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In
2021 the Kolodzei Art Foundation marks thirty years of
encouraging a more diverse arts world and advancing knowledge
of the art of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Recent
and upcoming exhibitions and events:
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Ferment:
Metamorphoses and Reflections. CYFEST-14 at the
National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City,
December 6, 2022 - January 3, 2023.
CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the theme of fermentation through
the dual lenses of art and science. Fermentation in the
conventional sense is a technological process in the food
industry. However, if we give it some thought, practically
everything that happens over time---to animate, inanimate and
even strictly material objects---falls under this definition.
In the exhibition, artists explore fermentation’s
versatility both as a biological process and in its more
extensive metaphorical meaning.
This exhibition brings together artists practicing
different media including paintings, drawings, prints,
photography, video, new media and interactive installations
who are interested in evoking a wide range of responses to
contemporary cultural and historical context and social
environment. Leonardo Journal, published in partnership with
MIT Press, is dedicating its December 2022 Special issue to
this theme in conjunction with 2022 CYLAND Media Art Lab 14th
international festival of media art CYFEST. The
exhibition is organized by CYLAND
Media Art Lab in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art
Foundation. https://www.nationalartsclub.org/
List of Artists Alexandra
Dementieva, Carla Gannis, Anna Frants, Ivan Govorkov, Elena
Gubanova, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza, Iacopo Bedogni), Anne
Spalter, The Josh Craig, Katran, Natalya Nesterova, Joan
Snyder,
Valeriy Gerlovin, Ilya Kabakov, Valentina Povarova, Alexey
Titarenko, Erik Bulatov, Arsen Savadov, Petr Belenok, Chakaia
Booker, David Datuna, Dasha Skorubsky-Kandinsky, Lydia
Masterkova, Natalia Sitnikova, Katherine Liberovskaya, Ranjit
Bhatnagar, Phill Niblock, William Hooker, Ernst Neizvestny,
Dimitry Gerrman, Oleg Bourov, Mihail Chemiakin, Julia Winter,
Yakov Vinkovetsky, Vasilii Bakanov, Andrew Strokov and Ivan
Karpov.
The
Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending artworks to CYFEST-14:
Ferment, part of Emerge
2022: Eating at the Edges. A Festival of Food Futures
at the ASU MIX Center, 50 N. Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85201,
November 14-20, 2022 https://emerge.asu.edu/2022/exhibits/cyfest-at-emerge/
CYLAND Media Art Lab, Arizona State University, and
Leonardo ISAST, and ASU MIX Center present the
CYFEST-14: Ferment, November 14-20. The opening of CYFEST-14:
Ferment on Friday, November 18 from 3 PM to 6 PM MST at ASU
Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, 50 North
Centennial Way, Mesa, Arizona, USA. The project is on view
until November 20, 2022. CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the
theme of fermentation through the dual lenses of art and
science.
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ID
ART/TECH: Selections from Kolodzei Art Foundation and Frants
Family Collections, The Museum
of Russian Art, Minneapolis, March 12 – August 14,
2022.
The
exhibition features works by forty-five Russian, Ukrainian and
Russian-American artists and explores the meanings of ID–
from the concept in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that
certifies one’s identity (ID), through creative
articulations across time and media.
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https://tmora.org/2022/02/10/id-art-tech-selections-from-kolodzei-art-foundation-and-frants-family-collections/
The
Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending the work by Ukrainian
artist Arsen Savadov (born 1962 in Kyiv; lives and
works in Kyiv and New York), Feeling – Reason – Memory –
Will – Conscience - The postmortem Existence. 1993. (Photo
emulsion, mixed media on linen, 40 x 40 inches) to the
exhibition Who Writes History? at the ArtsWestchester
Gallery, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, New York, April
23 – July 3, 2022. https://artswestchester.org/who-writes-history/
The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending the work by
Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn to the
exhibition BLOOM! A Celebration of Spring at the
National Arts Club, New York, May 10 - June 22 “This
seasonal exhibition will feature works by Fabrizio Arrieta,
Carlos Quintana, Larry Poons, Mark Tobey, Will Barnet and
selections from the Permanent Collection. The show will also
pay tribute to the Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn
(1951- 2020) with an installation of a major work from his
Reflections series.” https://www.nationalartsclub.org/exhibitions
The Kolodzei Art Foundation is glad to
participate in the 40th anniversary of the Museo Tamayo
(Mexico City) by lending Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
“Soul of Norton Dodge” (1978-1979) From the project
Corporation for Buying and Selling Souls and other art objects
to the exhibition Beyond the Trees “Beyond the Trees
traces the historical, political and cultural events that
marked the years that spanned the construction and opening of
the Museo Tamayo (1979-1981), through five exhibition nuclei
that occupy all the museum's spaces… The fifth nucleus of
the exhibition takes us through a series of works that were
produced between 1979 and 1981, and which have set the tone
for cultural production, mainly in the United States, Europe
and Latin America.” Exhibition on view from December 11,
2021 to April 30, 2022. https://www.museotamayo.org/exposiciones/mas-alla-de-los-arboles
It's
About Time to Launch the Quick Brown Fox Again... Isn't It? (Самое
время
снова
запустить
быструю
коричневую
лису… Не
так ли?). Russian-American
art exhibition at All-Russian Decorative Art Museum,
Delegatskaya st., 3 Moscow, (Всероссийский
музей
декоративного
искусства,
ул.
Делегатская,
3, Москва), January
20-February 20,
2022. Opening reception on Thursday, January 20, 2022.
https://damuseum.ru/en/exhibitions/samoe-vremya-snova-zapustit-bystruyu-korichnevuyu-lisu-ne-tak-li/
COSMOS
and CHAOS: CYFEST-13 at the National Arts Club, 15
Gramercy Park South, New York, December 14, 2021 - January 6,
2022. Cosmos and Chaos: CYFEST-13 exhibition explores artistic
images for Cosmos and Chaos. What do we have in mind today by
reaching out to those philosophical notions?
What inspirations and interpretations these ideas bring
and how they relate to each other.
This exhibition brings together artists practicing
different media including paintings, drawings, prints,
photography, video, new media and interactive installations
who are interested in the above proposed topic and evoking a
wide range of responses to space exploration, climate change,
contemporary cultural and historical context and social
environment. The exhibition is organized by CYLAND Media Art
Lab (cyland.org)
in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
The list of artists includes: Anna Frants, Alexandra
Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov, Clea T. Waite,
Ilya Kabakov, Chakaia Booker, Konstantin Khudyakov, Leonid
Lazarev, Francisco Arana Infante, Victoria Burge, Valentina
Povarova, Lydia Masterkova, Alexander Ney, Dmitri Plavinsky,
Petr Belenok, Dimitry Gerrman, Asya Dodina and Slava
Polishchuk, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Natalya Nesterova, Vitaly
Komar, Alexander Melamid, Eduard Steinberg, Natalia Sitnikova,
Valery Koshlyakov.
