Curatorial Study Visit – PROGRAMME

Moscow // Russia September 16-18, 2019

1 Monday 16 September Day 1 Tess Smiechowska (Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute) and Location: Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center Pzremyslaw Kaniecki (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews).

10:00 – 10:30 WELCOME Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center (JMTC) 17:30 – 18:00 ARTIST TALK Haim Sokol by Liya Chechik, Director of Academic Programmes & Special Russian-Jewish artist Haim Sokol will give an insight into his artistic Projects practice

10:30 – 11:30 CURATORIAL TOUR Core Exhibition JMTC 19:30 Welcome dinner provided by JMTC at Odessa-mama restaurant with Leonid Krieger

11:30 – 12:30 DISCUSSION Core Exhibition Tuesday 17 September Day 2 with Liya Chechik, Director of Academic Programmes & Special Locations: A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum Projects and Svetlana Amosova, Director JMTC Research Center New Tretyakov Gallery

12:30 – 13:00 GUIDED TOUR Community Center 10:00 – 12:00 CURATORIAL TOUR Bakhrushin Museum with Marina Roscha and Leonid Krieger The group will be divided in two: one group will start with a guided tour through the core exhibition, while the second group will start 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break at the storage with the curator of the GOSET (Moscow State Jewish provided by JMTC at the restaurant of the Federation of Jewish Theatre) collection. Communities of Russia 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:30 PRESENTATION, DISCUSSION Exhibition Strategy and Programme Proposed location: Georgian restaurant JohnJollie, (opposite the For its temporary exhibitions programme, the museum often Bakhrushin Museum) programmes modern and contemporary art. Maria Nasimova, Chief Curator at JMTC will give an insight into its previous and future 13:30 – 15:30 CURATORIAL TOUR New Tretyakov Gallery programming. with Sergei Fofanov and Igor Volkov, art historians and curators of the department of contemporary art at the New Tretyakov Gallery 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 – 17:30 PROJECT PRESENTATIONS by participants

Participants showcase a recent exhibition/research project to their 16:00 – 17:30 CITY WALK Jewish Moscow today peers. With Kathrin Pieren (Jewish Museum London), Marcella with Gleb Artushin, historian and Head of the Excursion Ansaldi (Jewish Museum Venice), Mirjam Knotter (Jewish Cultural Department at JMTC Quarter Amsterdam), Olga Melasecchi (Jewish Museum Rome),

2 19:30 – OPTIONAL EVENING PROGRAMME Addresses Study Visit Venues: Theatre performance “Spectators” at the GULAG Museum or exhibition opening at the Multimedia Art Museum. More Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center information will be provided when in Moscow. Obraztsova St., 11, build. 1A, Moscow Closest metro station: Marina Roscha

Bakhrushin Museum Wednesday 18 September Day 3 Bakhrushina St., 31, build. 12, Moscow Closest metro station: Paveletskaya Locations: GULAG History Museum Museum of Jewish History in Russia New Tratyakov Gallery Krymsky Val, 10, Moscow Closest metro station: Park Kultury 10:00 – 12:30 CURATORIAL TOUR GULAG History Museum The museum functions as a public space for presentation and study GULAG History Museum of the history of mass repression, forced labor and political lack of 1-Y Samotechnyy Pereulok, 9, build.1, Moscow freedom in the USSR. The museum conducts mapping projects, Closest metro station: Dostoyevskaya expeditions to former camp sites and collects stories from Museum of Jewish History in Russia survivors. It also works with contemporary artists for its Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Av., 10, build. 3, ap. 7, Moscow programming. With Alexey Trubin and curatorial group. Closest metro station: Dinamo

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break Addresses restaurants: Proposed location: Gustatore restaurant Odessa-mama Krivokolennyy Pereulok 10, build. 15, Moscow 14:00 – 16:30 CURATORIAL TOUR Museum of Jewish History in Russia

This privately owned museum aims at showing a comprehensive JohnJolie picture of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. St., 14, build. 19, Moscow With Marina Kaspina, Deputy Director, and Boris Khaimovich, Chief Curator. Private collector and Judaica expert William Gross will join Gustatore restaurant Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Pereulok, 10, build. 3, Moscow us for this museum visit.

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