German Video Art in the Russian Museum
The program “German video art in the Russian Museum” is organized in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and “Video-Forum” (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin). The curators have selected eight pieces of art of video artists from Germany and other countries.
«Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces» (Berlin-Übungen in neun Stücken)
1974-1975, 00:39:50, PAL, color, sound, PAL, 4:3
Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn (1944, Michelstadt) is a German visual artist, nowadays lives and works in Paris and Berlin.
he video work “Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces” is a new part of the program “German video art in the Russian Museum”.
Rebecca Horn is one of a generation of artists who explore the relations between space and body, movement and perception through the performance and video art. At the 1970’s she worked with the so called “bodily extensions” and performed some kind of rhythmic mechanical movements using masks, gloves and feathers. In her latest kinetic objects and installations the machines have become the subjects of action.
The “Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces” consists of a series of performance works enacted by one or two people in front of the camera. The performance begins with measuring of the room using gloves, resembling scissors. Then Horn measures the room by steps and touches the opposite walls at the same time. The “Berlin Exercises” are completed with radical gesture of the artist: she cuts hair with two pairs of scissors simultaneously. The feminist critique of society has greatly influenced Horn’s early works.
October 6 at 6 PM the lecture by Ivan Chechot (Associate Lecturer, Saint-Petersburg State University) “Rebecca Horn and her obsession with search of the body opportunities expansion by means of prosthesis and art” will take place (in Russian).
October 20 at 6 PM the lecture by Dmitry Pilikin (Lecturer, Saint-Petersburg State University, expert of the Museum of Modern Art (Saint-Petersburg State University), art critic) dedicated to Rebecca Horn will take place (in Russian).
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For the Glory of Russia. Entrepreneurs and Patrons in Russia in the 18th – Early 20th Centuries
6 June—5 August 2024
Merchants, the “third estate”, at that time, were the basis of Russia’s economic power. The Stroganovs, the Demidovs and other entrepreneurs sometimes established entire “empires” with their own settlements, roads and internal regulations. The richest merchants became nobles and patrons of the arts. The exhibition is unique, both in the themes it explores and in the works it presents.
Olga Rozanova (1886–1918): An Art Revolutionary
16 May—2 September 2024
Olga Rozanova's retrospective exhibition at the Russian Museum comprises art works from different collections. It will feature about 50 paintings and more than 100 graphic works illustrating all periods of her artistic career.
- 21 March—8 July 2024 > St Michael’s Castle Drawings and Watercolours by the Wanderers
- 15 March—13 May 2024 > Mikhailovsky Palace Mstislav Farmakovsky. 150th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
In the online shop of the Russian Museum presented a huge range of souvenirs, illustrated editions and multimedia disks.
