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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Stray War 2 | On July 29, 2010 an exhibition titled "Stray War 2: Fruit Catchers" curated by Anastasia Dokuchayeva will be opened at the House of Moscow in Sevastopol. The project has been implemented with the assistance of the Moscow Government. The exhibition will be open till August 1, 2010. |  | 02 July 2010
“Saint François d’Assise” | Stella Art Foundation in cooperation with the Government of Moscow presents the documental project on creation of scenography by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov to the Opera “Saint François d’Assise” of the French composer Olivier Messiaen’s. The exhibition will take place in Riga at the Maskavas Nama from 14 July till 18 July, 2010. |  | 15 June 2010
"ßêøî/Åñëè/If" | The Media-comfort installation by the Institution of Unstable Thoughts group from Stella Art Foundation collection is shown in the "If" ("ßêøî/Åñëè/If") project opened in Perm at the Museum of Contemporary Art.The exhibition is open through July 10, 2010. |  | 07 June 2010
“History Lesson” | Stella Art Foundation presented the works of Olga Chernysheva from a series called "Fisher Plants (Anabiosis)" taken from the Foundation’s collection for the “History Lesson” exhibition ("La Lecon de l'Histoire"). The exhibition will take place in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo in the framework of the "Year of Russia in France", and curated by Joseph Bakshtein. | | 01 June 2010
Dvoeslovie/A Dialogue | Stella Art Foundation supported a contemporary art exhibition entitled Dvoeslovie/A Dialogue which take place in the narthex of the St.
Martyr Tatiana Church of the Moscow State University from May 31
to June 14.
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“Qui Vive?” | Stella Art Foundation presents two projects in the frame of the “Qui Vive?” 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Audio-installation "Kokin (...) Slendro" by French artist Julien Grossmann and a collective exhibition entitled "Basic Forms", which will include works by Sophia Kaschowitz, Xinjian Lu, Johanna Reich, and Andrey Kuzkin. |  | 14 May 2010
Evenings at Skaryatinsky: Grisha Bruskin |
A literary evening of Grisha Bruskin will be held on June 2, 2010, at 19.00 at the Stella Art Foundation at Skaryatinsky Pereulok, 7
As the capacity of the hall is limited, you are kindly requested to confirm your attendance by calling us at (495) 691 3407
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Innovation Award 2009 | On April 15, 2010, the final ceremony of the Innovation, the 5th 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. |  | 15 January 2010
Stella Art Foundation at the 53rd Venice Biennale |
Stella Art
Foundation presented three projects at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The
Foundation held its exhibition entitled 'That
Obscure Object of Art / The Russian
Art of 1975-2005 from the Collection of Stella Art Foundation 'at Ca'
Rezzonico Museum in the context of the Biennale's parallel program, while
also supporting Russian artists who participated in the core program of the
53rd Venice Biennale, as well as the Moscow Poetry Club.
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