Digital Exchange

"100 Ways to Live the New Year"

Video art works come to life in the halls of the Pushkin Museum

#Denmark

Jesper Just

“In the Shadow/ of the spectacle/ is the view of the Crowd” (2015)

In a metropolis, life is closed but permeable. Music becomes the only reliable cipher for communication.

#USA

Shelly Silver

a tiny place that is hard to touch (2019)

A polyphonic mix of science fiction and love story developing on the streets of Tokyo

#USA

Shelly Silver

“A Strange New Beauty” (2017)

American video artist Shelly Silver questions the justice of beauty

#Russia

Alexandra Mitlyanskaya

Memory Box (2018), Thumbelina (2000), Congratulation (2003), Сoncerto (2005), Capriccio (2011), Vera (2008), Touches (2012), As You Like It (2018), Commode (2012), Uwe’s Friends (2013), Hommage to Shwankmayer (2009), Route (2016), Time of Aurora (2014), Spinning Top (2013), The 1973-rd (2010), Babylon 1 (2010), Face Book (2016–2017), Time To Throw Stones (2014), Barguzin (2018), Waiting (2018), Whose Stream (2018–2019)

Touching on your fingertips - immersing to the world of memories

#USA

Galina Shevchenko

On the Edge of Tenderness. GribTrip (2020), Embracing the Grotesque (2018), Bodies Material & Digital (2019), Unkissed Regiments (2018), Open Your Body, Tame Your Beasts (2017), Shared Escape (2020)

Immersion in the artist's worlds, woven in the process of exploring myths, corporeality and post-feminist identity

#Italy

Giuliana Cunéaz

Quantum Vacuum (2005), I Mangiatori di Patate (2005), Neither Snow nor Meteor Showers (2010), Zone Fuori Controllo (2011–2014), Les Manteillons du Mont Blanc (2014), Matter Waves Chrome (2014–2016)

The study of the nanomolecular world and the creation of artificial environments in the artworks of an Italian media artist

#Russia

Dimitri Venkov

The Chinese Room of Alan Turing (2010), Mad Mimes (2012)

Deconstruction of a documentary film and the audience’s practices of its perception

#Germany

Bjørn Melhus

No Sunshine (1997), Sudden Destruction (2012), Freedom and Independence (2014)

Immersion in the wonderful worlds of the artist in search of answers to well-known questions

#USA

Ken Jacobs

RAZZLE DAZZLE The Lost World (2006)

The bright fabric of visual imagery inspired by a footage from 1903

#USA

Ken Jacobs

Capitalism: Slavery (2006), Capitalism: Child Labor (2006), Another Occupation (2011)

A test of the viewer’s ability to perceive moving images

#USA

Ken Jacobs

Orchard Street (1955/2014)

The first experiment from a living classic of para-cinematography

#Russia

SLOWDOWN

Video program of the Baltic Branch The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / Baltic Branch NCCA (Kaliningrad, Russia)

Day 2

The second broadcast day of a two-day video program suggesting you slow down and immerse without rush in the research of the contemporary art by the curators from Kaliningrad

#Russia

SLOWDOWN

Video program of the Baltic Branch The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / Baltic Branch NCCA (Kaliningrad, Russia)

Day 1

The first broadcast day of a two-day video program suggesting you slow down and immerse without rush in the research of the contemporary art by the curators from Kaliningrad

#Germany

Kenji Ouellet

In Dog Years I’m Dead (2018), Self, Cinema No 1 (2008), V (2017)

Watching and being watched in the works of Kenji Ouellet

#Russia

Roman Mokrov

Voice of Pyatiorochka (2020), Eternal Pyatiorochka (2020), All Inclusive (2015), Another Day in Paradise (2017), One’s Home (2013–2014), Homewards (2012), Heavenly Suburbs of Moscow (2013), PARADISE (2013), Hit The Road (2013), The Endless Story (2011)

Start the research of the “notMoscow” region, watching the sunrise, exploring the paradise places and of course, go on a trip in time

#Canada

Evann Siebens

Time Reversal Symmetry (2018), The First Time I Came to Hornby Was with Helen Goodwin (2018), Orange Magpies (2017), The Indexical Dance-A-Thon (2016), Gesture (2015), Chromatic Revelry (2012), image/Word.not_a_pipe=(Magritte) (2002–2005), Pothead (1998–1999)

Study of the plastic language of dance and movement in a retrospective of Evann Siebens

#USA

Doug Aitken

Station to Station (2015)

62 ways to live a minute in a far-reaching road-movie by American artist Doug Aitken and his nomadic creative community

#USA

Gary Hill

Around and About (1980), Mediations (1976/1986), Site Recite (a prologue) (1989), Happenstance (1982–1983), Figuring Grounds (1985/2008), Blind Spot (2003), The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment (2011)

Video art as poetry in the works of the classic of world media art Gary Hill

#Russia

Sergey Kishchenko

Duck Test No. 4 (Cherry) (2014–2020)

Empathy test in an autobiographical project by Sergey Kishchenko

#Russia

“Provmyza” art group

Oratorium SARXSOMA (2020)

Mystical parable about losses and damages

#USA

Perry Bard

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake (2007 – on-going)

A database cinema by Perry Bard born out of a trip to Eastern Europe

#Russia

Tanya Akhmetgalieva

Fragile Island (2015), Love These Fiery Moments (2016), Ghost Ship (2017), A Day Full Of Hope (2018)

