On April 15, 2010, the final ceremony of the Innovation, the V All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition event, was held at Krasny Oktyabr confectionary.
Stella Kesaeva, President of Stella Art Foundation, gained an award in the Support of Russian Contemporary Art nomination.
Stella Art Foundation have been supporting the Innovation awards since its inception in 2006. Each year the Foundation grants a special award for a young artist from the award short-list– an apprenticeship at one of European cultural centers. The award has been won by such young Russian artists as Eugenia Emets (2006), Elena Kovylina (2007), Anya Zholud’(2008) and Haim Sokol (2009).
In 2010, Alexander Rytov, Foundation Director and Vladimir Levashov, Foundation Art Director, handed this year's award – an apprenticeship in Vienna sponsored by Dorotheum Auction House - to Alexandra Galkina.
In other nominations of Innovation the awards were granted as follows:
Work of Visual Art: Balaklavsky Drive, video art piece by Sergey Bratkov
Curator's Project: Kudymkor is the Engine of the Future, exhibition curated by Ekaterina Degot
Art Theory and Criticism: Aesthetic Studies by Andrey Monastyrsky
Regional Project: Dal (Long View): VII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, curated by Sergey Kovalevsky
New Generation: Figure Skating on Soap, Semen Motolyanets and Dmitry Petukhov;
For Creative Contribution into the Development of Contemporary Art: Olga Lopukhova (post-mortem)
Special award from "Unident" company and "You and Fine Arts" culture & charity entity: Nikolai Polissky
Stella Kesaeva and Peter Noever
Stella Kesaeva
Vladimir Levashov, Alexandra Galkina, and Alexander Rytov
All images: courtesy of National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
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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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