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National centre for Contemporary Arts Volga region branch with support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

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Activity report 2014

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 REGION BRANCH: history, statistics, new in 2014, partners

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major art projects of 2014 49 EXHIBITIONS:

exhibition projects 61

FESTIVALS, MUSIC, EDUCATION: educational and entertaining festivals, marathons and holidays; concerts of various music genres of contemporary music; lectures, round tables, master classes; programs for children; social projects; publications

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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2014 year concludes the time of model creation for the NCCA Volga region branch. From 1992 till 1997 we had been creating a model of development of contemporar y art in Nizhny Novgorod. From 1997 till 2003 – model of an institutional centre for support of this art. In 2003, when the Arsenal building was conveyed, a model of a house for art and exhibition space was created. This period lasted till 2011 when restoration works of one third of the Arsenal were completed. Since April 2011 till present time a museum model of activity has been rapidly developing; it is a contemporar y model which takes into account international development trends. And, finally, we don’t need to create any more models; we can operate at full capacity! Naturally, with due regard for accumulated experience, carefully examined requests of the audience, expectations of the professional community.

We understand our responsibility: the city expects diversity from us, artists – support, colleagues – serious dialogue about art, children – joy and fun, parents – education…

And we are waiting from day to day for completion of restoration works, when we receive seven thousand of museum space, full responsibility for which will be taken by our staf f. We have been preparing for this for a long time, and especially during the passing year.

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Anna Gor, Director of the NNCA Volga region branch

Arsenal. Fragment of interior. 2006

Arsenal. Exposition halls. 2014

NCCA Volga region branch

Volga region branch of the National Centre 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 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 with sub branches in Samara, Izhevsk, Kirov and Kazan. From 2015 – Volga-Vyatka region branch.

The NCCA Volga 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. Currently, one third of the building is open to the public, and in the beginning of 2015 the entire building of the Arsenal will be open after restoration works.

In 2014 Volga region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts welcomed 71 125 visitors in the Arsenal, 6 845 people attended traveling exhibition Nizhe Nizhnego (Kazan, Kirov, Izhevsk, Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Engels) and 130 500 people - audience of street projects in Nizhny Novgorod.

Consolidated number of visitors of the regional sub branches in 2014 (Kirov, Samara, Izhevsk): 27 104 people and 2 575 000 people – audience of street projects in Samara.

Optimistic Studies exhibition in Saint-Petersburg was attended by 80 000 people, Spring Builders exhibition in Krasnodar had 650 visitors.

Visitors of the Arsenal in 2014 adults 66% groups eligible for discount admission and visitors of the Free Wednesday program 13% students 9%

pensioners 4%

adults – 66%

children 8%

children – 8%

groups eligible for discount admission and visitors of the Free Wednesday program – 13% students – 9%

pensioners – 4%

NCCA Volga region branch on the Internet – number of visitors/ subscribers: www. facebook.com/ncca.arsenal – 3 090 www.k.com/arsenal_nnov – 6 832

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www. twitter.com/Arsenal_ncca – 323 Number of media mentions of the NCCA Volga region branch: Printed media – 420 Online media – 816 T V – 80 Radio – 79 News subscriptions – 3 647

www.instagram.com/ncca_arsenal – 1 088 www. foursquare.com/arsenal_ncca – 1 027

Special prize of the jury “For contribution to preservation of historical environment” of the Intermuseum 2014 festival.

The NCCA Volga region branch is one of 16 Russian museums which were included into Museum Guide-2014 of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation.

Colleagues and guests about the Arsenal Dina Goder, theatre critic, journalist, program director of the Big Animation Festival: “Every time you come here you get the feeling that everything is possible. That you can do anything, and there are no limits. The Arsenal is an awfully spirit boosting place for me. It is also an inspiring example of how a wish to do something culturerelated can coincide with a possibility of doing it”.

Mikhail Kaluzhsky, journalist, head of theatre program of the Sakharovsky centre: “The life which flows here, the building and the way it’s constructed, how everything is so sensible here, the light and the sound in this place – everything is tremendously great. The Arsenal leaves an impression of something European. It looks like and operates as a multi-functional venue of an absolutely European character and quality. It is much more than a Centre for Contemporary Arts, more than a place for staging performances. It is a point of attraction of different arts and possibilities. There aren’t many such places in Russia. I think that the city hasn’t realized to the full extend what it means for it, but it will undoubtedly fully appreciate it when the Arsenal opens in the beginning of 2015. The idea itself and possibility of housing everything from contemporary music to drawing lessons for senior people is amazing. I don’t know where you can find something similar, especially considering the fact that it’s located in the Kremlin”.

Yury Saprykin, journalist, editor: “Arsenal is one of major places of interest in Nizhny Novgorod. Incredibly expressive building in a meaningful place. It is as if the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow was located on the Red Square. A very exquisite taste of curators. It can be said about exhibitions and choice of events. And the way it functions in such a historically rich place is worth a lot.

Construction works make a strong impression. Cultural centers of such scale (I mean not only square meters but also diversity of functions) are very rare. Aside from exhibition halls there is a recording studio, rehearsal halls, rooms for children, cafe. A person interested in contemporary culture can come here and stay to live. It has everything required. It is an oasis for hopefully a fairly large audience.

And how delicately and fancily everything is realized – it is simply great. I am fascinated”.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, artists: “The atmosphere here is wonderful, and so is the building and exhibitions. Artists are treated with a great deal of attention. There is constantly some serious work in progress. There has been nothing of the sort in Russia before. Besides, several unique factors meet here. The fact the building is located in the heart of the city, in a zone of restoration works. And the fact the Centre for Contemporary Arts received this historical building. It is also very unique. And the building is carefully preserved and converted into impressive exhibition space. We are amazed”.

New in 2014 Completion of restoration works 2014 was the year of completion of conversion process of the military Arsenal building into a museum space – the NCCA Volga-Vyatka region branch (adaptation project – the Asse Architects studio, restoration – architect A. Epifanov).

Total floor area of the building – 7 000 sq.m., exposition halls – 2 000 sq.m., also: mediateque/library, concert and cinema hall, child centre, auditoriums, new technologies studios, residences, rehearsal halls, cafe, yard – kunstplatz.

For the past three and a half years the part of the building (about 1 700 sq.m.) operated in a full mode: exhibitions, lectures, concerts, programs for children and pensioners, music and theatre experiments, discussions, etc.

During this time the Arsenal welcomed over 150 thousand people, it gained a solid reputation of one of the most active Russian museum institutions.

February 2015 will mark a new chapter for the Arsenal: it will open its doors to the public with a large exhibition project Museum of Great Expectations which through means of contemporary art will tell about main characters of Nizhny Novgorod well-known across Russia.

One of the priority areas of activity of the NCCA Volga region branch is creation of own projects based on multi-genre research, museum cooperation and appealing to topics connected to its territory. In 2014 several large projects were realized, they received positive response of the audience, appreciation of the professional community and wide resonance in the media.

Traveling exhibition Nizhe Nizhnego (Lower than Nizhny) (curators E. Strelkov and I. Suzdalev), reconsidering the identity of the whole Volga region, in February-November 2014 traveled to 8 cities: Kazan, Izhevsk, Kirov, Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Engels, Tolyatti.

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Awards and nominations 2014

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Wildlife Corner project (curator A. Savitskaya, artist V. Efimov), dedicated to the wooden architecture of Nizhny Novgorod.

It actualized the cultural heritage of Nizhny Novgorod through contemporary art. The topic of the wooden city and its artistic interpretation was further developed in the Optimistic Studies exhibition (curator Alisa Savitskaya) which was included into parallel program of the Manifesta 10 international biennale of contemporary art in Saint-Petersburg.

It is important to note that each of these exhibition projects was accompanied by lectures, discussions, master classes, concerts, guided tours for different target audiences.

Systematic generation of a circle of participants, consumers, assemblers of contemporary culture around Arsenal is one of the primary strategic missions of the NCCA Volga region branch; multi aspect work on creation of such a circle is aimed to accomplish this mission. One of the key roles belongs to the project Department of Contemporary Culture in the Arsenal, its activity in the first half of the year became systematic. It included Cultural Modernization - cycle of seminars and discussions with participation of international researches and scientistshumanitarians from Nizhny Novgorod. The cycle was intended to include actual art into broader contexts and reconsider a set of basic questions/problems of contemporaneity through a dialogue with audience.

In 2014 the NCCA Volga region branch initiated and organized scientific and educational project VASARI. Festival of Art Texts. Its originality and actuality was noted by all participants of the round table which summarized its results and discussed further development. The festival will become annual.

In 2014 renewed TV-almanac Arsenal. Conversion came out more frequently than in 2013: twice a month on the channel of the Nizhny Novgorod State TV and radio broadcasting company NNTV. It is broadcasted in Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod region. Potential audience – 3,5 million people. Archive of programs can be found at www.youtube. com/ArsenalNCCA The NCCA Volga region branch successfully continues to work with young visitors of the Arsenal. Programs Arsenal + Family, Arsenal + School, Teenage Arsenal Club TAK! now have regular audience. In 2014 a new educational course Architectural Workshop for children of 8-12 years old was developed and pilot tested.

