MANIFESTA 10

04/07/2014. [St. Petersburg] Russia. 28.06 > 31.10.2014
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

After many months of planning MANIFESTA 10 finally opened to the public on Saturday, 28 June 2014, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Manifesta 10 presents the art of our times across several venues in the Hermitage Museum and at locations within the city of St. Petersburg.

Louise Bourgeois. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, Hermitage Museum, showing The Institute (center) and Nature Study (right). The Institute 2002 Silver 30.5 x 70.5 x 46.4 cm. Steel, glass, mirrors, and wood. Vitrine 177.8 x 101.6 x 60.9 cm. Collection of The Easton Foundation, New York, USA. Nature Study 1984–94. Courtesy State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Louise Bourgeois. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, Hermitage Museum, showing The Institute (center) and Nature Study (right). The Institute 2002 Silver 30.5 x 70.5 x 46.4 cm. Steel, glass, mirrors, and wood. Vitrine 177.8 x 101.6 x 60.9 cm. Collection of The Easton Foundation, New York, USA. Nature Study 1984–94. Courtesy State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Thomas Hirschhorn with his work ABSCHLAG, installation view, MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum 2014. Scaffolding construction 16.5 × 9.36 × 3.25 m. Cardboard sheets, packing tape, wood, plywood boards, rolls of aluminum foil, polyethylene electric pipes, metal (Inox) pipes, acrylic, spray, styrofoam, foam blocks Furniture for the room.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. The Handkerchief’s Opera 2014. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum.

Lara Favaretto Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum, 2014. Concrete, iron. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy. Commissioned by Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg.

Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Prie-dieu 2011. Wood, metal, and fabric 170 × 90 × 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet Gallery, London Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum.

Katharina Fritsch. Frau mit Hund (Woman with Dog, 2004. Polyester, aluminum, metal, color. Woman 176 x ∅ 100 cm. Dog 49 x 44 x 68 cm. With the support of the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Collection Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum.

Nishi Living room (Russian house) 2014. Installation. Scaffolding construction 6.73 × 7.8 × 2.55 m. Courtesy the artist Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg With the support of the Japan Foundation and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum.

Wolfgang Tillmans. St. Petersburg Installation 2014. Installation. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne, Germany. Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. With the support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum.

Otto Zitko. A Line Against Linearity 2014. Wall drawing. Courtesy Krobath, Vienna | Berlin, Austria and Germany, and Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain. Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. With the support of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Moscow. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum.

Francis Alÿs Study for the Lada “Kopeika” Project. Brussels—St. Petersburg, 2014 Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg With the support of the Flemish authorities Installation view MANIFESTA 10, General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum.

MANIFESTA 10. Opening days. Photograph © Egor Rogalev.

Susan Philipsz. The River Cycle (Neva) 2014. Twelve-channel sound installation 12:55 min. Courtesy Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie. Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. With the support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Installation view, MANIFESTA 10, Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum.

Some considered the choice of St. Petersburg controversial, however Manifesta believes that engaging with Russia at this time is important and necessary. Over the coming 125 days, MANIFESTA 10 will present the art of our times, featuring some of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists, across several venues in the Hermitage Museum and at locations within the city of St. Petersburg. More than 500,000 people are expected to attend.

In the lead up many new commissions have been created and artworks installed also respond to the encyclopedic collection and history of the State Hermitage Museum. Numerous artists have also responded to the sociopolitical context of contemporary Russia. With over 50 artists participating, notable projects include Thomas Hirschhorn’s fourteen-meter high installation, in which living spaces spill out into the inner courtyard of the new General Staff Building; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s operatic ensemble of handkerchiefs on a huge scale proportional to the interiors of the new modern and contemporary wing; and Rineke Dijkstra’s video portrait of a young ballerina, which memorializes St. Petersburg’s culture of dance and gymnastics. Yasumasa Morimura pays special tribute to the history of the Hermitage by recreating scenes recorded by two artists who documented “the Hermitage’s wounds” during the siege of Leningrad.

Venue.- The tenth edition will be hosted by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
Dates.- from June 28 until October 31, 2014.