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National Centre for Contemporary Arts Volga-Vyatka region branch with support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

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Activity report 2015

Issue of the Volga region branch of the national Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) For free distribution

Volga region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts 603082, Nizhny Novgorod, Kremlin, building 6, Arsenal +7 (831) 422 75 55 www.ncca.ru/nnovgorod ncca@art.nnov.ru

NCCA VOLGA-V YATKA REGION BRANCH history, statistics, new in 2015, partners

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ARSENAL OPENING: EVENTS major art projects of the year 2015

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EXHIBITIONS exibitions projects

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FESTIVALS / SPECIAL PROJECTS educational and entertaining festivals, marathons and holiday; events, concerts of dif ferent genres of contemporary music; lectures, round tables, master classes; social projects; publications

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CONTENTS

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Arsenal. Right rizalit. 2015

2015 year was unusual for the NCCA VolgaVyatka region branch – hours before beginning of the year 2015 the long awaited completion of restoration works of the 7000 sq.m. of the Arsenal building was announced.

And then it all began! Testing and adjustment of complex engineering systems were carried out simultaneously with installation of exhibitions; construction and restoration workers with interest listened to tours of the exhibition; research of ficers alternated curatorial work with moving tables to their new work places. But the main point is – among this organizational madness we discussed and approved the main principle of our activity for the coming years: we of fer diverse experience of contemporar y art reflection on the local histor y to our audience. Because we are the people of the Volga region, citizens of Nizhny Novgorod; and our city, ver y special and typical at the same time, provides subjects and inspirations for artists and researchers. At this point international experience is absolutely necessar y – other wise, how else would we learn what is our dif ference and place in the world. We are looking for ward to the year 2016 with hope – what if we wouldn't need to rush any more!

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Anna Gor, Director of the NNCA Volga-Vyatka region branch

Arsenal. Courtyard. 2015

Arsenal. Exhibition halls. 2015

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Volga-Vyatka region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts is the only museum and exhibition centre in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to development of contemporary art in broad context of contemporary culture.

It was founded in 1997 (originally as the Nizhny Novgorod branch) at the premises of Kariatida – Nizhny Novgorod centre for contemporary culture. Volga-Vyatka region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts is a federal state cultural institution which operates with support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. In 2007 it was granted the status of Volga region branch. From 2015 – status of VolgaVyatka region branch with an of fice in Kirov.

The NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch is located in the heart of the city, within the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin in the Arsenal building (1837–1843), architectural monument of federal significance.

In 2015 Volga-Vyatka region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts welcomed 113 720 visitors, of which 82 150 visitors of events at the Arsenal, 25 989 people – audience of the traveling exhibition Nizhe Nizhnego (Perm), 3 800 people attended the Actual Udmurtia exhibition (Moscow).

Total amount if visitors of the regional of fice (Kirov) in 2015: 1 781 people.

Number of projects in 2015: Exhibitions – 14 Lectures/seminars – 32 Video screenings – 44 Concerts – 15 Festivals – 11 Master classes of the New Spectator program: “Аrsenal + Family ” – 70 “Arsenal + School” – 84 “Little duck and ear pick in space and time ” – 25 TAK! Club – 47 Arsenal›s Mediateque: Number of new items in the collection – 385 Number of discussion clubs held at the mediateque – 6 Number of media mentions of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch: Printed media – 537 Online media – 1 221 T V – 105 Radio – 87 News subscriptions – 4 822

Visitors of the Arsenal in 2015: Adults – 39% Groups eligible for discount admission and visitors of the Free Wednesday program – 23% Pensioners – 13%

Children – 10%

Students – 15%

Adults – 32 397 (39%)

Children – 8200 (10%)

Groups eligible for discount admission and visitors of the Free Wednesday program – 18 551 (23%) Students – 12 322 (15%) Pensioners – 10 680 (13%)

NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch on the Internet – number of visitors/subscribers: www. facebook.com/ncca.arsenal – 3 991 www. vk.com/arsenal_nnov – 8 809 www. twitter.com/Arsenal_ncca – 371

www.instagram.com/ncca_arsenal – 2 492 www. foursquare.com/arsenal_ncca – 1 354

1. April 2015 – Anna Gor, Director of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch, was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

The award ceremony was held in Moscow at the presidium meeting of the Russian Academy of Arts, under the chairmanship of Z. Cereteli, on April 21 2015. A. Gor became the first art expert in Nizhny Novgorod to receive this honorary title.

2. April 2015 – The Asse Architects bureau received an award for the project of outdoor and indoor lighting of the Arsenal building at the Light Architecture festival.

3. May 2015 – The City of Nizhny Novgorod award for realization of the project Building of the Arsenal in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, object of cultural heritage of the federal significance. Restoration works and adaptation for use for contemporary needs. Group of authors: • Rector of the Moscow Architectural School, professor, member of the International Interior Design Association, Eugene Asse, • Director of the Volga-Vyatka region branch of the Federal state budgetary institution National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Honored Cultural Worker Anna Gor, • Restoration architect, laureate of the Moscow Government Award, Alexander Epifanov, • Director General of the Federal state budgetary institution National Centre for Contemporary Arts, laureate of the architecture award Crystal Dedal, Mikhail Mindlin, • Director General of ZAO SMU-77, Honored Builder of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Molokanov.

4. October 2015 – XIII Art of Building International Festival.

Crystal Dedal award and Golden badge in Restoration and Renovation nomination.

Awarded: general contractor organization, general designer ZAO SMU-77 (Nizhny Novgorod) and group of authors: Molokanov Vladimir, Astafiev Dmitry, Asse Eugene, Aykazyan Grigor, Epifanov Alexander, Mindlin Mikhail, Gor Anna – for work “Building of the Arsenal in the Kremlin. Adaptation and restoration for the federal state budgetary institution of culture ”.

Participants of the symposium Contemporary Art as the Key Factor for Development of the Russian Culture– about the Arsenal and inauguration exhibition High Hopes Museum: Olga Golodets, Deput y Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Government “The building [of the Arsenal] overwhelms, and from the perspective of organization of museum space, it is probably the best in Europe. The building and what takes place inside gives a powerful boost to development of new art at an absolutely professional level”.

Dmitr y Gutov, ar tist “From my personal experience I can say that the Arsenal is one of the best venues in Russia. It is ideal in terms of architecture, has ideal location, one of the best professional teams in Russia works here. I set up several exhibitions here, participated in group projects. The level of organization was the best”.

Zurab Cereteli, painter, sculptor, President of the Russian Academy of Ar ts “I really enjoyed my time here. It was a great pleasure. I've just had a quiet walk around the building... Not only it is a cultural centre, it is also a unique museum in terms of lighting and architectural solutions. Nothing hinders here, as though the space was specifically built for a museum. Seeing this brings a lot of joy. Take even this centre (central rizalit): nothing hangs loose here, and one feels eager to go and see artworks. You know, it is very wise, very good”.

Vasily Cereteli, Executive Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Ar t “You know, it is a really great event today. We are here at the opening ceremony. I am glad that I was able to attend the opening of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Nizhny Novgorod.

The building is splendid, and so is the exhibition [High Hopes Museum]. I was asked how to work with memory, with history of a city, country, and what would be the right and interesting – so that the younger generation would learn – way to combine contemporary culture and art and traditions, history of the country. Well, all of this can be seen in this exhibition. It is a great example of work and exhibition, which develops imagination, develops new opportunities, and with that presents geniuses of our history, geniuses of this city. In my opinion, this is a great example “.

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Awards and nominations – 2015

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Olga Sviblova, Director of the Multimedia Ar t Museum (Moscow) “The High Hopes Museum exhibition is ingenious, it would be a great addition to a collection of any world museum of contemporary art. In my opinion, it is the ideal demonstration of the primary function of contemporary art – as a guide, communicator, interpreter of traditions, without which they wouldn't exist. Traditions die out without contemporary art. Authors of the exhibition appeal to traditions in absolutely contemporary language, contemporary plastics, and contemporary comprehension of space ” .

Irina Bazhenova, publisher of The Ar t Newspaper, an international publication “Of course, if it is art, it always deserves attention, and in Russia not as the last thing, but perhaps as the first.

I absolutely disagree with the notion that Russia is some kind of periphery. We can clearly see that Moscow is one of the centres of development of contemporary art. Great exhibitions and events take place here on a daily basis – creative process is very active here. The today›s event in Nizhny Novgorod only confirms this. We congratulate our colleagues. We are glad for them and for the city. They now have an absolutely contemporary centre of the European level – in terms of content, architecture, quality of restoration works, and ideology ” .

Alexey German, film director “It seems to me that the Arsenal is an absolutely outstanding space. A lot of things are realized at the highest level here.

I believe it is really cool, that there is such an institution in the city. People should come here, should support it and befriend it, because I›m sure that for thinking people it is important to eliminate vacuum ”.

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PARTNERS

PARTNERS – 2015

ЕВРОПЕЙСКИЙ СОЮЗ

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ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЬСТВО В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

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EVENTS MARKING THE OPENING OF THE ARSENAL

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High Hopes Museum Opening of the Arsenal building af ter restoration works, which took place in May 2015, was accompanied by series of professional discussions with participation of Russian and foreign colleagues: workers of cultural institutions, artists, critics, art experts and mass media representatives.

The opening of the building was marked by the inauguration exhibition High Hopes Museum with participation of contemporary Russian artists which created their works specifically for the Arsenal spaces.

Artists: Rostislav Alexeyev, Kirill Alexandrov, Maxim Dmitriev, Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich, Lyudmila Zinchenko, Andrey Karelin, Alexander Lavrov, Ivan Lungin, Kazimir Malevich, Maria Pogorzhelskaya, Dmitry Stepanov, Evgeniy Strelkov, Andrey Suzdalev, Artem Filatov, Olga Khan in collaboration with Oleg Mitenyev, Vladimir Chernyshev, Sergey Shutov, Alik Yakubovich, Gnezdo group (Gennadiy Donskoy, Mikhail Roshal, Victor Skersis), Kupidon group (Yury Albert, Victor Skersis, Andrey Filippov).

Concept author: Alisa Savitskaya Curators: Ksenia Anufrieva, Elena Belova, Vladislav Efimov, Alisa Savitskaya, Evgeniy Strelkov Local history researcher: Olesya Filatova Assistant artists: Alexander Ignatushko, Dina Safina Large-scale exposition, accommodated by two floors of the new exhibition spaces, is dedicated to the great people of the Nizhny Novgorod region who can be conventionally regarded as actual artists of their time: self-taught mechanic Ivan Kulibin, the first female doctor Nadezhda Suslova, composers Mily Balakirev and Mikhail Matyushin, photographers Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev, pilots Petr Nesterov and Valery Chkalov, writer Maxim Gorky, engineers Rostislav Alexeyev and Vladimir Shukhov‌ The project also includes authors directly associated with artistic work: photographers Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev, composers Mily Balakirev and Mikhail Matyushin, writer Maxim Gorky.

