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On March 12, Russian Federal Security (FSB) agents and police officers raided the homes of artists and activists across the country. Many of the artists were subsequently taken in for questioning. According to the human rights project Network Freedoms, the FSB’s interest may be linked to a treason case against Pyotr Verzilov, a Pussy Riot member and former Mediazona publisher, who says he’s joined the Ukrainian army. The human rights project Department One, however, thinks the Russian authorities are taking proactive measures as they’re afraid these “unpredictable” artists might make a scene during the country’s upcoming presidential elections.

FSB agents searched the homes of artists and activists in multiple cities across Russia on Tuesday, according to reports from independent publications and the human rights project Network Freedoms. Many of the artists were brought in for questioning and subsequently released. Human rights activists reported that some of the searches were authorized by Moscow’s Lefortovo court under the Russian Criminal Code article for high treason.

Early on Tuesday, FSB officers came to the St. Petersburg apartment of artist and activist Katrin Nenasheva and her friend Natalya Chetverio. The officers reportedly refused to read out the warrant and searched their apartment. Afterward, Nenasheva was taken away for questioning in an unmarked car. Chetverio said that Nenasheva was brought in as a witness in a treason case.

St. Petersburg police also conducted searches at the homes of artist Sasha Blot and members of the art group Yav, reported Network Freedoms. In Moscow, officers arrested a friend of street artist Philippenzo (Filipp Kozlov), who left Russia last year because of a criminal case brought against him for an anti-war street art project. The Russian art activist project Party of the Dead also reported that FSB officers in St. Petersburg took member Kristina Bubentsova and her husband away after a search.

Meanwhile, in Yekaterinburg, artist Ilya Mozgi was brought in for questioning after police searched his home. In Ulyanovsk, artist Yegor Kholtov was also arrested after a search. Similarly, artists Artyom Filatov and Andrey Olenev were brought in for interrogation in Nizhny Novgorod, though they were subsequently released.

Police in Samara also searched the registered address of artist Denis Mustafin. Currently, his mother lives there, and her computer was confiscated, Mustafin told OVD-Info. Anastasia Mikhailova, a friend of imprisoned activist Pavel Krisevich, also reported that her apartment was searched.

The same day, agents raided the homes of Pussy Riot members Margarita Konovalova, Olga Kuracheva, and Olga Pakhtusova. Officers took Kuracheva in for questioning and Pakhtusova’s whereabouts remain unclear. Network Freedoms reported that the mother of Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Pussy Riot and one of the founders of Mediazona, was also targeted in a search.

According to Network Freedoms, the raids may be connected to a treason case against Verzilov, who left Russia in 2020. In early October 2023, Verzilov said in an interview with Russian YouTuber Yuri Dud that he had joined the Ukrainian army. A Russian court later sentenced Verzilov in absentia to eight and a half years in prison for spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. However, on March 11, a Moscow court sent the case for a retrial due to “procedural violations.”

The human rights project Department One believes the searches are related to Russia’s upcoming presidential elections rather than to Verzilov’s case, as not all of the individuals targeted are connected to him or even know him. According to Department One, the Russian authorities consider activists and performers to be “unreliable elements” as their behavior “can’t be predicted.”

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admcp · 6 years

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Borderline status: the action by Katrin Nenasheva "Between here and there"

This summer, artist-actionionist Kathrin Nenasheva took to the streets of Moscow in glasses of virtual reality. For 23 days she was in a state between here and there. Her body, in the suit of a man from another planet, was groping her way through the crowd in the metro and on busy streets, while before her eyes she saw the pale green corridors of Moscow psychoneurological boarding schools. The spectacles in which Katrin moved around the city projected the panoramas of the daily life of people completely isolated from the outside world by a concrete fence. Documentation of the action in photographs, diaries, video and audio recordings can be seen before September 10 at the State Gallery on Solyanka at the first personal exhibition of the artist "Between here and there: the history of urban isolation."

Catherine Nenasheva has 30 days of life in prison robes (the action "Do not be afraid", 2015) and 21 days of travels in Moscow with a hospital bed tied to the back (the campaign "Attack" in 2016). The artist immerses herself in a situation, the subjects for which takes from the life of closed social groups, and analyzes her own experiences, both physical and mental. In the action "Between here and there " Katrin Nenasheva addresses the problem of people living in psycho-neurological boarding schools (PNI). In Russia there are about 150 000. Those who are recognized as incompetent, do not have the right to go out into open spaces and manage money. They enter the orphanage after 18 years and remain there for the rest of their lives. Imagine a person living in Moscow who has never seen the Kremlin. Wards of boarding schools often do not know their age, do not understand what it means to live outside the fence and completely devoid of self-identification.

