"100 Ways to Live the New Year"
Video art works come to life in the halls of the Pushkin Museum
Video art works come to life in the halls of the Pushkin Museum
While creating his performance, the Russian artist Petr Kirusha wondered how it feels to have fun when you have no idea what awaits you tomorrow
In a metropolis, life is closed but permeable. Music becomes the only reliable cipher for communication.
A polyphonic mix of science fiction and love story developing on the streets of Tokyo
American video artist Shelly Silver questions the justice of beauty
Touching on your fingertips - immersing to the world of memories
Immersion in the artist's worlds, woven in the process of exploring myths, corporeality and post-feminist identity
The study of the nanomolecular world and the creation of artificial environments in the artworks of an Italian media artist
Deconstruction of a documentary film and the audience’s practices of its perception
Immersion in the wonderful worlds of the artist in search of answers to well-known questions
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
Curator, specialist of the Baltic Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA Kaliningrad) Alexandra Artamonova and Russian artist Alexandra Mitlyanskaya propose to slow down and to immerse in the contemplation of the life of those memorable things that fill the house of each of us.
The bright fabric of visual imagery inspired by a footage from 1903
A test of the viewer’s ability to perceive moving images
The first experiment from a living classic of para-cinematography
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
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
Watching and being watched in the works of Kenji Ouellet
Start the research of the “notMoscow” region, watching the sunrise, exploring the paradise places and of course, go on a trip in time
Study of the plastic language of dance and movement in a retrospective of Evann Siebens
62 ways to live a minute in a far-reaching road-movie by American artist Doug Aitken and his nomadic creative community
Video art as poetry in the works of the classic of world media art Gary Hill
In his video work, a Russian artist Sergey Katran investigates the possibilities of representation and perception of the most replicated parts of Michelangelo's “David” which is considered among the most famous statues in the world.
Empathy test in an autobiographical project by Sergey Kishchenko
Mystical parable about losses and damages
A database cinema by Perry Bard born out of a trip to Eastern Europe
Ghosts of the past in the dreamy works of Tanya Akhmetgalieva
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
Russian artist Natalia Toropitsyna turns to the language of calligraphy and wonders what meaning our mind finds in numbers
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
Giuliana Cunéaz, an Italian media artist, tells a story of her peculiar neighbour whom she found in the library, and shares the way the uninvited guest helped her to finish an artwork
Video documentation of a performance of an experimental Norwegian theater on the border of organic and mechanistic existence
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
Video program of the masters of suspense in Russian media art
What is going to happen if the artist is listening to Johnny Cash during the isolation? An answer is in a video of an Italian sculptor Mimmo Paladino
Joe Kilroy, a contemporary poet, goes above the world’s gossip and tells about adventures of a parrot and a cat named Trotsky
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
Socio-political proposition on the contemporary life in a form a make-believe circus
Video program about boundaries of patience under the glossy surface of the modern environment
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?)
