The project of II Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art is supported by the Committee for the External Relations of Saint-Petersburg and Consulates general of the Baltic Region’s countries.
II Baltic Biennale will take place in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) from June till September 2010.
The solemn opening of biennale will take place on June, 16th at Derzhavin's museum at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, St-Petersburg, Russia
At the different prestigious exhibition halls there will be represented artists and art projects from such countries as Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden. They will exhibit painting, drawing, photography, video art, installation and performance.
On June, 16th the round table led by the known writer Lyudmila Ulitskoj will take place.
Theme of the round table is "the Person and the varying environment".
On solemn action there will be guests of honour from Moscow: artist Natalia Nesterova and artist Andrey Krasulin.
Visual Poetry is a project, opening the II Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Arts on 15th of June.
It will be presented at the Museum of Derzhavin – one of the first Russian poets-visualizers. Following to Theophan Prokopovich, Gavriil Derzhavin was trying to find a supplementary resources of expressiveness and polysemy in poetry.
The organizers of the Biennale are hoping to see among the participants such persons like Jukka Mallinen (Finland), Andrey Gennadiev (Finland), Sergey Biryukov (Germany), Karl Wolf (Germany), Sergey Sigei and Rea Nikonova (Germany), Boris Konstriktor (Russia), Valery Mishin (Russia), Alexander Gornon (Russia), and other authors from Norway, Estonia and the rest countries of the Baltic Region.
Poetical video art and short film will be included in the programme of the II Baltic Biennale events.
Project curator – Tamara Mishina-Bukovskaya
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Known musicians, artists, pictorialists from Finland (Helsinki) :Ossi Kajas, Matti Kahkonen, Sami Mannerheimo, Egle Oddo, Matti Snellman, Mikhail Siimes
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In the context of Biennale will be orginized a conference “The Image of Another. Biltic circle".
The conference will take place in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) in September , 2010.
The history of Eastern Europe constitutes a complex (the most complex compared to Europe in general) panorama of historical landscapes, to be more precise, landscapes which images were connected with history, which were so dynamically, whimsically and even capriciously changing throughout centuries that finally were moving from the sphere of geography to the sphere of mythology. Mythology, the sphere which borders are more of artistic and political than of earthly nature.
In this respect, the great artistic project – “Baltic Biennale”, that unites artists from Baltic region countries, can serve as a good basic reason for the conference devoted to the present and the future of the cultural links of Baltic region countries, the starting point of which can be the famous historical formula of economic as well as trade and political dominance: “dominium maris Baltici”.
In modern history there is a whole area of studies called “Images of the Other”, that deals with the way how one nation views another. The participants of the conference will deal with a vast amount of problems that cover different aspects of the major problem of forming the image of “the other / different”, that is closely connected with the history, present, and future of the cultural, trade, and political links in the Baltic region.
Modern humanities nowadays often view their sphere of studies as big or small artefacts. It is supposed that everything that belongs to the vast area called culture is related to creation, in this respect the word “artistic” is often considered to be a synonym of the word “cultural”. It could be a matter of debate, but when we view a cultural scenery such doubts disappear. Each country acquires individuality due to the unique interrelation of natural and human-made features. This cultural scenery should be aesthetically perceived, or “aesthetically opened”, on other words, and it immediately becomes a part of history.
MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE:
1. From art to social life, from art criticism to visual studies: subject matter, peculiarities, interdisciplinary status of visual studies paradigm
2. Criticism of Eurocentric, patriarchal, and colonial grounds for art history discourse. The problem of overcoming of Eurocentrism of the classical art of the past
3. “Consumption of performance” as the dominating idea of contemporary culture: peculiarities of consumption in the society of late capitalism
4. Art as commodity. Images as “social objects”, social production of art.
“An image of Another. Inside/Outside”. The centre of the Book and the Drawing on Foundry.
The basic theme of biennale is devoted to «the Image of Another» both in a historiography, and in perception psychology. For realisation of the project the curator chooses the most adequate medium – a photography. In today's understanding the photo simultaneously is responsible for manipulated and "figurative" and at the same time for "documentary" (as for time document). In the project the dialogue structure between author's projects of Russian artists – their "perusals" of the Baltic countries will be built and selected author's photoprojects of artists from the Baltic countries (Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), representing in which guess special author's "images" a specific way of attitude and sight from this or that part of Baltic sea.