The intervention of Catherine Nenasheva is an attempt to push two worlds - a space of conditional freedom and complete isolation. The routes of the city travel of the artist are built by the patients themselves. They send it to the place where they have never been and will not be any more. Choose the iconic places - Red Square, Tverskaya, Garden Ring, Poklonnaya Hill, Crimean Bridge, metro, zoo. The list also includes the Auchan store and a fast-food cafe.

Catherine assumes the role of a conductor between the worlds. Glasses are a continuation of her body, her super-ability, which allows you to simultaneously be in two dimensions. The artist looks like she just landed from the interplanetary ship Discovery one. But, as we know, super-possibilities, just like limited ones, can cause isolation. In the city space, Catherine is a foreign body. On the records presented at the exhibition, you can see how she is walking uncertainly along the street, stretching her palms in search of support. Its presence is inconvenient and inappropriate: it looks strange, interferes, collides with passers-by and touches them with their hands. " In a virtual reality, in no case can not be in a public place. Here the world is real ,- informs the artist police officer during the detention on Red Square. Then Nenashevu taken to the police department, and then to a psychiatric hospital, and then released because of a lack of grounds for hospitalization.

In a conditionally open public space, there is a rigid system of restrictions and fences, both symbolic and material - the artist is not only within the framework of generally accepted ideas about the norm, but is literally squeezed between the striped banners of My Street. Movement is difficult, ahead again all dug up. Kathryn deliberately immerses herself in a situation of extreme degree of unfreedom. Her body is limited in movement, her consciousness is in isolation of repeated visual images. Separating itself into two, it itself becomes a symbol, declared in the name of the action of the dichotomy "here and there." In this country at any time you can go from one state to another, to be on the other side of the fence or lattice. It's simple: today you are an artist, tomorrow - a criminal. Today - here, tomorrow - there.

Following his routes, Catherine offers passers-by to look at the glasses and look at the world through her eyes. What she wants to tell is no less strange to them than her appearance. We still have to talk openly about mental disorders. Not everyone knows about the existence of PNI. And who expects that inside the glasses there will be panoramas of boarding schools. Reactions are very different - from aggression to sincere bewilderment and surprise. Records of impressions of those who were not afraid to enter into a dialogue with the artist can be read at the exhibition. In addition, here you will have the opportunity to walk through a small hall with glasses similar to those in which Katherine spent almost a month. Such, let even a short, immersion in this borderline state is an experience very important and absolutely necessary. From a dark, dimly lit room you find yourself in the hall of a boarding school. Under your feet - tiled floor, before your eyes - a hefty ficus. You take a step and find yourself in a narrow corridor, past a man in a carriage, he smiles at you. The stranger in the cap opens the front door, and here you are already in the street, in the courtyard. The sun is shining here, the wind is shaking the trees, people are sitting on benches in their pajamas. From the blurriness of the image or with unaccustomedness, the head begins to spin, and you hasten to emerge from this half-back. But to forget what I saw is unlikely to come out, the portal to another world is open. From the blurriness of the image or with unaccustomedness, the head begins to spin, and you hasten to emerge from this half-back. But to forget what I saw is unlikely to come out, the portal to another world is open. From the blurriness of the image or with unaccustomedness, the head begins to spin, and you hasten to emerge from this half-back. But to forget what I saw is unlikely to come out, the portal to another world is open.

"On the 21st day of wearing virtual reality glasses and trying to move around in the city, it's difficult for me to distinguish between glasses and without them," says Catherine. During the time spent on the border between real and virtual, political and personal, art and crime, norms and craziness, the artist finds a new identity. To finally erase the differences between themselves and the residents of boarding schools in the final of the action, Catherine deprives herself of the only sign of civic independence that matters in PNI. She burns her passport of a Russian citizen in a fireproof safe opposite the Government House. Borders and conventions disappear. In the final, Catherine remains in a red dress, as if borrowed from Marina Abramovich, in her new body, who has learned to live in two worlds at the same time.

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Between here and there.

Day 21 (Accidental intervention at the exhibition "Builders of the New World: Comintern", look better with sound).

It is believed that in 21 days simple habits are developed. Immersion in a long-term situation for me is an important part of the performative method, which makes it possible to analyze my experiences - physical, mental. On the 21st day of wearing virtual reality glasses and trying to move in them in the city, it's difficult for me to distinguish between glasses and without them. The usual habits are:

- the brokenness of the arms and legs - the headache - the weakness in the body - the inability to discern the color / shape - the disorientation in the space - the nausea - the sudden jumps in temperature (from a decrease to 36 to "hovering" at 37) - an acute reaction to loud sounds - acute reaction to large concentrations of people - panic attacks

About some similar feelings I often heard from the residents of PNI - weakness, weakness, the difficulty of leaving the room, the loss of orientation. Someone said that it was influenced by neuroleptics, someone - that it was the consequences of the deadlock, when there is nowhere to go except for a bed and a corridor, and there is no need to go when the body gets used to this hopelessness and every movement is given with difficulty.

