The opening ceremony of Vagrich Bakhchanian's
exhibition at Actionfield Kodra (Salonica) featured a performance delivered by Eugeny
Nikitin, a Russian poet and curator of the poetry club of Stella Art Foundation,
Russia,
and the Greek poet Vassilis Amanatidis, based on a poetry collection by Vassilis
Amanatidis "The Hare and the Country" translated into Russian by Oleg
Philippov and Eugeny Nikitin.
The performance was based on plastics and gesture, while
also involving Bakhchanian's works in the performance act. In this way, the
live voices of the poets delivering absurdist texts in Greek and Russian established
delicate links between the visual image and the sound, the language and ideas, the
art and the audience. According to Ekaterina Koskina, director of John
Costopulos Foundation, its was "a plastic and energetic show with deep meaning
concordant with the exhibition subject and the texts themselves, the best performance
of the festival." Elena Nikita, Deputy Minister of Culture and Education
of Cyprus and director of Cyprus Culture Department, also noted the performance
and invited the two poets to repeat the show in Cyprus at some future date.
We should also cite the words of Roger Buergel, curator
of dokumenta, who commented on Vagrich Bakhchanian's exhibition at Actionfield
Kodra curated by Anastasia Dokuchaeva: "It is an accomplished work of art,
perfect in its logic, aestetics and historical meaning."
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In the Press |
Timing Is Everything // Nicholas Cullinan, Artforum, September 2011
A Russian Guru at Work in Venice // Claudia Barbieri, The New York Times, 13.06.2011
From the bus garage to the biennale // Claudia Barbieri, The Art Newspaper, January 2011
Esoteric, dense and Russian // Kathimerini, 25.10.2009
Words Worth a Thousand Pictures // Max Seddon, The Moscow Times, 11.09.2009
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Elena Kitaeva. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner | Elena Kitaeva’s works from Stella Art Foundation collection are shown at the exhibition “Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner” in the framework of the International Festival “Diaghilev’s Seasons: Perm - St. Petersburg – Paris” at PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art in Perm. The exhibition was first shown at Stella Art Foundation in March-April 2011. Read more… |  | 20 April 2011
Blizzard | Works of Olga Chernysheva, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina from the collection of Stella Art Foundation will be displayed at the
“Blizzard”
exhibition that will open the Arsenal, a new exhibition site of the Volga branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. More... |  | 11 April 2011
Symposium "Revisiting Conceptual Art" | Boris Groys and Stella Art Foundation organized an international symposium "Revisiting Conceptual Art: the Russian Case in an International Context", which was held on April 14 and 15, 2011 at the Central House of Writers at the Central House of Writers in advance of the 54th Venice Biennale. More... |  | 08 April 2011
Innovation Award 2010 | On April 7, 2011 winners of "Innovation", the 6th All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition, were awarded at a dedicated ceremony. Traditionally, Stella Art Foundation awarded its special prize to a young artist. More... |  | 01 April 2011
Igor Makarevich, Elena Elagina. Dark Room | The Consulate General of Greece and Stella Art Foundation continue their series of exhibitions from the Foundation collection. On April 4, 2011 the Exhibition Hall of the Consulate General of Greece in Moscow, at Spiridonovka 14, will feature the works of Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. The “Dark Room” project presents the works of the classics of Moscow Conceptualism of the 1970's - 2000's. |  | 04 October 2010
Venice Biennale | Stella Art Foundation is proud to announce the curator and artist to represent Russia at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The Russian Pavilion is to be curated by philosopher and art critic Boris Groys. Groys proposed the candidace of Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions for the Russian national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which the Foundation approved. |  | 07 July 2010
Venice Biennale | According to the Order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Stella Kesaeva, the President of Stella Art Foundation, was appointed Commissioner for the Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale. More... |
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