2012: Draft program "The Hermitage 20/21" in year 2012

In 2012 the Hermitage Museum presented several interesting exhibition projects, organized within the frames of the program “Hermitage 20/21” , intended to the expansion of the collection of art of the 19th and the 21st centuries and presentation in the Hermitage Museum of the works by contemporary artists.

In June 200 post envelopes were presented to the public from the collection of George Machere and Nadya Volkonskaya, decorated by the Soviet underground masters, Russian emigre artists and prominent figures of the Russian post-Soviet art scene. In July in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace the works of the British sculptor Anthony Cragg and a native of Cuba, Enrique Martínez Celaya, were presented. The exhibition "Santiago Calatrava. In Search of Motion” was the great success in June-September 2012. The exposition arranged in the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace included about 150 architectural models, designs and drawings of one of the most famous and productive architects of our time.

The autumn season has been marked by several exhibitions presented in the new exhibition space of the Museum - in the eastern wing of the General Staff Building. The visitor of the exhibition “Jake and Dinos Chapman. The End to the Joy” had an opportunity to reflect on the eternal human values expressed in the language of the contemporary art. In November here in the General Staff Building the festival “Days of D.A. Prigov in the State Hermitage Museum” took place and the hall of the artist was opened. The Hermitage collection presently stores about 380 works which were donated to the Museum by the Prigov’s Fund.

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The Tower of Snow
2011
Enrique Martinez Celaya
Bronze
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Morphing Yellow
2009
Santiago Calatrava
Aluminium
© Santiago Calatrava LLC, 2012
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