A discussion on the contemporary city photography. Do we recognize the today’s city on contemporary pictures? What is left out of the frame? How do works by professionals correlate with amateur pictures taken on a phone camera? Does contemporary photography contribute to strengthening the Petersburg myth or destroying it?
Moderator: Dmitry Milkov, producer, curator of the City π exhibition.
Speakers: Nikolay Evdokimov, owner of the Nikolay Evdokimov Gallery; Elizaveta Zakuraeva, cultural scientist and curator of the City π exhibition; Igor Lebedev, photographer and Chief Curator of Museum Items at ROSPHOTO; Dima Mishenin, artist and curator; Yury Molodkovets, photographer-and-artist; Nadezhda Sheremetova, Director of FotoDepartment.
Meetings with famous St. Petersburgers who have become integral to St. Petersburg’s identity. The guests of the project answer ten questions from the moderator. The talk will be about the St. Petersburg that exists in the dimensions of memory, personal experience and a unique destiny: about places, buildings, items, sounds, and smells.
Guest: Ivan Chechot, art historian.
Moderator: Dmitry Milkov, producer, curator of the City π exhibition.
BUY TICKETSA discussion on St. Petersburg street art. Street art: an art practice or a social phenomenon? Modern city: a stage for or a part of an artist’s statement? How does street art build into urban environment and how does it change it? What does St. Petersburg lack to become the main center of street art?
Moderator: Elizaveta Zakuraeva, curator, cultural scientist and curator of the City π exhibition.
Speakers: Alina Zorya, curator at the Street Art Storage cultural institution; Maxim Ima, street artist; Pokras Lampas, artist; Andrey Lyublinsky, artist and author of the design of the City π exhibition; Dmitry Milkov, producer and curator of the City π exhibition; Denis Fabrika, producer of street art projects.
Meetings with famous St. Petersburgers who have become integral to St. Petersburg’s identity. The guests of the project answer ten questions from the moderator. The talk will be about the St. Petersburg that exists in the dimensions of memory, personal experience and a unique destiny: about places, buildings, items, sounds, and smells.
Guest: Eduard Kochergin, People’s Painter of Russia, Lead Designer at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, writer, and educator.
Moderator: Dmitry Milkov, producer, curator of the City π exhibition.
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A talk about how St. Petersburg looks in the artworks created here and now. How are we connected to the artistic traditions of the past? What are the new traits of the Petersburg myth? Does St. Petersburg art mainstream exist today? What is the demand for the “new St. Petersburg landscape” in art and in the city marketing?
Moderator: Dmitry Milkov, producer, curator of the City π exhibition.
Speakers: Art experts, historians and collectors Kirill Avelev and Nikolai Kononikhin; curator and cultural scientist Elizaveta Zakuraeva; artists Anatoly Zaslavsky and Ilya Ovsyannikov.
Meetings with famous St. Petersburgers who have become integral to St. Petersburg’s identity. The guests of the project answer ten questions from the moderator. The talk will be about the St. Petersburg that exists in the dimensions of memory, personal experience and a unique destiny: about places, buildings, items, sounds, and smells.
Guest: Nina Popova, President of the Friends Foundation of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House.
Moderator: Dmitry Milkov, producer, curator of the City π exhibition.
Meetings with famous St. Petersburgers who have become integral to St. Petersburg’s identity. The guests of the project answer ten questions from the moderator. The talk will be about the St. Petersburg that exists in the dimensions of memory, personal experience and a unique destiny: about places, buildings, items, sounds, and smells.
Guest: Anatoly Belkin, artist and writer.
Moderator: Dmitry Milkov, producer, curator of the City π exhibition.