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.
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.
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- 04 July 2014
- St. Petersburg
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 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.
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