Leonardo Journal devoted a special issue to CYFEST-13: Cosmos
and Chaos. https://leonardo.info/leonardo
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Anatoly Zverev (1931-1986). Selections from the Kolodzei
Art Foundation at the Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, 12th Floor, International Affairs Building, 420 W
118th Street, NYC. The show runs from October 28 until
December 17, 2021. The exhibition features artworks from the
late 1950s to the mid-1980s. For
more information visit: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/anatoly-zverev-selections-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation/
Anatoly
Zverev as a Cultural Phenomenon: Remembering the Artist on
December 2, 2021, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Tatiana Kolodzei and
Natalia Kolodzei of the Kolodzei Art Foundation will discuss
the artist Anatoly Zverev and his legacy. Introduction by Mark
Lipovetsky (Columbia Slavic Department/Harriman Institute),
with recorded remarks by art historian/curator Maria Plavinsky
and artist/art collector Natalia Kostaki. Hybrid Event.
Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC. For registration
and information: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/anatoly-zverev-as-a-cultural-phenomenon/
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous)
Talk CYLAND
St Petersburg RU has become a part of the Ars Electronica
Festival 2021! Join us for an on-line interdisciplinary
conversation Communities and Collaborative Art Practice
from Local to Global, Participants — Katherine
Liberovskaya, David Weinstein, Carol Parkinson, Sergey Teterin.
Introduction — Natalia Kolodzei.
https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/antidisciplinary-topographies/
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks CYLAND
St Petersburg RU - Saturday, 29 May 2021 (20:00 St. Petersburg
RU) 1PM NYC. Save and Re-Sound: Preserving and Archiving
Sound Art and Experimental Music. Panelists: Phill Niblock,
Jonathan Hiam, Carol Parkinson, Katherine Liberovskaya, Sergey
Komarov. Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei. 1 hour online discussion in English with simultaneous
translation into Russian. Video recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkjGoGAbke0&t=1s
is the link to the event in English.
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LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) talks CYLAND
St Petersburg RU - Art Data: Collecting, Preserving and
Displaying Digital on December 12, 2020 at 12 PM EST
(20:00 St. Petersburg RU) – Panelists: Christiane Paul, Anna
Frants, Lev Manovich, Anne Spalter, moderator: Natalia
Kolodzei. The discussion will be held online in English with
simultaneous translation into Russian & lasts for one
hour. For more information and registration click
here
ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION, National Arts
Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, March 2–April 30, 2020.
Opening Reception on Monday, March 2, 2020. Panel
discussion on March 13 at 7pm.
ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION explores ID as a phenomenon with wide
scatter of meanings — from the term in psychoanalysis (id)
to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID) — from
the forms of sociopolitical functioning of portraits of Soviet
Nonconformism to the images of mass culture, aesthetics of ID
cards, passport picture and social networks. This exhibition
brings together a collection of experiential-based ideas and
projects mediated by technologically progressive visualization
methods, as well as paintings, drawings, photography, video,
and sculpture from the Frants Family Collection and Kolodzei
Art Foundation.The exhibition is organized by CYLAND
Media Art Lab in collaboration with the Kolodzei Art
Foundation. In May of 2019, ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION was on
display at Ca’ Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Venice,
Italy.
Public program: March 13 at 7pm a panel
discussion and visual presentation Contemporary Art in
Academic Environment focusing on the strategies and problems
of education process in the field of digital art, effective
instruments of practical and theoretical learning, and
multidisciplinary project based approach. The speakers include
Ellen K. Levy, Christopher Fynsk, Anna Frants, moderated by Natalia
Kolodzei. This program is organized in conjunction with the
ID.ART:TECH EXHIBITION.
The list of artists includes Martha Wilson, ORLAN, Faith
Ringgold; Cyland MediaArtLab artists and interactive works by
Anna Frants, Ludmila Belova, Alexandra Dementieva, Elena
Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov, Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev,
Alexander Terebenin, a special selection of contemporary sound
art from Cyland Audio Archive. A selection from Frants Family
collection includes works by Valentin Gromov, Tatiana
Kuperwasser, Tatiana Glebova, Leon Nissenbaum, Solomon Rossine,
Rikhard Vasmi, and a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of
Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation
includes works by Petr Belenok, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Erik
Bulatov, Asya Dodina, Rimma Gerlovina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Slava
Polishchuk, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya Kabakov, Vyacheslav
Koleichuk, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid, Douglas Davis,
Leonhard Lapin, Natalia Nesterova, Samuil Rubashkin, Leonid
Sokov, Oleg Vassiliev, Alexander Yulikov, Anatoly Zverev.
Sergei
Volokhov: Theory of Reflection: Selections from the Kolodzei
Art Foundation - Opening reception on Tuesday, October 22,
2019 from 6 to 8pm at the Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, 12th Floor International Affairs Building, 420 W
118th Street, NYC. The show runs until December 18, 2019. For
more information visit: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-opening-sergei-volokhov-theory-reflection-selections-kolodzei-art-foundation
The
Kolodzei Art Foundation is pleased to lend the works from the
collection to ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION at Ca’
Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Zattere, Dorsoduro
1392, Venice. Boat stop: Zattere. Media Preview: May 8
at 11 AM. Opening Night: May 10 at 6 PM. The exhibition runs
from May 5 – June 28, 2019. ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is
dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of
meanings – from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the
document that certifies one’s identity (ID). The exhibition
organized by CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Center
for the Studies of Russian Art CSAR. Curators: Anna Frants,
Elena Gubanova, Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Valentino
Catricalà, William Latham, Lydia Griaznova. The exhibition
include contemporary artists from Russia, Italy, Great
Britain, USA, Belgium, France, Norway as well as artworks by
the classics of the 20th century. Among the exhibit’s
participants are the New York underground guru of sound art
and renowned minimalist composer Phill Niblock, Russian
experimental artist and fashion designer Andrey Bartenev,
artist and curator of the Central Asia Pavilion at the 55th
Venetian Biennale Ayatgali Tuleubek, St. Petersburg artist,
curator, winner of Sergei Kuryokhin Award and Innovation Prize
Peter Belyi, distinguished Russian artist and founder of sots
art Erik Bulatov and others.
The project’s exposition is a visual examination of the
subject of identification: from the forms of sociopolitical
functioning of portraits of Soviet non-conformism to the
images of mass culture, aesthetics of ID cards, passport
picture and social networks. The project will unite in one
space the Soviet nonofficial art from Frants Family Collection
and Kolodzei Art Foundation, video-, sound-, net-art,
photography, installation and everyday objects. Frants Family
Collection, include artworks by Rikhard Vasmi, Tatiana Glebova,
Valentin Gromov. And Kolodzei Art Foundation will features
works by: Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Oleg Vassiliev, Vagrich
Bakhchanyan, Erik Bulatov, Petr Belenok, Asya Dodina and Slava
Polishchuk, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Leonhard
Lapin, Samuil Rubashkin, Sergei Volokhov, Alexander Yulikov click
here for the press-release
From
Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the
Kolodzei Art Foundation at the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA),
5500 Stevens Ave S. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55419, September
15, 2018 – February 10, 2019.
The project Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists
from the Kolodzei Art Foundation is a selection from the
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art,
covering three generations of artists, from the 1960’s to
the present. The show includes paintings, works on paper,
photography, video, and interactive installations. Arranged
thematically, the exhibition features the work of emerging,
mid-career and established artists. It is a visual exploration
of the development and accomplishments of women artists from
Russia emphasizing the importance of media experimentation for
contemporary Russian women artists in defining their identity.
