From May 31
to June 14, a contemporary art exhibition entitled Dvoeslovie/A Dialogue take place in the narthex of the St.
Martyr Tatiana Church of the Moscow State University. The project became
possible thanks to support from Stella Art Foundation.
This is
Russia's first contemporary art exhibition held in a Christian Orthodox church.
"I
think, the exhibition will be a sort of memorandum of intent to seek out a
common language and bring the gaps," archpriest Maxim Kozlov, the abbot of
St. Tatiana's Church, believes.
"Works
presented by the artists explore the theme of the dialogue, while Church offers
an exhibition space – a regular church, thus showing its interest for the
theme," artist Gor Chahal, one of the exhibition's organizers, comments.
Archpriest
Maxim points out that, rather than in the church itself, the exhibition will be
held in an adjacent building: "In the church language it could be called
narthex or antechurch, while in the secular language it is an assembly hall.
Anyway, the idea of such neighborhood is quite daring."
"Ideally,
we, as the exhibition curators, wanted to highlight one trend in the
contemporary art that develops, in one way or another, Christian culture
today," Gor Chahal notes, while admitting that this trend is so far
difficult to discern.
Selection
of works for the exhibition was a cooperative effort of both the artistic and
the Christian Orthodox community. Excessively shocking works were rejected, and
some artists with a record of opposition to Christian values and traditions
were also denied participation.
Exhibition
participants feature names like Nikita Alexeev, Kirill Asse, Tatiana Badanina,
Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Vladimir Kupriyanov,
Alexander Sigutin, the Blue Soup Group
(Alexey Dobrov, Daniil Lebedev, Alexander Lobanov, Valery Patkonen), Andrey Filippov,
Gor Chahal.
The
exhibition will showcase paintings, photographic and video projects, as well as
installations.
Curators:
deacon Feodor Kotrelyov, Andrey Filippov, Gor Chahal.
Konstantin Zvezdohetov. Savior of the Apple Feast Day. 2010. Installation view
Andrey Filippov. Russian Baroque. 2004. Installation view
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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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“Blizzard”
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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
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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
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