Each hero of the past is matched with like-minded contemporary artists. Through years and distances, in coauthorship with their characters, they brought out images and achievements of the heroes of the past through art.

The only exception is the legendary engineer Rostislav Alexeyev who is a subject and an object of artistic research.

Work of Alexeyev is a mixture of technical and artistic work.

His legacy includes not only blueprints for specialists, but also drawings, photos, paintings.

Working with the heroes of the past, examining their lives and creative careers, trying to understand inner workings of their masterpieces, contemporary artists search answers to certain questions: how to make cultural heritage a part of actual experience and how to involve it into creation of an image of possible future?

Support: Cultural Capital of the Volga region Foundation Museum-partners: A.M. Gorky State Museum (Nizhny Novgorod); V.P. Chkalov Memorial Museum (Chkalovsk); Museum of Velocities (Russian Wings tourist centre, Chkalovsk); N.E. Zhukovsky Scientific-Memorial Museum (N.E. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, Moscow); NNSTU Museum of History (Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alexeyev, Nizhny Novgorod); River Fleet History Museum (Volga State Academy of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod) Russian Photography Museum (Nizhny Novgorod) Batashev-Shepelev Estate and Industrial Complex (Museum of History of AO Vyksa metallurgical plant, Vyksa) Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory Science Museum Museum of Organic Culture (Kolomna).

Dates: 01.05–20.09.2015

Parallel program of the High Hopes Museum exhibition Thematic walking tours.

Organizer: Volga-Vyatka region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts.

With support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

10.06.15 Radio Review Plus Tour of two museums (Arsenal and Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory) by an artist Evgeniy Strelkov.

17.06.15. Music tour of Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street.

Guided tour by Elena Dutlova, musician and teacher at the art school for children named af ter A.D. Ulybyshev.

Guided tours by a local history researcher Olesya Filatova: 24.06.15 Street life of the old Nizhny. Gorky edition.

01.07.15 Street life of the old Nizhny. Where Kulibin lived and invented.

Meeting with a photographer and participant of the High Hopes Museum exhibition Lyudmila Zinchenko. Master class “Wonder of the World. Camera obscura ”.

Lyudmila Zinchenko has been a photographer for the most part of her life. She began her career in photography as a photo reporter for dif ferent publications. As for most of her colleagues, in the beginning the most important question for her was how to photograph, but then accents shif ted, and the new main question was: is it worthy to photograph at all? Because, first and foremost, it is important what an author wants to say with his work. Language – video, photo, prose, poetry – is of secondary importance.

Presently Lyudmila is interested in studying themes of local identity. It is evident in her project RAIcenter dedicated to the topic of attitude of province to strong alcohol and her latest book The Russian Forest dedicated to the archetype of classic Russian landscape and filmed on camera obscura for the better landscape ef fect.

Dates: 26.08, 27.08.2015

High Hopes Museum exhibition.

Fragment of the exposition

Shukhov – the Last Hero

High Hopes Museum exhibition.

Fragment of the exposition

High «Музей Hopes Museum Выставка великихexhibition. надежд».

Fragment of the exposition Фрагмент экспозиции

High Hopes Museum exhibition.

Fragment of the exposition

High Hopes Museum exhibition.

Fragment of the exposition

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of the Russian Renaissance Screening of the documentary – participant of the International Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

Date: 08.09

Seminar – Mansion complex of Andrey Karelin and Ma xim Dmitriev. The past, the present and the future Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev, one of the heroes of the High Hopes Museum exhibition, are also main characters of the Russian Museum of Photography which is located in the house directly connected to the names of the great photographers.

Currently, the Russian Museum of Photography prepares to expand its area. In addition to the second floor, which in the 19th century housed a saloon of A. Karelin and M. Dmitriev and was conveyed to the museum in January 2015, it is planned to expand the museum's space to the third floor, where the family of Maxim Dmitriev lived. It opens up new perspectives for the museum.

Co-organizer: Russian Museum of Photography Dates: 10.09.2015

Behind Closed Doors

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Curator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participants: NoName-ensemble Cycle of unordinary meetings of the Nizhny Novgorod audience and NoName-ensemble in maximally “ non-concert situations ” – this is a musical “ settling down ” in the new spaces of the Arsenal.

Name of the project refers to the play by Jean Paul Sartre of the same name.

Each meeting took place in one of the new rooms of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch. The audience was free to sit wherever they wanted, and the musicians were hidden from the view. It presented an opportunity to sharpen auditory perception and referred to listening to music on CDs at home.

Each meeting suggested dif ferent forms of interactive: discussions, special research assignments for visitors.

Dates: 31.03., 28.04., 29.05.

Victory Over the Sun Music per formance Curator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participants: Lev Kharlamov, Mark Buloshnikov, Alexey Chistyakov, Vladislav Burtsev.

Authentic concert per formance of remaining fragments of the Victory Over the Sun opera written by one of the heroes of the High Hopes Museum exhibition, composer Mikhail Matyushin

Assembly of Arsenals. Arsenal: between the past and the future International creative meeting and discussion.

Partners: European Union Representative Of fice in the Russian Federation Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Russian Federation Bulgarian Cultural Institute Goethe German Cultural Center Embassy of Estonia in the Russian Federation Royal Danish Embassy in the Russian Federation Embassy of Portugal in the Russian Federation Embassy of France in the Russian Federation Friedrich Naumann Foundation Coordinator: Olga Tatosian International participants: 1. Vygaudas Usackas, Ambassador, Head of the European Union Representative Of fice in the Russian Federation.

2. Nadezhda Dzhakova, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sofia, Bulgaria).

3. Jakob Seerup, curator of the Danish Royal Arsenal Museum (Copenhagen, Denmark).

4. Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek, manager of academic programs of the Amsterdam National Maritime Museum (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

5. Jean-Francois Ramon, Director General of the Arsenal Metz concert hall (Metz, France).

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Behind Closed Doors concert

Victor Over the Sun – concert per formance

Assembly of Arsenals. Arsenal: between the Past and the Future. Photo of participants

Assembly of Arsenals. Arsenal: between the Past and the Future. Photo of participants

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6. Ulrike Kretzschmar, Head of the Exhibition Department of the German Historical Museum (Berlin, Germany).

7. Mihkel Karu, researcher of the Estonian Maritime Museum (Tallinn, Estonia).

8. Silvia Isabela Breu, Director of the Municipal Development Department, Barkarena Gunpowder Factory (Oeiras, Portugal).

9. Peter Ros, Director of the New Dutach Waterline national project (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

10. Kristof fer Weiss, architect, curator (Copengagen, Denmark).

11. Alvin Jarving, architect, curator (Tallinn, Estonia) Russian particpants: 1. Evgeniya Kikodze (Moscow), curator, head of Modern Moscow department of the Moscow Museum.

2. Julia Bardun (Kaliningrad), Deputy Director of the NCCA Baltic branch (Crown prince Tower).

3. Elena Tsvetaeva (Kaliningrad), Director of the Baltic Branch of the NCCA. 4. Eugene Asse (Moscow), architect, author of the adaptation project for the Arsenal building in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.

5. Mikhail Gnedovsky (Moscow), Director of the Cultural Policy Institute, member of the Board of Trustees of the European Museum Forum, expert of the Council of Europe.

6. Galina Kozlova (Moscow), coordinator of regional programs of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

7. Alexey Yudin (Moscow), historian, T V presenter, Director of the Center for social and cultural projects RSUH. 8. Olga Kabanova (Moscow), journalist, art critic.

International discussion and creative meeting of the large family of arsenals from dif ferent cities and countries (Russia, Bulgaria, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Estonia, Portugal) for exchange of cultural practices and establishing an international network of museums and exhibition centers located in ex-military objects – buildings of Arsenals. Invited experts told about their vision of new life of old military depots, shared their experience of working with historical memory in context of contemporary culture, and discussed possible joint projects.

Dates: 20–21.03

Contemporary Art and Local Contexts – interdisciplinary museum seminar Winning project of the 2015 program – Museum Landing Force. Support of programs for inter museum co-operation of the V. Potanin Foundation Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Participants: Leonid Bazhanov, Joseph Backstein, Vladimir Beresnev, Yaroslava Bubnova. Maria Weitz, Anna Gor, Blanch Creenbaum- Salgas, Vladislav Efimov, Hedwig Saksenhuber, Katrin de Seger, Alexander Izvekov, Evgeniya Kikodze, Kirill Kobrin, Sergey Kovalevsky, Elena Kolovskaya, Nelya Korzhova, Snezhana Krasteva, Alisa Prudnikova, Alisa Savitskaya, Noemi Smolik, Yulia Tavrizyan, Olesya Turkina, Andreas Hof fmann, Blandine Chavanne, Georg Schoellhammer, Olga Shishko, Her fried Stocker.

Research of “ spirit of the place ” with means of contemporary art is the priority for the Arsenal this year. Another step into this direction, aside from the High Hopes Museum exhibition and research project Nizhny Novgorod: Attempt of Contemporary Description, is the interdisciplinary seminar – Contemporary Art and Local Contexts dedicated to discussion of issues of correlation between local history, museum practices and contemporary art.

The seminar provided a platform for professional discussion and analysis of already existing experience of museum institutions, art and curatorial projects. Among its participants were the lead Russian and foreign curators, directors of museums and galleries, art historians and critics.

The seminar’s program included concert of hypothetic music – Imaginary Folklore (the project’s author – Alexey Shmurak) – composer research, placing folklore features of traditional culture into contemporary context.

Dates: 22–23.04

Symposium Contemporary Art as the Key Factor for Development of the Russian Culture At the symposium, organized by the NCCA at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, suggestions for improvement of the system of governmental support of contemporary art were developed.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Government O. Golodets, Minsiter of Culture of the Russian Federation V. Medinsky and the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region V. Shantsev participated in the Symposium opening ceremony.

Among the Symposium’s participants were famous people of culture and art: I. Bazhenova, publisher of the Art Newspaper international publication A. Borovsky, Head of the Department of Contemporary Art, State Russian Museum, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, member of the Saint-Petersburg Department of the Association of Artists.

T. Galeeva, Dean of the Faculty of Arts History, Theory and Culturology, Head of the Centre of Contemporary Culture of the Federal Ural University A. German, Russian film director, script writer M. Gnedovsky, Director of the Cultural Policy Institute A. Gor, Director of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch D. Gutov, Russian artist D. Dondurey, Chief Editor of the Art of Cinema magazine, member of the Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation S. Kovalevsky, Deputy Director of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre I. Korobyina, Director of the State Scientific and Research Architecture Museum named af ter A. V. Schusev A. Kuryokhina, Art Director of the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Centre M. Loshak, General Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts O. Sviblova, Director of the Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow) Dates: 5–6.06.2015

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Contemporary Art and Local Contexts – interdisciplinary museum seminar

Vesper Chores XXI – music per formance on a moving platform in the Arsenal’s courtyard

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EXHIBITIONS

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Radio Review

Nizhe Nizhnego (Lower than Nizhny)

Exhibition project Curator: Evgeniy Strelkov Artists: Andrey Mitinev, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Stepanov, Evgeniy Strelkov, Andrey Suzdalev, Olga Khan, Ilgizar Khasanov

Traveling exhibiton Curators: Eugene Asse, Andrey Suzdalev Artists: Mikhail Volokhov, Evgeniy Grinevich, Alexander Kapernaumov, Valeriy Korchagin, Natalia Kulikova, Andrey Mitinev, Sergey Prokofiev, Nikolay Selivanov, Dmitry Stepanov, Evgeniy Strelkov, Andrey Suzdalev, Alexey Trubetskov, Olga Khan, Ilgizar Khasanov, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Where Dogs Run art group, Cube art group.