In response to request of the Arsenal adult audience, the team of the educational department of the NCCA Volga region branch organized regular art workshops for adults related to current exhibition in the Arsenal. It also organized the Society for Encouragement of Art – educational project addressed to

those people over 55 years 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 audience of the NCCA Volga region branch is a complexly differentiated field of different groups of visitors; special attention is given to people with disabilities. The staff of the NCCA Volga region branch continues to improve their skills in working with them.

In September 2014 the Arsenal hosted the exhibition for visually impaired children Perceiving Art organized in collaboration with colleagues from the Saint-Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts with support of Regional NGO Institute for Civil Society Problems.

The exhibition included guided tours for blind and visually impaired children, as well as blindfolded tours for the rest of the audience. Also, the program of the Museum Capital festival included series of master classes for children and their parents which appealed in the first place to such senses as touch, smell and hearing.

Once a month in collaboration with the NGO Open Doors Foundation the Arsenal organizes workshops and guided tours for blind and visually impaired visitors with special audio guides recorded for them.

Contemporary Art for Contemporary People! program was continued in 2014. Wednesday is still the day of free admission for all groups of public. Guided tours are organized for disadvantaged social groups.

With the purpose of popularization of contemporary art as well as gaining new audience the program Arsenal Goes Out was created. The staff of the NCCA Volga region branch participated in different street festivals in the city, presented their educational programs at various venues of the city and at the Art-Ravine festival in Vyksa.

For the first time in 2014 in the frames of the international action Museum Night street projects were organized, such as Air Cube by an artist Andrey Amirov which moved around the city, and Wind Face by MishMash group placed under a bridge on the Fedorovsky embankment.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina

Dina Goder

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Yuri Saprykin

Mikhail Kaluzhsky

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PARTNERS

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INFORMATION PARTNERS 2014

Strategic par tner Fund «Volga region Culture capital»

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TRAVELING EXHIBITION NIZHE NIZHNEGO (LOWER THAN NIZHNY)

Project-winner of the VI grant contest of museum projects Changing Museum in a Changing World in nomination of the Potanin Foundation – Partner Museum Projects.

Curator: Evgeniy Strelkov Co-curator: Andrey Suzdalev Coordinator: Ksenia Zobnina Participants: Mikhail Volokhov and Elena Zubtsova (Moscow, Russia), Evgeniy Grinevich and Natalia Kulikova (Moscow, Russia), Gorod Ustinov group (Izhevsk, Russia), Alexander Kapernaumov (Engels, Russia), Valery Korchagin (Moscow, Russia), Where Dogs Run art group (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Andrey Mitenev (Moscow, Russia), Sergey Prokofiev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Nikolay Selivanov (Moscow, Russia), Dmitry Stepanov (Nizhny Novgorod), Evgeniy Strelkov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Andrey Suzdalev (Moscow, Russia), Alexey Trubetskov (Saratov, Russia), Olga Khan (Moscow, Russia), Ilgizar Khasanov (Kazan, Russia).

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Nizhe Nizhnego is a traveling museum exhibition. It is based on and named after the book by E. Abubakirov, E .Strelkov and V. Filippov about cities of the Volga region branch. However, it is not an exhibition of illustrations. Sometimes starting from one line, image or even simply geographical location the artists unravel a tangle of mythologies. The exposition presents a collection of original artistic statements of the artists; it is a traveling museum of cheerful, sad and sometimes frightening rarities. Continuing and developing the book’s plots the artists mark on the “terrain map” their memories and fantasies, hopes and worries. And some works without certain connection to the text seem to be unwritten novellas of Nizhe Nizhnego. And all of them, much like the book itself, are suffused with spirit of game and mystification. The exhibition is accompanied with parallel program which takes into account local specifics of each city: meet-the-artist events, round tables, master classes for young artists, lectures, readings, video screenings.

Parallel programs: Kazan • Culinary performance of Maria Chuikova.

• Master class of the Where Dogs Run art group (Yekaterinburg), video screening with comments of the authors.

• Lecture of Anastasia Maksimova (Kazan) and Andrey

Suzdalev (Moscow). Birth of a Media Installation (Nam June Paik, Bulat Galeev).

• Lecture of Evgeniy Strelkov (Nizhny Novgorod). Media art – Volga Dimension. Overview of exhibitions Volgatronika (Ulyanovsk), Illusion, The Art of Knowing, as well as other works of the Dirigible group.

• Lecture of Evgeniy Proschin (Nizhny Novgorod) – Fiction as the Real and the Real as Fiction.

Kirov • Lecture in the frames of the History of Contemporary Art course. Meeting with participants of Nizhe Nizhnego exhibition Andrey Suzdalev (Moscow) and Olga Khan (Moscow).

• Round table - Names and renaming: Volga-Vyatka aspect.

Participants: Anna Gor (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Evgeniy Strelkov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Andrey Baldin (Moscow, Russia), Anton Kasanov (Kirov, Russia), Zakhar Shashin (Kirov, Russia).

• Chronicles of the Volga-Vyatka underground. Lecture and video screening. Participants: Oleg Tkachev (Kirov) and Alexander Yuminov (Izhevsk).

Izhevsk • Music performance of the Art Dacha group.

• Lecture - Organization of Non-institutional Art Spaces in a City. Meeting with artists Andrey Mitenev and Sergey Prokofiev.

• Free Time Factory. Open workshop of the Gorod Ustinov micro art-group.

• Izhevsk alphabet. From 1993 till our times. Meeting with creators – Seminar VT art group, retrospective.

• Buranov Souvenir project. Meeting with artist Zoya Lebedeva.

Cheboksary • Lecture of artist Alexey Trubetskov (Saratov) - Relations with Photography: complicated.

• Lecture of Evgeniy Proschin (Nizhny Novgorod) - Fiction as the Real and the Real as Fiction.

Ulyanovsk • Round table - Names and renaming. Participants:

Nizhe Nizhnego. Fragment of exposition

Nizhe Nizhnego. Fragment of exposition

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Anna Gor, Evgeniy Strelkov, Andrey Baldin, Andrey Rymar, Daria Tkacheva, and public figures of Ulyanovsk.

Saratov • Lecture of Evgeniy Strelkov – Volga media art on example of works of the Dirigable group.

Engels, Tolyatti • Authorial tour by the project’s curators Evgeniy Strelkov and Andrey Suzdalev during days of the opening. Meetings with artists and presentation of the Nizhe Nizhnego book.

The project was realized with participation of Dirigibles studio, Chuvashia State Art Museum (Cheboksary), Gallery exhibition centre (Izhevsk), Kazan Kremlin State Historic-Architectural and Art Museum-Reservation, Vasnetsov Brothers Art Museum (Kirov), Ulyanovsk Lenin memorial, Engels Museum of Local Lore (Engles), Tolyatti Museum of Local Lore (Tolyatti), Saratov Art Museum.

Dates: Kazan (12–26.02.2014), Kirov (12–30.03.2014), Izhevsk (9.04.

–2.05.2014), Cheboksary (9.05–31.05), Ulyanovsk (10.09-26.09), Engels and Saratov (3.10–26.10), Tolyatti (8.11–30.11)

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WOMAN IN ACTION FESTIVAL

Curator: Alisa Savitskaya Coordinators: Alexander Kuritsyn, Dina Safina Program: Milk without Bottle exhibition Curator: Ekaterina Inozemtseva (Moscow, Russia) Participants: Alexander Abaza, Yury Avvakumov, Dmitry Baltermants, Sergey Burasovsky, Alena Kirtsova, Vladimir Logutov, Alexandra Paperno, Vitas Stasyunas, Nadezhda Stolpovskaya, David Ter-Oganyan, Alexander Khlebnikov.

Exhibition ART-RESIDENCES of the 2nd Ural Industrial Biennale. Materials.

Co-organizer: the NCCA Ural branch Curator: Alisa Prudnikova (Yekaterinburg) Co-curator: Svetlana Usoltseva (Yekaterinburg) Participants: Ars Virtua group, Elena Zhelezov, Matthieu Marten, Timofey Radya, Andrea Steudel, Leonid Tishkov, Nicholas Fraser.

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Discussion On/Off: future of small industrial cities in Russia.

Experience of progressive reclamation of industrial centre of Nizhny Novgorod and Sverdlovsk regions.

Participants: Dmitry Moskvin (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Alisa Prudnikova (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Galina Filimonova (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

Kariatida annual award ceremony. Festival of activist art Media Punch.

Coordinator: Tatyana Volkova • Lecture – New Collectivism. The art of involvement as a new tool of involvement of the city.

• Podium discussion - Spaces of the city exclusions.

Moderator: Andrey Amirov (Nizhny Novgorod) Participants: Elena Trubina (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Igor Zhubarov (Moscow, Russia) Annual festival Woman in Action is dedicated to the latest achievements of contemporary “women of the art” – young organizers of the most significant art projects. The festival takes place together with Kariatida annual award for the best female young art-manager. Theme of each festival is defined by the award, and the winner presents her project at the Arsenal.

In 2014 the festival consisted of three parts (as was the

number of winners of the previous year) dedicated to different aspects of female participation in contemporary cultural process: woman and museum (Ekaterina Inozemtseva), woman and biennale (Alisa Prudnikova), woman and action (Tatyana Volkova).

