St. Petersburg Art Residency

15/01/2025

Inviting friends and colleagues to gather around a dinner table and discuss themes shaping our current practice—this is what we’ve been doing as part of our ongoing project, “Hybrid Café.” Its newest issue, entitled “Recalculating Route,” was launched last October, setting up a long table with one end in St. Petersburg at the Pushkinskaya-10 art center and the other in the Gleis70 residency in Zürich. The first out of three dinner talk addressed the role of art residencies as safe spaces. Artists Anastasia Bogomolova, Barbara Bietenholz, and Nicole Henning sparked our discussion, which lasted several hours and brought to light many important issues from the perspectives of artists, curators, and residency programs. The menu for the evening was developed by hosts Anastasia Patsey and Tanja Trampe and offered a curious combination of typical Russian starters like pickled cucumbers and mushrooms served with potatoes, onion, dill, and raw sunflower oil, along with two soups typically cooked during the fall season in Switzerland: a pumpkin soup with red cabbage inspired by a Zürich-based chef and a chestnut soup. Chestnuts were also offered as a dessert along with traditional meringues. Next time we will meet in February – Priyatnogo appetita! Guten Appetit! Enjoy your meal! 🍽

Photos 1-11 by Vera Bezrukova / Photos 12-20 by Bruno Alder Photographie

16/02/2024

Tomorrow 17.02.2024 (Sat) at 10 AM EDT / 04:00 PM CET / 06:00 PM St. Petersburg we invite you to join a hybrid electronic music concert. The line-up includes musicians Ilia SymphoCat , Vitaly Diventsov (Nirnroot) , Jesse Gelaznik

The three musicians will fill the exhibition with the sounds of electronic music. Walking through the installations to minimalistic noize or meditating to ambient sounds like the perfect plan for a Saturday.

🔗To join the concert online please register via the link in our bio. See you! 🎹

15/02/2024

Excited to share photos from the opening of the RE:VIEW exhibition we’ve opened in January! The show is up until March 10th.

Featuring works by artists: Valentina Andreeva, Lilia Bakanova, Vitaly Diventsov, Anna Lyubimova, Ilia SymphoCat.
Curated by Anastasia Patsey

The RE: VIEW project invites visitors to explore new ways of interacting with art. The works in the exhibition can be perceived through diverse channels: sight, touch, hearing, and smell. The exposition consists of two installations in different parts of the space. The project by Valentina Andreeva and Lilia Bakanova involves interaction through sensory experience: guests can look for treasures and stories hidden by the artists in the sand and then retreat into a silk cocoon to reflect on their impressions. The installation by artist Anna Lyubimova and sound artist Vitaly Diventsov, created in cooperation with composer Ilia SymphoCat, invites into a labyrinth where the audience will experience an audio-visual immersion into the history of female body archetypes. The public program of the exhibition includes nonverbal mediations, audio commentary walks and workshops aiming to broaden the idea of what an encounter with art in a contemporary museum can be like.

We also thank our accessibility team — Marina Abadzheva and Alena Ageeva from the Bureau of Inclusive Communications “+1” 🙏

15/02/2024

From the first team meeting back in spring 2023 to putting up the poster of our exhibition – that’s been quite a long journey! The RE:VIEW exhibition at the Museum of Nonconformist Art came to life thanks to the engagement of many people: accessibility experts, artists, curators, technicians, and volunteers 👏 Stay tuned to see the photos from the show and follow the event announcements 📍

15/11/2023

Please, meet our new artist in virtual residency - American writer Ryan Griffith. Ryan is a college-level creative writing instructor based in San Diego, California. He has spent extensive amounts of time living in Saint Petersburg and is now working on a novel called The Two-Headed City, set in contemporary Saint Petersburg.

Ryan is actually looking for advise, so if you are a female between 36-45 y.o. based in St.P. or know someone fitting - please, contact us in DM

23/10/2023

Thanks to the program we had the opportunity to meet amazing artists from all over the world. One of them was who is based in Munich, Germany.
After almost three years we finally meet in person! And Nina has our zine on her bookshelf 👏

21/06/2023

[Un]included is an exhibition created by Valentina Andreeva .art and Lilia Bakanova .booka The artists filled the gallery with objects that one can explore in different ways: touch, smell, interact.
Tomorrow at 12:00 PM EDT / 17:00 CET / 19:00 Moscow time we invite you for a virtual walk around the exhibition together with one of the artists Valentina Andreeva. We will talk about how the show came together, the importance of raising awareness about inclusion, and contemporary art as a tool to initiate a dialog.

We’ve missed our live streams and we’re looking forward to seeing you online tomorrow 👋

The tour will take place in our profile on Instagram: spb.art.residency

20/06/2023

Long time no see 👋 We’re glad to be back after a break and introduce our new project – RE:VIEW. It is a US-Russian cooperation designed to unite art professionals working in the field of inclusion and accessibility. Together we’d like to explore how art museums can make their environments and programming more accessible – both for people with disabilities and other groups of visitors.

Last week we started our workshop series with an inspiring session with Nicole Belolan and Алёна Лёвина.

The project activities will also include public events, collaborations with contemporary artists, exhibitions, and more.

Stay tuned ✨

03/05/2023

Have you already watched the film „Nonconform 2.0“? It features writers and researchers based in the U.S. and Russia who participated in our virtual residency last year. They talk about their themes and share insights on their creative process. Follow the link in our bio to watch 📺

Документальный фильм о виртуальной писательской резиденции Nonconform 2.0. Проект был организован Музеем нонконформистского искусства и Институтом России и В...

20/02/2023

Next Tuesday on February 28th at 11:00 EST / 19:00 Moscow we invite you to join the premiere of the film “I Am the Body”. The event will take place in a hybrid format: online via Zoom and offline at two locations: the REEI at the Indiana University in Bloomington and the Museum of nonconformist art (Samizdat venue ) in St. Petersburg. Artists featured in the film will be there too!
Free entrance, registration required (follow the link in bio).

“I Am the Body” was created by .stanislav and as part of the project led by

02/02/2023

New updates on ProfessionART! Last week our colleagues presented a small exhibition featuring the project participants and their art practice in the library. We were pleased to have as our special guest at the opening 👋

13/12/2022

Another great occasion to meet – tomorrow at 12:00 EST (20:00 Moscow time) we invite you to the final presentation of the project. Together with our artists .art .es and Elena Sakharova we will look back at this journey and think about where to go next 🗺

Follow the link in bio to register 🗝