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01 –06 June 2021

06 Jun
10:00–18:00
StandArt Pocket Fair, a contemporary Russian art fair
The fair is focused on affordable contemporary Russian art at a price range below 75 thousand rubles (approximately 1 thousand US dollars). Key fair principles conveyed in its title that plays with the semantics of the word “pocket” that includes “the amount of money available for spending” and “a group that is different from what surrounds it”. Modest in size the fair presents best contemporary Russian artists. Every visitor can become a collector by getting one of the works and making a contribution into the future of Russian art. The fair is organized by StandArt Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Please present you SPIEF badge at the entrance

To sign up for a private fair tour, please reach out to Daria Tretiakova:
+7 (921) 303-8984
fair@standart.foundation


06 Jun
12:00–19:00
Letnyaya Vystavka
From 3 to 20 June Dom Radio in St. Petersburg will host the first joint project of musicAeterna and Aksenov Family Foundation in the field of contemporary visual arts, organized in collaboration with the international art fair viennacontemporary. Lentyaya Vystavka follows the tradition of The Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in London — the longest-running regular art exhibition in the world, held since 1769. Its special feature is that most of the exhibited artworks can be purchased.
The exhibition takes place in the historical space of Dom Radio (House of Radio), which is where musicAeterna has been running a cross-disciplinary cultural and educational center since the fall of 2019. At the exhibition, guests will get a chance to see works by Russian and international stars of contemporary art. Among them are Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Sergey Bratkov, Erik Bulatov, Erwin Wurm, Mat Collishaw, Ilya Kabakov, Pipilotti Rist, Olga Chernysheva and others.
As part of a special project of musicAeterna and The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Bill Viola’s works of the Martyrs series, which were shown at the artist's solo exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, will be on display in Dom Radio from 2 to 20 June.

Entrance with a badge and registration via email . RSVP info@aksenovff.com.


06 Jun
18:30–21:30
Metamorphose, a mystical immersive ballet. Osobnyak Immersive Theatre, 20, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya
Theatre is situated in an antique mansion, built in the beginning of XVIII century in the heart of St. Petersburg. There are 50 uniquely decorated rooms on 4 floors where fully immersive performance takes place.

Mystical immersive ballet 'Metamorphose' is a Fantasia inspired by an eponymous Franz Kafka’s novel. Viewer joins the characters in exciting world full of unexpected mutations, where only able to share pure, sacrificial and truly human feelings can survive . Directed by K. Mikheeva.

Participants can attend the shows with tickets bought on https://moshkov2.ru/
A promotional code for a 20% discount is available in the participant’s personal account.