The first generation consists of artists who began their
careers at the time of Khrushchev's “Thaw” of the 1950’s
and took part in the first, crucial, unofficial exhibitions of
the 1970’s, including Lydia Masterkova, Valentina
Kropivnitskaya, Tatiana Levitskaia, and Rimma Gerlovina. The
next generation includes artists who participated in the
initial exhibitions and others who became involved in the
early 1980’s, including Natalia Nesterova, Tatyana Nazarenko,
Olga Bulgakova, Anna Birshtein, Natalia Shibanova, Lusy
Voronova, Diana Vouba, Svetlana Kalistratova, and Valentina
Lebedeva-Lesin. The latest generation is made up of artists
whose works date from post-perestroika and post-Soviet period
from the late 1980's to the present, including Irina Danilova,
Natalia Kamenetskaia, Alexandra Dementieva, Alla Esipovich,
Marina Koldobskaya, Tatiana Antoshina, Irene Caesar, Elena
Kallistova, Marina Kolotvina, Victoria Kovalenchikova, Natalia
Elkonina, Dorothee Chemiakine, Marina Karpova, Anna Frants,
Tatiana Krol, Elena Gubanova, Ludmila Belova, Olga Tobreluts,
Aidan Salakhova, Katya Filippova, Elena Sarni, Svetlana
Martinchik, Marina Gertsovskaia, Alena Anosova, Marina
Chernikova, Natalia Abalakova, Innessa Levkova-Lamm, Olga Lamm,
Tatiana Daniliyants, Julia Winter, and Natalia Sitnikova. #NonConformismToFeminisms
For more information visit http://tmora.org/2018/04/30/from-nonconformism-to-feminisms-russian-women-artists-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation/
Panel
discussion - Managing Your Art Collections on Monday,
November 19 at 7:00 PM at the National Arts Club,
15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. Art lovers do you wonder
how to manage, organize, catalogue, care and store
works from your collection? The panelists will offer
updates on trends in the art industry, the importance
of proper storing and planning for collections, and
how to address issues related to conservation and
restoration of fine art, as well as related topics
such as lending to museum exhibitions and engaging
with other collectors.
Speakers: Laura Stirton Aust, paper conservator
and Edie Meyer, Vastari.
Moderated by NAC member, curator and collector,
Natalia Kolodzei. For more information: http://www.nationalartsclub.org/default.aspx?p=.NETEventView&ID=3864524&qfilter=&type=0&ssid=323204&chgs=
Eduard
Gorokhovsky: From
Siberia to Moscow, Selected Works on Paper from the
Kolodzei Art Foundation – opening reception
on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 6-8pm at Harriman
Institute Atrium, Columbia
University, 420 W 118th Street, NYC, 12th floor.
The show runs until March 30, 2018
This exhibition features selected drawings from the
1960s and early 1970s by prominent Russian artist
Eduard Gorokhovsky (1929-2004) while he was living and
working in Novosibirsk and drawings and artist’s
prints from his Moscow period.
more
information.
Personal Spaces – Interactive
Multimedia Works by Anna Frants, Carla Gannis,
Alexandra Dementieva, Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov.
National Arts Club, Gregg Gallery, 15 Gramercy Park
South, New York, February 26 - March 24, 2018. Opening
Reception February 27, 2018, 6-8pm.
This exhibition brings together a
collection of experiential-based ideas and projects
built around the idea of interaction between the
viewer and an artwork, an individual and a society,
mediated by technologically progressive visualization
methods. Technology can be viewed as an instrument for
artists to offer reflections on the role of
information in society; cultural mechanisms; the
boundary between the real and the virtual; and the use
of mass media as instruments for manipulation and
control. Some of the works are inspired by the
artists’ own experiences and create an illusion of
the individual taking on a paradoxical and timeless
sojourn into the ideal — an entirely “personal”
space constructed of inanimate objects from the past.
Other works offer journeys through imaginary epochs
represented by classical forms, historical images and
creative associations, while additional works explore
female identity through the artist turning the camera
on herself as a character for role playing in digital
narratives. The exhibition explores artworks that are
immersive, participatory, performative and kinetic,
all from the vantage point of the phenomenological
experience. It is organized in collaboration with
CYLAND MediaArtLab and the Kolodzei Art Foundation. more
info
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 7:00 PM –
panel discussion and visual presentation - Collecting,
Preserving, Displaying and Lending Digital Media-Based
Art at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy
Park South, New York City.
Anne
Spalter (The Anne and Michael SpaIter Digital Art
Collection), Anna Frants (CYLAND Media Art Lab), Carla
Gannis will address the issues of collecting,
preserving, and curating these dynamic, ephemeral,
fragile and vulnerable works or techniques that rely
on digital technology in creative and display
processes; moderated by Natalia Kolodzei. more
info
The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works to the
exhibition Commemorating
the Russian Revolution, 1917/2017 at the Zimmerli
Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street,
New Brunswick, New Jersey from October 14 to February
18, 2017. Public
program and reception on November 7, 2017.
The Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending works to the
exhibition Varieties of Nonconformism:
Unofficial Art from the Former Soviet Union at
Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst,
Massachusetts from October 9, 2017 to February 4,
2018.
Exhibition
“Russian Émigré-Artists in the USA. 1950-2017.
Presented by the Kolodzei Art Foundation” in
conjunction with the 10th
Annual Independent Russian Documentary Film Festival
in New York, Downtown Community TV Center, DCTV,
87 Lafayette St., NYC, October 20-22, 2017.
Natalia Kolodzei participates in Translations
& Dialogues: The Reception of Russian Art Abroad,
Collecting Russian Art roundtable (in memory of Norton
Dodge) in Venice, Italy October 25 – 27, 2017.
Three-day international conference, co-organized by
the Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR) at the
University Ca' Foscari in Venice, the Society of
Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art
and Architecture, Inc. (SHERA) and the Cambridge
Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC).
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Oleg Vassiliev: Metro Series & Selected Works on
Paper from the Kolodzei Art Foundation – Opening
reception on
January 23, 2017 from 6 to
9pm at the Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor, NYC. The
gallery talk is on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 6pm
info.
The
show runs until March 31, 2017.
For more information visit http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-opening-oleg-vassiliev-metro-series-selected-works-paper
Oleg Vassiliev is regarded as a
key member of the Nonconformist Art movement; rather
than confining himself to the discussion of
contemporary political and societal issues,
Vassiliev’s work explores concepts reaching beyond
questions of social order. Among his immediate
influences are the lyrical realist landscape paintings
of Isaac Levitan and Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist
art. As the Russian artist Erik Bulatov puts it,
Vassiliev’s painting “connects such disparate
lines of development in Russian art as
nineteenth-century realist painting, landscape
painting in particular, and the avant-garde of the
1910s and 1920s.” Though he immigrated to the United
States in 1990, Russia and Russian art continued to
play an important role in Vassiliev’s work.
Rather than reject past artistic experiments,
Vassiliev embraced them, combining traditional
artistic concepts with nonconformist ideas and
influences from early 20th
Century abstract art. The past and present seem to
collide in his work, and this work, too, appears
timeless—at once belonging to the past and the
present. Linked to this idea of timelessness, is the
idea of transitional space. Throughout his works,
Vassiliev emphasizes the importance of memory.
Individual memories, often the starting points of his
work, become universal explorations of memory and the
act of remembering.
