The State Hermitage Museum: Calendar

Dates

Events

January
Exhibitions Masterpieces of French Drawings: 15th-18th centuries from the State Hermitage Museum Collection 30 January 2008 - 11 May 2008
Lectures Lecture "Francois Pinault Collection" as included in the series of lectures "21 Century Art. Museums. Private Collections. Projects" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 4 p.m.) 26 January 2008
Conferences The Child’s Painting Activity as a Drive to Achievement of Personality and Creative Development 17-18 January 2008 Meeting to Commemorate Vladimir Grigoryevich Lukonin (1932-1984) Department of Culture and Art of the Orient 23 January 2008 V.G. Lukonin memorial readings 23 January 2008
Other Zlata Ponirovskaya Clinic (Cybernetic objects, installation) Youth Centre Exhibition Hall 30 January 2008 – 10 February 2008 Master class by Zlata Ponirovskaya Youth Centre Exhibition Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 31 January 2008
February
Exhibitions Castelli Ceramics: 16th-17th centuries from the State Hermitage Museum Collection 5 February 2008 - 11 May 2008 In Palaces and Tents. Islamic World from China to Europe 14 February 2008 - 7 September 2008 Boris Piotrovsky 14 February 2008 - 27 April 2008 Treasures of the Sarmatians - from the Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Paleontology 14 February 2008 - 18 May 2008 Modern Japanese applied art 19 February 2008 - 2 March 2008 World Museum Masterpieces at the State Hermitage Museum: Danae by Corregio from the Borghese Gallery (Rome) 29 February 2008 - 4 May 2008 Chuck Close: Seven Portraits 29 February 2008 - 11 May 2008
Lectures Lecture "Pompidou Centre" as included in the series of lectures "21 Century Art. Museums. Private Collections. Projects" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 4 p.m.) 2 February 2008 Lecture "Queen Sofia Arts Centre. Dali Theatre and Museum. PabloPicassoMuseum" as included in the series of lectures "21 Century Art. Museums. Private Collections. Projects" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 4 p.m.) 9 February 2008 "State Hermitage Museum and its People: Unexpected Angle of Aspect" series. Meeting Yuri Molodkovets: "Art-history in Photography. Idea. Scenario. Realization. Demonstration" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 13 February 2008 Lecture "The Menil Collection. Cy Twombly Gallery. Rothko Chapel. Barnes Foundation" as included in the series of lectures "21 Century Art. Museums. Private Collections. Projects" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 4 p.m.)\| 16 February 2008 "State Hermitage Museum and its People: Unexpected Angle of Aspect" series. Meeting Yuri Molodkovets: "Photographer at a Museum/Museum for a Photographer" Youth Centre Lecture Hall February 2008 Lecture "Wassily Kandinsky" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 21 February 2008 Lecture "Chaim Soutine" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 28 February 2008
Conferences Hermitage Readings Dedicated to the Memory of Academician Boris Piotrovsky (1908-1990) 14-15 February 2008
Other V International Musical Hermitage Festival dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Boris Piotrovsky 17-24 February 2008 The Next Meeting of the Hermitage Friends' Club 19 February 2008 Oleg Artushkov: "Childhood of the Gods" (Interactive audio-installation) Youth Centre Exhibition Hall (start at 5 p.m., Master class at 6 p.m.) 27 February 2008 – 9 March 2008
March
Exhibitions no
Lectures Lecture "Alexandr Arkhipenko" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 6 March 2008 Lecture "Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 13 March 2008 Lecture "Chuck Close. American Hyperrealism" within the framework of the "Seven Portraits" exhibition educational program Youth Centre Lecture Hall March 2008 Lecture "Alexei von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 27 March 2008 Lecture "Nicolas de Stael" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 27 March 2008
Conferences Examining Materials. Seminar March-April 2008
Other 2nd International Festival – Dedication to Maestro St. Petersburg 5 - 12 March 2008 Marina (Manya) Alexeeva "Black Squirrel" (painting) Youth Centre Exhibition Hall 12-23 March 2008 Master class by Marina Alexeeva Youth Centre Exhibition Hall (start at 5 p.m.) 12 March 2008 The Next Meeting of the Hermitage Friends' Club 13 March 2008 "Tulip and Man". Ðarty at the Student Club Start at 3 p.m. 17 February 2008
