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).
23 january—9 march 2020
The exhibition for the first time reconstructs the history of Leningrad Expressionism in the unity and diversity of the ways of the plastic form development. Presented artworks closely converge, but their authors, as a rule, did not intersect in life.
Nikolay Rybakov. Yeniseian Routes
21 november 2019—14 january 2020
The exhibition of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Rybakov presents more than 70 works: paintings, graphic works, and enamels.
- 12 december 2019—28 april 2020 > Mikhailovsky Palace Alexander Myasoyedov. Carnival in Rome
- Permanent exhibition > Mikhailovsky Palace Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
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.