Ekaterina Inozemtseva offers her own answer to the question “where abstract art comes from?” The exhibition’s name is taken from the text “Suprematism” by Kazimir Malevich: “NonObjectivity of Art is the Art of pure feelings, it is milk without a bottle, existing on its own, it doesn’t depend on a bottle’s form; this bottle doesn’t represent its essence and taste”. The curator explores mechanism of transformation of an “objective” artistic image into an abstract one using the example of works of famous photographers of the 1930-1950s and contemporary Russian artists. Artist Vitas Stasyunas created a new graphic work Into Milk which rhymes with the name of the exhibition on a wall of the Arsenal exhibition hall.

The project of Alisa Prudnikova presents an exhibition which summarizes the large international project of creative residences in Ural, created as a part of the 2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2012 program of the Art-Residences reached beyond Yekaterinburg bringing contemporary art to cities and towns of the Sverdlovsk oblast. Artists from Russia, France and USA created projects-researches of Verkhoturye, Degtyarsk, Nevyansk, Nizhny Tagil, Yekaterinburg, Pervouralsk, Titanium Valley, contemplating life, problems and perspectives of these places.

The Art-Residences exhibition presents video documentation of the works and interview with their authors. Parallel program of the exhibition included discussion dedicated to tactics of “new urbanism” in small cities.

The third part, organized in collaboration with the Media Punch festival of activist art and his founder Tatyana Volkova, included two events: lecture-discussion about practices of involvement in art and urban replanning, and urban environment and social contradictions in Nizhny Novgorod; and podium discussion which unfolded around two topics of presentations: “Flaneur, tourist and activist: critic of exclusion or freedom in a city” by Igor Chubarov and “From what space and who is excluded?” by Elena Trubina.

Traditionally, festival culminated in the annual award Kariatida. In 2014 on the short list of the award were Karina Karaeva, curator, film expert, head of New Media department

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Daria Parkhomenko. The winner of the Kariatida-2014 award

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of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow); Ekaterina Lazareva, artist, independent curator, Ph.D. in Art history (Moscow); Daria Parkhomenko, curator, art critic, founder and director of LABORATORIA Art&Science Space (Moscow).

Daria Parkhomenko became the winner, she received money prize (50 000 rub.) and magnificent Kariatida by an artist Dmitry Tsvetkov, created in genre of military fashion – symbol of a woman-warrior.

In 2015 the Nizhny Novgorod audience will see a curatorial project uniting science and contemporary art which Daria Parkhmenko is creating specifically for the Arsenal.

The Kariatida award in the regional nomination and annual subscription to The Art Newspaper Russia went to Galina Filimonova, journalist and kulturtrager, founder of Make Understand Foundation.

Dates: 29.01.–13.04. 2014

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Founders and finalists of the Kariatida-2014 award and author the main prize – artist Dmitry Tsvetkov

Milk without a Bottle. Fragment of exposition

Musician Alexander F. Sklyar visiting the exhibition ÂŤMilk without a BottleÂť

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WILDLIFE CORNER

FACTORY-KITCHEN IN SAMARA

Curator: Alisa Savitskaya Artist: Vladislav Efimov Coordinator: Dina Safina

Curator: Nelya Korzhova, Roman Korzhov

The Wildlife project is a result of artistic research of the wooden Nizhny Novgorod carried out in 2013 by famous Moscow artist and photographer Vladislav Efimov. He compares wooden architecture of Nizhny Novgorod with a total art project: topical issues of the society, town-planning, ecology and human development are embodied vividly and concisely, and meanings are multiply intensified. The artist’s task is to transfer the Wooden Nizhny Novgorod artwork into exhibition space.

The Wildlife Corner of Efimov presents photos made in different experimental techniques, artifacts gathered all around the city, and also plants – customary part of school wildlife corners. All together these components comprise a total installation where the presented artworks are buildings and their history, as well as feeling of the city as living environment.

The project was accompanied by parallel program of lectures, meet-the-artist events, walking tours with discussions. The program was compiled by requests of the audience based on the results of questionnaire at the opening of the exhibition.

Participants: Vladislav Efimov, artist, author of the project, Olga Naumova, local historian, publisher, Stanislav Dmitrievsky, historic preservation activist, Artem Filatov, street artist, Igor Kobylin, philosopher, Yury Palmin, photograph.

Unique souvenirs were created for the exhibition (postcards, posters, badges, wooden cubes, pot plants), as well as selection of books about architecture and history of Nizhny Novgorod.

For promotion of the project in social network a hash tag #tlenvnn was created, it marked chronicles of preparations for the project, exhibition and events of parallel program, as well as any photos related to wooden architecture of Nizhny Novgorod.

A finissage of the project was a four-hour marathon of tours exploring wooden architecture. Participants: Alexandra Sharova, Olga Naumova, Artem Filatov.

The project was a nominee of the Kandinsky Award 2014 in nomination Project of the Year.

Dates 8.02.–30.03.2014

In 2013 it was decided to restore the building of the factorykitchen and place the Middle Volga region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts on its premises.

An exhibition at stops of public transport in Samara was dedicated to this event. The exhibition presented history of the factory-kitchen, monument of constructivism of 1932 (architect Ekaterina Maksimova).

The project was intended to draw interest of the public to fate of the past and future of this unique building. Exposition was represented by posters dedicated to cultural transformation of the building from “concept” to “our times”.

Dates: 06.02.–30.03.2014 Samara

OPTIMISTIC STUDIES Parallel program of the International biennale of contemporary art Manifesta 10. (Organizer – The XXI Hermitage Foundation).

Curator: Alisa Savitskaya Artists: Eldar Ganeev, Sergey Denisov, Vladislav Efimov, Alexander Lavrov, Ivan Lungin, Mikhail Maksimov, Artem Filatov and Vladimir Chernyshev, Alik Yakubovich.

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The name of the exhibition comes from the homonymous work of a famous biologist, founder of gerontology Ilya Mechnikov. Optimistic Studies (1907) compiled his observations of animal and human body deterioration and brought out the necessity of learning about aging processes in different disciplines. Following the legacy of the great scientist, artists observe and state the senility in its diverse occurrences: biological, aesthetic and social. At the same time hundred years later the methodological body of artistic studies stays on the level of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Authors observe, describe, collect, summarize, and only the feeling of nostalgia grows in their works year by year. In some cases it looks a bit naive, in others – refined like a dress from grandmother’s chest. However last few years brought the old- fashioned back in trend. The attentive simple-mindedness turned into a powerful tool of humanization and personification of all processes that are described in modern science by complex mathematical formulas.

Artists from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Saint-Petersburg try themselves in roles of researches-gerontologists, balancing between unfairness of death and biological reasonability.

They reflect on vanishing architectural monuments and ecology of urban environment, on destiny of a man and discontinued intergenerational connections, on remembrance and contemporaneity.

Artistic worldview is backed up by video lectures on philosophy and micro biology.

Dates: 27.06.–31.10.2014, Saint-Petersburg, First Cadet Corps.

Wildlife Corner. Fragment of exposition

First Cadet Corps Yard

Optimistic Studies. Fragments of exposition

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VASARI. FESTIVAL OF ARTTEXTS

Curator: Anna Gor Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn, Andrey Nosov The festival presented a specter of professional texts about art of all kinds from research and analysis to popularization, with participation of academic institutions, publishing houses, periodicals, network projects, films and TV projects dedicated to art.

A book fair with books of the best Russian publishing houses was operating for three days. The fair was accompanied by presentations of publishing houses presenting their novelties, best sellers and plans. Among participants were such publishing houses as Grundisse, UFO, Three Squares, Cloudberry, Classic XXI, As Marginem Press, Publishing House of the European University in Saint-Petersburg, Research Institute of Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Research Institute of Arts Theory and History of the Russian Academy of Arts, publishing houses from Nizhny Novgorod – Dekom, Quartz, Litera and publishing house of the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory.

The Arsenal’s mediateque became a venue for presentations of periodicals: The Art Newspaper Russia, The Art magazine, Artistic Magazine, Artinfo portal, Archi.ru portal, GARAGE magazine and Art Guide. Cinema and concert hall hosted discussions and evening events dedicated to a day’s theme.

At the day of the opening, which was the Day of classic Art studies, visitors enjoyed baroque music performed by Soloist of Catherine the Great ensemble with comments of its director Andrey Reshetin. The second day was dedicated to art in contexts of culture. It included lecture of honored guest of the festival, editor in chief of New Literature Review magazine and publishing house of the same name, Irina Prokhorova about Dmitry Prigov; lecture of Owen Hetherley (London) – Revival of Squares. The last event of the day was a mono play Posler’s Casus of the Yekaterinburg Contemporary Drama Centre performed by actor Alexander Fukalov; it is a play about “emptiness and nothingness” in art and role of critics.

The third and concluding day was devoted to critics and popularization of art, it culminated in Art Critics Show.

Presenter and honored guest of the festival’s third day Anatoly Golubovskiy, literary critic Alexey Korovashko, historian and journalist Kirill Kobrin, music critic Ksenia Anufrieva participated in a witty play about role of critique and critics in art.

The festival’s part for children included following events: About Art to Children program of BUMPER book bus; master class Museum through eyes of a small traveler by Olga Sinitsyna and test-drive of cARTs game (Garage).

At the round table dedicate to future of the festival participants noted importance and relevance of this event which has no analogues in Russia. Participants of the round table also discussed program of the next year’s festival (it is planned as annual), it will include more events with a visual component; list of books for the fair will be formed with regard for the audience’s requests.