The second part of the video program by Adrian Paci about voices and gestures that connect people
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
Video program on the global culture of memory and care from a famous Albanian-Italian artist
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
Journey into the unknown at the confluence of science and fiction
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
Instructions for documentation of "magical" Russian landscapes by the main artist of commuter neighbourhoods Roman Mokrov
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
Video diptych about the physical and mental path of the main Parisian saint in the context of the Russian intelligentsia
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
Vladislav and Ludmila Kirpichev, architects, designers, founders of studio school EDAS, offer a visual instruction on filling the emptiness and cultivating silence within oneself
Gino Rubert, a Spanish artist of Mexican origin, creates a metaphorical self-portrait in the mirrors and invites everyone to follow his advice to look into one’s inner world
Miralda, a multidisciplinary artist from Spain, offers his window as a tv-screen to connect with the outside watching empty trains passing by
American photographer Taj Forer shares his research of new logic of time exploring (un)changing nature
James Clar, an artist working with light and technologies, shares a 3D-copy of his room (the most attentive viewers can find an artist sleeping)
Portuguese video artist Vasco Araújo suggests all of the viewers remind themselves of eternal and external freedom more often
A literal immersion into the essence of things in a poetic video sketch of a Spanish artist Darío Urzay
A stop-motion broadcast from the studio of a mural artist Mina Hamada, where one can see the art come into being (this time on a canvas, not on a wall)
American artist Jane Hammond gives a tour of her quarantine wardrobe and invites to a journey to the other side of dreams
Dynamic video collage on one quarantine day from an American artist Michael Bevilacqua set to a track from The Chemical Brothers
An opportunity to look from over the shoulder of a German artist Karin Kneffel to see the birth of a painting (a simulator for riding on the swings as a gift)
Anthony Goicolea, an American artist and photographer of Cuban origin, invites everybody to see a silent film inspired by the impressions of isolation
Spanish painter Jorge Ferré suggests finding serenity in nature and re-filling juices of life
“Every Sound Is a Form of Time II” (2020)
How do the mountains sound like? And clouds? And veins in the human body? Searching for an answer, Cuban media artist Glenda León suggests turning to one’s own fantasy
Roger Ballen, South African artist and photographer, shares the way coming back to old skills can open up new possibilities
Famous Spanish artist and sculptor Jaume Plensa with an amiable message on overcoming borders from Barcelona
Bulgarian artist Luchezar Boyadjiev invites everyone to join him on his trip to Moscow from his childhood memories. What is the last time you used your memory as a time machine?
Photographer Sergei Nikolaev looks 30 years back in time and shares the NONsterile prints of his photographic junk. What is he going to find there? NONsterile, NONdigital print left junk after itself...
Third day of “Tedium” programme is a journey from the inside to the outside
Third day of “Tedium” programme is a journey from the inside to the outside
Third day of “Tedium” programme is a journey from the inside to the outside
An exploration of political and economic hierarchies of the world during the second day of “Tedium” programme
An exploration of political and economic hierarchies of the world during the second day of “Tedium” programme
First day of “Tedium” programme invites to a lyrical journey beyond physical and metaphorical borders
First day of “Tedium” programme invites to a lyrical journey beyond physical and metaphorical borders
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
Alexandra Paperno shares a psychological portrait of her studio to English Baroque music
MASBEDO artistic duo sends their camera onto a trip around the studio and beyond. What would a camera tell about your interiors?
What it feels like to be in the middle of a sandstorm? What awaits us when the sand settles? What is the world around us going to be? Danish media artist Kirstine Roepstorff sets the viewer up for reflection on the future in her lyrical sketch
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
Swiss artist Gabriella Gerosa shares her pet hare's 'commandments' and shows the ways meanings can be born from silence
Visual Odyssey following Frédéric Chopin’s heart
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
Russian photographer Zhenya Mironov creates Suprematist portraits bearing the seal of eternal internal self-isolation
Artwork on the border of experimental cinema and video art about an incomprehensible Eternity that is always defeated by life.
How can wiggling ears save a life? Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov offers an ironic response to the horror of the pandemic and trains non-obvious muscles of the body. And what parts of your body can you wiggle?
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
Guido van der Werve, media artist from the Netherlands known for his experiments with physical abilities, suggests coming down with him to the deepest ocean and coming up to the extreme heights (from home)
Minimalistic video works about the beauty and fragility of life against the background of the dramatic Icelandic landscape
One of the most renowned media artists Dutch Marnix de Nijs offers to join him in a journey to the world of no dimensions
Sketches of reality and "social geometry" in the video works of the artist Olga Chernysheva
Trilogy of video works on magical realism on the edge of sleep
Philosophical video works on the global language of dreams and connections of East and West
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
How do planets move? Elena Gubanova, artist from Saint Petersburg, finds an answer to that questions with an experiment conducted without leaving a couch. What discoveries can you make staying in a comfortable position?
