Artists, curators and researchers tell about a work from the history of art that explores the theme of delaying time, contemplation, solitude
Ksenia Anufrieva, musicologist, candidate of art history, journalist, curator of the musical direction in the Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA “Arsenal” Nizhny-Novgorod), shows how long music can last, using the example of the organ version of the song “ASLSP”, created by John Cage in 1987
What is the way that the art re-interprets traditions of Zen Buddhism? What is Nothing? What is hiding behind the silence? Russian artist Natalia Toropitsyna conceptualizes famous work of John Cage – 4’33” and creates a calligraphy book
Alisa Savitskaya, a curator at the Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, suggests going for a walk around an abandoned horticultural area to see artworks by Vladimir Chernyshev in their natural context
Elizaveta Vaneyan, a researcher for the Department of Ancient Orient of The Pushkin Museum, on similarities in Western and Eastern art and on the way a Spanish reliquary in the form of Saint Christina resembles a sculpture of a Japanese prince Shōtoku Taishi
Boris Friedman, a collector, tells about one and only piece by Marina Abramović, one of the most influential performance artists, in a genre of livre d’artiste (they say, that the paint used for printing the cookbook contains DNA of the artist)
Russian poet and translator Alexander Rytov flips the pages of his home library reminiscing how he got acquainted with the art of Rupert Brooke – one of the key English poets of the Lost Generation
Alexandra Staruseva-Persheeva, Associate professor, Faculty of Communications, media and design, HSE Art and design School, invites the viewers inside a piece by a pioneering media artist Nam June Paik where nothing is happening (or is it only seems like that at first glance?)
Victor Mazin, a psychoanalyst and philosopher, founder of the Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams, sends the audience to the world of Dziga Vertov by preparing an audio journey into the movie “The Symphony of the Donbass”
Igor Borodin, Head of the Restoration and Conservation Department of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, shares a story of an ancient Egyptian funeral shroud that was created during the Plague of Galen and survived till our times finding its place in the collection of The Pushkin Museum
Irina Gorlova, the head of the Contemporary Art Department at the State Tretyakov Gallery, shows the way an artist Alexandra Mitlyanskaya turns the fact of contemplation into an event
Curator Alberto Fitz on the relationships that Fabrizio Plessi, an Italian classic of media art, has with time
Department of the Art of Photography of The Pushkin Museum concludes its story about the perception of time in the artworks of the Museum's photography collection and shows the way Marlen Matus manipulated time in his works
Alexey Petukhov, a curator of Modern French Painting Collection of The Pushkin Museum, invites to join him in a journey into the world of a French painter Henri Matisse to find out how the artist interpreted categories of time and space in his art
Olesya Turkina, a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Russian Museum, on time of loss and memory at the show of Christian Boltanski “Faire son temps” (“Doing Your Time”) at the Centre George Pompidou
Evgeniya Kiseleva, curator for inclusive projects of The Pushkin Museum, on images of blindness and non-visual perception of art
Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, tells about history of Venetian art from the perspective of the epidemics of the past
Sabine Himmelsbach, director of the HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel), on cosmic and meteorological unity of the humankind
Department of the Art of Photography of The Pushkin Museum on how “digital photo manipulations” by Andrei Polushkin allow to reveal the true essence of memory
Marina Lopukhova, a specialist in the art of Renaissance, recalls her classes at The Pushkin Museum of her youth and talks about the way artists saw the story of the Annunciation differently
Marina Toropygina, art historian and iconologist, shows the ways different artists have been portraying meditation from ancient Greece to the present day
Nadezhda Istomina, senior researcher for the Department of Graphics at The Pushkin Museum, talks about the joys of intellectual work and solitude of St. Jerome, a hero of the famous engravings of Albrecht Dürer
Oleg Antonov, curator of the collections of Russian drawings and engraved portraits of the 16th–19th centuries of The Pushkin Museum, on how the contemplation of nature becomes a creative act and how to understand the universal through the microcosm
Vadim Sadkov, head of the Old Masters Department of The Pushkin Museum, suggests thinking about the transience of time and the irreversibility of death in the paintings of the Old Masters
Alexey Savinov, senior researcher for the Department of Private Collections of The Pushkin Museum, on the search for a creative impulse in everyday objects
Tigran Mkrtychev, Doctor of Art Criticism, on meeting with Dalai Lama and finding one's own object for meditation (for example, a thousand-year-old brick)
Department of the Art of Photography of The Pushkin Museum on how Zofia Rydet managed to save a disappeared from the reality "world of the hut" and "reconstruct" a memory through her photographs
Antonio Geusa, an independent curator and critic, cooks a pudding, talks about different categories of time in life and art, and shows the ways they can be mixed
Anna Chudetskaya, researcher for the Department of Private Collections of The Pushkin Museum, tells about a unique perception of the time of Dmitry Krasnopevtsev and the ways viewers can achieve it
Katya Inozemtseva, chief curator of Garage Museum, on special corporeality of art
Alexandra Danilova, Head of the Department of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art of The Pushkin Museum, tells about the way Claude Monet's voluntary imprisonment became a source of endless inspiration for him (and not only as an artist!)
French media artist and director Clément Cogitore shares his impressions of the painting, referring to a rare subject from the medieval history of France
Ekaterina Igoshina, head of the Research Library of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, shares experiences of an exemplary recluse
Danila Bulatov, researcher at The Pushkin Museum and specialist on post-war German art, on meeting with oneself and entering “super-time” and “anti-space”
Alisa Prudnikova, Commissioner of the Ural Industrial Biennale, tells how it is important to be tête-à-tête with art
Alexander Burenkov, curator of the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art, on a balance of sensual and rational in the world of tomorrow
Irene Lebelle shares how the artworks of the leading Impressionist can teach focused contemplation
Do you want to know what deep media art is (what? yes!), Dmitry Bulatov, a researcher in the field of art & science, will not only tell you about that but show it, as well
Polina Kosmadaki, curator of the Benaki Museum, Athens, tells about the artworks depicting different perception of time
Anastasia Karpova Tinari, director of Chicago / New York gallery Gray, shares her experience of encounter with an American artist and real connoisseur of time McArthur Binion
Anna Gor, director of National Center for Contemporary Art – Nizhny Novgorod, tells about the way the art teaches to pay time and attention to oneself
Curator of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Jasper Sharp on what lies behind a tick of the clock and on a harmony based on differences
Curator Joanna de Vos reveals Jan Fabre’s secret and shares intimate worlds of the artist
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts curator Anna Poznanskaya tells how the main rebel of the French Realism self-isolated in the Swiss Alps
Svetlana Zagorskaya, deputy head of the Old Masters Department of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, on the search for harmony in the paintings of the old masters