Dates: 23.05.– 25.05.2014

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Vasari fest. Bookfair

Vasari fest. Press-conference

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IV INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL STREET AS A MUSEUM – MUSEUM AS A STREET Curators: Nelya Korzhova, Roman Korzhov The annual festival is dedicated to new methods of interaction between urban environment and contemporary art. Artworks are exhibited at public transport stops and exhibition halls.

Theme of the festival in 2014 – On silence and Monuments.

The concept is based on reflections on different forms and methods of fixation of “big” events in public space and personal consciousness. Artistic research is focused on combination of phenomena of memory and dream. Silence comes across as an experience of exclusion and new acquisition of “sacred” objects-meanings. A monument is regarded as an evidence of history which keeps silent about its loss.

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Program: • Exhibition at stops in Samara about the past and future of a unique monument of the Soviet constructivism – Factory-Kitchen.

Artists: Dmitry Kadyntsev, Daria Emelyanova and Anastasia Albokrinova • On Silence and Monuments exhibition at Art-Centre gallery.

Artists: Sibilla Neve (Estonia), Dmitry Bulnygin (Novosibirsk, Russia), Erbol Meldibekov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), HannsMichael Rupprechter (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexander Zaitsev (Samara, Russia), Dmitry Kadyntsev (Samara, Russia).

• Program of performances of an Estonian actionist star Sibilla Neeve – Quiet Whisper; and German Vinogradov, Russian mysteriograph, poet, artist, musician, stage designer, director, academic of the Zaumi Academy.

• Collective procession of artistic and audience towards Factory-Kitchen.

Dates: 01.05–31.05.2014

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Festival of Contemporary Art «Street as a Museum – Museum as a Street». Anastasia Albokrinova`s project

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DESIRING THE REAL. CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN ART Curator: Karin Zimmer (Austria) Artists: Iris Andraschek, Catrin Bolt, Adriana Czernin, Josef Dabernig, Michael Goldgruber, Nilbar Gures, Franz Kapfer, ¨ Ulrike Konigshofer, Leopold Kessler, Hubert Lobnig, Bele Marx ¨ & Gilles Mussard, David Moises and Chris Janka, Bernd Oppl, Rainer Prohaska, Judith Fegerl, Maria Hahnenkamp, Michael Hopfner, Siggi Hofer, Margherita Spiluttini, Esther Stocker, ¨ Hannes Zebedin.

Coordinators: Elena Belova, Aliya Berdigalieva The exhibition acquainted Russian audience with contemporary art of Austria; it presented works of renowned masters and those of new generation – the most promising artists of the country. In their works the artists conduct artistic research of our reality and possible ways of its development; they use different genres – painting, drawing, photograph, video, sculpture and installation.

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Parallel program: • Lyuba-party – traditional summer party at the Arsenal.

Retro Elektrik. Vinyl trip. Participants: artist Bernhard Wolf and musician DJane Monique Fessl (Graz, Austria).

• Guided tour of the exhibition Desiring the Real by the curator Karin Zimmer and artist Hannes Zebedin.

• Screening of a video version of Wozzeck opera by Alban Berg with introductory comments of a musicologist, Ph.D. in Arts history Ksenia Anufrieva • LUNCH BOX culinary performance by Rainer Prohaska The project was organized in collaboration with the Federal Chancellery of Austria with support of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Moscow.

Dates: 19.07.– 5.10.2014

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Desiring the Real. Austria Contemporary.

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Desiring the Real. Austria Contemporary.

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EXHIBITIONS

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WEIGHTLESSNESS

Guardians by Andy Freeberg (USA)

Curator: Elena Selina Coordinator: Alisa Savitskaya Participants: Yury Albert (Germany-Russia), Alexey Buldakov and Anastasia Ryabova (Moscow, Russia), Kirill Kto (Moscow, Russia), Vladimir Logutov (Samara, Russia), Alexander Povzner (Moscow, Russia), Sergey Sapozhnikov (Rostov-on-Don), MishMash group (Mikhail Leykin, Maria Sumnina, Moscow, Russia).

Artist: Andy Freeberg (USA)

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The Weightlessness exhibition was devised and organized

by Elena Selina, an art critic and curator from Moscow. The exhibition’s slogan – “art without gravity” – was an accurate assessment of contemporary Russian art in the beginning of the 2000s. As though being in a condition of weightlessness, artists of the new generation are frozen in suspension; they show restraint and even shyness in comparison with practices of the 1990s.

In September-October 2013 the exhibition was a part of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which was on display at the Worker and Kolhoz Woman museum and exhibition centre, after that it traveled to Nizhny Novgorod.

The project was realized with participation of the Volga Cultural Capital foundation and XL Galery.

Dates: 16.11. 2013–19.01.2014

An American photographer Andy Freeberg in 2008-2009 created series of photo portraits of museum attendants in different Russian museums – Russian State Museum, Pushkin Museum, Tretyakov gallery, Hermitage. During shootings the photographer talked with his “models”, he was fascinated by their deep love for the art which they “guard”.

The original works were presented for the first time in the frames of the 12th festival Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum at the State Museum of History of Saint-Petersburg in 2013.

The project was organized in collaboration with the NCCA North-West branch, PRO ARTE Foundation with support of Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation.

Dates: 02.01–26.01.2014

Weightlessness. Fragment of exposition

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FOR COURAGE

ARTISTIC HERITAGE AND MY TH OF VICTOR VASARELY

Participants: Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky Coordinator: Dina Safina

Curator: Tibor Cepei (Hungary) Artist: Victor Vasarely Coordinator: Alisa Savitskaya

13 large-scale paintings of Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky are combined into a unique panorama dedicated to veterans of the Great Patriotic War, our grandmothers and grandfathers.

The exhibition reminded the audience that the victory was won with a superhuman effort of ordinary people, presently carried away by the river of time.

Dates: 16.04.–19.05.2014

The exhibition presented works of the world-renowned founder of op art – Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely.

Using different optical illusions and tricks, he created outstanding examples of optic art which continues technicist line of modernism. Innovations of Vasarely in using color and optical illusion became extremely popular in the 60-70s years of the past century and had a great influence on contemporary artists, industrial designers and graphics. Vasarely actively used achievements of op-art in design, advertisement and architecture, owing to which he gained worldwide fame, and op art became a part of everyday life.

The project was realized in collaboration with the Embassy of Hungary and Balassi Institute.

Dates: 30.05.–29.06.2014

Artistic Legacy and Myth of Victor Vasarely.

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PERCEIVING ART

MOBILE ARCHIVE

Curator: Anastasia Tolstaya Artists: Rostan Tavasiev, Andrey Lyublinsky, Yury Shtapakov, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Alexandra Gart, Alexander Morozov, Ilya Grishaev, and Peter Shvetsov (in collaboration with Alexey Plyusnin and Olga Vinogradova).

Curator: Maria Veits The Mobile Archive is a traveling collection of video art that belongs to the Israeli Centre for Digital Art, it includes over 1500 works of Israeli and international artists: video art, sound art, documentation of performances and installations. Among authors: Yael Bartana, Dor Guez, Sigalit Landau, Roee Rosen, Ruti Sela, Gilad Ratman, Guy Ben-Ner, Avi Mograbi, Nira Pereg, Dana Levi, Nir Evron.

The videos touch upon subjects of identity, collective memory, history, geopolitical conflicts, social and cultural differences and other issues important for contemporary Israel and world community in general. All the works are available to public, allowing visitors to choose their own tour of the exhibition.

Since 2007 the Mobile Archive has traveled different countries as a stand-alone project as well as a part of various exhibitions, conferences, festivals and other contemporary art projects.

Parallel program: • Lecture of the curator Maria Veits (Creative Association of Curators TOK).

• Special screenings of works of Israeli video artists.

• Artist talk with Israeli artist Ruti Sela.

The exhibition of contemporary art was prepared for visually impaired children. Modern society is perfectly right in the amount of attention it pays to problems of adaptation of people with disabilities to modern life conditions. It is no less important to provide equal access to the cultural heritage. Perceiving Art exhibition follows this very trend in trying to help blind and visually impaired children to get to know contemporary art.

The common theme for the project is Ole Lukoje, a fairy tale

by Hans Christian Andersen. The artists transformed the fairy tale into a contemporary artwork; they created objects which appeal primarily to the senses of touch, smell and hearing.

The project was organized in collaboration with the Saint-Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts with support of the Regional NGO Institute for Civil Society Problems.

Dates: 05.09–30.09.2014

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The project was organized in collaboration with the CreativeAssociation of Curators TOK, in partnership with the Israeli Centre for Digital Art, with support of the Embassy of Israel in Russia and Artis Foundation.

Dates: 06.11–14.12.2014

Perceiving art. Excursion

Perceiving art. Fragment of exposition

Perceiving art. Excursion

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MICRO-MUSEUM. EXHIBITION OF THE GOROD USTINOV ART-GROUP

SPRING BUILDERS

Curator: Elena Belova Artists: Micro-art-group Gorod Ustinov (Izhevsk)

Curator: Alisa Savitskaya Artists: Nalbi Bugashev, Alexander Vilkin, Eldar Ganeev, Ivan Gorshkov, Ivan Dubyaga, Valery Kazas, Yulia Kapustyan, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Vladimir Migachev, Ben Papyan, Mikhail Smaglyuk, Tatyana Stadnichenko, Vasily Subbotin and Stepan Subbotin, Sergey Taushanov, EliKuka group, ZIP group, SitoIntervention group, Recycle group.

