50 most influential people in Russian art in 2010

[Евгений]

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Roman Abramovich and Darya Zhukova
Collectors, the founder of modern culture "garage"
     PHOTO: Press office CSK "garage"

 
 People who know Roman Abramovich in the work (not about the business in question, and of publishing, charity and football projects), talking about his systems thinking, perfectionism and the ideal ability to select personnel. Actually, all the activities of the cultural center of the Garage, where Abramovich himself sometimes on the opening day with a puzzled look on the exhibited works, and Daria Zhukova still shy at press conference, confirms this.
 However, this year was not for "garage" in the same triumfatorskim in the past. Holy place super Ilya Kabakov and collection François Pinault took a more modest projects, although, of course, the first in our country exhibition of Mark Rothko - a great event. But when a promise of Francis Bacon, the audience did not wait. However, changes in the activity center are clear and reasonable - from large, extremely costly project, "Garage" turned to education, to export high-quality foreign products and the exhibition forms a club show. Since cognitive exhibition "One Hundred Years of performance" accompanied by a festival with live action.
 Obviously, its success "Garage" is required first program director and international coordinator, Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. Experienced, influential, clever Beauty beginning at Sotheby's, and ten years working at the Larry Gagosian, that is in the heart of the art world. But next year, as announced by the omniscient Financial Times, Molly goes to work in London and Zhukova, Abramovich will remain only a consultant. Let's hope that she will find a worthy replacement, because education centers (of new and significant "Arrow") and the picture of a club type in Moscow there may be more, but the grandiose projects in a grand space - it is only "garage". Let him so and will remain, at least until Abramovich will not build in St. Petersburg New Holland's own cultural center and the provincial parts of Contemporary Art will present the capital of St. Petersburg.
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Joseph Backstein
Moscow Biennale commissioner
     PHOTO: ICA press office MOSSOW

 
  It is hard to say about the recently celebrated its 65 th anniversary of the permanent commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is something that was said last year when he topped the rating of "ArtChronika. Declaring the name of the next curator - a fan of new media Peter Weibel, Backstein ably supported interest in the project with the public, presents a visiting guest of the local landscape, looking for a new amazing place to constantly move Biennale. However, most of his useful activities hidden from the eyes of the one under the ministerial carpets and a not too transparent boundaries, where he sits on committees, influencing as much as the election of the curators of international exhibitions. And increasingly colorful photogenic Backstein not acting curator, and the product. In the main project of the Ural industrial Biennale in Yekaterinburg "unknown artist" put much enlarged print his account on Facebook. Of course, false. And to razvirtualizirovat character artist Dmitry Bulnygin showed viewers the exhibition has already gathered thousands of fans on YouTube videos "Oh, ne-ne, ne-ne, where the Commissioner, demonstrating an enviable physical shape and musicianship, dance with the gypsies by the" Dark Eyes. " Never in recent years did not show Joseph Backstein so openly his non-conformism, as in this adapted for local color version of the banquet of the "Godfather" at the mansion, Zurab Tsereteli.
 Dance yet matter is not limited. Exhibition of the best graduates headed Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art, "Time, forward?" Confirmed that his country will not forget. Biennale have come and gone - are artists, and most of those of whom spoke in recent years, she studied at the same time, as recently has seemed ephemeral institution.
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Gelman
Director of the Perm Museum of Modern Art
     PHOTO: Gallery of the M & J Gelman

 
 It just so happened that the first decent modern art museum in Russia was opened through the efforts of former gallerist Gelman's not close to the city of Perm. Now they have to fly to see the excellent exhibition of Ukrainian art "Yakscho and envy flipping luxury catalogs retrospectives of Alexander Brodsky and Valery Koshlyakov - the Metropolitan Museum is not to pull. Understand how much it means for a museum in Perm, the easiest way to deafening, even at a distance of thousands of kilometers of criticism that greeted every initiative Gelman. Among them is the present public art in city streets, all sorts of red creatures who sit in front of the windows of local officials, and strange characters on the balconies of houses - all the things that Moscow can not agree.
 But mad political temperament Gelman is not limited to the territory of Perm Region. Ambitions of a man, who said this year's twentieth anniversary of the gallery, one of the first in Moscow, boldly threw her on the prospect of doing something entirely for themselves a new and strange in the Urals, apparently wider museum and even regional scales. As a member of the Public Chamber, Gelman actively intervened in the reconstruction plan of the capital, a project to transfer the church property, designing a new building of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. Blogger Thousanders included in the top Runet drawn into discussion of the problems many people in the interest of art not seen, explains and shakes powerful organs of the media. Its main task - to distribute their own experience in the Russian province, by a document titled "Cultural Policy". As if the case in the law, not in person.
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Olga Sviblova
Director of Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (Mumm)
     PHOTO: press office Mamm