In the end of the 19th century Nizhny Novgorod became famous country-wide for developments in radio physics. Contemporary artists told the unprepared audience in interesting and simple manner in language of art and new technologies about greatest achievements of radio physics, about interweaving of science with history and culture. The authorsparticipants of the Radio Review project found unusual ways of presenting traditional radio physics exhibits and created new works in dif ferent genres – from traditional sculpture to contemporary animation and interactive installations. Part of the exposition was included into inauguration exhibition High Hopes Museum.

Dates: 5.12.2014–8.02.2015

Project-winner of the Changing Museum in the Changing World contest of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation.

Nizhe Nizhnego is a traveling exhibition in the cities of the Volga region, named af ter the book by E. Abubakirov, E. Strelkov and V. Phillipov, written in pseudo regional studies genre: real facts are found side by side with falsification and mystification, which is done for the purpose of carrying popular myths and everyday cliches to the point of absurdity. Plots of the book fit per fectly for visualization by artists.

The exposition, rich with graphics and media, imitates a local history museum with exhibits, on the one hand familiar, and on the other – completely unexpected. Model of a “ musem in a vitro ” where fiction is intertwined with real facts, of fers the audience an opportunity to have a critical look at the history, museum approach to it, attempt to reconstruct it, as well as understand their attitude to it.

Dates: 20.02 –22.03.2015 (Perm)

Radio Review exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

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Memory Points

Photo Suprematists

Curator: Alexander Yuminov Participants: sound artists Danil Akimov, Sergey Ivanov (Kaliningrad) and artist Haim Sokol (Moscow)

Coordinator: Dina Safina Participants: Aniko Robic, Karoy Minjo and Balint Sombati

Museum tour through sounds and images of the home front.

Images of the pre-war, wartime and post-war times, based on a private collection of gramophone records which belongs to an ordinary Nizhny Novgorod family and archive of personal records (letters, photographs, drawings, newspaper articles), were presented to the audience by contemporary artists.

Dates: 30.04–01.11.2015

The exhibition of Hungarian photographers is dedicated to the centenary since publication of The Manifesto of Suprematism in 1915. The exposition includes photographs of the famous Hungarian artists Aniko Robic, Karoy Minjo and Balint Sombati inspired by the works of Kazimir Malevich.

Dates: 12.06–23.08.2015

War Posters. On the Way to the Great Victory. Soviet Agitation Poster, 1941–1945s

Bike -Art

War Posters. On the Way to the Great Victory exhibition is a collection of scanned color copies of wartime posters (1941–1945s). Each poster is dedicated to certain event of the Great Patriotic War. Historical references are provided for a part of the collection.

The exhibition opened in the end of April – beginning of May 2015 at 49 museum venues in 48 largest Russian cities – from Kaliningrad to Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk. Af terwards the exhibition traveled to small cities and regional centers. When the project is finished, replicas of posters will be donated to regional museums.

Exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Organizers: Alfa-Bank and Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper with support of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.

Dates: 30.04–31.05.2015

Artist: Ervin Herve Loranth (Hungary) Coordinator: Dina Safina The Bike-Art project is designed for museum and street spaces. Hungarian artist Ervin Herve Loranth put color ful carnival masks on ordinary bicycles and turned them into traveling exhibits. For the bike ride in Nizhny Novgorod on June 12 the artist created a new collection of masks – ten images of a deer, the symbol of our city, and replicas of several old works. Af ter a tour around Nizhny Novgorod, the Bike Art masks arrived to the Arsenal and became a part of the exposition of the same name.

Dates: 12.06–28.06.2015

Memory Points exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

Bike-Art project

Photo Suprematist exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

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In the Footsteps of Pop Mechanics

Russian Chrestomathy

Curator: Olesya Turkina

Curator: Vera Pogodina Artists: Nikita Alexeyev, Yury Albert, Sergey Anufriev, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Konstantin Batynkov, Annushka Broshe, Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky, Sergey Volkov, Vadim Zakharov, Konstanin Zvezdochetov and Alexander Peretelli, Larisa Zvezdochetova, Alexey Kallima, Maria Konstantinova, Irina Korina, Maxim Ksuta, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Boris Matrosov, Andrey Monastyrsky, Arkady Nasonov, Irina Nakhova, Nikola Ovchinnikov, Pavel Pepersten, Alexey Politov and Marina Belova, Alexander Savko, Roman Sakin, Victor Skersis, Vitas Stasyunas, Boris Stuchebryukov, Andrey Phillipov, Vera Khlbnikova, Gor Chakhal, Vasily Shumov, Konstantin Latyshev, Sergey Mironenko, Stas Shuripa, PMP group (Prigov-Mali-Prigov)

This exhibition is a tribute to the memory and respect for one of the main Saint-Petersburg of the end of the 20th century: composer and pianist, author of music for films and founder of a sound recording company, charming creator of myths, founder of the Pop Mechanics orchestra – Sergey Kuryokhin.

Sergey Kuryokhin launched his grand cross-cultural project in 1984. Among participants of the Pop Mechanics project were musicians of the Auktyon, Strange Games, Kino, Aquarium, as well as industrial troupe, symphony orchestra, folklore ensemble, beauty contest and the whole zoo.

Atmosphere of the Pop Mechanics was mostly defined by its link to the New Artists – the most influential art movement of the 1980s. Sergey Bugaev (Africa), Oleg Kotelnikov, Timur Novikov, Inal Savchenkov, Evgeniy Yufit and others created decorations and costumes, and became participants of per formances themselves.

Artworks from the collection of Anastasia Kuryokhina and the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Centre, directly related to Pop Mechanics were presented at the exhibition, specifically adapted for the Arsenal spaces.

Dates: 24.09–25.10.2015

The Russian Chrestomathy exhibition presents contemporary interpretation of classic works of Russian literature.

Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboedov, Dead Souls by Nicolai Gogol and Wolves and Sheep by Alexander Ostrovsky, written in the 19th century, are still relevant today; they acquire new interpretations and new meanings in various events of contemporary life. In 2007–2013 curator Vera Pogodina consistently of fered artists to research these works.

The Russian Chrestomathy exhibition is the result of many years work; it includes fine art paintings, graphics and objects, arranged into thematic groups – Woe from Wit, Dead Souls and Wolves and Sheep. List of participants includes over 40 Russian artists of dif ferent generations and ideologies, which allows to see the whole specter of movements in contemporary Russian art.

Dates: 01.10–29.11.2015 Parallel program: Unusual guided tours 27.10. Guided tour with a journalist, Director General of the Nizhny Novgorod information agency Dmitry Mitrokhin.

3.11. Guided tour with a political scientist Evgeniy Semenov.

14.11. Guided tours with doctors-psychotherapists Victor Gursky and Sergey Prachev.

Anastasia Kuryokhina and Leonid Fedorov at the In the Footsteps of Pop Mechanics exhibition

In the Footsteps of Pop Mechanics exhibition.

Fragment of the exposition

In the Footsteps of Pop Mechanics exhibition.

Fragment of the exposition

«Познавая exhibition. искусство». Экскурсия поexposition выставке Russian Chrestomathy Fragment of the

Russian Chrestomathy exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

EXHIBITIONS

Russia in VOGUE

Eyes of War

Curator: Olga Sviblova

Artist: Martin Roemers

15-year history of the number one fashion magazine VOGUE in Russia featuring reports, fashion-shooting footages and celebrity portraits. In 2013 VOGUE in Russia celebrated its fif teenth anniversary. As a part of the celebration, the magazine realized a grand and ambitious project: special collector's edition of the Russia in VOGUE was published in November 2013, followed up by a large-scale exhibition at Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow; in 2015 the exhibition was hosted by Arsenal.

For over a century of history of VOGUE in the world and fif teen years in Russia thousands of Russian faces and names have appeared on the pages of international “fashion bible ” .

The special edition of Russia in VOGUE features portraits of such famous Russians as Ida Rubinstein, Gala Dali, Joseph Brodsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Erte and Marc Chagall, as well as fashion-shooting footages and unique reports from the Iron Curtain period in the USSR shot by the great photographers.

Organizers: Volga-Vyatka branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, VOGUE, Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow), Moscow House of Photography museum, Jolie network of jewelry stores.

Dates: 20.11.2015–31.01.2016

Exhibition of a Dutch photographer Martin Roemers, laureate of the most prestigious press photography contest – World Press Photo Award, is dedicated to the theme of war. It features over forty photographs of older people from Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine, united by one destiny – all of them are victims of the Second World War who lost their sight.

2015 is the year of the 70th anniversary of the Second World War and victory over fascism. The traces of war have become seemingly invisible over recent years. Yet the full horror can still be felt in the survivors’ stories, their eyes reflect the terror and trauma of a wartime childhood.

Martin Roemers' large-scale black and white photographs of the blinded war victims are truly haunting. Photographs are accompanied by interviews with people portrayed on them.

The exhibition goes beyond personal stories, it tells about grief and loss which invariably accompany war conflicts.

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Parallel program: Authorial guided tours 16.12 – guided tour with s stylist, image maker Elena Bolshakova 23.12 – guided tour with a stylist, founder of the One's Own Method school Natalia Uryadnikova 13.01 – guided tour with a photographer Alik Yakunovich 20.01 – guided tour with a T V presenter, journalist Bela Rubinstein 27.01 – guided tour with a stylist, fashion blogger Veronika Sorin.

The exhibition was organized with support of: the Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Russia, Voerman International Moscow, German Historical Museum (Berlin, Germany).

Dates: 12.11–06.12.2015

Russia in VOGUE exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

Eyes of War exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

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Kingdom in a Chest

Actual Udmurtia

Curators: Evgeniya Ignatushko, Alisa Savitskaya Artist: Dmitry Tsvetkov

Curator: Alexander Yuminov Artists: Sergey Ivanov, Khaim Sokol, Zoya Lebedeva (flori textile, wood cut, video projection), Alexander Pilin (felt objects), City of Ustinov art group (micro objects), Pavel Aksenov (graphics), Andrey Yakovlev & Lili Aleeva (photography), Dmitry Ermakov, Lev Vakhitov (documentary), students of the A. Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, video artists from Tver, Izhevsk, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod

Kingdom in a Chest is a unique exhibition developed by Education and Exhibition Departments of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch in collaboration with the artist Dmitry Tsvetkov.