A successful attempt of escaping into reality out of online from Ludmila Belova, artist from Saint Petersburg. Instruction for an escape is attached, apply after the end of self-isolation
Iconic French curator Jean-Hubert Martin creates a new world full of bright colours
An appealing offer from Andrei Blokhin and Egor Kuznetsov for those who have long wanted to break the interior with the works of art and organize a home exhibition
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
Video by Julian Rozefeldt about a lonely wanderer in the setting of a science fiction film
Alexey Savinov, senior researcher for the Department of Private Collections of The Pushkin Museum, on the search for a creative impulse in everyday objects
Cameraman? Baker? Waiter? Plumber? Israeli artist Shahar Marcus shares what video artists really do (an instruction on becoming a video artist is included)
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)
Julian Rosefeldt presents a panoptic look at the post-Anthropocene in the setting of the ruins in the Atlas Mountains.
Curator of the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art Alexander Burenkov tells about contemporary artists and online-services offering new formats of solo and collective meditative practices
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
Shirin Neshat, Silver Lion of the Venice Film Festival winner, deprived of access to her studio, creates "sketches of future ideas" from everyday objects
Quarantine series from Andrei Silvestrov, founder of the International Kansk Video Festival (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory)
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
French media artist and director Clément Cogitore suggests coming to the verge of self-isolation
Julian Rosefeldt on how to destroy and recreate the scene of our vain entanglement with everyday rituals
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!)
The classic of minimalism Phill Niblock and media artist Katherine Liberovskaya share simple but useful advice for living in still times
Spanish media artist Cristina Lucas reflects on the base for the division of time, counting in dozens during one minute even parts of it, and shows the maximum amount of issues that our hands can count
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
Monica Studer and Christoph van den Berg, Swiss media artists and researchers of digital reality, plead to look at self-isolation from the point of view of digital devices
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
Artist Ulyana Podkorytova, keeper of magical thinking, shares her anti-virus spell and recommends everyone to take a break, as the best cure is a little bit of eccentricity
Artist-gatherer Vladimir Arkhipov suggests spending time in self-isolation with inspiration from handymen
The main traveller of the Russian art – artist and poet Alexander Ponomarev – on comprehension of art in solitude
Alexander Burenkov, curator of the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art, on a balance of sensual and rational in the world of tomorrow
A mapping of thought of the sacred for indigenous communities desert in Australia
Artwork about the eternal riddle of enchantment of power
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
Natalia Lyakh, artist from Saint Petersburg, suggests re-sounding the reality around and finding out the reason why soap sounds like the wind
A meeting with mythical time, “before the times”
Belgian director and artist Jan Fabre shares his catechism for not only quarantine times
Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov on insensibility to time
Enviable example of self-organising in isolation from artists and professors in the field of media art Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Artist Irina Nakhova creates art to a tune and advocates for taking care of one’s hands as if of an artist’s most delicate instrument
Intellectual conversation on the separation of the senses from media artist David Claerbout, a master of emerging into the meditative. Illustrated by the author
What does the liner hides? (Il)legal migrants? Happy vacationers? New virus carriers? Pioneer of Australian media art Derek Kreckler suggests having a closer look at a surrounding reality and creates his quarantine self-portrait
Argentinian artist Mariano Sardon whose works are based on years of scientific research suggests everyone conduct one’s own experiment with time
Master of interaction with the audience Semyon Alexandrovsky offers an instruction to become an artist through a series of simple steps
Norwegian artist Marianne Heske, expert in the field of social isolation, shares an example to look up to
Media artist Alexandra Dementieva on finding positive sides to self-isolation even if you are alone (or not?)
Master of reality transformation Dmitry Bulnygin encourages not to be afraid and throw art into the fire (but only the art specially designed for that)
Shi Zheng, one of the most prominent Chinese media artists, suggests to try on the routine of Brian Eno
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