Vassiliev was born in 1931 in
Moscow, and lived and worked in New York. He died in
St. Paul, Minnesota in 2013. He has been the recipient
of numerous artistic awards and grants, including from
the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1994 and 2002). In
1999, he was the first recipient of the “Liberty
Prize.” His work has been displayed in museum
exhibitions across the globe. His prominent solo
museum exhibitions include Oleg
Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations)
at The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow in 2004 and The
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg in 2005; The
Art of Oleg Vassiliev, The Museum of Russian Art,
Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2011; Oleg Vassiliev: Space and Light at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New
Brunswick in 2014-2015.
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St. Peter’s Church and the
Kolodzei Art Foundation are pleased to present What
Remains: Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk at
Narthex Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington
Ave (at 54th Street) New York City, March
18 – May 9, 2016. Opening reception on Thursday,
April 7, 2016 from 6pm to 9pm.
The series What
Remains by Russian-American artists Asya Dodina
and Slava Polishchuk appeal to the viewer on both
analytical and emotional levels:
their philosophical
reflections on art drive their artistic process,
alluding to the ephemeral nature of contemporary
society and to the passage of time.
Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk wrote:
“Witnessing the destructive power of Hurricane Sandy
and the unspeakable tragedies that it brought, we
started our project What
Remains. The project is addressed to the themes of
loss and memory. Images of empty nests floating in
nowhere; fragments of plants, drawn with graphite,
juxtaposed to debris of the computers; cell phones,
assembled on the canvas and then covered with
splashes of paint. Images are symbols of lost lives
and homes, but at the same time they are symbols of
hope.”
Personal and cultural memory acquire a spatial
embodiment. The
artists extract and elevate visual images from the
past, dramatize and transform them in order to arrive
at something more universal, something common to the
entire human experience.
Juxtaposition and collision of different
styles, aesthetics, media, combinations of elaborate
fine details, textures, and remnants of computers
interweaved onto Japanese
paper; the artists
construct their artworks on the intensity of
coexistence of opposite extremes, playing on the
ambivalence of meaning, encouraging discussion of
their work.
Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk have been working on
the series What
Remains for the last five years.
About St. Peter’s Church: Saint Peter’s Church
contributes to New York’s vibrant art scene by
hosting rotating exhibitions in two prominent gallery
spaces. Exhibitions typically explore spirituality in
its broadest sense, provoking discussion regarding
art’s place in culture, in spiritual thought and in
daily life. The
Chapel of the Good Shepherd (1977) at St. Peter’s
Church is the only existing NYC environment designed
by Louise Nevelson (born 1899 in Poltava Governorate
of the Russian Empire; died in 1988 in NY).
St. Peter's Church 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th St. New
York, NY 10022 http://saintpeters.org
Gallery hours: daily 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 P.M
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The
Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned
Space Exploration, Photographed by Leonid Lazarev the
Harriman Institute, Columbia University (420 West 118
Street, 12th Floor) from Monday, March 21 to Friday,
May 20. Opening reception for the exhibition on Monday
March 21 from 6 to 8 pm.
For more information visit http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/kolodzei-art-foundation-presents-dawn-manned-space-exploration-photographed-leonid-lazar
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This
Leads to Fire: Russian Art from
Non-Conformism to Global Capitalism. Selections from
the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Neuberger Museum of
Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road,
Purchase, NY 10577, September 14, 2014 to January 11,
2015. This Leads to Fire features selections from the
Kolodzei Art Foundation, one of the most extensive
collections of nonconformist and contemporary Russian
art in the world.
The exhibition will include works ranging from
the 1950s through the period of Glasnost and
contemporary art. It will be organized into five parts
that explore the origins of Nonconformist art, the
developments of Moscow Conceptualism, Sots Art, the
influence of the Russian avant-garde in geometric
abstraction, and the coercive legacy of Socialist
Realism. This Leads to Fire will familiarize viewers
with an important and underappreciated body of work,
but also demonstrate the challenges these artists
still pose to both mainstream Russian culture and the
globalized art world. The exhibition is curated by
Sarah Warren, Assistant Professor of Art History at
Purchase College, the State University of New York.
The artists features in the exhibition include: Alena
Anosova, Tatiana Antoshina, Valeryi Ayzenberg, Vagrich
Bakhchanyan, Leonid Borisov, Erik Bulatov, Irene
Caesar, Genia Chef, Mikhail Chernyshev and Star Group,
Group Collective Action (Andrei Monastyrsky, Nikita
Alexeev, Nikolai Panitkov, Georgii Kizevalter, Igor
Makarevich, Elena Elagina, Sergei Romashko, Sabine
Haensgen), Alexandra Dementieva, Alla Esipovich, Anna
Frants, Rimma Gerlovina, Valeriy Gerlovin, Dimitry
Gerrman, Gnezdo (Nest) Group (Mikhail Roshal, Gennadii
Donskoi, and Viktor Skersis), Eduard Gorokhovsky,
Francisco Arana Infante, Ilya Kabakov, Anton S.
Kandinsky, Dimitri Kantorov, Konstantin Khudyakov,
Marina Koldobskaya, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Vitaly Komar,
Dmitrii Krasnopevtsev, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, Yefim
Ladyzhensky, Leonid Lamm, Rostislav Lebedev, Lydia
Masterkova, Alexander Melamid, Artem Mirolevich,
Mikhail Molochnikov, Ernst Neizvestny, Vladimir
Nemukhin, Natalia Nesterova, Alexander Ney, Shimon
Okshteyn, Oscar Rabin, Mikhail Roginsky, Samuil
Rubashkin, San San (Alexander Karasev), Alexander
Sigutin, Anatolii Slepyshev, Eduard Shteinberg, Leonid
Sokov, Alexei Titarenko, Alexei Tyapushkin, Oleg
Vassiliev, Sergei Volokhov, Julia Winter, Vladimir
Yakovlev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Valery Yershov,
Valerii Yurlov, Anatolii Zverev
PUBLIC PROGRAMS & EVENTS:
Neu
First Wednesday Lecture, Wednesday, November 5, 4:30
pm Masha Gessen: Russian Power,
Russian Dissent Held at the Purchase College Music
Conservatory Recital Hall. Refreshments following the
lecture at the Neuberger Museum of Art.
Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, author of
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir
Putin and Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of
Pussy Riot, will discuss contemporary issues in
Russia.
Conversation: Collecting Art in Russia, Tuesday,
November 18, 11 am Join Natalia Kolodzei in a
conversation about collecting art in Russia.
Kolodzei’s family daringly amassed one of the most
extensive collections of Nonconformist and
contemporary Russian art in the world, that is now
part of the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection.
Neu First Wednesdays Media Lecture: Artists
Speak–Vitaly Komar, Wednesday, December 3, 4:30
pm
Vitaly Komar has spent much of his career reacting to
what he calls “the overproduction of ideology and
its propaganda,” most notably Soviet Socialist
Realism. From 1967 to 2003, Komar and Alexander
Melamid organized various conceptual projects, ranging
from painting and performance to installation, public
sculpture, photography, music, and poetry, that form a
powerful response to contemporary political and social
climates. This New Media Lecture is presented by the
Neuberger Museum of Art and the New Media Board of
Study, School of Film and Media Studies, Purchase
College. Free admission and refreshments will be
served.
Open
house with Tatiana and Natalia Kolodzei Saturday,
January 10 from 2 to 4:30 pm and Sunday,
January 11 from 2 to 4:30 pm
. For directions and more information visit Neuberger
Museum of Art
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Finding Freedom in Russian Art, 1961-2014.
Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the
Collection of Dr. Wayne F. Yakes. Paul
and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 710 East St.
Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70503, August 30 to
December 6, 2014. Opening reception Friday, September
19, 2014. The works in this exhibition will highlight
the evolution of non-conformist and independent art in
Russian from a time of rigid censorship to the new
democratic Russia. The works, spanning 1961 to 2014,
reflect the major wave of Russian alternative culture
and describe the history of non-conformist art
processes and movements. The exhibition will also
highlight the rich diversity of art that emerged and
survived during the past forty years of the then
Soviet Union and contemporary Russia.
The
artists featured in the exhibition include:
Vitaly
Komar & Alexander Melamid, Ilya Kabakov, Oleg
Vassiliev, Oscar Rabin, Ernst Neizvestny, Eduard
Gorokhovsky, Petr Belenok, Vladimir Nemukhin, Dimitri
Krasnopevtsev, Francisco Infante, Eduard Shteinberg,
Vyacheslav Kalinin, Mihail Chemiakin, Dmitri Plavinsky,
Erik Bulatov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Leonid Sokov,
Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Lamm, Innessa Levkova-Lamm,
Valery Koshlyakov, Asya Dodina & Slava Polishook,
Vladimir Kupriyanov, Valera and Natasha Cherkashin,
Alexander Zakharov, Igor Novikov, Genia Chef, Marina
Karpova, Arsen Savadov, Andrei Volkov, Ivan Govorkov
& Elena Gubanova, Olga Bulgakova, Alexander
Sitnikov, Natalia Sitnikova, Anton Kandinsky, Katya
Filippova, Edward Bekkerman, Anna Frants, Igor
Molochevski, and Leonid Lazarev
The
exhibition brings together paintings, sculpture, works
on paper, photography, video and digital art.
The Kolodzei Art Foundation is
lending paintings by Oleg Vassiliev to the exhibition Oleg
Vassiliev: Space and Light at Jane
Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street,
New Brunswick, NJ 08901, September 02, 2014 to
December 31, 2014.
The Kolodzei Art Foundation is
lending works by Yuri Sobolev to the exhibition Isles
of Yuri Sobolev at Moscow
Museum of Modern Art, Ermolayevsky lane 17,
Moscow, September 15, 2014 to November 9, 2014.
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Click
here to see recent press coverage and videos on
the Kolodzei Foundation and Russian art.
Concerning the
Spiritual in Russian Art, 1965-2011. Selections
from the Kolodzei Art Foundation from
January 26 to June 9, 2013 at The
Museum of Russian Art,
5500 Stevens Ave South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55419. Opening
reception on Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 5pm to
7:30pm. RSVP kolodzei@kolodzeiart.org
. For more information click
here for the press-release or visit
TMORA
Website.
The exhibition examines the intersections of artistic
and religious consciousness that explore spiritual
expression in the Soviet Union and Russia. this exhibition
confronts the historical collisions of the sacred and
secular, the conflict of government censorship and
freedom of expression under the Communist regime.
Natalia Kolodzei Lecture at The Museum of Russian Art,
Minneapolis on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at
6:30pm. Natalia Kolodzei will trace the historical and
political situation in Russia and how they relate to
the patronage and collection of art. She will also
describe in depth the story and the history of the
Kolodzei collection. Natalia Kolodzei will also give a
gallery talk of Concerning the Spiritual in Russian
Art, 1965-2011 on Thursday, May 23, 2013 – 11:00
A.M. http://tmora.org/event/natalia-kolodzei-lecture-tmora/
Art
of Oleg Vassiliev: Discovering 20th Century Russian
Masters. The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
August 14, 2011 - February 2012. For more information
visit TMORA
website.
The
Kolodzei Art Foundation lent Oleg Vassiliev painting Overcoming
the Space, 1965 to the exhibition Authorized
for Export from the USSR…
at
Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina",
Moscow. The show on view from June 22 until October 2,
2011.
The
Kolodzei Art Foundation is lending artworks to the
exhibition Hostages of Voids at the Tretyakov
Gallery (Moscow) in conjunction with 4th
Moscow Biennale. The show is on view from
September 24 to November 13, 2011.
Concerning the Spiritual Tradition in Russian
Art. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation
Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art.
Curated by Natalia Kolodzei. Opening Reception on
Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 6 to 8 pm at Chelsea Art
Museum Home of Miotte Foundation 556 West 22nd Street
(@ 11th AVE) New York City Museum hours: Tue - Sat
11am - 6pm Thursdays 11am - 8pm. On Saturdays,
April 30, May 7, May 28, June 4, and June 11 at 4 pm
gallery talks will be led by exhibition curator
Natalia Kolodzei. Ms. Kolodzei, Executive Director of
the Kolodzei Art Foundation and co-owner of the
Kolodzei Collection, will discuss the artworks in this
exhibition, as well as the history of Non-Conformist
and contemporary Russian art from the time her mother,
Tatiana Kolodzei, started their Collection in Moscow
through today. Tours free with Museum admission.
The reception is on Thursday, May 5, 6 to 9pm.
On Thursday, June 2 from 6-8pm New Review
Poetry Evening and Reception (click
here for more info).
On Thursday, June 9 from 6-8pm SLOVOSFERA - the
literary, musical and visual evening with Gennady
Katsov (text) and Julian Milkis (clarinet).
The
exhibition continues through June 18, 2011. Click
here for the press-release or visit www.chelseaartmuseum.org.
The
Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned
Space Exploration, Photographed by Leonid Lazarev
at Russia
World Forum, March 29-30, U.S. Senate, Washington
DC and Russian Cultural Centre, Washington DC. The
exhibition at Russian Cultural Centre continues
through June 20, 2011.
The Kennan Institute and the Kolodzei Art Foundation
present Moscow Grafika: Artists’ Prints 1961
– 2009. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of
Russian and Eastern European Art. The exhibit
will be on view from March 12 to July 20, 2010 at the
Woodrow Wilson Center, located at: 1300 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004.There will be an
opening reception on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 4 to
6PM.
Moscow Grafika includes works in various mediums of
printmaking, including linocut, etching, screenprint,
monotype and lithography. Dating from 1961 through the
present, the works represent trends in historic
non-conformist art as well as traditional and digital
mediums in printmaking by artists who worked or
working in Moscow. Several generations of
non-conformist and independent artists are represented
in the exhibition, they include those who began their
careers during Khrushchev’s "thaw" of the
1960’s and 1970’s who took part in the first
unofficial exhibitions; artists who began working in
the perestroika
(late 1980's) and the post-perestroika
periods; as well as artists who entered the scene more
recently during the post-Soviet years. The project was
first shown at the International Print Center New York
in 2005.
Artists represented in Moscow Grafika include Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Valeriy Gerlovin, Yuri
Albert, Grisha Bruskin, Andrei Budaev, Ivan Chuikov,
Andrei Filippov, Tatiana Levitskaia, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Alexander
Kosolapov, Valentina Kropivnitskaia, Igor Makarevich,
Marina Karpova, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov,
Georgii Litichevsky, Ernst Neizvestny,
Victor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Aidan Salakhova,
Oscar Rabin, Marina Telepneva, Leonid Tishkov, Yuri
Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Oleg Tselkov, Oleg Vassiliev,
Vladimir Yankilevsky and Alexander Zakharov.