 
  Director of the museum's new Ostozhenka pleased amount of product and variety of interests. Strong feelings about photography and modern art for many years tearing it apart - one is ready next fotofest, while the other kuratorstvovala in the Russian pavilion in Venice - joined. And embodied in the building of Multimedia Art Museum. Now, Annette Messager, for example, competition "Silver Camera" can be placed in one bottle. Connoisseurs of the Moscow museum building new work of architect Andrew Bokova pleased at least that did not justify the worst expectations. And the role for several years immersed in the construction process Sviblova this can not be overestimated. Reminiscent of the inside a little woozy Guggenheim, a former modest mansion rose to four floors (not counting the three underground), and has grown to 9,000 decently technically equipped square meters, of which 2,5 thousand - exhibition space, twice as much as before. On the one hand, it pleases, on the other - scary, more is not always better. In a decent fit modern trends not only architecture - perhaps the only museum building in the capital, accessible to people with disabilities. On high, is clearly aimed at something more than the modest size of old photographs, the galleries are now open several exhibitions simultaneously. However, the new halls Sviblova limit is clearly not going to. Incredible, but renamed in Multimedia Art Museum, learning a new building, Sviblova left alive and the old brand "Moscow House of Photography" - the exhibition under this sign still open in the basement of an arena. Chosen for the opening of a new museum exhibition "Fluxus has documented international ambitions of institutions, uneven selection of works from its collection showed that the museum and its director is still something to work.
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Shalva Breus
Publisher of the journal ArtChronika, head of the board of trustees Kandinsky Prize
     PHOTO: ArtChronika

 
  Publisher of a popular magazine on contemporary art, a member of the board of trustees of the most expensive (considering the monetary value of prizes) and cost (including overseas exhibitions, an international jury and awards ceremony) Russian prize for contemporary art. It is clear that such a person must be very influential. But about Shalva Breus this did not immediately say. The decision of the jury Kandinsky, he himself repeatedly said, has no effect. On the editorial board of ArtChronika "no pressure does not have - talked about this and past and current editor in chief.
 In this case, Breus is strongly associated in the concerned public opinion and with the magazine, and a premium, and with modern art in general, because in numerous interviews about them speaks to the absolute knowledge of the case and at the ceremony, the wedding favor is not a general, and the owner-manager. That is, controls the situation. It turns out that money is not in itself make it an influential person in our art, and involvement in the artistic process, which he had his will and desire to form. And I must say, this proud, believing that Kandinsky Prize is a manifestation of civic activism: people gathered, and without any state aid have made an important cause, supporting the Russian contemporary art and artists, promoting their international fame.
 The role of benefactors in the history of art is well known and has always honored, and as for people who financially support the arts here and now, our people are always suspect them of greed and even the word "philanthropist" try not to use it. But how, then call Shalva Breus?
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Vasily Tsereteli
Executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
     PHOTO: press office MMSI

 
  Vasily Tsereteli, directs the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, consists of two sites in the city center and two historic mansions. Exhibitions in each of the four offices are running smoothly, they are not all perfect in form and content, and some are just very bad in all respects. And in retrospect, for example, Chuikov or Monastery, has dozens of exhibitions of artists whose names are remembered not worth it. But significant trade shows MMSI spent enough to be a newsmaker for the past year.
 For Basil, I think he can be considered a turning point. But this in no way connected with any policies of the museum exhibition, nor with the first public manifestation of the will of the younger Tsereteli, when he was quite tough and reasoned response to a statement of dubious several works which fall in the exhibition by Alexandra Exter.
 If before 2010, the Basil held in the shadow of his influential grandfather, after the resignation of Luzhkov has changed. For many people involved in contemporary art, Vasily Tsereteli became an occasion, if not to justify, then to mitigate the harsh sentence imposed by the public, Zurab Tsereteli. Arisen in the minds of ardent idea that criticism of the author of the monument to Peter I can somehow badly affect the activities of his grandson, has caused excitement. It turned out that this work has considerable value and are contemporary artists, devoted to Vasily no less than artists and academics - Zurab.
 The excitement is premature and naive - the positions and connections of Zurab Tsereteli strong, its monuments stand firm in Moscow, and it is possible that the new Mayor of Moscow will be in the end his ardent admirer. But whatever happened to the last year Vasili Tsereteli for grandfather's back no longer hide.
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Sophia Trotsenko
Director of the Center for Contemporary Art "Winery"
     Photo: Sergei Shahidzhanyan /ArtChronika

