The press-conference with worldwide known curator Roger Buergel and
presentation of "documenta 12", which will traditionally feature work of
the mega-stars of art, took place in Stella Art Foundation.
The artistic director of "documenta 12" is Roger M. Buergel, an internationally active exhibition organiser and curator who was born in Berlin in 1962. Together with the art historian, Ruth Noack as curator, he, in line with the documenta's claims, will show art from the most various regions of the world and in all conceivable media.
The leitmotifs: Three questions posed for art but also for its public To initiate such a productive exchange, the documenta posed three questions for art, and also for its public: Is humanity able to recognise a common horizon beyond all differences? Is art the medium for this knowledge? What is to be done, what do we have to learn in order to cope intellectually and spiritually with globalisation? Is that a question of aesthetic education and cultivation? What constitutes life, when everything is subtracted which does not belong essentially to life? Does art help us to penetrate to what is essential?
"Documenta" is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which now
takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by
artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the
Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultural Show) which took place in
Kassel at that time. This first documenta featured many artists who are
generally considered to have had a significant influence on modern art.

Foto by Dmitry Pilikin
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 | 01 October 2011 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
|  | 25 May 2011 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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