Master Class with Ekaterina Degot
EIDOS Arts Development Foundation
invites

November 25, 2008

Master Class
EKATERINA DEGOT

“Thinking Realism”, “Struggling for the Banner” and Other Curatorial Projects: Is There a Place for Realistic Tradition in Contemporary Art?

Еkaterina Degot, PhD. Art historian, art critic and curator based in Moscow. Graduated from Moscow State University as an art historian. Worked as curator at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and a culture columnist at the “Kommersant Daily”, Moscow. In 2002-2005 she wrote a column on everyday objects of Post-Soviet neocapitalist life in the Moscow "Bolshoj Gorod" ("Big City") magazine. She was a guest professor in many American and European universities. Currently she teaches at Aleksandr Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia and writes for the “Vedomosti” newspaper. She is interested in the specific nature of Russian modernism, including Soviet realism, and unofficial conceptualism of the 1970s and 1980s.

Curator and co-curator of shows:
Body Memory: Underwear of the Soviet Era (City History museum, Petersburg, Museum fuer Voelkerkunde, Vienna, a.o., 2000-5),
The Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2000),
Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000 (Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Historic Museum, Moscow, a.o. 2003-4),
Soviet Idealism (Museum of Walloon art, Liege, a.o., 2005-6),
The Comedy: the Funny Side of a Moving Image (Moscow Central House of Artists, 2005),
Thinking Realism (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2007),
Citizens! Do not forget yourselves, please! D.A. Prigov (1940-2007) (Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, May 2008),
Struggling for the Banner: Soviet Art Between Trotsky and Stalin (Novyj Manezh, Moscow, June 2008)

Published works:
Terrorist Naturalism. Moscow: 1998
Russian 20th Century Art. Moscow: 2000
Moscow Conceptualism (with V.Zaharov). Moscow: 2005

Language: Russian

Place and time:
Les Kurbas Centre (Kyiv, Volodymyrska St. 23 V), 3rd floor
November 25, 2008
Beginning at 4pm

Entrance is free!

For more information, please, call (044) 251 22 48, e-mail tetyana@eidosfund.org or visit http://eidosfund.org

The master class is held within the framework of the EIDOS InfoCentre project supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs programme Matra KAP.