 
 "Winery" has recently been the most-most. The most beautiful and convenient area of Moscow, with a variety suitable demonstrations of all art, the organization of any history of rooms. Inhabiting his gallery - "Aidan», XL, M & J Gelman, "Regina", "PROUNI" - and now out of competition. As for the rest, the rapid development of "Red October" and is located under the side of the Center for Design ARTPLAY Yauza acutely confronts the leadership Vinzavod question: I only weapon in the world all the sweeter? Room to maneuver narrows, but that's also squeezed in a tiny pier White Gallery, is a rotation - instead of the store Olga Soldatova entered the pavilion cute "Grandma", Irina Meglinskii, the former co-owner photo gallery "Pobeda", now has a restaurant under his own name.
 It seems that Sophia Trotsenko was able to organize a temporary island of stability in the same convincing, and high numbers of attendance, certainly growing at photographic exhibitions. As the curtain fell at the very end of the year "Winery" demonstrated yet another long-planned and easy which gave a venture - full of optimism of Socialist Realism and eastern exoticism exhibition of artists from North Korea.
 A certain eclecticism in choosing their own projects are sometimes difficult to understand, but around the visible concern for the audience - a heavy summer of 2010 to remain in town for the first time opened a summer cinema. A most spectacular political success caught the "Winery" unexpected: rather helpless in terms of art exhibition-contest "The Best Photos of Russia-2009" visited by the president and photographer, Dmitry Medvedev. Judging by the available information, it was the only first-person artistic impression of the country over the past year, not counting the exhibition "Holy Russia" in the Louvre, but there he came with Nicolas Sarkozy, for the company.
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Stella Kesayeva
The founder of the fund Stella Art, Commissioner Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale
     PHOTO: Stella Art Foundation

 
 Newly appointed Commissioner of domestic pavilion in Venice convinced of the seriousness of approach at once: an artist first of three exhibitions for which it is responsible, has become the guru of conceptualism Andrew Monastery, a curator - the movement theorist Boris Groys. Old resident of Venice, organizes exhibitions in a parallel program of three Biennale, Stella Kesayeva demonstrates a commitment to good old-fashioned concept: one pavilion - one an artist, participate in the Biennale - did not advance, and career levels. Commissioner builds his own career, not interfering with the process, emphasized respect for the opinion of curators and artistic talent, constantly talks about his main concern - quality (whatever that means) the incarnation of the projects.
 A fund manager with two halls, regularly opens exhibition program of poetry readings is actively cooperating with Western curators and institutions, sees its mission to promote local artists in the West. In collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna this year's fund Stella Art organized an exhibition of Boris Orlov in the ancient halls of the famous collection.
 While the contours of the most ambitious project - his own museum in the garage at Novoryazanskaya Melnikova Street - dissolve into a mist that arose from changes in the higher spheres of the Moscow authorities, the activities with Telly and its stock is becoming increasingly obvious. Sometimes in unexpected ways: in the past year she dropped a tough test. In the storefront showroom Stella Art fund on Mytnaya street in the midst of opening day drove a jeep school student after. Initially, this action he described as an art. Stella Kesayeva decided not to bring the case to court, but had not done the impossible: traffic offender refused to call his conduct of the art and fully admitted his guilt. The result of this history can be considered as Stella Art organized an exhibition of this actionist - the legendary Hermann Nitche.
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Andrei Erofeev
Curator
     Photo: Sergei Shahidzhanyan /ArtChronika

 
  Undoubtedly, Andrei Erofeev - the main cultural hero of the year. And in the Russian sense of national tradition - innocent prisoners who were received by the principles to rally people of good will and liberal values, artistic, public and even fellow artists.
 His trial and Yuri Samodurov, the threat of the monstrous (imprisonment), the sentence for inciting religious hatred and, finally, a conviction under Article 282, but in a soft (fine) option, all led to what is the name of Erofeev not get away from the pages of newspapers and his face - from the TV screen.
 The trial authors of the exhibition "Forbidden Art" was just spectacular. Things to continually show was shown on all television channels, newspapers and internet. This creates a new debate on the subject of a bearded boundaries of art (and no less ignorant about what is considered blasphemy and blasphemous). It is clear that in these discussions for a talented and seasoned polemicist Erofeev, a man of enviable endurance, always had the last word.
 
  


    

 
  
 
 
  


    
  
  


    
  




  


    
  
   


    
  
  


    
  
  


    
  


 


    
  


 


    
  
  


    
  




 


    
  




 


    
  





 


    
  








 


    
  
  


    
  



 


    
  



 


    
  






 


    
  


 


    
  
  


    
  







 


    
  







  


    
  




 


    
  

  


    
  




 


    
  




 


    
  



 


    
  






 


    
  





 


    
  


 


    
  






 


    
  

 


    
  




 


    
  
  


    
  

 

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Five of the top art-bloggers, of references to the candidates ranking in blogs and the top 25 by users.