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Kolodzei Art Foundation, and Barbarian Art Gallery by
Natasha Akhmerova, in collaboration with Phenomena
Project are pleased to present Valery
Yershov: Lost Wanderings at White Box, 329
Broome Street, New York, New York. The exhibition will
run from February 26 to March 11, 2010. Opening
reception: Friday, March 5, 6:30 – 11 pm.click
here for the press-release
Lost Wanderings traces the journey of New
York-based Russian artist Valery Yershov into an
ambivalent and ironic present. Yershov's paintings
appeal to the viewer on both analytical and emotional
levels while illuminating broad aspects of human
experience. Artists, entrepreneurs, cowboys,
historical figures and hippies are seen displaced from
their usual environment and positioned among tree
trunks of the forest. Over the past decade, Yershov's
signature style has forged a delicate balance between
dream and reality, theatricality, and absurdity,
orchestrated with an acute attention to detail.
Valery Yershov was born
in 1960 in Yessentuki (located at the base of the
Caucasus Mountains), Soviet Union
, and studied at the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)
State Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture
and Architecture. Yershov then worked at the artists'
community at Furmany Lane in Moscow (along with many
widely recognized perestroika generation
artists). Since 1989, Valery Yershov has lived and
worked in New York
Yershov's imagery evokes
a complex range of human emotions: danger,
psychological discomfort, and hope. He does not depict
leaves or branches on trees, thus depriving the forest
of any temporal or seasonal changes; instead the
permanence of nature as foregrounded in the outlines
of rock-solid tall tree trunks is juxtaposed with the fragility
and uncertainty of the individual, creating an
evocative contrast. Certain subjects imbued with
biographical history can elicits nostalgic memories of
Yershov's childhood; remnants of the Russian empire
allude to the cultural and historical memory during
the tumultuous times of the Soviet era. Each
generation and diaspora creates a unique cultural
heritage, but once an individual is placed into a new
system, he or she may experience a sense of insecurity
and fear of an unknown future, thus resulting in
feelings of loss, displacement and wandering. By
placing characters into this nonrealistic space,
Yeshov highlights a unique subjective human essence.
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From
Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists
from the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation,
556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, November 13,
2008 – February 7, 2009. Opening Reception
Tuesday, December 9, 2008, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. click
here for the press-release or visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/
On Saturdays,
January 24, 31, and February 7 at 3 pm, Gallery talks will be
led by exhibition curator Natalia Kolodzei. Ms.
Kolodzei, Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art
Foundation and co-owner of the Kolodzei Collection,
will discuss the artworks in this exhibition, as well
as the history of Russian women artists,
Non-Conformist and contemporary Russian art from the
time her mother, Tatiana Kolodzei, started their
Collection in Moscow through today. Tours free with
Museum admission
The exhibition From
Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists
from the Kolodzei Art Foundation is a selection
from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern
European Art, and covers three generations, from the
1960’s to the present. The show includes work in
many media - painting, works on paper, photography,
and video. This exhibition is arranged thematically
and features the work of emerging, mid-career and
established artists. Twenty five artists, ranging in
age from 30 to over 80, represent several stages in
the evolution of non-conformist and independent art in
Russia. The exhibition is a visual exploration of the
development and accomplishments of women artists from
Russia. The event is designed to generate public
awareness of Russian women in art, and to empower
women artists to pursue their calling.
The first generation consists of artists who began
their careers at the time of Khrushchevs “Thaw” of
the 1950’s and took part in the first, crucial,
unofficial exhibitions of the 1970’s, including
Lydia Masterkova, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, and Rimma
Gerlovina. The next generation includes artists who
participated in the initial exhibitions and others who
became involved in the early 1980’s, including Maria
Elkonina, Bella
Levikova, Natalia Nesterova, Tatyana Nazarenko, Olga
Bulgakova, Anna Birshtein, Marina Telepneva, Tatiana
Levitskaia, Nadezhda Gaiduk and Valentina Lebedeva.
The latest generation is made up of artists whose
works date from post-perestroika
and post-Soviet period from the late 1980's to the
present, including Natalia Kamenetskaia, Alla
Esipovich, Marina Koldobskaya, Marina Gertsovskaia,
Tatiana Antoshina, Natalia Elkonina, Marina Karpova,
Irina Salnikova, Anna Frants, Anna Brochet, Elena
Kallistova and Natalia Sitnikova.
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Moscow
- New York = Parallel Play. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of
Russian and Eastern European Art.
Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West
22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, February 22 - May 17, 2008.
Opening reception Wednesday, February 27, 6-9PM. click
here for the press-release or visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/.
National Center for
Contemporary Art (NCCA), Zoologicheskaya 13, Moscow,
from October 16 to November 11, 2007. Opening reception on
October 15, 2007 at 5:00 PM (click
here for press-release in Russian language) or visit www.ncca.ru
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play: Selections from
the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and
Eastern European Art was shown at the National
Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow in 2007 and,
with its opening in New York, forms an art-meeting of
the visual cultures. The exhibition highlights the
artistic axis of the two cities, representing Russian
artists living or working in these two art capitals
and creating with their art an international context
and distinctive intellectual plastic Russian
"rhyme" in the art community. The works
reflect the major current of Russian culture and
describe the history of art processes and movements
from the 1960s to the present. Moscow - New York =
Parallel Play is a follow up to From Leningrad
to St. Petersburg: Selections from the Kolodzei
Collection, exhibited in 2003-04 at the Chelsea
Art Museum in honor of the 300th Anniversary of the
founding of St. Petersburg. There are 100 works by
sixty artists presented in the show, including Petr
Belenok, Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev, Rimma Gerlovina
and Valeriy Gerlovin, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Ilya
Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, Leonid Lamm,
Francisco Arana Infante, Dmitri Krasnopevtsev,
Anatolii Slepyshev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Dmitri
Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin, Eduard Shteinberg, Shimon
Okshteyn, Natalia Nesterova, Olga Bulgakova, Igor
Novikov, Valery Koshlyakov, Asya
Dodina, Slava Polishchuk, Alexander
Zakharov, Sviatoslav Ponomarev, Tatiana
Antoshina.
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Olga
Bulgakova and Alexander Sitnikov. Paintings.
Objects. State
Russian Tretyakov Gallery, Krymsky Val 10, Moscow, November 2
- 25, 2007. Opening reception on November 1 at 4 PM. For more information
visit www.tretyakov.ru
Olga Bulgakova and
Alexander Sitnikov belong to the generation of artists
beginning in the 1970s. Their
works have been exhibited widely in Russia, Europe
and the United States
and are in the permanent
collections of major museums, including the State Russian Museum
and the State Tretyakov Gallery. This is the first joint
retrospective exhibition for the couple. In conjunction with
this exhibition, Olga
Bulgakova (ISBN: 9780975482964) and Alexander
Sitnikov (ISBN: 9780975482988) have been published in both
English and Russian languages. These books include essays by
Alexander Borovsky, Barbara Thiemann, Natalia Kolodzei,
Alexander Rozhin and Natalia Sitnikova.
Shimon Okshteyn. Dialogue with Objects.
