From September 8 to 28, an experimental research exhibition 'don't look at me like that curator' curated by Ilya Kronchev-Ivanov and supported by Nova Art contest will take place in the Anna Nova Gallery . The project explores relationship models between artists and curators, and also examines the phenomenon of curatorship.
'Don't look at me like that curator' is the final project of Ilya Kronchev-Ivanov after completing the master's degree in Curatorial Studies at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the St. Petersburg State University. The Nova Art contest allocated a grant for the realization of one of the gradutes' exhibitions, while the Anna Nova Gallery, as a partner of the contest, provided a space.
The concept of the exhibition is based on the experience and history of the St. Petersburg Gallery of Contemporary Art Anna Nova and current practices of the Russian art scene. In the gallery space, you will be able to see a summer greenhouse installation, listen to the monologues of eight curators with whom the gallery has previously collaborated and study the documentation of projects rethinking the role and figure of the curator in the modern artistic process.
An open studio and laboratories will be also part of the exhibition, where the curator and young St. Petersburg artists will explore their own professional relationships. The meeting formats will take on a different character: reading group, seminar, training, game, etc. The viewer will be able to encounter artists in the exhibition space or even become a participant in events.
"When the gallery offered me to create an exhibition, I knew for sure that I could not embody a purely visual statement, as it was possible before," says Ilya Kronchev-Ivanov, an art critic and curator of the project. — In my opinion, today Russian contemporary art is facing a crisis of visual language. "Art as aesthetics" has become irrelevant, and "art as ethics", that, as it seems to me, remains to be done by curators and artists in Russia, has ceased to be possible. In order to somehow remain honest with myself, I decided to turn to the phenomenon of curatorship, that, as curator Dieter Rulstrate once said, is ethics. As a result, it turned out to be an exhibition where there are practically no visual artistic statements, but there are curators, artists themselves and our thoughts, relations between us and work processes."
Curators monologues: Gleb Ershov, Ekaterina Andreeva, Olesya Turkina, Andrey Khlobystin, Alexander Dashevsky, Anastasia Kotyleva, Anna Zavediy, Andrey Parshikov.
Artists participating in the project: Alexandra Gart, Greta Dimaris, Boris Chaika, Nastya Litetskikh, Lera Lerner, Galya Fadeeva, Anastasia Byrdina, Katya Zaitseva, Kirill Ili, Anatoly Pavlov, Eric Zhelezka, Anastasia Gosudenkova, Fedor Hiroshige and others.
The project is supported by the Nova Art contest.
Special thanks to Limonov Art Foundation, and Endemica сafe.
Partners:
Nova art contest
Curator:
Ilya Kronchev-Ivanov
Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased at the gallery:
Adult — 100 rubles
Concession — free of charge