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Creative
Works Contest within the Framework of the Educational
Programme for Newspeak: British Art Now exhibition, the Hermitage
20/21 project
A special program
to collect donations from private individuals
in support of bringing to the State
Hermitage USA TODAY, an exhibition of modern
American art from the Saatchi Collection (Great Britain)
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"Hermitage 20/21" Project
A determined campaign to bring contemporary art and its admirers into
the Hermitage Museum is spearheaded by the new "Hermitage
20/21" project. Rooms of 20th- and 21st-century
art will be a feature of the new museum wing in the
magnificent General Staff Building, which faces the
Winter Palace across Palace Square. Its reconstruction
is to be completed in 2014 to celebrate the
250th anniversary of the museum's foundation. The
renovated rooms will be used not only to display paintings,
sculptures and graphic works but also for installations,
performances and film showing.
During the last years the State Hermitage systematically arranges exhibitions
of contemporary Western European art. The aim
of the "Hermitage 20/21" project is to make
contemporary art accessible to all, closer to ordinary people, provoking
in them positive emotions - in other words, to attract a
new generation of St Petersburgers and guests
of the city into the museum. Temporary exhibitions of works
by contemporary artists as well as displays of 20th-century
art of long duration have become part of a single long-term programme.
The "Hermitage 20/21" project is to open a new
important stage in the collecting activity of the museum. Within the
framework of the project the replenishment of
contemporary Western European art will be continued. The
museum already owns the works of some of the great artistsof the
20th century - Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Malevich, Louise Bourgeois
and Ilya Kabakov - but it does not have a
representative collection of Western European art of the
second half of the 20th to the early
21st century. However, its exceptional position
as an universal museum of international art
gives it more scope than any other to bridge this gap.
Being one of the oldest museums in the world, the
Hermitage deals with the history of the world culture,
preserving and displaying its outstanding samples. Contemporary
art, the history of which is being created today, will be
studied in terms of philosophy. Within the "Hermitage
20/21" project we hope to develop a new philosophical approach
to understanding art. The success of this approach will require
the accurate identification of what is important
in the new art and total flexibility over the manner in which
it is presented to the public.
The State Hermitage is open for collaboration with collectors and artists
who would like to support the "Hermitage 20/21"
project with their works, as well as with individuals, companies
and foundations that desire to help make this campaign a
success. To realize this project a working group has
been created in the museum headed by Mikhail Piotrovsky,
Director of the State Hermitage. Dr. Dmitry Ozerkov, senior
researcher of the Department of Western European art, was appointed a
curator of exhibitions of contemporary art. The
project is financed by the museum itself, its sponsors and
through the assistance of the UK Friends
of the Hermitage.
Artists Who Have Recently Donated Works to the State Hermitage
Fernando Botero
Louise Bourgeois
Bernard Buffet
Ilya Kabakov
Robert Rauschenberg
Pierre Soulages
Oleg Tselkov
Exhibitions of Contemporary Art Arranged at the State
Hermitage Within the Framework of the 'Hermitage 20/21'
Project
Recent Exhibitions of Contemporary Art at the State Hermitage
1998 Rene Magritte. Paintings from the Collections
of the USA and Europe. Menil Collection, Houston
USA
1998 Irving Penn. Photographs from the Art Institute
of Chicago
1998 Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth
1998 Francis Bacon. Three Studies for a Crucifixion.
From the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
1999 Abstract Expressionism. Three paintings from the Museum
of Modern Art, New York
1999 Carlo Carra
2000 Jackson Pollock from the Museum of Modern Art,
New York
2000 Andy Warhol: Retrospective
2000 World of Visions: Traditional and Contemporary
Art from Australia
2000 The Beauty of Japan Photographed
2001 Louise Bourgeois I the Hermitage
2001 Pierre Soulages : Black Light
2002 Man in the Middle. Deutsche Bank Collection
2002 Kasimir Malevich. 'The Black Square'
2002 Georges Segal: Retrospective
2003 Eduardo Chillida: Silent Music
2003 Bill Viola . 'The Greetings'
2003 Shirin Neshat. 'Turbulent'
2003 Cy Twombly at the Hermitage. Fifty Years of Works
on Paper
2003 Nicolas de Stael: Paintings from Museums and
Private Collections of Western Europe, United States
and Russia
2003 Paintings and Drawings of Mark Rothko from
the National Gallery in Washington: The Artist's
100th Anniversary
2003 CoBrA and Contemporaries from Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Looking at Photographs. Museum of Modern Art,
New York
2003 Maurits Escher
2004 Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition:
Photographs and Mannerist prints
2004 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: 'Incident in a Museum'
and other installations
2004 Anatoly Belkin Swamp Gold
2004 Marina Azizyan: Fantastic Dictionary of Tonino
Guerra
2005 Futurism. The Novecento. Abstraction. Italian Art of
the 20th century
2005 Max Ernst: Three Paintings
2006 Willem de Kooning: Late Works
2006 Jean-Paul Riopelle - Canadian Artist
2006 Visual Kineticism
2006 Hogarth, Hockney and Stravinsky: 'The Rake's
Progress'
2006 Sculptor Emilio Greco: Searching for the Ideal.
From Collections of Italy and Russia
2006 Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage Under a Full
Moon
2007 Max Beckmann. Works from Museum and Private
Collections of Hamburg and Lubeck
2007 The Dance of Quill and Ink. Contemporary Art of the
Middle East
2007 Bruno Liberatore. Sculpture and Drawings
2007 Dennis Hopper at the Hermitage
2008 Horacio Garcia Rossi and GRAV. The Geometry
of Imaginary/ Space
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Logotype of the "Hermitage 20/21" project
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