Online voting for the candidate ranking:

Along with voting experts magazine ArtChronika together with LiveJournal held an open vote among internet bloggers. During the period from 3 to 10 December 2010 725 User LiveJournal voted the proposed candidates, identifying the most, in their opinion, influential figures of modern art.

1. Group "War", the artists - 24,3

2. Marat Gelman, director of the museum PERMM - 10,6%

3. Olga Sviblova, director of the Museum of MAMM, Moscow - 8,4%

4. Michael Piotrowski, director of the Hermitage - 8%

5. Roman Abramovich and Darya Zhukova, the collectors, the founders of the CSK "garage" - 5,8%

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6. Oleg Kulik, the artist and curator - 5,1%

7. Trotsenko Sophia, director of CSI "Winery" - 3,9%

8. Andrei Erofeev, curator - 3,7%

9. Vasily Bychkov, director of the CHA - 2,9%

10. Viktor Pinchuk, a collector, founder PinchukArtCenter in Kiev - 2,9%

11. Alexander Mamut, a founder of the Institute "Arrow" - 2,8%

12. Avdyei Ter-Oganyan, the artist - 2,6%

13. Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of MMSI - 2,3%

14. Boris Groys, philosopher, curator - 1,9%

15. Shalva Breus, president of Cultural Foundation "ArtChronika" - 1,9%

16. Grigory Revzin, architecture critic and curator - 1,9%

17. Oleg Mavromati, artist - 1,9%

18. Tar Catherine, art critic and curator - 1,8%

19. Kesayeva Stella, founder of the fund Stella Art - 1,7%

20. Backstein Joseph, Commissioner of the Moscow Biennale - 1,4%

21. Osmolovskii Anatoly, the artist - 1,1%

22. Mikhail Mindlin, CEO of NCCA - 1%

23. Vladimir Ovcharenko, owner of the gallery "Regina" - 0,8%

24. Baibakov Maria and Oleg, collectors, founders Baibakov art projects - 0,7%

25. Zakharov Emelyan Hankin and Dmitri, the owners of the gallery "Triumph" - 0,4%

Most referred to in the blogs:

Artists and public figures, representatives of show business, directors and actors, curators and gallery owners - of whom most bloggers write? LiveJournal has conducted a study and found the most popular of the leading figures of Russian art - before you list (top 30) is frequently cited in the LiveJournal people.

4415, Roman Abramovich and Darya Zhukova

4399 With "War"

3278 Gelman

1732 Zurab Tsereteli

1612 Alexander Mamut

1429: Andrei Konchalovsky

1411 Oleg Mavromati

1063 AES + F

1016 Anatoly Osmolovskii

965 Irina Prokhorova

895 Andrei Erofeev

848 Avdyei Ter-Oganyan

747 Elena Gagarina

611 Alexander Avdeev

606 Gary Tatintsyan

402 Andrey Kovalev

400 Paul Pepperstein

361 Dmitry Gutov

324 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

235 Catherine Tar

234 Irina Antonova

232 Alexander Kibovsky

210 Olga Sviblova

208 Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva

175 Roman and Sofia Trotsenko

173 Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky

172 Boris Groys

169 Daria Pyrkina

169 Yelena Selina and Sergei Khripun

134 Stella Kesayeva (Kay)

Five of the most popular art-bloggers

1. plucer. livejournal.com

32485 (Viewed Pages month - c 10 November to Dec. 10 2010)

Alex Plutser-Sarno, the ideologist of art group "War"

2. maratguelman. livejournal.com

29 231

Gelman, an art critic, gallerist, director of the Perm Museum of Modern Art

3. vasya-lozhkin. livejournal.com

21 517

Alex Kudelin, network artist, musician. Paints a picture of life in the city Kobylozadovska

4. mihail-kukuruza. livejournal.com

15 043

Michael Corn, an artist network

5. dmitrivrubel. livejournal.com

6559

Dmitry Vrubel, artist, author denominator nitogo graffiti on the Ber-Berlin Wall, "Lord, help me survive amid this mortal love"

[Вивьен]

Not enough pictures Pinchuk and Pepperstein.
Disorder "We fill a gap.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от "Vivien

Pepperstein.

Paul V. understandable, but Pinchuk?
joke ..?

[iside]

Eugene, about the first 2 places is understandable, but the rest I would have moved his up and down.
For example, would raise Tar, Salakhova and Baibakov, shifted down to the war, Ter-Oganyan, etc.

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