Russian pavilion
The Russian pavilion houses Russia's
national representation during the Venice Biennale
arts festivals.
Background
The Venice Biennale is an international
Venice, Italy. Often described as "the Olympics of the art world", participation in the Biennale is a prestigious event for contemporary artists. The festival has become a constellation of shows: a central exhibition curated by that year's artistic director, national pavilions hosted by individual nations, and independent exhibitions throughout Venice. The Biennale parent organization also hosts regular festivals in other arts: architecture, dance, film, music, and theater.[1]
Outside of the central, international exhibition, individual nations produce their own shows, known as pavilions, as their national representation. Nations that own their pavilion buildings, such as the 30 housed on the Giardini, are responsible for their own upkeep and construction costs as well. Nations without dedicated buildings create pavilions in venues throughout the city.[1]
Organization and building
The Russian pavilion was designed and built between 1913 and 1914. Its architect, Alexey Shchusev, used motifs from 17th and 18th century Russian architecture.[2]
In 1922, 1938–1954, and 1978–1980 pavilion was closed. In both 1926 and 1936 Russian pavilion hosted exhibition of
Italian Futurism curated by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.[citation needed
]
Representation by year
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Art
- 1914 — Group exhibition of 68 artists, including Léon Bakst, Isaak Brodsky, Mikhail Vrubel, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Boris Kustodiev
- 1920 — Group exhibition of 20 artists, including Aleksandr Arсhipenko, Marianne von Werefkin, Natalia Goncharova, Boris Grigoriev, Mikhail Larionov, Dmitry Stelletsky, Alexej von Jawlensky
- 1924 — Group exhibition of 97 artists, including Alexandra Ekster
- 1928 — Group exhibition of 72 artists, including Aleksandr Deineka, Petr Kontchalovsky, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Yuriy Pimenov, Robert Falk
- 1930 — Group exhibition of 47 artists, including
- 1932 — Group exhibition of 49 artists, including Aleksandr Deineka, Petr Konchalovsky, Aleksandr Labas, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Yuriy Pimenov, David Schterenberg
- 1934 — Group exhibition of 23 artists, including Aleksandr Deineka, Vera Mukhina, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
- 1956 — Group exhibition of 72 artists, including Aleksandr Deineka, Boris Ioganson, Petr Konchalovsky, Pavel Korin, Ilya Mashkov, Vera Mukhina, Georgy Nissky, Yuriy Pimenov, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Semen Chuikov, Kukryniksy
- 1958 — Group exhibition of 17 artists, including
- 1960 — Group exhibition of 22 artists, including (Commissioner: Irina Antonova)
- 1962 — Group exhibition of 12 artists, including Tair Salakhov(Commissioner: Larissa Salmina)
- 1964 — Group exhibition of 42 artists, including Evgeny Vuchetich
- 1966 — Group exhibition of 26 artists, including Vladimir Stozharov, Dmitry Zhilinsky, Misha Brusilovsky
- 1968 — Group exhibition of 15 artists, including Dmitry Bisti, Arkady Plastov, Yuri Vasnetsov
- 1970 — Nikolay Andreev, Aleksandr Deineka
- 1972 — Group exhibition of 31 artists, including Evsey Moiseenko, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Nikolay Tomsky
- 1976 — Group exhibition of 45 artists, including Tair Salakhov, Vladimir Stozharov
- 1977 — Group exhibition of 99 artists in frames of Biennale of Dissident, including Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Andrey Monastyrsky, Oskar Rabin, Oleg Vasiliev, Anatoly Zverev