Artworks are presented not just as objects of contemplation, but also as applied technologies and creative techniques, which can be mastered by anyone.

Main characters of the exhibition are little men; it is a symbolic theme that runs through all works of the artist – from paintings to costumes embroidered with gems. These little guests from Tsvetkov›s childhood connect his first artistic fantasies with artworks he creates now.

The Kingdom in a Chest exposition consists of several themed sections – treasury, armory, cloakroom – which store big valuables created and gathered by the little men. Each section of the exposition is supplemented with a video lesson and a booklet which assist visitors in creation of their own artworks in the Tsvetkov's style.

Dates: 16.12.2015–13.03.2016

The main theme of the exposition – methods and mechanisms of transformation of the Udmurt traditional culture into contemporary art. The exhibition presented paintings, graphics, photography, multimedia, art objects of the artists living in Udmurtia or working with the Finno-Ugric theme.

Organizers: Ministry of the National Policy of the Udmurtia Republic, Kama records non-commercial organization, NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch.

Partners: Federal Agency for Nationalities, Government of the Udmurtia Republic and Moscow Government, Permanent Delegation of the Head of the Udmurtia Republic to the President of the Russian Federation, Exhibition Halls of Moscow Association, People of Udmurtia Assembly – regional public organization. With support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Venue: Moscow, VDNH exhibition complex.

Dates: 22.10–29.11.2015

Kingdom in a Chest exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

Kingdom in a Chest exhibition. Fragment of the exposition

Actual Udmurtia. Cotton dress-derem (Tatyana Moskvina)

Actual Udmurtia. Dress-derem with white linen puf f sleeves (Tatyana Moskvina), overskirt with corset (Zoya Lebedeva)

FESTIVALS / SPECIAL PROJECTS

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French Animation Festival Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Experiments of French animation for adults and children.

Program: 23.03. The Great Flood (Prophecy of Frogs). Director: ' Jacques-Remy Girerd 24.03. Four seasons of Leon. Directors: Pierre-Luc Granjon, Pascal Le Notre, Antoine Lanciaux.

24.03. Folimage Collection: Teenagers/Adults. 8 stories from dif ferent directors.

25.03. A King and a Bird. Director: Paul Grimault 26.03. My Mom in America, How She Met Buf falo Bill. ' Director: Bill Marc Boreal and Thibaut Chatel.

26.03. Folimage Collection: Children. 8 stories from dif ferent directors.

Life of Outstanding People. Museum Night at the Arsenal Curators: Anastasia Polozova, Alexander Komarov Theme of the Museum Night events was inspired by the famous collection of biographies, founded by A. Gorky in 1933.

One of the main trends in contemporary art is documentation, so the genre of memoires and diaries holds a significant place.

Besides, May 16 is the day of biographers. When modern communication tools and social networks came into our lives, we became biographers and even artists of our lives ourselves, we write our diaries on-line. Years later our time will be seen by our descendants as very close to the truth due to plenty of documents on one hand, and on the other – partially invented, the way we wanted it to be remembered. The Museum Night program presents a whole arsenal of tools to collectively write biography of the past day.

Program: All-day events • High Hopes Museum exhibition with a final selfie with all the exhibition›s characters on the background. Guided tours of the exhibition at 13:00, 14 :00, 15:00, 16:00.

• War Posters. On the Way to the Great Victory. Soviet Agitation Poster exhibition, 1941–1945s.

• Memory Points exhibition.

• Humans of NN project. Portraits and stories of the Nizhny Novgorod citizens.

• “I am proud that I...” Wall of personal achievements.

12:00–17:00 • Leave Your Trace – interactive program of Arsenal + Family mastr classes.

12:00–18:00 • Screenings of the Animated Film Association – “Spring Animated Vitamin!”

13:00–14 :00 • Booth of Free Speech. Filming for Arsenal. Conversion T V program.

13:00–17:00 • Demonstration of Penguins per formance. Part of the GORKY! installation.

15:00–18:00 • Original cuisine of Alexander Nikolaenko.

16:00–22:00 • Photo booth. Photos are printed with the hashtag #museumnightatarsenal 17:30–18:30 • Vesper Chores-X XI. Musical “house warming “ of the Arsenal yard and “ relaxation on benches ”.

Dmitry Vlasik (Moscow) and NoName-ensemble.

18:30–21:00 • iii association of Dutch artists. Three projects for the Museum Night.

Date: 16.05.2015

Strelka Festival of Contemporary Poetry Coordinator: Andrey Nosov Participants: Dmitry Zernov, Nikita Levitsky, Karina Lukyanova, Evgeniy Proschin, Evgeniya Rits, Evgeniya Suslova, Anna Tolkacheva, Artem Filatof (all from Nizhny Novgorod), Natalia Azarova, Dmitry Danilov (Moscow), Ruslan Komdaev, Yaroslava Shirokova (Yekaterinburg), Kirill Stasevich (Rostov-on-Don), Grigory Gelyuta (Izhevsk), Ivan Poltoratsky (Novosibirsk), Kirill Shirokov (Moscow), Ekaterina Sokolova (Moscow), Petr Likin, Andrey Megalinsky, Sonya Radostina, Dmitry Stepanov, Evgeniy Strelkov (all from Nizhny Novgorod), Elena Glazova (Riga), Tatyana Barbotina (Odessa), Alexander Smirnov, Elizaveta Shershneva (Yekaterinburg).

The Strelka annual festival of contemporary poetry presents dif ferent programs and events of the Nizhny Novgorod Wave regional project.

Demonstration of Penguins per formance.

Part of the GORKY! installation. Cupid creative association

Museum Night at the Arsenal

Museum Night at the Arsenal

FESTIVALS / SPECIAL PROJECTS

This year festival was dif ferent from the previous ones.

Traditional poetic readings took the second place, the accent was concentrated on the Nizhny Novgorod Wave project which is dedicated to contemporary Russian poetry in its dif ferent forms. The festival›s program included presentation of the celebratory issue of the Metromost anti newspaper with texts of the festival›s participants from Nizhny Novgorod and other cities.

Dates: 25.04–26.04.2015

chorus and saxophone quartet was dedicated to the commemorative date of June 22. Concert of the Chronos vocal ensemble (con. E. Skurat, Moscow) created a truly unique combination of architecture, acoustics and music. The ensemble per formed music from the 17 century. The Festino choir (Saint-Petersburg) sang The Story of Madrigal, which combined works from the 16, 20 and 21 centuries written in this genre.

Dates: 22–24.06.15

Wisla. Festival of Polish Cinema Big Animation Festival Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Coordinator: Alexander Komarov One of the largest international animation festivals in Russia.

It is the fourth BAF in Nizhny Novgorod. Scope and format of the festival change every year according to feedback and requests from the audience.

The festival›s program traditionally consists of the best Russian and international films released in the past year and a half. While some of the films are new, they already hold prestigious Russian and international awards. All programs are diverse: they include works of the masters and recently graduated debutants; music videos, pilot episodes of new series and art house; love stories, funny anecdotes, philosophical parables and even imaginary biographies of the great people.

On June 20 and 21 the new Arsenal spaces hosted Cartoon Factory where children could learn to create cartoons in dif ferent techniques with guidance of professional animation artists.

Dates: 17.06–21.06.2015

Films of well-known and young Polish directors, laureates of prestigious awards and promising debuts which will not be released in Russia.

21.08. Citizen. Director: Jerzy Stuhr, 2014 22.08. Hardcore Disco. Director: Krzysztof Skonieczny, 2014 23.08. Jeziorak. Director: Mihal Otlowski, 2014 24.08. Life in Luxury. Director: Piotr Weresniak, 2013 25.08. City 44. Director: Jan Komasa, 2014 26.08. Unchangeable. Director: Jacek Borcuch, 2012 27.08. Heart, Little Heart. Director: Jan Jakub Kolski, 2014 28.08. Baby Blues. Director: Katarzyna Roslaniec, 2012 29.08. Coming Closer. Director: Magdalena Piekorz, 2014 30.08. Carte Blanche. Director: Jacek Lusinski, 2014 31.08. Ida. Director: Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013

VASARI. Festivals of Art Texts Curators: Anna Gor, Alexander Kuritsyn

16/21 Choral Festival

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Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participant: Nizhny Novgorod Municipal Chorus, Capriccio saxophone quartet (Moscow), Festino choir (Saint-Petersburg).

Continuation of “ settling down ” in the Arsenal's new spaces. For the first time guests of the 16/21 festival could choose where they wanted to listen to music: at the upper or the lower level of the double-height central risalit.

The festival›s program compared the Russian vocal tradition with the European, the ancient one – with contemporary.

The Nizhny Novgorod Municipal Chorus opened the project and per formed music of Russian composers of the 20–21 centuries. Per formance of the Senseless War of Giya Kancheli for

For the second time in Nizhny Novgorod the NCCA VolgaVyatka branch organized a unique festival of art texts named af ter Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), author of the history›s first extensive volume of texts about artists and their works, founder of contemporary art studies.

The main purpose of the festival is to bring art and audience closer together. Only texts can provide the key to understanding of artistic language, teach reflection, explain author›s conception. The festival's slogan – “To understand art – read about it!”

Vasari festival presents a wide variety of professional art texts – from art researches to popular materials in press.

Among participants of the festival – academic institutions, publishing houses, periodicals, network and T V projects dedicated to classic and contemporary art.

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Vesper Chores X XI. Music per formance, Dmitry Vlasin and NoName ensamble

Per formance of the iii association of Dutch artists

Big Animation Festival

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Format of the festival: book fair, accompanied by program of readings, meetings, seminars, round tables, presentations and film screenings. The festival is designed for broad audience – people interested in dif ferent kinds of art, specialists in humanitarian knowledge, school and university students.

Each day of the festival was dedicated to dif ferent topic.

The first – to composer Mikhail Matyushin, it presented the Victory Over the Sun opera. The second day – to Giorgio Vasari, which included the Show of Critics, the third – the Writers day, the fourth – the Readers day.

Educational part of the festival tells and demonstrates to children and their parents how to study and understand art (using fairy tales, interactive master classes, etc.). For children from two years and their parents Musartti music and art master class was organized, it was conducted by colleagues from the South Karelia Art Museum and Music Institute of Lappeenranta (Finladn).

The festival was concluded by a concert of the Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music with Music for Reading program.

Detailed program of the festival and information about participants – at www. vasarifest.ru Dates: 17.09–20.09.2015

FUNK Festival of Actual Scientific Films Program of the festival: 9.10. Screening of the film Vermeer of Tim by Raymond Joseph Teller, which tells the story of a Texas-based inventor Tim Jenson. Discussion with a scientist and entrepreneur Dmitry Alexeyev.