Prefix “micro” describing artistic practices of the Gorod Ustinov art-group refers not to size of exhibits, but rather to special way in which the artists look at the outside world/environment and level of interpersonal communication. The artists react to fragmentation of everyday experience of a man and global atomization of contemporary world. They aim their art at overcoming disunity and, as the artists say, at establishing interrelation between particles of our planet, city, house and also relationships between people.

For the Micro-museum installation in the Arsenal’s window the artists used fragments of broken dishes which in their hands undergo metamorphosis and acquire new forms and meanings. Objects brought by visitors were exhibited alongside artworks of the Gorod Ustinov group.

Parallel program of the exhibition presented an open workshop Factory of Free Time where new micro-art-objects were created. Also, it included series of walking tours dedicated to street art of Nizhny Novgorod with street artists Fedor Makhlayuk, Artem Filatov, Muddlehood group; and in conclusion the artist prepared a special walking route of “micro street art” and a map with marked city objects for independent exploration by everyone interested.

Dates: 25.10–24.11.2014

Spring Builders exhibition is a first public presentation of chosen works from private collection of Nikolay Moroz. Preparation of the project lasted for about a year under supervision of curator Alisa Savitskaya. The exhibition presented an imaginary museum of contemporary art which could have been in Krasnodar. The public is invited to imagine future and what trace contemporary artists and projects would leave in history.

Art historian Anna Tolstova (Moscow) and journalist Herwig Heller (Graz, Austria) were invited to participate in the project as researches.

Organizers of the exhibition: Nikolay Moroz, Typography cultural centre, the Kransodar Institute of Contemporary Art with participation of the NCCA Volga region branch.

Dates: 15.11.2014–11.01.2015

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FESTIVALS music education

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SWISS LINE FESTIVAL Curator: Svetlana Averkina, Alexander Kuritsyn The Swiss Line festival is dedicated to the bicentennial of establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Switzerland. The festival presented different aspects of development of art, literature, cinematograph, architecture, and design of Switzerland perceived through the lens of Russian experience.

Events of the festival: • Concert Five songs for 20 francs. Participants: Ksenia Anufrieva, NoName-ensemble.

• Exhibition Switzerland and Russia: 200 years of diplomatic relations.

• Video screening. Swiss documentary.

• Master class - Difficulties of translation of contemporary Swiss dramaturgy. Participant: Anatoly Egorshev.

• Drama Talk: Between Text and Theatre. Read-through of the Oil play by Lukas Bar fuss. Per formed by actor Lev Kharlamov (Nizhny Novgorod); Preamble, context by Svetlana Averkina and translation of the play by Anatoly Egorshev.

• Video screening Mani Matter: why are you so sad?/Mani Matter – warum syt die so truurig?

• Presentation of Siedlungen/Poselki – a mobile exhibition project about social architecture of Switzerland (curator – E. Kosovskikh, photography Y. Palmin, architecture/design E. Asse, N. Korbut, video ETZ, Zurich). Participants: Elena Kosovskikh, Yury Palmin.

The festival was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow, Administration of Nizhny Novgorod, N.A. Dobrolubov Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod.

Dates: 18–22.03.2014

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SCIENCE MUSEUM IN XXI CENTURY - FESTIVAL OF POPULAR SCIENCE Curator: Irina Aktuganova (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) Coordinators: Elena Belova, Alexander Kuritsyn, Anna Utova.

Among events of the festival: interactive popular science exhibitions with tours, lectures on biology, physics, chemistry, modern technology and high-tech art, neuro-performace and scientific shows.

Program of the festival: Scientific Museum in XXI century exhibition Popular science exhibition at the Arsenal aimed at acquainting the audience with fundamental scientific concepts, discoveries and inventions in interesting and comprehensible way. Its exhibits were created by scientists, artists and museum specialists who gained support in the frames of the Science Museum in XXI century Program which is realized by the Dynasty Foundation for 8 years.

One of the core principles of the exhibition is interactivity, dialogue with the audience. Its space reminded of a laboratory where any visitor could become a direct participant of an unusual experiment.

Participants: Interactive Museum of the House of Scientists of the Troitsk Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Troitsk, Russia); Yulia Borovaya and Sergey Kasich, Vadim Smakhtin, Eduard Rakhmanov (Moscow, Russia), Dmitry Bulatov and Alexey Chebykin (Kaliningrad, Russia); Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov (Moscow); Where Dogs Run art group (Vladislav Bulatov, Natalia Grekhova, Olga Inozemtseva, Alexey Korzukhin, Yekaterinburg, Russia), Evgeniy Strelkov and Maria Korosteleva, Oleg Nikolaev, Fedor Ermolov (with participation of Dmitry Khazam, Alexander Ignatushko, Andrey Suzdalev, Valery Korchagin, Vladimir Ganin, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

Image of the Brain exhibition Exposition of an artist Evgeniy Strelkov created for the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory Museum and dedicated to the newest interdisciplinary researches of the brain, conducted by the Nizhny Novgorod scientists – physicist, medics, biologists.

Special events for adult audience: • Mechanopatia performance of an artist and musician Dmitry Vtol Morozov (Moscow, Russia).

• Lecture – Science Art: at the intersection of art, science and technology of a researcher and artist Dmitry Bulatov (Kaliningrad, Russia).

• Lecture – Life af ter Higgs of a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexey Semikhatov (Moscow, Russia).

• Lecture – Wisdom of a Human Organism (hormones and behavior) of a scientist Ekaterina Vinogradova (Moscow, Russia).

• Lecture – How Inventions are Made of a scientist, writer and science popularizer Heinrich Ehrlich.

• Lecture – In Search of a Lost Sound of an artist, composer

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Andrey Smirnov (Moscow, Russia).

• Lecture - Cybernetic Sagacity. Robot technique Experiments in Contemporary Arts of a philosopher, curator Dmitry Galkin (Tomsk, Russia).

• Lecture - Experimental Art of Bulat Galeev and Prometey Scientific Research Institute (1960-90s) of a historian Anastasia Maksimova (Kazan, Russia).

• Video screening and presentation of a publishing project Evolution haute couture: Art and Science in Post-biology Epoch of a researcher and artist Dmitry Bulatov (Kaliningrad, Russia).

Special events for children • Interactive lessons Boat in a Suitcase and Rocket in a Suitcase Participants: staff of the Severodvinsk Museum of Local History.

• Bumper project. Social project, all money received from sale of books are used for realization of social programs aimed at development of children’s reading.

• Lecture - Book and Computer – Competitors or Partners?

• Choreographic lecture-game – Higgs Boson. Participants: Ilya Kolmanovsky (Moscow, Russia), Alexey Semikhatov (Moscow, Russia).

• Lecture - How to Disassemble a Cell with Improvised Means of Alexander Efremov (Moscow, Russia).

Special events for pupils • Interactive lessons Interesting Experiments (Andrey Sheykin (Petrozavodsk, Russia).

• Interactive lessons Insects and other Arthropods (Oleg Valerisky (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).

• Interactive lessons Incandescent Lamp – Familiar Stranger (staff of the Lights of Moscow Museum).

• Interactive lessons Investigation by… chemists (Lyubov Strelnikova (Moscow, Russia).

Festival was organized in collaboration with the Dynasty Foundation with support of the Agency 21.

Dates: 19.04.–18.05.2014

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NIGHT AT MUSEUM. SOMETHING IN THE AIR! Curator: Anastasia Polozova Coordinator: Alexander Komarov The festival was organized in the frames of the international action Museum Night. The city is changing. Ideas are in the air, they collide and combine. Something in the Air project presented a unique opportunity to look at these ideas, at

oneself and the city from a different angle. Non-stop marathon of events at the Arsenal consisted of special tours of exhibitions at the Arsenal: Scientific Museum in XXI Century and For Courage, Space of Intellectual Meditations project, Journey of the Black Square workshops for children and their parents, video screening of educational animated series with artworks from the Erarta museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Don’t Leave dance performance of Pavel Alekhin and Polina Zyryanova (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Two public art projects were realized in the frames of the festival: Wind Face of MishMash group (Moscow, Russia) on the Fedorovsky embankment and Cube project of Andrey Amirov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) traveling the city streets from one museum to another.

Date: 18.05.2014

INTERACTIVE ONLINE MAP OF STREET ART IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD Curator: Artem Filatov Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn About 140 objects created by street artists in the central part of Nizhny Novgorod were presented on interactive screen at the Arsenal. The project based on internet technologies suggests active participation of citizens in adding new and previously unnoticed artworks to the map. Idea of the map appeared after the series of tours of street art objects in Nizhny Novgorod.

Dates: 22.07.–11.08.2014

STRELKA. THE EIGHT ALL-RUSSIAN FESTIVAL OF POETRY Curator: Evgeniy Proschin Coordinator: Andrey Nosov The festival presented actual poetic practices in their variety and polyphony.

Authors from various Russian cities participated in the festival of this year – Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Izhevsk, Kaliningrad. Traditionally, the majority of authors were from Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. Other countries were presented by poets from Ukraine, Belarus, Netherlands, Kazakhstan and Australia.

