Exhibitions

Stories Told by the Association of Cultural Managers
The exhibition presented by the Association of Cultural Managers puts on display various forms of culture and business interaction. Three case studies selected from the pool of winners of the museums grant competition show how cross-sector collaboration occurs in the cities of Ekaterinburg, Seguezha and Samara. The cases were interpreted by a contemporary Russian artist Nikolay Polissky. The project has been supported by Vladimir Potanin Charity Foundation.

The Museum Goes Stylish (Investment Project)
The idea of this project is to use patterns of the famous 17-c. Russian tiles from New Jerusalem in the design of contemporary clothes. The project is based on collaboration of a contemporary artist, Anastasia Kriuchkova, and the State Museum of History, Architecture and Fine Arts in New Jerusalem, Moscow Region. Project has been supported by the Cultural Policy Institute, the Ministry of Culture, Moscow Region, and Centre for Cultural Initiatives, Moscow Region. Designers Andrey Polegayev (Company ‘Cinémathèque’) and Oksana Cherednichenko have contributed to the presentation. museum.istra.ru/index.html

LIEU COMMUN presents: Art to B
Lieu Commun Communication / Creation Agency is operating at the crossborder of creativity and business spheres. We employ cultural technologies to execute business projects and consider our clients as partners in realization of joint projects. The result is such partnership projects as, for instance, a project of the Russian Parquet Encyclopedia and a diverse promotion campaign together with «Parquet-Hall», or a project «Mouli-Fairytales» with «Moulinex».

Light Industry: An Exhibition by Moscow Architecture Preservation Society (MAPS)
The exhibition presents best world examples of conversion of the former industrial and military buildings into cultural centres; successful examples of such conversion in Moscow; several Moscow projects of this kind that are in progress now; and, finally, a catalogue of the Moscow historic industrial buildings that are doomed for demolition or re-shaping. The latter are candidates for a clever conversion that requires participation from the authorities, business, architects and concept developers. The project is supported by the Cultural Policy Institute.

KomArt Media Art Club, City of Petrozavodsk
There is a popular web site that embraces cultural life of Karelia and its capital city, Petrozavodsk. One may find there everything, from current events to the tourist routs. The idea of a new project is to establish a Media Art Club in Petrozavodsk, which will serve as a real meeting place for the community that has been visiting the web-site for nearly 7 years. The project is presented by Centre of Cultural Initiatives, Republic of Karelia. Director: Alena Sologub. Project team: Sergey Terentiev (installations, video, animation), Anna Kalashnik (management), Dmitri Bezdenezhnych (technical support). The project and its presentation at the Forum have been supported by Cultural Policy Institute. www.culturalmanagement.ru

The Moscow Business Library: Newest Technology in the Cultural Field
The exhibition shows the possibilities of the Moscow Business Library, as a contemporary Intellectual Centre. Apart from being a library, in the traditional sense, this institution serves also as a technological centre providing information support for the cultural field in Moscow; centre for training of personnel; analytical and media centre. The project team: N.A.Zabelina, Director, Moscow Business Library, G.N.Vasiliev, Deputy Director, and S.V.Shtukareva, Head of Coordination and Analysis Department.