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The State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg selected
as Host of Manifesta 10 in 2014
Manifesta is delighted to announce that the State Hermitage Museum
in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation will be the Host of Manifesta
10. The collaboration between these institutions for the upcoming edition
of Manifesta to be held in 2014 celebrates a meeting of anniversaries
and shared historical relationships.
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg was selected by the Board
of Manifesta Foundation because of its critical intellectual and
historical relationship with East and West Europe: a uniting principal
that is also central to Manifesta, as the single roving European biennial
of contemporary art. Manifesta 10 will consider the historical
perspective of St. Petersburg's view to the West, and its extensive relationship
with Europe at large. Other venues in the city will also participate and
further details will be announced soon.
2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of Manifesta, the European
Biennial of Contemporary Art, which was initiated in response to the new
social, cultural and political reality that emerged in the aftermath of
the Cold War. This Jubilee year event will analyse the 25 years of changing
realities and experiences as they transformed within this new global world
order.
One of the oldest and most prestigious museums in the world, the State
Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great as her personal
art collection and has been open to the public since 1852. In 2014 the
museum celebrates 250 years of existence. The newly renovated General
Staff Building, the new premises of the State Hermitage Museum dedicated
to modern and contemporary art, will be fully open in 2014, and will be
the main stage of Manifesta 10.
Hedwig Fijen
Founding Director of Manifesta comments:
We are excited that the Manifesta 10 jubilee edition will be hosted
by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. This partnership of Manifesta
with its roving nature, its innovative curatorial methodology and experimental
artistic practices with such an influential historical museum as the Hermitage
is unprecedented. St Petersburg historically bridged the gap between East
and West Europe for more than 300 years and through the spirit of the
European enlightenment movement in the 18th Century, the notion of the
Encyclopaedia edited by Diderot and D'Alembert and acquired by Catherine
The Great for the State Hermitage Museum could become a moral and spiritual
inspiration for Manifesta 10 in 2014.
Prof. Mikhail Piotrovsky
Director General of The State Hermitage comments:
The State Hermitage museum is glad to host Manifesta 2014, the year
when the Hermitage will be celebrating its 250th anniversary. With the
arrival of Manifesta, the Hermitage will highlight its traditions: its
roots within the epoch of Catherine the Great and her passion for the
contemporary art of her time, and the role that the museum's collections
and exhibitions have always played in the artistic life of Russia. We
see contemporary art is a natural, albeit intricate, development of these
age-old traditions. Therefore, the key moment in Manifesta 10 for us will
be the theme of the Hermitage in today's context.
Viktor Misiano
Chair of the Manifesta Foundation, Russian art critic and curator comments:
Manifesta was built up as a platform for dialogue in between the East
and the West. Reaching St. Petersburg Manifesta will find itself in the
country of an extreme European East and in the city that was conceived
as its extreme Western outpost. Manifesta has always been seeking new
places, their genius, their particularity and their historical, cultural
and political complexity. St. Petersburg is a city of the complex cultural
and political past and of the present. To do a Manifesta here is a challenge.
And that is another strong reason to be present. Manifesta is approaching
its 10th edition; its history is short, but it already exists. The Hermitage
with its glorious heritage is a coherent place to reflect two "Manifesta
decades".
Vassily Kizhedzhi
Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg comments:
St. Petersburg has been historically and stays till now the outstanding
cultural centre of Russia. Supporting the leader of the Russian culture
- the State Hermitage museum - in its aspiration for development of the
interest of the society towards contemporary art and the understanding
of art processes taking place in the world, the City Government will give
it's support in the preparation and organization of Manifesta 10 in the
cultural capital of Russia".
Editors' Notes:
Manifesta 9, The Deep of the Modern, took place from June 2 - September
30, 2012 in Genk, Limburg, Belgium and attracted over 100,000 visitors.
Manifesta is the roving European Biennial of Contemporary Art.
The chief curator for Manifesta 10 will be announced in March 2013.
Previous Host Cities of Manifesta:
Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1996
Manifesta 2, Luxemburg, Luxemburg 1998
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany, 2002
Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 2004
Manifesta 6, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2006 (cancelled)
Manifesta 7, Trentino-Alto Adige/ South-Tyrol, Italy, 2008
Manifesta 8, Murcia and Cartagena, Spain, 2010
Manifesta 9, Genk, Limburg, Belgium, 2012
Manifesta Foundation is Ambassador for European Culture
within the framework of the EACEA Culture Programme 2007 - 2013
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