[spectre] Cont. Art in a Traditional Museum, St. Petersburg

[Ostrova Svetlana]

Dear friends!

The St Petersburg Foundation of Art and Culture <PRO ARTE Institute> invites
you to visit the projects of the <Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum>
Festival.

The Festival will take place in St Petersburg from 6-31 July 2002.

The opening ceremony will take place on July 6th at 12 noon at the Peter and
Paul Fortress (PRO ARTE Institute).
On Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July there will be a free shuttle service
between the museums.

The main idea behind the festival is to support the coming together of
traditional culture and contemporary art and to support the modernization
and upgrade of St Petersburg museums. As in previous years the festival is
being run by the St Petersburg Foundation, the "Open Society Institute"
(Soros Foundation), the State Museum of the History of St Petersburg and
also the St Petersburg Administration Committee of Culture.
Twelve St Petersburg museums are taking part in the Festival and thirteen
projects will be mounted in their exhibition spaces by Russian and
international artists. The many very different museums and varied projects
are all united by having won the "PRO ARTE Institute" sub grant competition
that has supported the "Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum" Festival
for the third year running.
Visit the museums this year in 2002 and see the work of the artists whose
projects are presented there:
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer) -
German Vinogradov (Moscow), Kuinji Apartment Museum - Yury Vasiliev
(Kaliningrad), Kirov Museum - Vyacheslav Mizin (Novosibirsk) and Alexander
Shaburov (Ekaterinburg), Museum of the Scientific Research Institute of
Experimental Medicine - Evgeny Strelkov (Nizhny Novgorod), Popov Memorial
Museum - Egor Ostrov (St Petersburg), The State Museum of Russian Political
History - Leonid Rusnak (St Petersburg), Alexandrinsky Theatre Museum -
"Mushorshiki" group (St Petersburg), Russian State Museum of the Arctic and
Antarctic - Olga Kiseleva (St Petersburg - Paris) and artists from the <PRO
ARTE Institute>, Dostoevsky Memorial Museum - Dmitry Bulatov (Kaliningrad),
Museum of the History of the Revolutionary-Democratic Movement 1880-1890 -
Elena Kovilina (Moscow), The Saint Petersburg Museum of V.V.Nabokov -
Barbara Blum (New York), Andrey Chezhin and Dmitry Mishenin (St Petersburg),
Rumyantsev Mansion - Alexander Rakstein and Vera Khlebnikova (Moscow).
Round table discussions and performances will take place during the
Festival:
6 July (Saturday) at 16:00 at the Arctic and Antarctic Museum a symbolic
division of the Antarctic will take place with the participation of the
Consuls of the 12 countries that signed the Antarctic Agreement in
Washington on 1 December 1959. The agreement forbids use of the Antarctic
territory for anything other than scientific purposes.
7 July (Sunday) at 17:00 at the Arctic and Antarctic Museum - a Round Table
discussion "Youth and mythology".
8 July (Monday) at 18:00 at the exhibition in Rumyantsev Mansion - a Round
Table discussion "Art as Material Evidence".
9 July (Tuesday) at 17:00 at the A.S. Popov Museum (LETI) - a Round Table
discussion "Neoacademicism in the 21st Century".
Full details can be obtained from www.proarte.ru <http://www.proarte.ru/>
and at 233-00-40 or 233-05-53.