- 1982 — Group exhibition of 32 artists, including Tatiana Nazarenko, Viktor Popkov, Dmitry Zhilinsky
- 1984 — Group exhibition of 6 artists, including Nikolay Akimov, Aleksandr Tyshler
- 1986 — Group exhibition of 23 artists, including Dmitry Bisti, Vladimir Favorsky
- 1988 — Aristarkh Lentulov
- 1990 — Group exhibition of 7 artists, including Aidan Salakhova
- 1993 — Ilya Kabakov
- 1995 — Evgeny Asse, Dmitry Gutov, Vadim Fishkin (Commissioner: Victor Misiano)
- 1997 — Maksim Kantor (Commissioner: Konstantin Bokhorov; curator: Yury Nikich)
- 1999 — Sergey Bugaev (Afrika), Vitaly Komar & Aleksandr Melamid (Commissioner: Konstantin Bokhorov; curators: Olesya Turkina, Joseph Bakshtein)
- 2001 — Sergey Shutov (Commissioner: Leonid Bazhanov; curator: Ekaterina Degot)
- 2003 — Sergey Bratkov, Aleksandr Vinogradov & Vladimir Dubossarsky, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Valery Koshlyakov (Commissioner: Evgeny Zyablov; curator: Victor Misiano)
- 2005 — Provmyza group, Program 'Escape' (Commissioner: Evgeny Zyablov; curators: Olga Lopukhova, Lyubov Saprykina)
- 2007 — AES+F, Andrey Bartenev, Georgy Frangulian, Arseny Mescheryarov, Julia Milner, Alexandr Ponomarev (Commissioner: Vassily Tsereteli; curator: Olga Sviblova)
- 2009 — Alexei Kallima, Andrei Molodkine, Gosha Ostretsov, Anatoly Zhuravlev, Sergei Shekhovtsov, Irina Korina, Pavel Peppershtein (Commissioner: Vassily Tsereteli; curator: Olga Sviblova)
- 2011 — Andrey Monastyrsky and "Collective Actions" group (Elena Elagina, Sabina Hensgen, Igor Makarevich, Nikolai Pantikov, Sergei Romashko and others) (Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva; curator: Boris Groys)
- 2013 — Vadim Zakharov (Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva; curator: Udo Kittelmann)
- 2015 — Irina Nakhova (Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva; curator: Margarita Tupitsyn)
- 2017 — Grisha Bruskin, Sasha Pirogova (ru), Georgy Kuznetsov, Andrei Blokhin (Curator: Semyon Mikhailovsky)[3]
- 2019 –
- 2022 – Did not participate (Russian invasion of Ukraine)[4]
- 2024 – Did not participate[4]
References
- ^ a b Russeth 2019.
- ^ Volpi 2013.
- ^ Alex Greenberger (January 24, 2017), Grisha Bruskin, Sasha Pirogova, and the Recycle Group Will Represent Russia at the 2017 Venice Biennale ARTnews.
- ^ a b Kishkovsky, Sophia (April 1, 2024). "Russia lending its Venice Biennale pavilion to Bolivia". The Art Newspaper.
Bibliography
- Russeth, Andrew (April 17, 2019). "The Venice Biennale: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know". ARTnews. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- Volpi, Cristiana (2013). "Russia". In Re Rebaudengo, Adele (ed.). Pavilions and Garden of Venice Biennale. Rome: Contrasto. p. 170. ISBN 978-88-6965-440-4.
Further reading
- Cascone, Sarah (May 8, 2015). "On Vacation Activists Occupies Russian Pavilion". Artnet News. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- Frearson, Amy (June 11, 2014). "Strelka transforms the Russian Pavilion into a trade fair of ideas". Dezeen. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- Heiser, Jörg (June 6, 2011). "Postcards from Venice pt. 5: Surrealist Pro-enactments". Frieze. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- Moscow, Stephanie Kirchgaessner Shaun Walker in (May 8, 2015). "Ukrainian artists occupy Russian pavilion at Venice Biennale". ISSN 0261-3077.
- Selvin, Claire (March 11, 2019). "Hermitage Museum to Curate Russian Pavilion at 2019 Venice Biennale". ARTnews. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
- "The Russian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale". Artsy. May 4, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
