Summarizing of work of the exhibition "Timur’s Territory. St Petersburg - New York". On the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov

22 January 2009, photographs collection of foreign craftsmen of XIX and XX centuries came to the State Hermitage, collected by Timur Novikov and donated to the museum by the painter’s widow Xenia Novikova.

Since 24 September, 2008 till 11 January, 2009 in the State Hermitage, in halls of the General Staff, within the limits of the project "Hermitage 20/21" the exhibition "Timur's Territory. St. Petersburg - New York. On the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov" had been spent which had attracted considerable interest of visitors.

Timur Petrovich Novikov (1958-2002) is one of the outstanding figures of the Russian art of the end of XX-th century. In the exposition arranged to coincide with the anniversary since the artist’s birth day (on September, 24th, 2008, in the day of opening of the exhibition, it would be 50 years to Timur Novikov), non-famous and even unknown works to the Russian spectator have been presented. 22 masterpieces from collection of the State Russian Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, "Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova" Museum, Turku, Finland, and also from private collections of Petersburg, Moscow and Brussels were exhibited at the Hermitage. The exhibition had been organized with initiative participation of the artist’s family.

Round-table discussions with the organizers of the exposition, artists and art-critics ("Timur and his friends": M. Koldobskaya about artists of Pushkinskaya 10; "Squat which is always with you"), lectures "Post-modernism in the West and in Russia in 1980-1990s year", movie screenings "Two captains 2", releases of the program "Piracy TV" had been held, archival video-materials had been demonstrated in the framework of the educational program of the exhibition. The curator of the exhibition is Arkady Ippolitov, the Senior Researcher of the Western European Department of the State Hermitage.

Xenia Novikova, artist’s widow

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum

Arkady Ippolitov, curator of the exhibition

Woman’s portrait
1890s (?)
Larger view