The festival was organized in collaboration with Culture of Mesopotamia initiative group.

Dates: 25.04.–27.04. 2014

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Night at museum. Cube project of Andrey Amirov

Night at museum 2014. Arsenal entrance

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BIG ANIMATION FESTIVAL Program director: Dina Goder Coordinators: Alexander Kuritsyn, Alexander Komarov The third Big Animation Festival at the Arsenal. This event has already become a favorite and one of the most expected events for children and their parents.

One of the largest international animation festivals in Russia which includes film screenings, educational programs, exhibitions, meetings with film authors and master-classes with famous directors.

In addition to screenings Cartoon Factory was open at the Arsenal where children learned to created cartoons with various techniques – from chalk to lego animation.

Dates: 4.06.–8.06.2014

MEST.com project Coordinator: Alexander Komarov Mest.com project was created by the NCCA Volga region branch for monitoring local cultural space where a lot of interesting, experimental and informal initiatives are realized. The Arsenal will attempt to gather occasionally these experiences “under one roof” in order to present them to the public as well as to professionally analyze them. That is why every event of the MEST.com program is accompanied by discussions with participation of invited experts.

Events of the project: • The second Leonid Engivarov arts festival in Nizhny Novgorod.

• Presentation of an album of Crimson Butterfly band.

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UDM.UPDATE Coordinator: Alexander Yuminov Participants: artists, musicians and photographers from Russia, Portugal, England, Spain, France, China.

Geography of the project: rural regions of Udmurtia, Moscow, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk.

The project works with cultural initiatives of local territory and demonstrates contemporary art practices as an efficient tool of interpretation of traditional culture.

Trends and events: Bobya-Ucha classic – composition of symphonic free form

piece by a French composer based on folklore expedition to remote villages of Udmurtia. Organization of learning process in a specialized educational institution. Presentation of the symphonic piece by international youth symphonic orchestra in a remote village of Udmurtia. udm.update. sound – composition of music pieces based on expeditionary archive records of authentic folklore of Udmurtia by musicians from England, France, Portugal, Spain and Russia. udm.update. vision – creation of video works by contemporary young artists from Moscow, Tver, Izhevsk, Nizhny Novgorod based on music pieces composed by electronic musicians.

Presentation of pieces in Izhevsk, Moscow, Tver and Nizhny Novgorod.

Cartoon – series of cartoon making master classes for children of a village in Sep Igrinsky area of Udmurtia; and master classes for children and adults of Moscow based on interviews with village children.

BOX – results of the project released as a box containing 3 DVD-video, CD-audio, LP and leaflet with texts about theme of the project.

Round tables in Izhevsk and Nizhny Novgorod were organized as a part of the project.

The project was organized with participation of independent non-commercial organization Fish-Morse – KAMA records (Izhevsk), Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia (Moscow), 7Bioz Animation School (Moscow), Republican Music College (Izhevsk).

Dates: January–December 2014

KIROV Annual open-air cinema festival 10 Evenings in Warsaw Dates: 12.08.2014–21.08.2014 Rerun of films of the festival’s program in October-December.

Authorial project of Daria Tkacheva, winner of the Curatorial Fights EUNIC Inner Environment / Interior Milieu».

In collaboration with EUNIC and the Vasnetsov Brothers Art Museum.

Participants: Irina Brezhneva, Migration dance project, Roman Tsepelev, Zakhar Shashin.

The project included interactive sound installation and video installation.

Big animation festival. Cartoon Factory. Lego animation

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Authors of the project attempted to answer the questions: What is a museum? Where are its boundaries? In what way a museum interacts with a city? Inner Environment is an attempt of authors to make citizens of the city to become friends with its space, to transform it.

Dates: 5.09.2014–14.09.2014

SAMARA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL NOW & AFTER Curator: Marina Fomenko Participants: Alexandra Artamonova, Evgeniya Lapteva (Russia), Karima Ashadu (Nigeria/United Kingdom), Alek von Bargen (Mexico), Neil Bryant (United Kingdom), Evgeniy Bugaev (Russia), Dmitry Bulnygin (Russia), Shen Wei (USA), Natasha Danberg (Sweden), Nina Kurtela (Germany), Nam Le (Vietnam), Seth Mayers (USA), Alexandra Mitlyanskaya (Russia), Philip Gabriel Pudlo (Poland), Celine Triollet (France), Marina Fomenko (Russia), Kit Chang (China), Badr El Hammami (France), Yuki Hirakawa (Japan).

This year the festival presented video art program Between Image and Personality #2 which included works of video artists from Sweden, France, Russia, Japan, United Kingdom, Poland, China, Germany, Mexico, USA and Vietnam. Works of the artists are united by one theme – a man. The exhibition in Samara presented chosen works of the festival.

The project was organized in collaboration with the Now&After Centre of Media Arts, Victoria Gallery in Samara with support of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gugaga Museum.

Dates: 04.04.–24.04.14 Burlaks: between Europe and Asia Curators: Nelya Korzhova, Roman Korzhov Participants: Konstantin Adjer, Dmitry Bulnygin, Elena Vorobieva (Kazakhstan), Victor Vorobiev (Kazakhstan), Jonas Westlung (Sweden), Dennis Delwer (Sweden), Loes Degener (Holland), Daria Emelyanova, Dmitry Kadyntsev, Sergey Katran, Douwe Malder (Holland), Vladimir Potapov, Marina Fomenko, Swetlana Heger (Sweden), Gustav Helberg (Sweden).

Special project of the international Shiryaevo biennale of contemporary art actualized the problematic of I.Repin Burlaks in international context of today.

Program of the project: International creative laboratory. Art research in Samara and Shiryaevo, meet-the-artist events, artworks creation.

Art research in Samara. Participants: Konstantin Adjer, Marina Fomenko Presentation of projects in the courtyard of the Factory-Kitchen Gustav Hellberg (Sweden) – Two Tribes performance Swetlana Heger (Sweden) – Hotel UTOPIA installation Douwe Mulder and Loes Degener (Holland) – Utopian Kitchen performance Jonas Westlund (Sweden) – All Their Portraits installation Dennis Delwer (Sweden) – What Is to Be Said installation Creative laboratory in Shiryaevo Jonas Westlung (Sweden) – All Their Portraits installation in Shiryaevo Art research, presentation of artworks in Shiryaevo Participants: Nelya Korzhova (Russia), Roman Korzhov (Russia), Elena Bogatyreva (Russia), Dmitry Bulnygin (Russia), Louise Moran (France), Gustav Hellberg (Sweden), Swetlana Heger (Sweden), Dennis Delwer (Sweden), Douwe Mulder and Loes Degener (Holland), Jonas Westlund (Sweden).

Ilya Repin’s birthday Presentation of interactive projects at Shiryaevo landing place Dennis Delwer (Sweden) – My Own Private Shiryaevo Jonas Westlund (Sweden) – #Shiryaevo selfie Douwe Mulder and Loes Degener (Holland) – Repin›s Land Burlaks: between Europe and Asia exhibition The project was organized in collaboration with the Administration of the city of Samara, Department of Culture, Tourism and Youth Policy, Samara regional public charitable fund Centre for Contemporary Arts with support of: deputy of City Duma A. Khinstein, Embassy of Sweden on Moscow, Iaspis Swedish Arts Grant Committee, International Art program of Umeo Academy of Fine Arts, Umeo University, Choir of Evangelical Lutheran church of Saint George, ZAO Zhiguli Financial Company, Samara State Aerospace University of S.P. Korolev.

Dates: 20.07.–20.09 2014 NOT EVERYONE EATS MEATBALLS IN SWEDEN. EXHIBITION AT PUBLIC TRANSPORT STOPS Curator: Martin Schibli Artists: Conny Blom, Juan Castillo, Aski Dahl, Alba S Enstrom, ¨ Swetlana Heger, Calle Holck, Jenny Kalliokulju,Johanna Karlin, group Learning Site (Rikke Luther and Cecilia Wendt in collaboration with Jaime Stapleton), LG Lundberg, Annika Strom, ¨ Lisa Strombeck, Merzedes Sturm-Lie, group Sunshine Socialist ¨ Cinema.

The project was dedicated to Days of Sweden in Samara region.

Its participants touched upon the subject of certain stereotypes of perception of Swedish art in public mind.

Parallel program included lecture of Martin Schibli about artists and artworks of his new exhibition. Ambassador of Sweden in Moscow Ms. Veronika Bard Bringeus participated in the meeting.

The project was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow and Samara regional public charitable fund Centre for Contemporary Arts Dates: 06.10–10.11.2014

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ARSENAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART. CON-VERSION. A YEAR ON AIR Public screening and discussion of a new issue of the Arsenal of Contemporary Art. CON-version broadcast telling about contemporary art events which take place at the NCCA Volga region branch and other venues of the city.

TV ALMANAC ARSENAL. CONVERSION Author and presenter: Ekaterina Orudzheva Directors-cameramen: Vladimir Bezdenezhnykh, Vladimir Dunaev, Sergey Eroshenko, Dmitry Stepanov.

Timing: 13 minutes Goes on the air monthly on the channel of the Nizhny Novgorod State TV and radio broadcasting company NNTV. It is broadcasted in Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod region. Potential audience – 3,5 millions of people. Archive can be found at http://www.youtube.com/ArsenalNCCA. Created at the initiative of the NCCA Volga region branch with the purpose of cultural education of a new viewer, formation of intellectual need for visiting museums, description of contemporary problems through art.

