Manifesta 10

Manifesta 10 presents the art of our times across several venues in the Hermitage Museum and at locations within the city of St. Petersburg.

Manifesta 10
In the lead up many new commissions have been created and artworks installed also respond to the encyclopedic collection and history of the State Hermitage Museum.
Numerous artists have also responded to the sociopolitical context of contemporary Russia. With over 50 artists participating, notable projects include Thomas Hirschhorn’s fourteen-meter high installation, in which living spaces spill out into the inner courtyard of the new General Staff Building; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s operatic ensemble of handkerchiefs on a huge scale proportional to the interiors of the new modern and contemporary wing; and Rineke Dijkstra’s video portrait of a young ballerina, which memorializes St. Petersburg’s culture of dance and gymnastics. Yasumasa Morimura pays special tribute to the history of the Hermitage by recreating scenes recorded by two artists who documented “the Hermitage’s wounds” during the siege of Leningrad.
Manifesta 10
Top: Susan Philipsz, The River Cycle (Neva), 2014. Twelve-channel sound installation , 12:55 min Courtesy Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie. Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. With the support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum. Above: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, The Handkerchief’s Opera, 2014. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist, Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum
Manifesta 10 branches out further into the city of St. Petersburg via the performances, exhibitions, and events comprising the Public Program, curated by Joanna Warsza, and through its Education and Mediation Programs, created by Sepake Angiama. Unlooped — Kino, the official film program of Msnifesta 10 devised by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher from Office for Art (Berlin), presents over seventy individual time-based (film and video) works from 1970 to the present.
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Thomas Hirschhorn with his work ABSCHLAG, installation view, MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum, 2014. Scaffolding construction 16.5 × 9.36 × 3.25 m, Cardboard sheets, packing tape, wood, plywood boards, rolls of aluminum foil, polyethylene electric pipes, metal (Inox) pipes, acrylic, spray, styrofoam, foam blocks. Furniture for the room: 6 tables, 6 beds, 6 chairs, 12 beside chests, 6 bureaus, 6 chairs, 6 heaters, 6 closets, 6 chandeliers, 6 table lamps. Paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Olga Rozanova from the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. With the support of the LUMA Foundation and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Initiated by Manifesta and realized in collaboration with The Hermitage Museum XXI Century Foundation, a Parallel Program made up of over 60 events will take place around St. Petersburg, involving over 250 artists and cultural practitioners. A series of independent events specifically devised for, or coinciding with, the dates of the Biennial, this Program provides a platform for the local art community in order to support and promote local artistic and cultural life to regional, national, and international audiences.

until October 31, 2014
Manifesta 10
The State Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia

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