10.10. Discussion “Science and technologies in service of contemporary art and radioactive waste instead of painting ”. Participants: Ekaterina Inozemtseva, Nikita Medyantsev, Evgeniy Strelkov.

10.10. Screening of the film Into Eternity by Michael Madsen about creation of permanent storage of radioactive waste. Discussion, moderator – Nikita Medyantsev, Head of the Public Relations Centre NO RAO. 11.10. Meeting with a director and producer Ekaterina Eremenko and screening of the film Sensual Mathematics.

Organizers: Rosatom, Information Center on Nuclear Energy.

Dates: 09.10–11.10.2015

Never Too Late Film Festival The Never Too Late film festival was organized in the frames of the national project Society for All Ages. Its program included fiction and documentaries about the role and place of senior people in society. Characters of the films are united by the age, which is customary to be referred as “ sunset of life ”: dif ficult, joyless, the same for everyone. Talented directors from Europe, America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand have something to say against it. They share funny, touching and thoughtful stories about relationships, talents, dreams, losses and misunderstandings – all that comprise a human life regardless of age. It is the cinema which allows to see the world though the eyes of dif ferent generation or people of the same age; it also makes to think about values of life, about the future without the fear of aging. All of us have something to value, and for many things in life it can be said – it's “ never too late ” Program of the festival: 15.10. Tea-drinking. Director: Maite Alberdi, Chili, 2014 22.10. Love All Ages Yield Surrender. Director: Steven Loring, USA, 2014 29.10. Operation “Hip-Hop ”. Director: Brian Evans, New Zealand, 2014 5.11. Darling, Don't Cross this River. Director: Mo- Yun Yin, South Korea, 2014 12.11. Farewell. Director: Marcelo Galvao, Brazil, 2015 19.11. One More Year. Director: Mike Lee, United Kingdom, 2010 26.11. Short films program.

Co-organizer: Elena nd Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation Operator: Rules of Communication, communication agency Partner: Raif feisen bank Dates: 15.10–26.11.2015 Mountain Air Music Festival Joint project of composers and musicians from Russia and Switzerland invites the audience to breath the atmosphere of contemporary music as the art free from daily routine.

Without sudden rainfall and news storms; creative space, cleared to abstraction. Three events present music in dif ferent ways – as a part of a multimedia play, and as a “thing in itself”.

VASARI. Festival of art texts

FESTIVALS / SPECIAL PROJECTS

Program of the festival: 30.11. The Splendor of Color / Inter ferences Participants: Studio of New Music ensemble (Moscow) and Swiss musicians.

The project continues Russian- Swiss program Alpenfest of the Studio of New Music ensemble, which started in 2014, a part of the NET (New European Theatre, Moscow, 2015) festival.

8.12. Reflections Participants: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME).

Program-meditation includes music of Russian composers Sofia Gubaidullina, Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Vladimir Gorlinsky, and Swiss composers Beat Furrer, Istvan Zelenka.

17.12. Alterations Participants: eNsemble (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Phoenix (Basel, Switzerland).

Program includes pieces for percussion instruments of Swiss (Denis Shuler, Antoine Chessex) and Russian (Sergey Nevsky, Alexander Khubeev) composers written specifically for the project.

Co-organizers: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Studio of New Music (Moscow), Centre of Contemporary Music (Moscow), Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Dates: 30.11–17.12.2015 10 Evenings in Madrid, open-air film festival

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Curator: Daria Tkacheva Every year during 10 summer evenings citizens of Kirov can feel the atmosphere of dif ferent European countries. The festival takes place in the pedestrian part of the Spasskaya street, in the historical centre of the city, surrounded by buildingsmonuments of architecture of the 19th century. Films of the festival are shown in the original language with Russian subtitles. Sound of foreign speech adds to realism, together with surrounding architecture and images on screen it creates an impression that the audience is in some small European town.

In this way media adds to contemporainety and responsiveness of the historic Spasskaya street, demolishing the barriers – of language, time and space.

Co-organizers: Youth Creative Centre, Kirov City Administration.

Partners: Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in the Russian Federation, Cervantes Institute in Moscow, Kriollo Museum of History of Chocolate, Aspect SPb manufacturing company.

Dates: 12–21.08.2015

Never Too Late cinema festival

Mountain Air music festival

10 Evenings in Madrid, open-air film festival (Kirov)

Coordinator: Alexander Komarov • New German Cinema Selection of the best German premiers and hits of film festivals of the past 5 years.

Program: 7.03. Goethe! Director: Philipp Stolzl, 2010 14.03. Who if Not Us. Director: Andres Veiel, 2011 29.03. Diaries of Oda, Director: Kris Kraus, 2010 4.04. Almania – Welcome to Germany. Director: Yasemin Samdereli, 2011 11.04. The Day I Wasn›t Born. Director: Florian Cossen, 2010 18.04 My Most Happy Life. Director: Alexander Adolph, 2009 25.04. Sleeping Sickness. Director: Ulrich Kohle, 2011 24.05. Dreileben. Something Better than Death, 2011 30.05. Dreileben II. Don't Follow Me Around, 2011 13.06. Dreileben III. One Minute of Darkness, 2011 Dates: 7.03–13.06.2015

31.10. Paris, Texas. 1984, Federal Republic of Germany, France, United Kingdom 07.11. Wings of Desire. 1987, Federal Republic of Germany, France 14.11. Wings of Desire-2. 1993, Germany 21.11. Lisbon Story. 1994, Germany, Portugal 28.11. Skladanowsky Brothers. 1995, Germany Chambre 666 (documentary, T V). 1982, France, Federal Republic of Germany 5.12. Don't Come Knocking. 2005, France, Germany, USA • New Slovak Cinema 12.12. Half-Life Period, 2007, Slovakia; “Bmoll”, 2014, Slovakia 19.12. A Step into Darkness, 2014, Slovakia

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CINEMA / VIDEO SCREENINGS 80 : 81

Arsenal. Cinema. Cinema club with Pavel Miloslavsky

• Follow-up of the International Cannes Video Festival XIV Program: 5.09. Choreography of the Meaning program. The best films of the festival – 2014 . Short films from Austria, Columbia, Croatia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. Animation, fiction films, photo and film experiments.

6.09. Ways of a Myth program. The best films of the festival – 2014. Experimental films, animation and video art from Italy, United Kingdom, Portugal, Serbia and Russia.

12.09. Siberian Frontier program. The best films of the 2015 year.

• Retrospective of the German film director Wim Wnders Program: 26.09. The Scarlett Letter. 1972, Federal Republic of Germany, Spain 03.09. Alice in the Cities, 1973, Federal Republic of Germany 10.10. With Course of Time, 1973, Federal Republic of Germany 17.10. American Friend, 1976, Federal Republic of Germany, France 24.10. The State of Things, 1982, Federal Republic of Germany, Portugal, USA

Coordinator: Andrey Nosov Program of films dedicated to cultural and artistic life of Russia in the 1980–90s and beginning of the 2000s. The program is prepared by the Art.doc centre of documentary cinema.

4.03. Yakimanka. The 90s. Director: Andrey Silverstrov.

Russia, 2013, 53 min.

11.03. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here. Director: Amei Uollakh, USA, 2013, 102 min.

18.03., 25.03. Then We Were Heroes. P. 1, 2. Director: Lorenz Kloska, Alexander Vinogradov, Germany, 2001, 87 min.

Century of Miroslav Zikmund Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Participants: director, script writer Pyotr Gorki and Director of the Czech Centre in Moscow Katarzyna Belska.

Premier of a film about two famous Czech travelers – Miroslav Zikmund (1919) and Jiri Hanzelka (1920–2003) – and meeting with the director Pyotr Gorki.

Date: 17.03.2015

Meetings with director Arne Birkenstock Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Participants: director Arne Birkenstock (Germany) (author of films Warriors of Sand-box, 4500 Miles of Nostalgia, 12 Tangos – adios Buenos Aires), curator of cinema projects of the Department of Cultural Programs of the Goethe Institute Tatyana Chagina.

In the frames of the Arsenal. Cinema program the German director Arne Birkenstock presented his two documentaries: Beltracchi: the Art of Forgery and Chandani – the Duaghter of the Elephant Whisperer.

Dates: 27.04, 28.04

Films Which Should Not Be Watched, cinema club Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Hosts of the cinema club: Georgy Molokin, Alexander Bludyshev and Pavel Miloslavsky 25.10. Artist. 2011, France, Belgium, 96 min. Director: Michel Hazanavicius 8.11. New Times. 1936, USA. Director: Charlie Chaplin 15.11 A girl with a Box. 1927, USSR. Director: Boris Barnet 22.11 Citizen Kane. 1941, USA. Director: Orson Wells 29.11. Casablanca. 1942, USA. Director: Michael Curtiz 06.12. Eight and a Half. 1963, Italy, France. Director: Federico Fellini 13.12. Andrey Rublev. 1966, USSR. Director: Andrey Tarkovsky Co-organizers: Goethe German Cultural Centre, Nizhny Novgorod Centre of German and European Culture.

Kirov 10 Evenings in Warsaw. Replay Festival of Polish cinema Coordinator: Daria Tkacheva Dates: 26.01, 23.02, 30.03.2015

MUSIC / THEATRE

New Songs of Aquitaine Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participants: Ensenhas ensemble of medieval music Music of French troubadours of the 10–11th centuries. At the first glance, the Middle Ages epoch is so far away. But that only makes parallels with it which come up at the present times even more poignant. In order to see how close medieval aesthetics is to contemporary arts, it is enough to recall the Bestiary exhibition, hosted by the Arsenal in 2013. Where the Bestiary was dedicated to looking into the future through images of the past, at the Ensenhas concert the audience could look at the present through these images of the past.

Date: 03.03.2015

Tempore Versus ensemble of contemporary academic music with Bata de cola program Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participants: Tempore Versus ensemble of contemporary academic music Emotional, bright, rich with vital energy, full of mysteries, controversies and passion – Spain. Home of Picasso, Dali, Velasquez, Goya, Cervantes, Greco... For many centuries the color ful culture of this country inspired poets, artists, composers, writers... It is no coincidence that a few centuries ago it gave birth to flamenco – phenomenon every facet of which is a subject for many artistic reflections. Bata de cola is a traditional flamenco dress, vivid symbol of the Spanish culture. The concert program of Tempore Versus ensemble is dedicated to depiction of such Spanish archetypes in music of composers of the 20–21st centuries.

Date: 21.04.2015

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Nobles et sentimenta Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participant: composer and pianist Aleksey Shmurak Tradition of romantic, “ noble and sentimental” pieces for fortepiano, appeared in Europe in the beginning of the 19th century. One of the main characters of the High Hopes Museum exhibition – composer M. Balakirev – was one of the first com-

posers in Russia who created pieces for romantic fortepiano solo and with orchestra.

In his new project Aleksey Shmurak of fers to explore nobility and sentimentality in contemporary classical music which is trying to get rid of these feature at the first glance.

Date: 12.05.2015

Credits Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva.

Participant: Suprematic Hedgehog ensemble of contemporary music.

