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).
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art
4 march—14 june 2021
Millennials or Generation Y - those who were born in the 1980s-1990s and entered the new millennium at a young age. This generation is characterized by the difficult self-identification and the attention to the problem of self-presentation, reflected in the authors' attempt to talk more about their individual experiences, their fears, traumas or fantasy worlds.
The Light of Learning: Publishing and Educational Posters from the Collection of the Russian Museum
16 december 2020—30 march 2021
The exhibition features posters from the collection of the Russian Museum, relating to education in Russia in the first third of the twentieth century. The exposition includes about 120 works of agitation art of the widest thematic range - from narrow advertising in bookstores, publishing houses and libraries to large-scale propaganda of reading, getting knowledge and education.
- 28 december 2020—10 may 2021 > Stroganov Palace The Leningrad Rock Club in Photographs. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Its Opening
- 23 december 2020—29 march 2021 > St Michael’s Castle The Artistic Legacy of the Klodt Family
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.
