Exhibitions
One of the Stella Art Foundation’s basic objectives is promoting the works of young artists in Russia and abroad by arranging major exhibitions. Many of them are collaborations between the Foundation and governmental, civil society and private cultural institutions. The first result of this kind of partnership was Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s exhibition “An Incident in the Museum and Other Installations” organised in 2004 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the State Hermitage Museum in the Hermitage’s General Staff building. That experience confirmed the Foundation’s ambition to promote contemporary Russian art in Russia’s state museums and also abroad. As further examples, a series of exhibitions were held in conjunction with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna: in 2008 “That Obscure Object of Art” (curator Vladimir Levashov); in 2009 “Igor Makarevich, Elena Elagina. In situ” (curator Boris Manner); and in 2011 an exhibition of works by Boris Orlov called “Circle of Heroes” (curator Evgeny Barabanov). In 2009 and 2011, as part of cultural exchange and in collaboration with the State Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMus) in Thessaloniki, projects to exhibit a broad cross section of the Russian art scene were undertaken. The Foundation curated Moscow’s pavilion at the ninth Shanghai Biennale for contemporary art, was a partner in presenting dOCUMENTA (13) and carried out a joint project with the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. In 2019 together with the Pushkin State Museum, the Foundation arranged the well-received exhibition “There is a Beginning in the End” at the 58th Venice Biennale of contemporary art.