This program of the young Nizhny Novgorod ensemble doesn't have a single film shot, and yet musicians named it Credits.

Credits supplement the main plot of a movie in cinematograph, and in this program music pieces are supplemented by something else. It can be words, actions, mimics, gestures – anything aside from notes. The concert includes Introduction to Oboe Quartet of Mozart by Igor Zhokhovsky and the Mozart Quartet which concludes the program. According to the musicians› idea these two works are opening and closing credits.

Date: 19.05.2015

“Déca-dance” choreographic performance Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva.

Participant: Nizhny Novgorod Stepanov Chamber Music Theatre.

Search for a new choreographic language lead to synthesis of dif ferent dance trends. In this per formance a young ballet master, graduate of GITIS Maria Lutoshkina uses choreographic transposition of literary works. The per formance is based on works of Oscar Wilde (Birthday of the Infanta, Fisherman and His Soul, Happy Prince, Nightingale and the Rose, Salome), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Alyosha Karamazov and Grushenka), Velimir Khlebnikov (Madam Lenin), Alexander Bloc (The Puppet Show) and Daniil Kharms (Elizaveta Bam). Characters of the ' Decadence strive for beauty, but it means dif ferent things for each of them: impressionist delicacy changes to expressive passion. The author of fers to explore the nature of human beauty with means of contemporary dance.

Date: 9.06.2015

Music and Painting Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Participants: Studio of New Music ensemble (Moscow) Series of concert-lectures of the Studio of New Music ensemble (Moscow), organized in the frames of the All-Russian Philharmonic Seasons program, discover close, at the level of technology, connection between paintings and music of the 20th century.

Paths of painters and musicians of the 20th century in their search of the new, crossed more of ten than in other epochs. Composers and artists were members of the same creative associations, worked in collaboration with each other on theatre per formances, drew inspiration from the common projects. Such was the union between Stravinsky and Picasso, Schoenberg and Kandinsky, and others. For example, Vasily Kandinsky was the artist who used purely musical principles in his paintings. He got rid of the dictates of forms of the surrounding world, and made lines and colors of his abstract canvases to reverberate with sound. His friend and contemporary, composer Schoenberg, liberated music from shackles of tonality and based it on pictorial principles. Their close friendship made it into history of art of the 20th century; and rarely “ musical” and topical paintings of Kandinsky inspired many composers for creation of music tributes.

25 September. Pablo Picasso and music.

Program: Igor Stravinsky – The Soldier’s Tale, Bela Bartok – Contrasts, Vladimir Tarnopolsky – Echoes of the Passing Day, Alfred Schinttke – Serenade.

19 October. Surrealism in music.

Program: John Cage – Living room, Erik Satie – Monkey, Vladimir Tarnopolsky – Echoes of the Passing Day, Alfred Schinttke – Serenade.

20 November. Piet Mondrian. Path to Abstraction.

Program: Alfred Schnittke – Sonata for violin and fortepiano, Sofia Gubaidullina – Points, Lines, Zigzags, Edgar Varese – Density 21,5 for flute, Vladimir Tarnopolsky – Eindruck-Ausdruck.

Sound = meditation. Alexey Lyubimov (fortepiano) Project-submersion of works of contemporary Dutch minimalist Simeon tem Holt and philosopher of the first half of the 20th century Georgy Gurdzhiev.

Date: 4.10.2015

Nizhny Novgorod Municipal Chamber Chore.

Cantata Minin Russian premier of the work of composer Sergey Terkhanov, to words of the Nizhny Novgorod poet Evgeniy Sadulin, ten parts.

Conductor – Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Boris Mokeev.

Date: 4.11.2015

Music and Painting. Concert-lecture

Imaginary Folklore

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Lectures / seminars Nizhny Novgorod. Attempt of Contemporary Description Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Series of research residences dedicated to comprehension of important topics and plots from the past and the present of the city. The project concentrates on issues of the local, regional history and attempts to describe them from the point of view of actual humanitarian knowledge.

During 2015 year participants of the residence included lead Russian historians, urbanists, sociologists, visual anthropologists who worked together with their colleagues from Nizhny Novgorod. Among subjects of research: Nizhny Novgorod history of town planning, industry and transformation of industrial districts, architectural and social landscapes of the city in their historical perspective, several plots related to the famous Nizhny Novgorod people – Ivan Kulibin, Nadezhda Suslova, Maxim Gorky and others.

March 23. Lectures: “Nostalgic Nizhny Novgorod in emigrant poetry, Gorky narrative: image of the city in the post-war guides.” Researcher, philosopher of culture Alexander Markov and Nizhny Novgorod historian, local history expert Stanislav Dudkin.

April 24 . Seminar “Psycho geography of the city: NizhnyGorky-Nizhny ”. Lectures of a historian, essayist Kirill Kobrin and a philologist Evgeniya Suslova.

May 27. Seminar “Ivan Kulibin: mythologization of folk talents, industrialization of province and economics of knowledg ”.

Lectures of a philologist, research fellow of the Pushkin House Konstantin Bogdanov and a writer and artist Evgeniy Strelkov.

June 25. Seminar “Maxim Gorky: experience of actual reading ”. Lectures of a historian Ilya Budraitskis, philologist Marina Urtmintseva and a local historian Olesya Filatova.

July 27. Seminar: “Urban stories of Nizhny Novgorod: city festivals and transformation of travels ”. Lectures of an anthropologist and urbanist Elena Turbina and an architecture critic Marina Ignatushko.

August 07. Seminar: “Nadezhda Suslova: origins of freedom.” Lectures of a historian Irina Roldugina, a journalist and researcher Galina Filimonova.

September 20. Seminar: “Remote Nizhny Novgorod: means of vision and historical imagination in photographs of Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev .” Lectures of a historian

Eugene Savitsky and a philosopher Igor Kobylin.

October 10. Seminar: “Landscapes of Nizhny Novgorod – visual and historical.” Lectures of a visual anthropologist, photographer Natalia Vikulina, a sociologist, senior teacher of the Department of General and Strategic Management, HSE Branch in Nizhny Novgorod Olga Chernay vskaya.

November 11. Seminar: “Social history and heritage of the Nizhny Novgorod-Gorky proletariat.” Lectures of a leading expert of the State Archive of the Russian Federation Olga Edelman and a professor of the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Alexey Gordin. Moderator – Fedor Nikolain, associate professor of the Minin University.

Evolution project Series of science lectures on the unity of the surrounding world – from the birth of the Universe to appearance of a man, language, culture.

Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn 16.03. Molecular paleontology. Lecture of a bio information scientist Mikhail Gelfand.

12.04. On birth and death of black holes. Lecture of a physicist Emil Akhmedov.

Co-organizer: scientific and education centre Knowledge-NN.

Ground cycle Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Lecturers: Kristof fer Weiss, Alvin Jarving Opening of the 2015/2016 season of the Ground educational project, dedicated to architectural design, territorial planning and improvement of urban environment.

Cycle of lectures and master classes is intended to gather professional community, as well as interested audience for acquaintance with actual research works and methods of work in architecture, design, trends of work with urban space.

19.03. Kristof fer Weiss (Denmark). Quality of life – strategic planning of development of public spaces.

21.03. Alvin Jarving (Estonia). Sur face web-sur fing – using mass media in Arhitekt Must practice.

Organizer: autonomous non-commercial organization Vegetable Garden. With support of the Volga-Vyatka region branch

of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Representative Of fice of the European Union in the Russian Federation, Royal Embassy of Denmark in the Russian Federation, Embassy of Estonia in the Russian Federation.

Fine Arts Language course of lectures of a philosopher of culture Alex ander Markov MSU, RSUH)

13.05. “Dialogue, quote, trace. Introductory lecture ”.

20.05. “Canon outside of canon. Christian themes in art of Russian artists of the 20th–beginning of the 21st centuries ”.

25.05. “Back to the future. Issue of authencity in art of the end of the 20th–beginning of the 21st centuries ”.

Lecture of a historian Irina Roldugina – (Un)knownhistory of vindication of the rights of women in Russia

Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn The lecture course includes study of the primary approaches to deciphering of classical and contemporary artworks. It provides explicit explanation how to read a painting, works of sculpture and monumental painting; what meanings can separate elements have; how to recreate social, political, world outlook contexts of these works.

Special attention is given to closing the gap between “ classical” and “ modernist” art: even with dif ferences in principles of creation and evaluation of works, there is continuity of languages of expression – this helps to better understand art of the 20th century, its messages and levels of meanings.

Program: 28.03. “Art: from narration to independent language.”

29.03. “Multilingualism of art. 'Deciphering' artworks.”

4.04. “Language of artwork.”

5.04. “Artwork in context. Interpretation, supervision, connoisseurship, study of art, critics.”

Dynamic and rich with events, history of feminism in Russia ceased with the Bolshevik government. On one hand, women were guaranteed all that they had spoken for during decades and what they never dreamt of. On the other, female autonomy, especially af ter the Stalin’s right turn in the middle of the 1930s, became impossible. The Soviet people spoke through their leader for a woman, like for any other group. In the developed countries from the 1970s feminism became an influential force, important theme of philosophy and art.

Date: 04.08.2015

Lecture of a Czech architect Martin Rajnis – “Natural Architecture” in the frames of the International Day of Architecture festival Coordinator: Alexander Komarov

Cycle of lectures of Elena Bulycheva – Confrontation or Cooperation? On Relationship of Classic and Contemporary Art Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Usually, in analysis of relationship between classical legacy and processes of contemporary art attention is focused on the nature of their confrontation. The subject of conflict between tradition and innovation is of ten declared by artists. However, art practice demonstrates more complicated processes of their interrelation.

The fact of confrontation by itself leads to a dialogue which confirms impossibility of creation of something new in vacuum, in absence of classic. Thus, at the level of serious art projects, cooperation between art of dif ferent epochs is always present. Art of the most radical innovators of the 20th century is influenced by presence of this cooperation.

Martin Rajnis: “I believe that slowly, but surely, everywhere in the world something new is being born; something that isn't a style, aesthetics, but a diverse current of things ” . Where is a place of architecture in this current? Rajnis believes that architecture is now in crisis, his opinion is first and foremost based on his communication with big investors. Can we restore ability of architecture to influence life of the society?

Date: 29.09.2015

Education Gaps, cycle of public lectures Education Gaps is a cycle of public lectures aimed at popularization of science and acquaintance of the audience with its latest achievements. Famous Russian scientists, laureates of the Enlightener award, tell about theory and practices of contemporary natural and humanitarian science.

EDUCATION

The cycle is organized with support of the Dmitry Zimin Dynasty Foundation and the Enlightener award.

05.11. Lecture of a science journalist Asya Kazantseva – “Misunderstandings. How our brain deceives us?”

09.12. Lecture of a sociologist Victor Bakhstein – “Remotepiloted vehicles, elevators and skyscrapers: how sociology of the techniques help to understand the logic of a city?”

