In June 2024, the State Hermitage’s Youth Centre conducted a series of lessons for students of the Moscow-based Russian State University for the Humanities.
Through the course, the students became acquainted with the permanent displays and temporary exhibitions in the Main Museum Complex and General Staff building and studied the main museum collections.
Specially for the guests from Moscow, staff of the Youth Centre held art mediations on the subjects of “Such Different Impressionism”, “Kabakov. Prigov” and “Paris, Paris”. The students had the opportunity to talk about the genesis of Impressionism with Natalia Dyomina, a researcher from the Department of Western European Fine Art, and, in conjunction with Youth Centre staff, to gain an understanding of the context of early 20th-century French art and learn about the distinctive features of Moscow Conceptualism through the example of exhibits created by Ilya Kabakov and Dmitry Prigov.