Since 2014 the project has a new format: 13 min. timing; dynamic footage; every TV program is connected with an experiment and topic depends on events which take place at the Arsenal; one scene is animated.

Topics of the latest episodes: Episode 11 (1) Where abstraction comes from?

Episode 12 (2) Live City Episode 13 (3) Contemporary art and history Episode 14 (4) Art-residence. Experience of industrial biennale Episode 15 (5) Science museum in XXI century Episode 16 (6) Children’s album Episode 17 (7) Museum Night Episode 18 (8) Desiring the real Episode 19 (9) Perceiving art Episode 20 (10) Micro museum ARSENAL VIDEO Curator: Andrey Nosov Renewed project Arsenal Video which started in 2006 continues to acquaint the audience with actual context of Russian experimental cinema and video art. Format suggests public interview with directors and video artists, watching and discussions of their works. Among invited guests were beginning artists and renowned masters, they presented different strategies of working with visual images.

Program: • Vladimir Logutov (Samara, Russia) in the frames of parallel program of the No Name exhibition.

• Victor Alimpiev (Moscow, Russia).

• Dmitry Venkov (Moscow, Russia).

• Kirill Preobrazhensky and video magazine VIDIOT (Moscow, Russia).

• Evgeniy Svyatsky, AES+F (Moscow, Russia).

Largest Polish biennale of media art WRO 2013 (Wroclaw, Poland) in Nizhny Novgorod Curator: Petr Kraevsky WRO biennale of media art is organized in Wroclaw since 1989; it is one of the lead international art events in Central Europe. WRO 2013 Pioneering Values On Tour is a video program comprised of the best works of WRO 2013 for the Arsenal by the biennale’s art director Petr Kraevsky.

Works of artists from Poland, Latvia, USA, Germany, France, Romania, Cuba were presented.

The project was realized with support of the Polish Cultural Centre.

KIROV ART-SCREEN Curator: Daria Tkacheva Series of screenings of feature films and documentaries about art, artists, artworks, history of art, its meanings and philosophy.

Film of Alexander Kluge Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed.

Film and presentation of the book Robert Capa: Hidden Perspective.

MUSIC / THEATRE

` NEW JA ZZ FROM N.O.W.H.E.R.E BY CANNIBALES & VAHINES. FRANCE Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Psychedelic experimental jazz performed by Cannibales & Vahinés (C&V) band.

Dates: 16.03.2014 CHILDREN’S ALBUM Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Performers: MCME Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, students of the Nizhny Novgorod M. Balakirev Music College.

New music inspired by images of P.I. Tchaikovsky.

Dates: 21.04.2014 PARTS OF SPECTRE CONCERT Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva Performers: MCME Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.

French music before, during and after the Second World War. The program presented French music from different decades of the XX century.

The project was a part of the Year of Culture 2014 with support of the French Institute, Embassy of France in Russia.

Dates: 22.06.2014 APARTMENT HOUSE ENSEMBLE CONCERT (UNITED KINGDOM) Coordinator: Ksenia Anufrieva The ensemble performed music of contemporary British composers which is largely unknown in Russia.

The project was a part of the Year Russia – UK 2014, organized in collaboration with British Council Russia with support of Platform project and New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre.

Dates: 04.10.2014 SECOND ACT. GRANDCHILDREN. DOCUMENTARY THEATRE PROJECT Coordinator: Alexander Kuritsyn Idea and staging: Mikhail Kaluzhsky (curator of theatre program of the Sakharovsky centre, author and participant of many documentary theatre projects: Anonymous Artists Society, Burden of Silence, Crisis, Moscow Processes) and Alexander Polivanov (curator of cultural programs of the International Memorial, author of idea of Memory Drama theatre laboratory).

The play is based on ten interviews with grandchildren and sometimes children and great grandchildren of people who were connected to the Soviet punitive system.

The project was organized in collaboration with the Sakharovsky centre with support of Goethe Institute, CultureScapes festival and crowd funding platform Planeta.ru.

Dates: 30.09.2014

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` New jazz from France Cannibales & Vahinะตs.

Apartment House Ensemble concert (United Kingdom)

EDUCATION

CULTURAL MODERNIZATION Joint project of New Literature Review publishing house, Reserve Stock magazine and Department of Contemporary Culture in the Arsenal.

• Lecture of Artemy Magun (Saint-Petersburg) Melancholic Tradition of Today.

• Lecture of Ilya Kalinin (Saint-Petersburg) Matter and Memory: phenomenology of oil in the Soviet and postSoviet culture.

• Lecture of Alexander Skidan (Saint-Petersburg) Political Hermeneutics of Walter Benjamin.

• Round table – Public History, institutes of memory and modern museum policy. In collaboration with laboratory Theories and Practices of Humanitarian Researches, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University.

• Round table - Birth and Death of the Nineties. Participants: Igor Kobylin, Vasily Kozlov, Fedor Nikolai,Valery Khazin, Andrey Chugunov (Nizhny Novgorod).

• Contemporainety: Project and Art. Seminar pre-print of thematic issue of the Reserve Stock magazine.

Participants: Kirill Kobrin (United Kingdom), Andrey Levkin (Moscow), Evgeniy Suslov (Nizhny Novgorod).

• Podium discussion Noughties: tube as the only reality. Participants: Ilya Kalinin (Saint-Petersburg), Dmitry Strelkov, Valery Khazin, Igor Kobylin, Fedor Nikolai, Roman Sundukov (Nizhny Novgorod).

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CYCLE OF PUBLIC LECTURES - EDUCATION GAPS With support of the Dynasty Foundation and Enlightener Award.

• Lecture of physiologist Dmitry Zhukov (Moscow) Mistakes of Feminism.

• Lecture of journalist, tether critic Dina Goder (Moscow) What is a Visual Theatre?

LECTURES WITH PARTICIPATION OF LECTURERS-EXPERTS IN DIFFERENT SPHERES OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Lecture of Elena Kolovskaya (Saint-Petersburg) Contemporary art in a traditional museum. Experience and perspectives. Part of parallel program of Andy Freeberg’s exhibition Guardians, in collaboration with the NCCA North-West branch.

• MARCH: towards new architectural education. Lecture of an architect Evgeniy Asse (Moscow).

• Architectural projects with utilizing energy and resource saving technologies. Lecture of an architect Sunand Prasad (United Kngdom). In the frames of the Year Russia

– UK 2014 in collaboration with the NCCA North-West branch with support of the PRO ART Foundation.

• 3 lectures on graphic design at the Arsenal. Lecturer – designer Alexey Romashin (Nizhny Novgorod).

• Lecture of a journalist Valery Panyushkin - Some principles of social journalistic. Love as a criteria of shaping agenda of a day. Lecture was organized with assistance of Rusfond charitable organization.

• Lecture of a musicologist Ksenia Anufrieva (Nizhny Novgorod) How to listen to contemporary music?

• Lecture of Yury Saprykin Festival as an instrument of changes. In the frames of the FUTURA School project of the FUTURA Foundation (Nizhny Novgorod).

• Lecture of an art historian Beatrice von Bismark (Leipzig) When relations become a form: value of ephemeral and capitalization of exhibition. With support of Goethe Institute in Moscow in the frames of the What is Good… in Art project.

• Lecture of a professor of the University of Paris-8 Andre Rouille Photography. Between document and contemporary art. Lecture was organized in collaboration with Photographer.ru portal with support of the Embassy of France in Russia.

• Cycle of lectures of a musicologist, Ph.D. in Arts History Ksenia Anufrieva Music in Cinema.

CYCLE OF POETRY EVENINGS - READING TECHNIQUES “Reading technique” is a part of a “large” conceptual project Nizhny Novgorod Wave intended to consolidate Nizhny Novgorod poetry society and give additional impulse to literary process in the region.

LECTURES IN KIROV Cycle of lectures on history of contemporary art at the exhibition hall of the Vasnetsov Brothers Art Museum.

Curator and lecturer: Daria Tkacheva SEMINARS IN SAMARA AND IZHEVSK Cycle of seminars Af filiate meaning: comments at the boundaries summarizing results of the special project of the international Shiryaevo biennale of contemporary art Burlaks: between Europe and Asia.

Curators: Nelya Korzhova, Roman Korzhov.

Moderator: Elena Bogatyreva Participants (discussion of the artists’ works): Konstantin Adjer (Russia), Dmitry Bulnygin (Russia), Elena Vorobieva (Kazakhstan), Victor Vorobiev (Kazakhstan), Jonas Westlung (Sweden), Dennis Delwer (Sweden), Loes Degener

(Holland), Daria Emelyanova (Russia), Dmitry Kadyntsev (Russia), Sergey Katran (Russia), Douwe Malder (Holland), Vladimir Potapov (Russia), Marina Fomenko (Russia), Swetlana Heger (Sweden), Gustav Helberg (Sweden).

Seminar on history of contemporary art for teachers of art school of the Udmurtia republic. In collaboration with the Centre for Professional Advancement for cultural workers in the Udmurtia republic.

Curator: Daria Tkacheva.

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“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.

January-December 2014 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 non-commercial association.

January-December 2014 Tours of the Perceiving Art exhibition for visually impaired children.

• Unusual blind-folded tours for all categories of visitors.