Contemporary Art Center MARS (Pushkarev Pereulok 5,
Moscow) from May 17 to June 17, 2007 and at State Russian Museum (Marble Palace,
Millionnaya str., 5/1, Saint Petersburg) from July 26,
2007 to September 3, 2007. Opening reception on July 26 at 4
PM.
A 336 page hard cover
book with introduction by Evgenia Petrova and essays by Charlotta Kotik, Donald Kuspit, José Pierre,
Natalia Kolodzei, and Jenifer Borum is published to accompany Shimon Okshteyn:
Dialogue with Objects
by Palace Editions, the publishing house of the State Russian
Museum.
The book documents Shimon Okshteyn’s artistic development from
his early Russian period through a 25- year career in the United States.
The book is published in both English and Russian
languages and is the first comprehensive reference
publication on the artist. ISBN:
9783938051801
Vadim
Voinov. The State Hermitage under a Full Moon. General
Staff Building, the State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg. October 25, 2005 - April 24, 2006.
The exhibition has been
organized by The State Hermitage Museum, in the
collaboration with the Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA),
Atellier II Gallery of Art (Moscow), Kultur Kontakt
Foundation (Vienna
, Austria), Pechatny Dvor
Printers (St. Petersburg), Dean Publishers (St. Petersburg) and Free Culture
Foundation (St. Petersburg).
Vadim Voinov was
born 1940 in Leningrad
(now
St. Petersburg) and lives and works
in St. Petersburg
. In his works, Voinov
uses a technique he himself created--functional
collage--intended to reconstruct the history of
Czarist, revolutionary, Soviet and contemporary
Russia.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s Voinov studied the
history of early St. Petersburg
architecture.
An art historian himself, he published articles
and undertook archeological expeditions.
His devotion to archeology and understanding of
the significance of each object introduced into his
work a historical significance.
He developed functional collage beginning in
1979. The
objects used in Voinov’s works acquire a new
historical meaning.
Voinov’s works are laconic in their
composition.
For this installation Voinov chose the
unrenovated interiors of the General Staff Building on
Palace Square
.
The exhibition consists of collages and
installations made of authentic found objects on
themes connected with the newest history of
Russia .
There are 73 works represented in the
exhibition, installed in five rooms.
Each group of collages and separate
installations are thematically connected and titled:
Red Wall; Circle-The father of a
square; The Viennese Set; and others. The
installation of the exhibition is an artwork in
itself.
The catalogue for the exhibition includes 17 essays
with 110 illustrations.
Each copy of the catalogue is marked by an
original, unique object: a stamp from the
1920’s-1940’s with the image of a soldier (“Voinov”
can be translated into English as “soldier”).
The catalogue is published in Russian and
English.
For
more information visit: www.hermitagemuseum.org
Works
on Paper: Soviet and Russian Art 1955-2005 from the
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European
Art.
Brooklyn
College of the City University of New York, 2900
Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. January 18 - March
31, 2006. Curatorial Talk and reception on Tuesday,
February 28, 2006 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
Artists
represented in Works on Paper include Vagrich
Bakhchanyan, Petr Belenok, Leonid Berlin, Borukh
(Boris Shteinberg), Andrei Budaev, Eric Bulatov,
Valeryi Gerlovin
,
Eduard Gorokhovsky, Nonna Goriunova, Marina Karpova,
Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Komar & Melamid, Leonid
Lamm, Tatiana Levitskaia, Igor Makarevich, Mikhail
Molochnikov, Ernst Neizvestny, Scherer & Ouporov,
Valerii Pianov, Victor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky,
Asya Dodina & Slava
Polishchuk
,
Oscar Rabin, Alexandre Sitnikov, Natalia Shibanova,
Anatolii Slepyshev, Yuri Sobolev, Marina Telepneva,
Oleg Tselkov, Oleg Vassiliev, Lusia Voronova, Vladimir
Yakovlev, Vladimir
Yankilevsky, Alexander Zakharov, and Anatolii
Zverev.
Historic
MADI: Its Roots. Artists from Russia through Uruguay
to Argentina in 20th Century. MADI Museum,
3109 Carlisle Street, Dallas, Texas. The opening
reception on Friday, February 17, 2006 from 5:30 to
8:00 PM.
Artists represented in Historic MADI. Artists from
Russia through Uruguay to Argentina in 20th Century include
El Lissitzky, Iakov Chernikhov, Alexandra Exter,
Liubov Popova, Andrei Proletsky, Leonid Borisov,
Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Kazimir
Malevich, Valentina Lebedeva-Lesin, Ilya Chashnik,
Nikolai Suetin, Leonid Borisov, Leonid Lamm,
Vyacheslav Koleichuk, San San (Alexander Karasev),
Mikhail Molochnikov, Gennadii Zubkov, and Eduard
Shteinberg.
For
more information visit: www.madimuseumdallas.org
Lecture:
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 7:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 4,
2006 at noon
Lectures are free. Optional lunch $7.00 Tatiana
Kolodzei and her daughter, Natalia Kolodzei, will talk
about the challenges of collecting art during the
Communist era. The Kolodzeis have published four books
on Russian art and were recently named by Art
and Antiques as among the top 100 collections
in the United States. The collection started 40 years
ago in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and now
contains more than 7,000 works by over 300 artists.
Many of the works in the Kolodzei Collection are by
"Non-Conformist" artists trained in top art
schools but who followed their own paths rather than
that imposed by the State.
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Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961 – 2005. Selections from the
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art.
September 13-
October 22, 2005
at the International Print Center New York, 526 West 26th Street. The
Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, September 22nd,
6-8 p.m. For more information click
here (Adobe Reader required)
Artists
represented in Moscow Grafika include Yuri Albert,
Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Farid Bogdalov, Grisha Bruskin, Andrei
Budaev, Olga Bulgakova, Ivan Chuikov, Andrei Filippov, Valeryi
Gerlovin, Marina Gertsovskaia, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya
Kabakov, Marina Karpova, Komar & Melamid, Otari Kandaurov,
Alexander Kosolapov, Lev Kropivnitsky, Valentina
Kropivnitskaia, Leonid Lamm, Georgy Litichevsky, Igor
Makarevich, Sergei Mironenko, Mikhail Molochnikov, Ernst
Neizvestny,Victor Pivovarov, Dmitri Plavinsky, Oscar Rabin,
Mikhail Roginsky, Scherer & Ouporov, Alexandre Sitnikov,
Natalia Sitnikova Yuri Sobolev, Leonid Sokov, Marina
Telepneva, Oleg Tselkov, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky
and Alexander Zakharov.
International Print Center, New York is located in Chelsea on 26th Street
between 10th
and 11th Avenues at
526 West
26th Street, Room 824.
Hours are 11- 6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. For additional
information call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNYs website www.ipcny.org.
The
exhibition was also presented at Russian
Nights Festival in Los Angeles.
Perestroika + 20: Selections from the
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European
Art. Harriman Institute,
Columbia
University
, 420 West 118 Street, 12th floor,
New York
. September 28 to January 2006. Gallery Talk by
Natalia Kolodzei, followed by a reception on Thursday,
November 10 from
6-8 PM
.
The exhibition Perestroika + 20: Selections from
the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern
European Art features works by 21 artists from
Russia.
The works selected for the show construct a cultural
image of
Russia
in
the last 20 years by presenting work by a wide range
of artistic trends.
