Flyer: St.Petersburg Pic.: Dmitri Shubin, From the Series "Petersburg. Selected Places", 2001/2

>>       Balkan Konsulat proudly presents: St. Petersburg (special guest) Artists: Evgeniy Yufit, Vladimir Kustov, Dmitri Shubin Curator: Olesya Turkina

Opening: Friday, January 10, 2003, 7 pm Exhibition: 10.1. - 15.2.2003

"Death in the Venice of the North" addresses a central aspect in the cultural history of St. Petersburg, which is associated with the widely spread notion in classical Russian literature of Petersburg as a city of death, decay, and crime. Three pointed positions of three Petersburg artists will be on view at Balkan Konsulat: On the one hand with two central representatives (Evgeniy Yufit and Vladimir Kustov) of "necrorealism", a movement that emerged in the eighties in Leningrad out of the spirit of Soviet punk, which has repeatedly made processes of dying and transgression the subject of artist reflections. On the other hand, an artist independent of necrorealism , Dmitri Shubin, presents politically explosive photographs from the "crime capital "of Russia. - - - - - - - - - spb. art.theory.film.rock. Recent Art from Petersburg. A "Graz 2003 Cultural Capital of Europe" project by Herwig Hoeller, Judith Schwentner, Bernhard Wolf. Informations about the whole St.Petersburg project: http://forum.mur.at/spb Informatios about Graz 2003 - Cultural Capital of Europe: www.graz03.at - - - - - - - - - contemporary art in graz - special 2003 10. - 12.1.2003 Extended opening hours: Fr/Sat/Sun: 11 am - 7 pm Informations about "contemporary art in graz": www.aktuellekunst-graz.at - - - - - - - - - Gallery breakfast: Sunday, January 12, 2003, 11 pm "Petersburg, the city of museums" Speech and discussion with Viktor Mazin (psychoanalyst, art theorist and director of the "Museum of Freud's Dreams") - - - - - - - - - 10.1. - 27.2.2003 museum in progress at Schauspielhaus Graz Aleksandr Petljura, Kerim Ragimov Location: Schauspielhaus Graz, Freiheitsplatz www.theater-graz.com www.mip.at <<