The STaTe hermiTage muSeum annual reporT

eDucatIonal eVents eDucatIonal eVents
chronology of evenTS
aT The youTh educaTion cenTre
“fi(ni)sh is coming”
23 January
Student Nikolai Urentsev from the “Creative Photography”
interest group put on display an assortment of his blackand-white
pictures taken with a fisheye lens film camera.
alexander dashevsky. “a rear view mirror”
11 to 14 February
A master class in the “Actual Art” series was taught at the
Youth Centre by the artist Alexander Dashevsky from
St. Petersburg.
“winter Symphony”
16 February
The beginning of the second semester in the Hermitage
Youth Centre was highlighted by a festive treat for the most
active members of the Hermitage Student Club as after
the closing of the museum that evening Mikhail Guryev,
Head of the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Time
Pieces and Musical Mechanisms, gave a talk in the Pavilion
Hall about the Peacock clock, followed by a demonstration
of the clock in action and a concert of classical music given
by soloists from the State Hermitage Orchestra
“The mediaeval world”
5 March
An unusual class of two interest groups of the Hermitage
Student Club was held in the Knights Room; the groups
were “The Italian Club” and “The French Club of the
15th – 18th Centuries” (headed by M. Vlasova); the class
dealt with the music and dancing culture of the Middle
Ages. The students were able not only to listen to mediaeval
music, but even to learn by heart several songs and not
only to see some dances of mediaeval Italy and France, but
to learn how to dance some of them. They were helped to
hear the sounds of the Middle Ages by the musicians from
the Lorem ipsum ensemble of old music and the dancers
of the studio Danza of old dance.
meeting with the curator of the spazialismo:
Riccardo licata and the venetian painting of the late
20th century exhibition
10 March
The Centre organized for the students of St. Petersburg
a meeting with Alexei Mitin, the curator of the exhibition
and a staff member of the Hermitage Museum.
“day of the march cat – 2010”
27 March
“Day of the March Cat” is a special project devoted to the
cats living in the museum.
western european plein air: Аmsterdam,
the hague and antwerp
27 April
In July 2009 architecture students from the State University
of Construction and Architecture had their drawing
practice in some of the most beautiful countries of Western
Europe. their drawings and photographs, “travellers’
sketches”, were exhibited in the youth Centre.
“hermitage lomography”
15 May
On the Museum Night the Hermitage Conservation and
Storage Centre arranged a LOMO wall covered with photographs
taken with very small and simple LOMO film
cameras. Participants were members of the Lomographic
Society and of the “Creative Photography” interest group.
Students’ Summing-up conference
16 May
Members of the 19 interest groups run by the Hermitage
Student Club delivered various presentations.
“interpretation. portraiture in the museum”
2 to 8 June
Joint project by the “Creative Photography” interest group
(led by Igor Lebedev) of the Hermitage Student Club
and students (led by Thomas Werner) of the Parsons New
School of Design, New York
3 June
The Student Club conducted an international round table,
in which St. Petersburg photographers took part, as well as
photography students from the Parsons New School of Design
and members of the “Creative Photography” interest group.
5 June
Thomas Werner’s Master Class
“art Semester in the hermitage”
This is an annual educational summer programme for students
from the USA: “Russian Art in Retrospective”.
June and July
As part of its educational programme for students from
Canada, the Hermitage Youth Centre offered a course
“The Hermitage and St. Petersburg – the Classical and the
Contemporary”. The six-week course worked out by the
Youth Centre combined excursions to the Hermitage and
other museums in St. Petersburg, lectures and trips to the
suburbs with practical art work in the studio, in the Hermitage
rooms, as well as en plein air.
9 to 22 August
The programme expressly designed for students of art institutions
of higher education in Canada included excursions
to the Hermitage and other museums in St. Petersburg,
as well as drawing and painting practice in the rooms and
halls of the museum and en plein air, plus master classes
in graphic art, painting on wood, photography and video
art, as well as visiting studios of some present-day artists.
meeting with maggi hambling, artist from Britain
29 September
Provided for by the “VIP Guests” programme of the Youth
Centre
Students day in the hermitage museum
3 October
In 2010 the traditional Students Day was devoted to the art
of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dmitry Ozerkov, Head of
the Section of Modern Art, talked about the programme of
the festival entitled “The Pompidou Centre in the Hermitage
Museum” and its participants. The Chief Researcher
of the Department of Western European Fine Arts Albert
Kostenevich focused his speech on the memorable 2009
exhibition in the Hermitage of Pablo Picasso’s works from
the Picasso Museum in Paris and presented the one-picture
show Nude Woman in a Red Armchair, the opening of which
was timed expressly for the Students Day in the Centre.
“cyberfest–2010”
In accordance with the “Actual Art” programme, the Youth
Centre again became the venue for staging the events
of this international festival of cyber art.
21 November
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. Video Lecture: “Boundaries and
Infinity”
23 November
Lidia Kavina. Lecture and Master Class: “Termenvox –
Method of Playing and Applying the Instrument to Twenty-First-Century
Music”
24 November
PinkPinksorbet. Lecture: “second Life Odditorium. Kunstkammer
in the second Life”
26 November
Daniil Franz. Master Class for Children: “Humanizing
Robots”
“modern french art and…”
Part of the educational programme accompanying the exhibition
The Pompidou Centre in the Hermitage
17 December
“French Art and the Cinema”. Recent French animated
cartoon
18 December
“French Art and Fashions”. Meeting Yu. Demidenko, fashion
historian
new year action by the “art workshop” interest group
26 December
Carried out in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace.
programme: “inTerpreTaTion. porTraiTure
in The muSeum”
On 2 to 5 June 2010, the Youth Centre presented a photographic
project, which was the second result of joint
work by the “Creative Photography” interest group of the
Hermitage Student Club and the Parsons New School of
Design. “Interpretation” presented today’s young people’s
view of the treasures preserved within museum spaces and
at the same time it was one more attempt to answer the
question as to how, in what way the interaction between
the museum and the visitor works. Thirty students from
the “Creative Photography” interest group and from the
Department of Photography of the Parsons School of Design
studied pictures in the museums of their cities: the
Russian students scrutinized portraits from the Hermitage
collections, while the American students examined
portraits in the Metropolitan, MoMA, Whitney and Guggenheim
museums in New York. Historically portraiture
played an important role in the creation, definition and
strengthening of morality, conventions and recognition
of certain social groups and performed the role of the
heritage of all these. The principles of representing the
authority, socio-economic status, the moral values, public
righteousness and beauty which are determined by the
clothes, gestures, signs of power and sexuality are to be
found in the aesthetic genre of each period. The task set
for the Hermitage students and their counterparts from
the Parsons School was to study such changes in the idiom
of the picture and produce their own interpretation of this
in photographic form.
2 June
All those wishing to see the students’ works had an opportunity
to do so in the Hermitage Student Centre in the
Winter Palace.
3 June
A lively discussion, with St. Petersburg photography artists
participating, took place in the Student Centre; the
themes discussed were the difference in concepts and interpretations
seen in the work of the Russian and American
students, the participants’ explanation of their choice
of prototypes for their photographic versions and the educational
aspect of the project.
5 June
Professor Thomas Werner from the Parsons School of Design
taught a master class devoted to different types and
varieties of portraits in photography.
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