Initially, I was planning to wear virtual reality glasses with images from PNI for 7 days. But trusting the body and the environment, for the first time I decided not to limit myself in advance of the action. Every time when I went into the city, at the moment when I began to feel helpless, bare, at the moment when my identities and space were eroding, new conditions for adaptation in it were dictated, I understood that it was necessary to look for a way out of the circle. A circle of a panoramic picture, a circle of their fears, a circle of those most erased identities. I started and continue to look for this way, between the borders there / here / and through them.

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

The Los Angeles City Council approved plans for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, clearing the way for the construction of the $1.5 billion institution in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park.

Vox Populi, the revered Philadelphia art space, was forced to close after a fire broke out in the stairwell of its building early Tuesday morning. The artists’ collective will have to relocate.

Just a day after a monument to the Ten Commandments was installed on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, it was destroyed when Michael T. Reed II rammed his car into it. Reed posted video of the crash on Facebook.

An altarpiece by Jacopo Tintoretto that belonged to David Bowie will return to Venice to be displayed during the 2019 Biennale.

Artist Katrin Nenasheva claimed she was arrested in Moscow and taken to a psychiatric hospital for refusing to remove a virtual reality headset. She said a police officer told her: “It’s strictly forbidden to be in virtual reality in a public place. Here it’s the real world.”

The US Supreme Court will hear a case brought by victims of a 1997 Hamas suicide bombing, who are seeking to seize ancient Iranian artifacts from the University of Chicago to satisfy a $71-million judgment.

Rendering of artist Anthony Goicolea’s design the LGBTQ monument to be built in Hudson River Park (courtesy Anthony Goicolea)

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled the winning design for the state’s first permanent monument to LGBTQ people. The monument, a group of boulders cut through with prismatic strips, was designed by artist Anthony Goicolea and will be sited in Hudson River Park in Lower Manhattan.

A lawsuit between the Missouri Civil War Museum and the city of St. Louis was settled, clearing the path for the removal of the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park. Meanwhile, protesters including politicians, clergy members, and citizens are calling for the removal of a Confederate monument from Tampa, Florida’s Old Hillsborough County Courthouse.

The first public exhibition of selected works from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt — the late collector whose Munich home was found, in a raid, to contain more than 1,200 words, some of them believed to have been looted by the Nazis during World War II — will open at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, on November 3.

Chelsea Manning and Heather Dewey-Hagborg will show a series of 3D-printed sculptural portraits created using Manning’s DNA at New York’s Fridman Gallery.

Grant Wood’s iconic painting “American Gothic” (1930) will travel to New York for the artist’s first major retrospective in the city in over 30 years. Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables will open at the Whitney Museum on March 2, 2018.

Six Nations Mohawk artist Alan Michelson broke ground on “Mantle,” a monument to the American Indians of Virginia, in Richmond.

The cover of Nirvana’s Incesticide compilation is based on a painting by Kurt Cobain that will be shown this summer at the Seattle Art Fair. (photo courtesy Universal Music)

Two paintings by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain will be on sale in the booth of Los Angeles gallery UTA Artist Space at the Seattle Art Fair in early August, and will be shown alongside a selection of his notebooks. One of the paintings served as the basis for the cover of Nirvana’s 1992 compilation Incesticide.

Archaeologists from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels and Yale University discovered what are believed to be the oldest known monumental Egyptian hieroglyphs. Discovered in the ancient city of Elkab, they are believed to date back 5,200 years.

Excavations for Rome’s new subway line uncovered a 3rd-century building that appeared to have collapsed during a fire. Archaeologists also found the crouched skeleton of a dog who was likely killed in the blaze some 1,800 years ago.

Some 90 protesters gathered outside the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston in opposition to its new Andres Serrano exhibition. The majority were Catholics objecting to his 1987 photograph “Immersion (Piss Christ).”

Transactions

Kara Walker, “The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin” (2015), cut paper on wall, 165 3/8 x 698 13/16 in (courtesy The High Museum of Art, Atlanta)

The High Museum of Art acquired “The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin” (2015), a large cut-paper installation by Kara Walker.

The Museum of Modern Art received a $50 million gift from hedge fund manager and collector Steven Cohen to go toward the institution’s current expansion project.

The Art Gallery of Ontario acquired 522 photographs by Diane Arbus.

A drawn map for the first Disneyland amusement park, from 1953, sold at auction for $708,000.

Sotheby’s will auction the art collection of playwright Edward Albee to benefit his foundation and its artist-in-residence program.

Sweden’s Nationalmuseum acquired three paintings by the German-Danish artist Louis Gurlitt.