Seminar – Creating Opportunities: Art in Dialogue with Local Communities In the frames of the Russian-American education project Peer-to-Peer the CEC Arts Link presents a seminar dedicated to community engaged art – issues and practices of work with local communities. The goal of the seminar is to create a platform for discussion of forms, purposes and methods of collaboration with dif ferent social groups through art and theater projects. Among participants of the seminar – American experts in public art, new media and community theater.

Participants: Steve Dietz – curator, founder the chief director of the New Media Initiatives Department of the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, USA. Leslie Tamaribuchi – art manager, teacher, executive director of the CalArts Center for New Per formance of the California Arts Institute.

Mark Valdez – theatre director and pedagogue. During the last ten years works with socially oriented theaters.

Moderator of the discussion: Alexander Ivanov, researcher, curator of educational projects.

Date: 10.12.2015

01.04.–01.06. Course of Anastasia Yamusheva (Nizhny Novgorod).

18.05. Lecture of Katya Ganyushina – “Dance and contemporary art: moving towards each other.”

02.06. Per formance of the project and research laboratory of contemporary damce January-February; September-December 2015. Course of Alexander Andriyashkin (Moscow). Technical part – dance phrases, principles of motion, review. Per formance part – mobility and instruments which allow to generate movements events, basing on skills and preferences of a per former.

800+ New Approach to the Old Nizhny Cycle of lectures on local history studies 20.10. “A millionaire from a village. Dmitry Sirotkin ”. Lecture of Fedor Seleznev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor of the Nizhny Novgorod State University, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod local history society.

18.11. “Blank pages in the history of the Nizhny Novgorod public transport.” Lecture of Oleg Chalkov, a local history expert, author of the Routes from the Past into the Future book.

16.12 “Slavic mythological images in the Nizhny Novgorod house carvings. Image of a house as an image of the world.”

Lecture of Tatyana Nechaeva, a handicraf t artist, participant of folklore expeditons, member of the Paraskeva ethno workshop of the Nizhny Novgorod Department of Union of Architects.

Meetings / discussions Reading Techniques – cycle of poetic evenings

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Performance of the Project and Research Laboratory of Contemporary Dance The laboratory of dance project at the Arsenal from January till June 2015 included cycle of master classes, lessons, lectures with participation of choreographers Anastasia Yamusheva (Nizhny Novgorod) and Alexander Andriyashkin (Moscow).

Partiicpants learned the basics of contemporary choreography, technique of contemporary dance and per formance.

30.01 – Nizhny Novgorod. 04.03 – Kirov. Lecture of a choreographer Alexander Andriyashkin – “Contemporary dance: contemporary constituent and dance consituent.”

Coordinator: Andrey Nosov Cycle of evenings dedicated to the Nizhny Novgorod poetry wave. Reading of poetic texts by their authors, and their comprehension by experts and audience.

14.09. The first evening: Vadim Demidov, Andrey Megalinsky, Irina Mironova.

18.10. The second evening: Maria Glushkova, Denis Lipatov and Evgeniys Ritz.

29.11. The third evening: Eugene Strelkov, Karina Lukyanova, Victor Lisin.

20.12 The forth evening: Dmitry Stepanov, Alexander Misurov and Lyuba Makushina.

31.01. The fif th evening: Eugene Protschin, Evgeniya Suslova, Artem Filatov.

28.02 The sixth evening: Mark Grigoriev, Anna Tolkacheva, Peter Likin.

Reading New Prose cycle Coordinator: Andrey Nosov The Nizhny Novgorod Collected Works is a literary and art project of the Behemot publishing house. Each evening of the Reading New Prose cycle is a meeting with an artist and his book, with literary historians, linguists, readers and admirers of contemporary prose. In the format of discussion they talk about the most interesting themes and issues in context of a certain work. The Nizhny Novgorod Collected Works project presents contemporary literature of the beginning of the X XI century.

02.04. Elena Kryukova. Presentation of the Bellona novel.

16.04. Ildar Abzuyarov. Presentation of the Finnish Sun novel.

21.05. Anna Andronova. Presentation of the Surgical Day book.

14.10. Valery Khazin. Presentation of the On Air book.

11.11. Presentation of the Our People collection of prose.

Novels and short stories of twelve writers from Nizhny Novgorod: I. Abuzyarov, V. Gofman, S. Dolzhenko. A. Iudin, V. Kerpenko, A. Kotyusov, A. Kuzechkin, Z. Prilepin, O. Ryabov, N. Svechin. E. Erastov.

09.12. Presentation of the Real collection of prose. Works of fourteen poets from Nizhny Novgorod: V. Bezdenezhnykh, S. Grekhova, V. Demidov, A. Dmitriev, A. Kazansky, E. Kryukova, M. Kulakova, D. Larionov, D. Lipatov, Y. Nemtsov, Z. Prilepin, N. Uvarova, S. Chigrakov, I. Churdalev.

Host – Leonid Bolshukhin, literary critic, professor of the HSE Nizhny Novgorod.

Screenings of films Phantom Letter, Destiny of Pioneers, Vibration of Life.

Date: 28.04.2015

Maya Plisetskaya. Pole of Magic Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Participant: Sergey Chuyanov Presentation of a book of a Nizhny Novgorod journalist and writer Sergey Chuyanov. Monograph about the famous Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya which includes, among other materials, his interview with the legend of our ballet.

Date: 28.05.2015

Creative meeting with the iii Association of Dutch Artists Coordinator: Elena Belova iii – an artist run platform for the development of self-made media which promotes interdisciplinary works crossing between the fields of music, visual arts, theatre and media design – presented three projects at the Museum Night at the Arsenal – Ground, Murmur~singing, City Sondols.

Figures of the Mind. Stories about Science

Topics of speeches: • Matteo Marangoni: City Sondols – “hacking ” the urban sound space ” non virtual ways of or spatial orientation with sound; auditory perception of space; city as an instrument and soundtrack.

• Yolanda Uriz: Intersection of senses: blurring the coundaries between senses. Practices of perception with several senses at once in art, their possible perceptional, physical and socio-political meanings.

• Mariska de Groot: On the verge: media archeological tour of inventions and practices of transformation of light into sound.

Date: 15.05.2015

Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Participants: Evgeniy Strelkov, Andrey Vaganov

Club Loudly and with emotion

Presentation of a new book of an artist Eugene Strelkov Lecture of Andrey Vaganov, editor the Independent Newspaper – Science, topic: “Collecting as the main form of manifestation of the research instinct of a scientist”.

Project includes reading out loud and discussions of the works.

Launched in April 2014 in the Moscow Dostoevsky library. Nizhny Novgorod was the second city to host readings in this format.

Readings are held on Wednesdays twice a month in the Arsenal's mediateque, anyone willing can join the club.

EDUCATION

Moderator of the project: Tatyana Khripkina 21.05. M. Gorky 3.06. Woody Allen 17.06. K. Bulychev 1.07. C. Palaniuk 15.07. V. Pelevin 29.07. K. Capek 05.08. N. Suslova 19.08. P. Suskind 8.10. N. Gogol 22.10. G.G. Marques 12.11. A. Tolstoy 25.11. S. Maugham 10.12. S. Dovlatov 24.12. O. Henry

per formances of lead European poets in Nizhny Novgorod.

The book series of the Arsenal will include a book with translations of an author's texts which are presented at a meeting.

The program will be realized throughout a year with one meeting a month. Currently there are contacts with poets from Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia.

01.11. Presentation of a poetry book by Hendrik Jackson (Germany) 15.12. Creative meeting and presentation of a poetry book

by Justyna Bargielska (Poland), translation – Lev Oborin.

Access. Point poetic seminar

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Program: Discussions Participants: Artem Filatov, poet, culturologist, Alexander Kolesnikov, poet, philologist.

Presentation of a book of acoustic photographs of a photographer and poet Alik Yakubovich.

Authorial recital and presentation of photographs.

The book is about the life being an adventure, as long as one has a photo camera, a beautiful woman and a bit of the crisis of the “ second last” age.

Date: 4.12.2015

Regular meetings for those who are interested not only in their own texts, but also in those of the others. The seminar is intended to discuss texts of participants, discuss texts of contemporary Russian and international authors, as well as main events, trends and issues of contemporary poetry; meetings with representatives of actual (first of all, Nizhny Novgorod) literatire.

Dates: 27.11, 25.12.2015

Displacement Cycle of individual per formances of the Nizhny Novgorod poets.

11.10. Poet Dmitry Zernov.

29.11. Poet, writer Lia Aronovich.

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Place of Speech The Place of Speech project is aimed at building cultural connections between the European countries and the Russian regions. The goal of the project – inclusion of the Nizhny Novgorod region into context of current common cultural and literature processes. The Place of Speech project includes

Co-organizer: Nizhny Novgorod Centre of German and European Culture, with support of the German Goethe Cultural Centre.

Evening dedicated to the memory of a writer K. Simonov Presentation of the Simonov's book Three Diaries of the Nizhny Novgorod publishing house Dekom; screening of a documentary about life and work of the writer. For the first time one book includes three diaries of a journalist, writer, front-line soldier K. Simonov: wartimes – One hundred Days of War (not published in the author's lifetime), lyric – With and Without You, and epistolary – My Dear Old Folks (first publication).

Co-organizer: Dekom publishing house (Nizhny Novgorod).

Date: 18.12.2015

Rivers, hands, sounds... Evening dedicated to Yury Nemtsov, Sergey Starostin and Tat yana Bondarenko Pre-premier screening of a film concluding the triptych of Yury Nemtsov about a man, earch, water and a tree – Power of Koriolis.

Screening of fragments of a new musical and literature play of a musician Sergey Starostin and actress of theatre and cinema Tatyana Bondarenko – Northern Tales, based on the works of Boris Shergin and Stepan Pisakhov.

The best works of Starostin will be per formed – songs and ballads of the outstanding multi instrumentalist, composer, per former and gatherer of folk songs.

Host of the evening – historian, philosopher, producer of fold festivals Roman Gogolev – will bring together dif ferent genres, styles, forms, meanings and conceptions.

Date: 22.12.2015

Kirov Presentation of the book Henri Cartier-Bresson: Dialogues Curator: Daria Tkacheva Presentation of the book Henri Cartier-Bresson: Dialogues, published by Cloudberry publishing house; screening of a documentary Henri Cartier-Bresson: Just Love.

Co-organizers: Youth Creative Center, Book Club 12 cafe, Cloudberry publishing house.

Partners: Amateur Photographer School of Photography.

Date: 25.11.2015

Evgeniy Strelkov and Konstantin Bogdanov. Seminar of the Nizhny Novgorod. Attempt of Contemporary Description cycle

Per formance of the Project and Research Laboratory of Contemporary Dance. Master class of Alexander Andriyashkin

SOCIAL PROJECTS

Free WEDNESDAY social program The Arsenal continues the social program Contemporary Art for Contemporary People! Wednesday is still the day of free admission for all types of public. Guided tours were organized for disadvantaged social groups. Attendance on these days are three times higher than normally.

