YURI NIKIFOROV. EYE DISSECTION. DARNING.

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Marina Gisich Projects is a new gallery initiative with the unique exhibition program which is oriented on the experimental projects and artistic practices.

The idea of the platform is to follow up the interaction between the diverse spheres of the contemporary visual culture, where the visual arts is just one of the several elements.

The focus of Marina Gisich Projects is upon the projects at the intersection of visual arts, science, techniques, theatre, design, music, dance, performing practices.

The space is neighboring the main exhibition space of Marina Gisich Gallery at the same building on 121 Fontanka river embankment. It keeps the “story” - from 2009 to 2020 it was the primary space for the gallery.

Marina Gisich Projects finds one of its significant issues in helping circulation of the ideas and strategies between the various “culture agents”, institutions both inside the Russian artistic scene (where the infrastructure is just growing) and international professional community.

In this regard, this initiative is strategically oriented on the consecutive work and collaboration with the institutions and their curatorial teams and interaction with Russian and foreign independent curators.

YURI NIKIFOROV. EYE DISSECTION. DARNING.

2 march 2024-25 may 2024

Yuri Nikiforov's retrospective exhibition (1947 – 2016) opens at two venues of Marina Gisich Gallery. The idea of the exhibition is an ambitious attempt to make a "rediscovery" of an artist who has lived a busy creative life, but has not received due attention on the Russian art scene. The project was curated by Alexander Dashevsky.


"The last couple of years in Russian contemporary art have been marked by increased attention to archives, names that did not get into the wide museum and gallery exhibition rotation, to phenomena and events that received undeservedly little attention in the previous era. One such name is Yuri Nikiforov (1947-2016), whose impressive legacy has been little studied, and the ways in which his practice was described now seem superficial and irrelevant.


The rapprochement between Nikiforov and the Marina Gisich Gallery, which emerged in the last years of the artist's life, is now being developed in the form of a large two-part exhibition occupying both exhibition spaces of the gallery.


At Marina Gisich Projects, viewers will be able to see the Darning project, which demonstrates several cross-cutting subjects that the artist addressed throughout his creative biography, rarely exhibited drawings and paintings from the 1980s and 90s."


– Alexander Dashevsky