Category: In Russia

Highlights from Cyland video archive
August 14, 6pm
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina

GROUND Solyanka, Moscow, Russia
https://solyanka.org/landscapes3

In “Changing Landscapes 3”, twelve films/video works selected from CYLAND’s Video Archive create together a genuine, introspective look at contemporary Russian New Media. These videos / films by active Eastern European artists offer personal perspectives into the continuum of their native country’s past, present and future. Pieces by established, recognized artists Boris Kazakov, Yuri Vasiliev and Ludmila Belova, Marina Alexeeva, Dimitri Lurie are joined by early works by Maxim Svishev, Masha Sha, Anton Khlabov and the “Upward!” community – each embodying artistic development within the age of digital technology in Russia.

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International Festival of Media Art
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
13—24.11.2019

CYFEST is an exceptional international project which promotes national media art abroad, and international art in Russia. In 2019, the festival projects were presented at the leading cultural institutions in New York, Rome, Venice and Moscow. CYFEST 12 will be held in Saint Petersburg from 13th to 24th November 2019.

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May 20 – June 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of the Academy of Arts, Cast Department
Universitetskaya Embankment, Bldg. 17, 1st floor
May 19, 6:00 pm – Opening, as part of the International event “Night of Museums”

Curator – Elena Gubanova, co-curator Lydia Gryaznova

The division between traditional and contemporary art adds to the list of dichotomies, more interconnected than separated. However, the question arises, what does this bifurcation of art mean from the perspective of the artist, museum, and viewer?

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This year, CYFEST is partnering with Lumen to exhibit in St. Petersburg 2016 Lumen Prize Gold Award winner Hyperplanes of Simultaneity by Fabio Giampietro and Alessio de Vecchi and the 2017 Founders Award, Slide to Expose by by Nicole Ruggiero, Molly Soda, and Refrakt alongside a showreel of selected moving image works.

(img: © Maurice Benayoun, Emotion Winds, 2014)

The human being is constantly looking for a comfort zone. Changes induce anxiety and a desire to stick to the already known, familiar and comfortable. We suggest to treat changes in the realm of the digital technologies, which became integrated to our mundane life, as if they were the weather patterns. As something that is beyond our control, but what directly affects our routine.

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February 8 at 19.00 at Sreda Space
Screening of the film by Bjørn Melhus “Freedom and Independence”
DIGITAL VIDEO PROGRAM “TO TOUCH THE SKY”

Sreda Space
St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt, 35, Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor
entrance from Sadovaya Street across from the Vorontsov Palace, 3nd Floor

Curated by Viktoriya Ilyushkina (Russia)

THE CYFEST 11 DIGITAL VIDEO PROGRAM is curated selection of video art works via open call, in various innovative genres: animated gifs, net art, 3D and stop-motion animation, cinema 4D, mockumentary and performance art, gaming, digital collage, and experimental films. The program features Russian artists from Petersburg and Moscow.

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PROXIMA

EXHIBITION PROJECT
February 3–12

Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum

Сurated by Sofia Kudryavtseva (Russia), Elena Gubanova (Russia)
Сo-curated by Anna Zavediy (Russia)

The Proxima project (from Latin, meaning ‘‘nearest’’) unites artists which carry out observations of the world around. The represented works are all based on an attempt to get closer to things via various repetitive actions. The flow of imitations, the strive to recreate a kind of habitual landscape expose the fact that the perception of the nearest — objects and time — is ever mediated. We are only able to grasp fragmentary, to get close selectively and if doing so unable to recognize.

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WE’LL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE

EXHIBITION PROJECT
February 2–5

Annenkirche

Curated by Anna Frants (Russia-USA), Elena Gubanova (Russia), Sergey Komarov (Russia) Continue reading “11th CYFEST – Annenkirche Exhibition Project”

WEATHER FORECAST: DIGITAL CLOUDINESS

EXHIBITION PROJECT
February 2–12

St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design

Сurated by Anna Frants (Russia-USA), Elena Gubanova (Russia)
Сo-curated by Varvara Egorova (Russia), Isabella Indolfi (Italy), Silvia Burini (Italy), Giuseppe Barbieri (Italy), Vlad Strukov (UK), Natalia Fuchs (Russia) Continue reading “11th CYFEST – Museum of Applied Arts Exhibition Project”