PREMIERE OF THE CATALOG BOOK "Scientific RESEARCH INSTITUTE Archive. Renovation"

Victor Misiano, Dmitry Bulatov, Roman Romanov and other authors in the new catalog book for the exhibition "Scientific Research Institute Archive. Renovation". The book consists of two parts: a research paper on the role of archives in cultural institutions and international practice, and an exhibition catalog with rare photographs from the archive of the Vinzavod Foundation, texts for projects, and a photo collection of art. The catalog book can be purchased at the information point at the entrance to the exhibition in the Krasny Workshop and in the online store at the link. Victor Misiano, curator, theorist and founder of the Art Magazine, and curator of the NII Archive exhibition, prepared his articles for the book. Remontage" by Irina Gorlova, the book also includes interviews with Sofia Trotsenko, founder of the CCA Winzavod, Roman Romanov, director of the GULAG History Museum, and Dmitry Bulatov, curator and theorist. "There is no phrase more insidious than "all in good time." Every time we discussed the idea of creating an archive, it seemed to us that the time had not yet come for this, that everything was ahead. With this feeling of "ahead", 17 years of the life of one of the largest art clusters in the country flew by unnoticed, and the events of those years remained more in memories than in documents. Many heroes of modern art have passed into eternity, technology has changed with incredible speed — many of the evidence can no longer be reached, original materials, source files, electronic access, etc. have been partially lost," says Irina Saminskaya, head of the Archive Research Institute Department. The publication was prepared within the framework of the Archive Research Institute, the purpose of which is to systematize and research the materials and knowledge accumulated during the work of the CCA Winzavod on the history of Russian contemporary art, introducing them into general cultural and historical contexts. The exhibition "Scientific Research Institute Archive. Remontage", under the supervision of Irina Gorlova, opened a new branch of the institution — the Archive Research Institute (Science, Research, Art, Archive) — and for the first time presented archival materials that have been collected over 17 years of active activity of the Central Research Institute Vinzavod. The exhibition features a photo chronicle of epoch-making exhibitions, vernissages, festivals, rare catalogues, installations, specially recreated works for the exhibition and selected works from the collection of the Winery Foundation. The last day of the exhibition is January 19, 2025. Learn more about the authors: Irina Gorlova, editor-compiler of the book, curator of the exhibition "Scientific Research Institute Archive. Remontage", art critic, member of the Cosmoscow Expert Council since 2024, former head of the department of the latest trends at the State Tretyakov Gallery, curator of the Test of Reality project held in the White and Red Workshops in 2010, co-curator of the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov exhibition "Not Everyone will be taken into the Future" (2018-2019) — a joint project of the Tretyakov Gallery, Tate Modern and the State Hermitage Museum. Irina Saminskaya, editor-compiler of the book, project manager of the Winzavod Charitable Foundation for the Support and Development of Contemporary Art, head of the Archive Research Institute. Dmitry Bulatov, artist, art theorist, curator of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Baltic Branch). He has organized and supervised more than twenty international projects in the field of Art&Science and new media. Author of books and anthologies on contemporary art, member of the editorial boards of the magazines "DOC(K)S" (France) and "NOEMA" (Italy). In 2014, he was nominated for the Golden Nickname of the Prix Ars Electronica Festival (Austria) in the Visionary Pioneers of Media Art section. Winner of the S. Kuryokhin Prize (2023). Twice winner of the State Prize in the field of contemporary art "Innovation" (2008, 2013). Victor Misiano, historian and theorist of contemporary art, curator, art critic, editor-in-chief of the Art Journal, chief curator of exhibition projects at the Venice Biennale, the first pavilion of Central Asia in 2005. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Manifesta Journal, an international publication on the theory and practice of curation. Roman Romanov, Director of the State Museum of the History of the GULAG, Head of the Foundation "Perpetuation of the Memory of Victims of Political Repression", member of the Expert Council of the Archive Research Institute. Sofya Trotsenko, founder of the CCA Winzavod, producer and initiator of socially significant cultural projects: The Union of Creative Clusters, the Association of Galleries, and many others. He has been collecting contemporary art for over 20 years.