May–December 2015

Tours of current exhibitions and organization of attendance of visitors with mental disabilities of some lectures and concerts were organized in collaboration with New Opportunities noncommercial association.

Societ y for Encouragement of Art Creative workshop Teacher: Raisa Savelieva Educational project designed for people of the “third age ” (55+) who in their free time would like to realize their long-nurtured dream – to learn to see, think and draw as an artist with a unique style, born in the process of experiment with various art materials, techniques and tools. The project is realized in format of weekly club meetings.

Project-winner of the Silver Age contest of grants for educational projects of high social significance, organized by Reif feisen bank in collaboration with Samara Province regional charitable foundation.

Dates: 6.01–29.12.2015

relatives and friends of dif ferent ages joined. Age diversity vivified communication, livened up creative process.

The goals of the project were achieved – maximum involvement of the group›s participants into life of the Arsenal, not limited to studio classes.

Date: 17.11.2015

Cinema without Barriers. The Nizhny Novgorod Echo.

International film festival about lives of people with disabilites Cinema without Barriers. The Nizhny Novgorod Echo is the seventh festival which of fers the audience opportunity to see the world through dif ferent eyes, to discern a plot of a novel in mundane life, to learn about destinies of people – stories of rising above oneself and life circumstances.

The festival is unordinary and ef ficient tool in fighting stereotypes of perception of disabled people and attitude of their fellow citizens towards them. Cinema without Barriers helps to understand that lives of disabled people are full of humor, joy and love, that they can be not only objects of compassion and clients of social security organizations, they can also be business partners, friends, beloved ones.

Co-organizers: Perspective – Russian Non-Commercial Organization for Disabled People, INVATUR – Nizhny Novgorod Regional Non-Commercial Organization for Disabled People Date: 10.04.2015

Little Duck and Ear Pick in Space and Time

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Exhibition of works of the Societ y for Encouragement of Art Recalling the initiative of the 19 century – Society for Encouragement of Art – today the Arsenal supports those who strive to understand the language of art, both classical and contemporary.

During the year of its existence the project of fered opportunities for creative self-fulfillment of its audience. Fine art studio transformed into creative club, and then – into family club. For the time of the studio›s work over forty people attended its classes, seventeen of which became regular members and participants.

The studio also changed its qualitative composition: in the beginning the audience consisted only of seniors, but then their

Methodic development of 25 lessons and master classes in history and archeology for school students.

The historical Arsenal building of the 19th century doesn't server military purposes any longer. But before it was transformed into a museum of contemporary art, from 2007 till 2009 there were archeological excavations on its territory. Various household objects of the Nizhny Novgorod citizens from different epochs were discovered on the territory of the building next to the Kremlin wall, among them – a clay pennywhistle in a form of a duck (17th century) and ear pick (15th century).

These objects became animation characters and became main narrators at lessons in history of Nizhny Novgorod and the Arsenal at lessons for school students from 6 to 13 years.

Cinema without Barriers. International film festival about lives of people with disabilities

Society for Encouragement of Art. Fragment of the exhibition

Society for Encouragement of Art. Workshop

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Together with children, Little Duck and Ear Pick travel through space and time, and learn about history of the building, history of the place where the Arsenal was built, how people used to live there in the times when there was no Arsenal.

Young researchers learn about archeology and archeological excavations. Then they apply this knowledge in practice, trying to discover valuable artifacts. Then children together with a museum pedagogue study history of discovered objects (coins, buttons, comb, iron horseshoes and even a skull of a woman) and describe them in archeological diaries.

Co-organizers: Cultural Capital of the Volga Region Foudnation With support: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation With grant support: LUKOIL PJSC oil company Dates: 01.10–30.11.2015

Little Duck and Ear Pick in Space and Time.

Lesson materials

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Arsenal + Family Supervisor: Evgeniya Ignatushko Program for children (3–12) years and their parents aimed at creative fulfillment of adults and children, development of out-of-the-box thinking, broadening of outlook in the sphere of contemporary culture and education of harmonically developed personality. The program includes cycles of theoretical and practical lessons dedicated to the world contemporary art, architecture photography, theatre, animation and music.

COLOR. FORM. MATERIAL. 3+ 13.09. Ideal Form!

20.09. Transformation of a Circle 27.09. Shaped Story 04.10. Warm Colors 11.10. Cold Colors 18.10. Mizing Colors 25.10. Introduction of Color 01.11. First There Was Clay 08.11. Fairy Tales of Wood 15.11. Unfamiliar Cotton 22.11. So Dif ferent Paper 29.11. Modern Plastic Teacher: Alevtina Nikonova

FAMILY WORKSHOPS. 5+ 13.09. Henri Matisse. Dif ficult to understand, but if to look closely...

20.09. Georges Seurat. Dot, dot, dot... Lesson 1 27.09. Georges Seurat. Dot, dot, dot... Lesson 2 04.10. Alexander Calder. Sculpture in motion. Lesson 1 11.10. Alexander Calder. Sculpture in motion. Lesson 2 18.10. Georges Braque. How to create a painting? Print it!

Lesson 1 25.10. Georges Braque. How to create a painting? Print it!

Lesson 2 01.11. Joan Miro. Clay sculpture – familiar material, unusual form. Lesson 1 08.11. Joan Miro. Clay sculpture – familiar material, unusual form. Lesson 2 15.11. Joan Miro. Clay sculpture – familiar material, unusual form. Lesson 3 22.11. Marc Chagall. Painting on a window – magic! Lesson 1

29.11. Marc Chagall. Painting on a window – magic! Lesson 2 Teacher: Alevtina Nikonova MAIN CHARACTERS OF CONTEMPORARY ART. 8+ 12.09. Claude Monet 19.09. Van Gogh 26.09. Paul Cezanne 03.10. Henri Matisse 10.10. Pablo Picasso 17.10. Vasily Kandinsky 24.10. Kazimir Malevich 31.10. Marc Chagall 07.11. Piet Mondriam 14.11. Marcel Duchamp 21.11. Joan Miro 28.11. Salvador Dali Teachers: Evgeniya Ignatushko, Irina Aganina

MUSIC DESIGN STUDIO. 8+ 13.09. Folk 27.09. Electronic music 11.10. Rock 25.10. Jazz 08.11. Contemporary academic music 22.11. Classical music Teachers: Ksenia Anufrieva, Alexander Yuminov ARSENAL CARTOON. 8+ 13.09. Discussion of a script, creating a storyboard and beginning of work on decorations and characters.

27.09. Creation of decorations and characters of a cartoon.

Beginning of shooting.

11.10. Creation of decorations and characters of a cartoon.

Shooting.

25.10. Shooting.

08.11. Shooting.

22.11. Shooting and sound recording.

06.12. Presentation of the cartoon.

Teachers: animators from the 7BiOZ Animation School (Moscow).

Color. Form. Material.

Master class of the Arsenal + Family program

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THEATRE WORKSHOP. 8+ 13.09, 20.09, 27.09, 04.10, 11.10, 18.10, 25.10, 01.11, 08.11, 15.11, 22.11, 29.11.

Teacher: Lev Kharlamov

In December participants of the club began work on monthly newspaper about events at the Arsenal, the first issue was due in the end of December 2015.

Arsenal + School PHOTO WORKSHOP. 11+

Curator: Evgeniya Ignatushko

03.10. Camera obscura and pinhole camera: hand-made optics 10.10. Per forming photo magic with hand-made cameras 17.10. Secrets of the red room: printing photographs 24.10. Photogram and “ sandwich ” : learning unusual techniques of photo printing 14.11. Philosophy of photography: image and atmosphere 21.11. Light and shadow: “ drawing ” a still-life 28.11. Photo hooliganism. What can hand-made filters do?

05.12. Mysterious portrait: acquaintance with technique of double exposure 12.12. Freeze light: photo experiments with freeze light Teacher: Evgeniya Shlivko

Program of guided tours of contemporary art exhibitions and interactive master classes for pupils and students of colleges and universities. Program continued during the whole academic year.

Program: • Tours of current exhibitions at the Arsenal for pupils and students.

• Master classes on art experiment: with ordinary and not so ordinary materials and instruments anyone could create their own work in style of artists represented at an exhibition.

• Every year on September 1 Open Doors Day for pupils and their parents is held at the Arsenal, where visitors can learn about Arsenal + School program.

Teenage Arsenal Club TAK! Curators of the project: Evgeniya Ignatushko (educational part), Polina Sporysheva (creative part).

The club's purpose is to create conditions for broadening outlook of young audience, to teach them to think, contemplate and ask questions upon meeting dif ferent artworks and share their opinion with others.

TAK! project has two main parts: educational and creative, which in the first quarter was based mainly on the High Hopes Museum exhibition. Format of a club assumes dif ferent types of work in educational part of the project: lectures, discussions, guided tours, video screenings, etc.

Creative part of the project supposes keeping the club's blog (vk.com/takclub) where participants will share their impressions, thoughts and essays about one of the characters of the High Hopes Museum exhibition. At special classes teenagers acquire skills of working with information, learn to present their point of view with reasoning, as well as learn profession of a journalist, editor, video reporter. In the autumn 2015 a collection of articles by the club's participants was compiled – an almanac TAK happened.

TAK! club workshop

PUBLICATIONS

Victory over the Sun Sound CD with a booklet. Publication of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch, 2015. Russian language, 500 copies.

Audio record of the remaining fragments of the Victory over the Sun futuristic opera by Mikhail Matyshin, part of the High Hopes Museum exhibition. It was per formed in of the exhibition halls as a part of music installation. The publication is supplemented with music sheet, libretto and research article about the opera by the project's curator – music critic Ksenia Anufrieva. Presentation with a concert per formance of the opera took place on March 20 2015 in the frames of the Assembly of Arsenals program.

Per formers: Alexey Chistyakov (tenor, soloist of the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater named af ter Pushkin), Vladislav Burtsev (baritone, soloist of the Nizhny Novgorod Chamber Music Theatre named af ter Stepanov), Mark Buloshnikov (pianist, composer, graduate and lecturer of the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatoire).

Memory points Exhibition catalogue. Publication of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch. 2015. Russian language, 500 copies.

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The catalogue includes 2 CDs with digitized gramophone records from 1937–1951 years; version of a piece by a sound artist Danila Akimov created with three-dimensional sound technology; art history and curatorial texts, interviews with participants of the project, culturological research and illustrations of works of an artist Khaim Sokol.

Compiling editor: Anastasia Polozova Texts: staf f of the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch Assistance in preparation of materials: Ani Kobalyan, Alina Bocharova Photographs: Dmitry Stepanov, Vladislav Efimov, Elina Zelenaya, Mikhail Solunin, Alexander Romanenko, Andrey Yakovlev, Roman Borodin, Andrey Abramov Design: Tatyana Alekseeva Layout: Elena Lodygina Proof-reading: Nadezhda Lukiyanova Printed at the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch 100 copies