Between the 11th and the
15th of November, en exhibition entitled “Dreams of Reason. Graphics
by Vagrich Bakhchanyan.” will take place at the Moscow House in Sofia.
An international press conference with the participation of Martin Boehm, the
Chairman of the Dorotheum auction house, was held on October 17. The exhibitions
planned in Moscow and Vienna were the main theme of discussion.
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.
In the summer and autumn 2008, Stella Art Foundation (Moscow)
will host a Contemporary Russian Art Festival on Corfu in collaboration with
the Marina Noel Foundation (Corfu)
together with Moscow Government and Kerkyra City Hall.
The Festival, curated by Anastasia Dokuchaeva
art-director of Stella Art
Foundation, will feature a number of exhibitions and events showcasing the works
now considered to be classical representations of the modern Russian art, as
well as the most recent sensations in the realm of the young Russian art.
The Young Artists’ Biennale “Halt! Who’s there?” is one of the largest
and most ambitious projects in the sphere of modern art currently
realised on the Moscow art scene. The biennale brings together the creative initiatives from all over
Russia and from abroad (both the CIS and worldwide), Moscow leading art
centres along with regional and international partners. Dates and place: July 1-30, 2008, Moscow
The Stella Art Foundation presented an evening of poetry with the famous American poet and translator, John High, on May 16th at 18:30. To a packed audience, John High read his poetry and his essay, “A Few Words on Methodology in Translating Osip Mandelstam and Nina Iskrenko.” After giving his own reading and presentation, High read translations of poets from the infamous Poetry Club group of writers, of whom he was made an honorary member at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union.
Special award of Stella Art Foundation was established together with Marina Noel’s Foundation (Greece). Anna Zhelud', the winner in "New Generation" nomination was invited
to live and work on Corfu island for a couple of weeks in July-August to create a special artistic project that will be exhibited later.
Stella Art Foundation took part on the Global Art Forum 2008 in Dubai within "Art Patronage in the Business Age. Private Passions: Cultural Philanthropy and Collecting".
