice Biennale and the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna. Thessaloniki
is going to become the next stop in the collection's journey. Biennale and the State Contemporary
Art Museum have keen interest
in the goings-on in the Russian art scene, and it is a right choice, given that
this museum is also a "residence" of the Kostakis Collection. The National
Bank's Educational Foundation followed suit in this exciting initiative, offering
Thalea Stefanidou, the exhibition's curator, a splendid opportunity to demonstrate her exhibition arrangement
method. The three areas of
reflection: creative artistic process, the collecting and the curatorial activity
– represent
an axis around which the curator builds her approach to works, their creation, their
presentation and the relationships between them. Well-renowned artists whose works
are included in the Stella Art Foundation collection include authors like Alex
Katz, Robert Mappelthorpe, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth and Oleg
Kulik. The exhibition is held in the context of the Biennale, as well as a part
of the Moscow-Thessaloniki 2009 program.
The
exhibition opens on September 18.
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