• Group tours for visually impaired children.

• Individual tours for visually impaired adults.

From 5 till 30 September 41 tours were organized.

SOCIETY FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART Educational project intended 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.

Recollecting imitative of the XIX century patrons of art, founders of the Society for Encouragement of Art, the Arsenal intends to support all those who want to understand language of art, classic and contemporary.

Introduction lectures in the frames of each local theme, practical experience and creative experiments in painting and graphics, discussions of personal achievements of participants of the group will help them to discover variety of art, its styles, forms, genres as well as language of different art forms.

The project is realized in a format of weekly club meetings.

Program of the initial stage of the Society for Encouragement of Art club includes eight themes with 1-2 sessions dedicated to each of them.

Dates: September-December 2014

Society for Encouragement of Art, Lesson

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NEW SPECTATOR PROGRAM February-May 2014 New extended format of educational program intended for young audience of the Arsenal from 3 to 18 years old. Purpose of the program is to create a system of continuous, step-bystep process of studying contemporary culture. The program includes 4 groups of projects, corresponding to different stages of art’s language learning. Each group of projects is defined by age of participants and formats of work.

• Touching Art (3 – 5) • Inventing Art (6 – 7) • Knowing Art (8 – 12) • Contemplating Art (13 – 18).

Curator: Evgeniya Ignatushko The first stage Touching Art is represented by project Color.

Form. Material addressed to the youngest audience of the Arsenal. Weekly course of practical lessons aimed first of all at tactile acquaintance with different forms and materials which are used in art. The stage included 12 lessons.

Teacher: Alevtina Nikonova • Meet a circle and a ball!

• Circle turns into…

• Drawing a “circle” fairy tale on the sand.

• Warm colors. Drawing autumn with plasticine.

• Cold colors. Creating paper application.

• Making a rainbow panel.

• Mixing colors. Learning to mix colors using wax.

• Clay: sculpturing figures. Making a figure from polymer clay and drawing on a clay tablet in order to learn one of the first materials of art.

• Wood: assembling a sculpture. Another resource available to everyone – wood. Assembling a sculpture from pieces of different forms and inventing a music instrument.

• Paper: making a collage.

• Cotton wool: making fluf f y appliques.

• Plastic: creating a funny monster.

The second stage – Inventing Art is represented by project Family workshops intended for children of 5-7 years old and their parents.

The project includes theoretical and practical lessons. Every lesson is always an experiment. They are dedicated to learning actual art in form of interesting tours and practical lessons for families. Inspired by artworks seen at an exhibition young and

adult participants together with the museum pedagogue take a step into space where anyone can prove themselves as an artist-experimentalist. A result can be an object or an installation made of unusual materials, model of a city of the future, a house inside a carton box, a picture, a collage and many more.

The stage included 12 lessons.

Teachers: Evgeniya Ignatushko, Irina Aganina, Marina Balueva • Architecture. What? Who? Why? From what? Lecture + master class.

• Saint Patrick’s Day. Version for children: master classes.

• Look out of the window! Spaces where we live: lecture + master class.

• Visiting the Wildlife Corner exhibition: interactive tour + master class.

• Architecture. Complicated out of simple: lecture + master class.

• Creating complicated three-dimensional architectural form with just one sheet of paper.

• 8 March. Version for children: master classes.

• Architectural graphics: lecture + master classes.

• Graphic exercises with felt-tip pens, liners and paper; creating architectural fantasy.

• Milk without Bottle: interactive tour of the exhibition + master class. Making abstract collage from paper with different textures, inspired by artworks of Alena Kirtsova.

• Light and shadow in architecture: lecture + master class.

• Research of interaction between light, shadow and architecture. Creating a tracery and attempting to “catch” its shadow.

• Milk without Bottle part 2: interactive tour + master classes.

• Contrasts in architecture: lecture + master class.

• In the wake of interactive exhibits in the frames of the Science Museum in XXI century festival: tour + master class.

The third stage Knowing Art was presented by two projects for children of 8-12 years old.

1. Main characters of the XX century art – course dedicated to the most significant artists of the end of the XIX – beginning of the XXI centuries (from Claude Monet to Jeff Koons): styles and trends, to which they belonged, main periods of their work, the most significant artworks, used methods and techniques.

Each lesson includes 45-minute theoretical part dedicated to acquaintance with art of a chosen “hero”. Important part of each lesson is practice. Each participant can try themselves as an author of an individual or group project in style of a chosen artist. There were 12 lessons in the first half of 2014.

Teachers: Evgeniya Ignatushko, Irina Aganina

Main characters of the X X century art. Jackson Pollock.

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• Jackson Pollock: lecture + master class.

• Alexander Calder: lecture + master class.

• Jasper Johns: lecture + master class.

• Robert Rauschenberg: lecture + master class.

• Claes Oldenburg: lecture + master class.

• Roy Lichtenstein: lecture + master class.

• Andy Warhol: lecture + master class.

• Ilya Kabakov: lecture + master class.

• Joseph Beuys: lecture + master class.

• Christo and Jeanne Claude: lecture + master class.

• Jeff Koons: lecture + master class.

• Banksy: lecture + master class.

2. Arsenal cartoon.

Dedicated to acquaintance with basics of animation and main animation techniques: transposition, animation with granular materials (coffee, sand) and plasticine animation. Result of this process – cartoons created by children with assistance of professional animators from Moscow. There were 7 lessons.

Teachers: staff of 7BiOZ Animation School • Introduction. Reiteration of the main principles and stages of creation of cartoons. Discussion of a script, creating a storyboard and beginning of work on decorations and characters.

• Creation of decorations and characters of a cartoon. Work on intermediated phases. Staging. Beginning of shooting.

• Shooting. Studying basics of animated motion.

• Shooting. Studying methods of transformation in animation.

• Shooting. Creation of decorations.

• Sound recording.

• Shooting.

The fourth stage Contemplating Art was represented by two projects for children of 13-18 years old.

1. Teenage Arsenal Club TAK! Curators: Evgeniys 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 different artworks and share their opinion with others.

TAK! project has two main parts: educational and creative.

Format of a club assumes different types of work in educational part of the project: lectures, discussions, guided tours, video screenings, etc.

Members of the club actively participated in the life of the

NCCA Volga region branch – attended exhibitions and concerts, met with the Arsenal guests. Basic theme for the club was contemporary art. It was important for the project’s authors that the youth learned to comprehend it in context of history, to realize interconnection and mutual influence of the art and the society throughout history.

Creative part of the project supposes keeping the club’s blog (vk.com/takclub) where participants will share their impressions and thoughts. At special classes teenagers acquire skills of working with information, learn to present their point of view with reasoning.

2. Arsenal + School Curator: Evgeniya Ignatushko 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.

Touching Art. Materials for lessons

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Program of outdoor events at different venues of Nizhny Novgorod and the region.

Master classes of the New Spectator program and presentation of opportunities and activities of the Arsenal.

24.05.2014 Willy Willy – Wind of the Good. Festival of urban culture among family and friends (Fedorovsky embankement).

13-15.06.2014 Art-Ravine 2014 festival ( Vyksa city) 11-13.07.2014 Reading Gorky. Open-air literature festival.

(Alexandrovsky garden).

19.08.2014 WOW-Weekend of WTF magazine (Summer yacht club) 23-24.08.2014 Festival of Seasons magazine (Alexandrovsky garden) 21.09.2014 Birthday of Rozhdestvenskaya street (Markin square) September-October 2014. Master classes of the New Spectator program for children and adults at MALEVICH restaurant 3.11.2014 Arts Night at Korolenko library.

«Wind Face» of MishMash group

PUBLICATIONS 86 : 87

Walter Benjamin’s New Year Tree: catalogue of the exhibition.

– Grundisse publishing house, 2014. – 192 p.

Concept: Pavel Khoroshilov Text authors: Anna Gor, Sergey Romashko, Alisa Savitskaya Photo: Vladislav Efimov Catalogue of the Walter Benjamin’s New Year Tree exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod from 26 December 2012 till 10 March 2013.

Moscow Conceptualism. The Beginning.

Curator of the exhibition and compiling editor: Yury Albert Editor: Alexander Obukhova Executive editor: Alexander Izvekov Coordination of the exhibition and publication: Elena Belova, Alisa Savitskaya Photo: Yury Albert, Vladislav Efimov Design and layout: Sergey Astafurov Proof-reading: Alexandra Kirillova, Irina Feldman – 272 p. 500 copies.

ISBN: 978-5-94620-087-5 The publication was issued for the Moscow Conceptualism. The Beginning exhibition at the Nizhny Novgorod Arsenal from 28 September till 2 December 2012. It includes catalogue of the exhibition, interviews with Russian artists-conceptualists of the 1970s, taken by the exhibition’s curator and compiling editor Yury Albert, article by Vsevolod Nerkasov, two articles of a little-known samizdat almanac Marks (Metki) and interview with Dmitry Prigov taken by Georgy Noskov and not published previously.

Compiling editor: Anastasia Polozova Texts: staf f of the NCCA Volga region branch Photographs: Dmitry Stepanov, Vladislav Efimov, Alexander Romanenko, Aleksey Tsverov Design: Tatyana Alekseeva Layout: Elena Lodygina Proof-reading: Nadejda Lukiyanova Printed at the NCCA Volga region branch 100 copies.