The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas acquired the third of the four known home video recording of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Arts Council England revealed its grans program for 2018–2022, which includes £409 million (~$531.7 million) in portfolio grants to local arts organizations and another £213 million (~$277 million) per year in other grants.

The New Art Gallery Walsall, which had been threatened with closure due to public funding cuts, was saved by a four-year, £3.5 million (~$4.6 million) grant from Arts Council England.

The British Museum acquired photographs by nine artists who are documenting the conflict in Syria and the refugee crisis.

Robert Indiana’s sculpture “LOVE” atop its former pedestal — which is now up for auction — in Philadelphia (photo by Smallbones, via Wikimedia Commons)

Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy put the pedestal for the iconic Robert Indiana “LOVE” sculpture up for auction.

Four institutions will receive the natural history collection of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, which was threatened with destruction earlier this year as the school sought to make space for renovations to its track stadium.

Artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alumnus Jeff Koons donated the work “Gazing Ball (Stool)” (2013–16) to his alma mater. The sculpture will be sold to establish the Jeff Koons Scholarship Fund.

The City of Chicago launched a $1 million initiative to commission new public art.

The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded grants totaling $2.5 million to 31 cultural organizations in Chicago.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston acquired a mural Fernand Léger created for Nelson Rockefeller’s Fifth Avenue penthouse in 1938. The sale took place at the Art Basel fair, where Galerie Gmurzynska was showing the mural, which had been consigned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

The VIA Art Fund announced $310,000 in grants for the first half of 2017.

Transitions

The Art Gallery of Ontario appointed four new curators: Julie Crooks as assistant curator of photography; Alexa Greist as assistant curator of prints and drawings; Wanda Nanibush as assistant curator of Canadian and Indigenous art; and Caroline Shields as assistant curator of European art.

Erin Christovale was appointed assistant curator at the Hammer Museum.

Bangkok is launching a biennial. The first edition of the Bangkok Art Biennale will open in November 2018.

White Rainbow, a London gallery that opened in 2014, shut down.

Julia Peyton-Jones was named the senior global director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

Julia Joern, a partner at David Zwirner Gallery since 2014, has left the gallery due to health problems.

Jill Greenwood was named the curator of education at the Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Merryn Schriever was appointed the director of Bonhams auction house in Australia.

Rendering of the exterior of the Collection Pinault — Paris (image © ArtefactoryLab; Tadao Ando Architect & Associates; NeM / Niney & Marca Architectes; Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier; courtesy Collection Pinault — Paris)

Luxury goods billionaire and collector François Pinault revealed his plans to build a new museum in Paris, housed inside a former stock exchange that will be renovated by architect Tadao Ando.

Silberkuppe, a gallery founded in Berlin in 2008, shut down.

Electric Objects was acquired by Giphy and will cease production of devices to display digital artworks.

Sarah H. Booth, Will Palley, Tucker Gates, and Matt Ross joined the board of directors of Art21.

The Salk Institute launched a new architecture conservation program.

Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany, plans to open a museum for her art collection in Bavaria.

The Centro Botín, a new arts center designed by Renzo Piano, opened in Santander, Spain.

The Museum of Happiness will open in the UK in September.

Accolades

The shortlist of artists nominated for this year’s Film London Jarman Award was revealed: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Oreet Ashery, Adham Faramawy, Melanie Manchot, Charlotte Prodger, and Marianna Simnett.

Guy Tillim won the 2017 HCB Prize.

William Cordova was named the winner of the 2017 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art.

Avery Singer won the 2017 Prix Jean-François Prat.

Artpace named Erin Jenoa Gilbert as its inaugural curator-in-residence.

Daily Serving, Art Practical, and c3:initiative announced the recipients of its 2017 Art Publishing Residency: Audrey Molloy and Sarah Hwang. [email announcement]

Michael Blum, Madalena S. Kozachuk, Sophie Guignard, Serge Allaire, and Paul-Louis Roubert were named as the first researchers-in-residence at the Canadian Photography Institute at the National Gallery of Canada.

Obituaries

Hans Breder, “Space/Time” (1964) (photo courtesy Hans Breder, via Wikimedia Commons)

Geri Allen (1957–2017), composer and pianist.

Paulus Berensohn (1933–2017), dancer and sculptor.

Richard Benson (1943–2017), author and photographer.

Michael Bond (1926–2017), children’s book author. Best known for creating the character Paddington Bear.

Hans Breder (1935–2017), artist.

Xavier Douroux (1956–2017), curator, art historian, and co-founder and director of Le Consortium, a contemporary art center in Dijon.

Ed Mieczkowski (1929–2017), artists affiliated with the Op art movement.

Michael Nyqvist (1960–2017), actor. Best known for starring in the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005).

Frank D. Welch (1927–2017), architect.

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