FSO's partners of the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg invited art archives, museums and galleries taking part in the round table „Nonconformism online: digital tools and new approaches to working with collections of unofficial art of the Soviet period" with the aim to present their institution and digital strategies. Watch the live recording on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=201905171638215&ref=watch_permalink
(28th Jan. 2021)

The work of today’s museums can be hardly imagined without digital instruments, new technologies, and active online presence. Restrictions, imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, had a major influence on social life in 2020. They once again highlighted the importance of the digital component in museum practice and placed online projects in the foreground.

In June 2020 the Museum of nonconformist art started developing the virtual platform „MoNA+“ that aims to unite the museum’s existing digital products and offer a base for future online-based projects. The platform will be launched in 2021 featuring the museum’s digital collection, exhibition archive, the archive of the Pushkinskaya-10 art center, a network photo collection capturing the life of unofficial artists in Leningrad, virtual tours in different languages, as well as an interactive learning area for children. Besides that, additional materials on temporary exhibitions will be available in a special section of the platform.

An important place at the „MoNA+“ platform will be given to the partner network — a catalogue of Russian and international institutions, representing and researching unofficial art from the Soviet Union.

During the event representatives of leading institutions from Russia and abroad working with the heritage of nonconformist art will talk about their approaches to digitalizing museum collections and archives and share successful experiences of implementing Internet-based projects.

Participants:

MUSEUM OF NONCONFORMIST ART (Russia, Saint Petersburg)

Anastasia Patsey
Director of the Museum of Nonconformist Art

Lora Kucher
Research associate, curator

GARAGE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Russia, Moscow)

Anastasia Tarasova
Chief of the Archival Collection
Research Department

Alexandra Obykhova
Achive curator

MUSEUM OF ODESSA MODERN ART (Ukraine, Odessa)

Lyubov Zaeva
Executive director of the Museum of Odessa Modern Art
Chief curator of the Museum Fund

KHARKIV MUNICIPAL GALLERY (Ukraine, Kharkiv)

Tatiana Tumasian
Director of the Municipal gallery, Kharkiv

FORSCHUNGSSTELLE OSTEUROPA AN DER UNIVERSITÄT BREMEN
Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (Germany, Bremen)

Manuela Putz
Research fellow/academic manager

KOLODZEI ART FOUNDATION, Inc (USA, New-Jersey)

Natalia Kolodzei
Director of the KOLODZEI ART FOUNDATION

 

The project „MoNA+“ is being realized by a winner of the competition „Common Cause“ in the framework of the program „Efficient Philanthropy“ of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation.

The project „Digital collection of the Museum of nonconformist art“ is supported by the Presidential Grants Foundation.