Ghosts of the past in the dreamy works of Tanya Akhmetgalieva

#Norway

Verdensteatret

HANNAH (2017)

Documentation of the performance by the artists of the Norwegian experimental theater, who reveal the variable nature of repetitions, reproducing their own expedition along the Mekong Delta in Vietnam

#Norway

Verdensteatret

Bridge Over Mud (2014)

Video documentation of a performance of an experimental Norwegian theater on the border of organic and mechanistic existence

#Russia

Blue Soup art group

Mute (1998), Untitled (2009), Sodden Creeper (2019), Cascade (2016), The Rock (2011), Blizzard (2009), Way Out (2004–2005)

Video program of the masters of suspense in Russian media art

#Russia

Taus Makhacheva

Charivari (2019)

Socio-political proposition on the contemporary life in a form a make-believe circus

#Germany

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

Toute la mémoire du monde / Alles Wissen der Welt (2006), The Rise (2007), Dynamis (2014)

Video program about boundaries of patience under the glossy surface of the modern environment

#Italy

Adrian Paci

My Song in Your Kitchen (2017), Prova (2019), The Encounter (2011)

The second part of the video program by Adrian Paci about voices and gestures that connect people

#Italy

Adrian Paci

The Guardians (2015), PilgrIMAGE (2005), The Column (2013)

Video program on the global culture of memory and care from a famous Albanian-Italian artist

#France

Angelika Markul

Trilogy “Time Formula” (2017–2020): Memory of Glaciers (2017), BepiColombo (2020), Marella (2020)

Journey into the unknown at the confluence of science and fiction

#Russia

Upward! community in collaboration with Ludmila Zinchenko and Polina Kanis

Wanderings of St. Denis (2012)

Video diptych about the physical and mental path of the main Parisian saint in the context of the Russian intelligentsia

#Spain

Miralda

Apocalypse Lamb, New York (1989–2018), Apocalypse Lamb, Barcelona (1997–2018)

Third day of “Tedium” programme is a journey from the inside to the outside

#Mexico

Teresa Serrano

A Room of Her Own (2003)

Third day of “Tedium” programme is a journey from the inside to the outside

#Spain

Isabel Rocamora

Horizon of Exile (2007)

Third day of “Tedium” programme is a journey from the inside to the outside

#Argentina

Miguel Ángel Ríos

Landlocked (2014), White Stones (2014), Mules (2014)

An exploration of political and economic hierarchies of the world during the second day of “Tedium” programme

#Ecuador

Adrián Balseca

Phantom Recorder (2018), Suspension I (2019), Halfway (2014)

An exploration of political and economic hierarchies of the world during the second day of “Tedium” programme

#Russia

Dmirty Krymov

Last Supper (2019)

Digital premiere of the work by Dmitry Krymov inspired by the painting of the great Venetian artist Tintoretto, created specially for The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

#Spain

Anna Malagrida

The Window Cleaner (2010), Borders (2009), Woman Dance (2007)

First day of “Tedium” programme invites to a lyrical journey beyond physical and metaphorical borders

#Cuba

Glenda León

Talking to God (2018), Mirage II (2019), Every Breath II (2015), Suspension (2003)

First day of “Tedium” programme invites to a lyrical journey beyond physical and metaphorical borders

#France

Clément Cogitore

Les Indes Galantes (2017), An Archipelago (2011), Elegies (2013)

A visual journey with a French artist and director Clément Сogitore from the opera of the Age of Enlightenment to a metaphysical noir on a submarine

#The Netherlands

Guido van der Werve

Nummer veertien, Home (2012)

Visual Odyssey following Frédéric Chopin’s heart

#Russia

Provmyza art group

Eternity (2011)

Artwork on the border of experimental cinema and video art about an incomprehensible Eternity that is always defeated by life.

#Italy

MASBEDO

Theorem of Incompleteness (2008), Ash (2010), Ionesco Suite (2013)

Minimalistic video works about the beauty and fragility of life against the background of the dramatic Icelandic landscape

#Russia

Olga Chernysheva

Steamboat Dionysius (2004), Seven Exercises (2004), Festive Dream (2005), March (2005), Intermissions of the Heart (2009)

Sketches of reality and "social geometry" in the video works of the artist Olga Chernysheva

#USA

Shirin Neshat

Illusions & Mirrors (2013), Roja (2016), Sarah (2016)

Trilogy of video works on magical realism on the edge of sleep

#USA

Shirin Neshat

Passage (2001), Land of Dreams (2019)

Philosophical video works on the global language of dreams and connections of East and West

#Germany

Julian Rosefeldt

The Shift (2008)

Video by Julian Rozefeldt about a lonely wanderer in the setting of a science fiction film

#Germany

Julian Rosefeldt

In the Land of Drought (2015/2017)

Julian Rosefeldt presents a panoptic look at the post-Anthropocene in the setting of the ruins in the Atlas Mountains.

#Germany

Julian Rosefeldt

Trilogy of Failure (2004–2005): The Soundmaker (2004), Stunned Man (2004), The Perfectionist (2005)

Julian Rosefeldt on how to destroy and recreate the scene of our vain entanglement with everyday rituals

#France

Laurent Grasso

Otto (2018)

A mapping of thought of the sacred for indigenous communities desert in Australia

#France

Laurent Grasso

Élysée (2016)

Artwork about the eternal riddle of enchantment of power

#France

Laurent Grasso

Soleil Noir (2014)

A meeting with mythical time, “before the times”