St. Petersburg will house Manifesta 10, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 28 June – 31 October 2014. The State Hermitage Museum will be the main exhibition venue of the biennial’s main program, curated by Kasper König.
Public Programs, headed by Joanna Warsza, Educational program, headed by Sepake Angiama, and Parallel Program, coordinated by Nikolai Molok, will take place at diverse venues, education centres and open spaces in St.Petersburg.
Participants of the Manifesta 10 Parallel Program from over 200 applicants coming from Russia, Europe, America, Asia and Africa will be selected.
The Selection Committee is comprised of:
Alexandra Danilova (Moscow) – curator and writer; deputy head of the Department of European Art of the 19-20 centuries at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art.
Ekaterina Inozemtseva (Moscow) – curator; chief curator and deputy director of the
Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM).
Sergei Fofanov (St. Petersburg) – curator, art historian, supervisor of art exhibitions fostering artistic exchange between Russia and Germany.
Irina Gorlova (Moscow) – curator; head of the Art Programs Department at the
National Centre of Contemporary Art (NCCA).
Ekaterina Lopatkina (St. Petersburg) – curator; deputy head of the Department of
Contemporary Art at the State Hermitage Museum.
Zorina Myskova (St. Petersburg) – editor-in-chief of the Hermitage magazine, Board Chair of the Hermitage Museum XXI Century Foundation, Manifesta 10 Supervisory
Board member, Chairman of the Selection Committee.
Jenni Nurmenniemi (Helsinki)– curator of the Helsinki International Artist Programme HIAP, developer and coordinator of art and multidisciplinary residency programmes on the historic island of Suomenlinna and cultural centre Cable Factory.
Johannes Saar (Tallinn) – independent curator and writer, formerly director of the CCA,Estonia, and commissioner of the Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Marieke van Hal (Amsterdam)– director of Biennial Foundation, an independent nonprofit arts organization that was founded in 2009 to facilitate contact between over 150 biennials of contemporary art globally, organizer of the World Biennial Forum.