Artists represented in Perestroika +20 include:
Komar & Melamid, Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev,
Natalia Nesterova, Taty
ana
Nazarenko, Eduard Shteinberg, Vladimir Nemukhin,
Leonid
Borisov
, Olga Bulgakova, Marina Karpova, Marina Kolotvina,
Valentina Lebedeva, Tati
ana
Levitskaia, Valerii Pianov, Alexander Sitnikov,
Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Farid Bogdalov, Dimitry Gerrman,
Vladimir Kanevsky, Alexander Kozhin,
Alexander Ney
, and Oleg Slepov.
For more information visit www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/HI/
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Young
American Artists of Today. Festival of
American Contemporary Culture American Autumn in
Moscow. Central House of Artists, Krymsky val,
10. Opening reception November 4 at 4 PM. Exhibition
continues through November 27, 2005.
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey.
Meet the Artists on Thursday, February 9, 2006 from 6
to 9PM Exhibition continues through March 11, 2006.
For more information visit: www.theBergenMuseum.com.
Young American Artists of Today exhibition
is organized by the Stas Namin Centre and the
Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. (
USA
)
in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the
Russian Federation
. Curator of the exhibition
Natalia Kolodzei.
Photography, painting, sculpture, digital works, printmaking
and video art – all of these traditional and contemporary
techniques reflect the creative variety of American art. The
artists featured in the show include Leigh Tarentino, Julian
Montague, Megan Foster, Erik Wayne Patterson, Adam Stennett, Fiona Gardner, Michael Cambre, Jeph
Gurecka, Jon-Paul Villegas, James Sheehan, Sean McDevitt, among others.
Containing works dating from the last 5 years, the exhibition
will explore ideas and trends in which young artists are
working today in
America.
The Kolodzei
Art Foundation loaned several works, including Dmitri
Krasopevtsev's "Still Life" (1958) to the
exhibition Apartment Exhibitions: Yesterday and
Today in conjunction with the First
Moscow Biennale, 2005.
The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc.,
The State Tretyakov Gallery, and The State Russian
Museum present Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks
(Themes and Variations) from January 27, 2005
to March 2005 at the State Russian Museum, Marble
Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia. Opening of the
exhibition on January 27 at 4 PM.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 182 page book, Oleg
Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations),
published by Palace Editions, the State Russian
Museum, with essays by Amei Wallach, Andrew Solomon,
Natalia Kolodzei, Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Victor
and Margarita Tupitsyn, and Oleg Vassiliev. 182
pp, 156
color plates, 13 color and 14 b/w documentary
photographs.
Oleg Vassiliev was born in Moscow in
1931 and was one of the leading figures in the Russian
"unofficial" art movement. Since 1990, the
artist lives and works in New York.
In his art Vassiliev combines the traditions of
Russian Realism of the 19th century with the Russian
avant-garde of the beginning of the 20th century.
Vassiliev’s principal themes, which were born while
he was in Russia and continue to the present day, are
his memories of home and houses, roads, forests,
fields, friends and family.
Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations)
reflects the artist’s career from 1949 to the
present day.
Please contact Natalia Kolodzei at Kolodzei@KolodzeiArt.org or
visit
Amazon.com
The
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, in cooperation
with the Kolodzei Art Foundation, presents
Finding
Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art
Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and
Eastern European Art
November 7,
2004
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January 2,
2005
Opening Reception, Saturday, November 6 at
7
– 9 PM
Komar and Melamid Lecture
with introduction by Natalia Kolodzei,
Sunday, November 7 at 2PM
Leepa-Rattner
Museum
of
Art
Tarpon
Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College
600
Klosterman Road
,
Tarpon
Springs
,
Florida
Petr
Belenok. From the Kolodzei Art Foundation.
October 4 - 31, 2004. Reception, Wednesday, October 6,
5-7 PM. Resnick Gallery, Long Island University, 1
University Plaza, Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition
is part of the Mapping the Eastern European
Diaspora: Ukraine. conference.
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The
Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc., The State Tretyakov
Gallery, and The State Russian Museum present Oleg
Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations) from
September 30 to October 31, 2004 at the State
Tretyakov Gallery, Krymsky val 10, Moscow.
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The
State Tretyakov Gallery and the
Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. present Dmitri
Plavinsky: A Retrospective this
fall (September 24 - October 24, 2004)
at the State Tretyakov Gallery,
Lavrushensky pereulok 12, Moscow.
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Moscow
Museum of Modern Art, One Work
Gallery, Kolodzei Art Foundation,
Central Exhibition Hall "Manege"
(St. Petersburg) and Flora-Moscow
Commercial Bank present
project by
Sergey Kalinin and Farid Bogdalov
Session of the Federal Assembly
at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
from September 16 - 30, 2004
Petrovka, 25, Moscow
at
Central Exhibition Hall "Manege"
1, Isaakievskaya pl., St.-Petersburg
from February 25 - March 8, 2005.
The
exhibition and accompanying
publication are made possible by
MegaFon-North-West, Saint-Petersburg
and Flora-Moscow Bank (Moscow), with
additional support: Kolodzei Art
Foundation, Inc, Moscow Museum of
Modern Art, One Work Gallery (Moscow),
Central exhibition hall "Manege"
(St. Petersburg)
.
Please contact Natalia
Kolodzei at Kolodzei@KolodzeiArt.org
or Amazon.com ISBN 0-9754829-3-9
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The
Kolodzei Art Foundation, The Harriman
Institute, The World Russia Forum, and
the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
present The Art Constitution, the
Illustrated Constitution of the
Russian Federation, a new book
published in commemoration of the 10th
anniversary of the Constitution of the
Russian Federation.
April 21, 2004 from 6 PM to 8 PM at
Columbia University, School of
International and Public Affairs, 420
West 118th Street, 6th
Floor, Dag Hammarskjold Lounge, NYC
April 26, 2004 and April 29, 2004 in
conjunction with World Russia Forum.
The "Art
Constitution", the Illustrated
Constitution of the Russian Federation,
unites artists of different
generations. More than 100 artists
participated in the project of Ivan
Kolesnikov, Sergei Denisov, and Petr
Vois supported by the Moscow Museum of
the Modern Art, S.Art Gallery, and the
Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. The
project, comprised entirely of works
from the last 10 years, enables the
viewer to trace the evolution and view
the complete spectrum of contemporary
Russian art through the illustration
of each of the Constitution's
Articles. The Art Constitution unites
living artists who began their careers
during Khrushchev’s Thaw and the
artists who started their careers in
the post-Soviet period, all of whom
now enjoy the benefit and challenge of
artistic freedom in the new Russia. It
is important to note the individuality
of each work, and of each artist,
incorporated in this project. Almost
all the artistic trends and movements
of the second half of the 20th century
are represented. These 137
illustrations represent different
aspects of the Russian art and views
of the Russian life.
Book: The Illustrated Constitution
of the Russian Federation
Editors: Sergey Denisov, Ivan
Kolesnikov, and Peter Voice
with essays by Zurab Tsereteli,
Natalia Kolodzei, Ekaterina Dyogot,
and Irina Kulik
Moscow: Alpha-Press, 2003 in
collaboration with the Moscow Museum
of Modern Art and the Kolodzei Art
Foundation, Inc. (in Russian and
English). 137 color illustrations;
hard cover - 2,000 copies.
Please contact Natalia Kolodzei at Kolodzei@KolodzeiArt.org
or visit
Amazon.com
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