April
Exhibitions No
Lectures Lecture "Jacques Lipchitz" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 3 April 2008 Lecture "Chuck Close. American Hyperrealism" within the framework of the "Seven Portraits" exhibition educational program Youth Centre Lecture Hall April 2008 Lecture "Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 10 April 2008 Lecture "Serge Poliakoff" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 24 April 2008
Conferences Archaeological Session 15-16 April 2008 Museum and Education: History and Contemporaneity. International conference (in cooperation with the Faculty of Philosophy and Politology of Saint Petersburg State University) 17 April 2008 The Museum and the Issue of ‘Cultural Tourism’ – 6th Roundtable Discussion 24-25 April 2008
Other Lee Bo Suk (Korea). For the Korean Culture Festival "Traditions and Modernity" Youth Centre Exhibition Hall 10-20 April 2008 Korean Culture Festival at the Youth Centre 10-12 April 2008
May
Exhibitions Horacio Garcia Rossi and GRAV. The Geometry of Imaginary Space 16 May 2008 - 14 September 2008
Lectures Lecture Phenomenon of Cave Art. The History of the discovery, experience of study, range of problems. Kapova Cave as a Monument of Paleontological Pictorial Art delivered as part of the educational program Modern Photography and Archeology. Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 13 May 2008 Lecture Technical Issues related to fixing Cave Art Pieces as part of the educational program Modern Photography and Archeology. Youth Centre Lecture Hall (starts at 6 p.m.) 14 May 2008 Lecture "Boris Grigoriev and Aleksander Yakovlev" as included in the series of lectures "Born in Russia" Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 6 p.m.) 15 May 2008
Conferences Concluding students’ conference Youth Centre Lecture Hall (start at 3 p.m.) 17 May 2008
Other Display of photographic pictures as part of the educational program Modern Photography and Archeology. Youth Centre Lecture Hall. 13–18 May 2008 Days of Yamal festival at the Youth Centre held as part of the program Days of International Culture 23-24 May 2008 Meet Yamal display of work by students timed to coincide with the Days of Yamal festival. Youth Exhibition Lecture Hall 23-30 May 2008
June
Exhibitions In the Kingdom of Wonderful, Wild Weather: Drawings of Heinrich Theodor Wehle from German Museums 10 June 2008 - 7 September 2008 World Museum Masterpieces at the State Hermitage Museum: The Conversion of Saul by Parmigianino, from the collection of the Museum of Art History (Vienna, Austria) 16 June 2008 - 28 September 2008
Lectures No
Conferences No
Other The Final Season Event in the Hermitage Friends' Club 4 June 2008 International Gala Banquet in the Winter Palace 20 June 2008
July
Exhibitions No
Lectures No
Conferences No
Other VII International Grand Waltz Music Festival in St. Petersburg 4-14 July 2008
August
Exhibitions Paintings by Garofalo from the San Bernardino Monastery (Ferrara, Italy) 8 August 2008 – 28 September 2008
Lectures No
Conferences No
Other No
September
Exhibitions Ganymede with the Eagle: The history of double figure compositions. Sculptures, Vase Paintings, Carvings 2 September 2008 - 30 November 2008 Tea in Europe: From the Exotic to the Traditional 9 September 2008 - 11 January 2009 Timur’s Territory. St. Petersburg – New-York. On the 50 anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov 24 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
Lectures No
Conferences No
Other The New Season in the Hermitage Friends' Club September 2008
October
Exhibitions World Museum Masterpieces at the State Hermitage Museum Menippus and Aesop by Velasquez. 21 October 2008 - 21 December 2008 At the foot of Mt. Ararat 28 October 2008 - 25 January 2009
Lectures No
Conferences Memorial Readings – 150th Anniversary of the Births of A.A. Ilyin and A.K. Markov 1-2 October 2008 Byzantium in the Context of World Culture. International Conference in Memory of A.V. Bank 7-9 October 2008 Historical Museum Complex: Reconstruction, Restoration, Reexhibition. International Seminar. In cooperation with the PRO-ARTE Institute 20-22 October 2008 Readings in Memory of V.F. Levinson-Lessing 29-30 October 2008
Other Students' Day at the State Hermitage Museum 4 October 2008 The New Season in the Hermitage Friends' Club October 17, 2008
November
Exhibitions From Friedrich to Dix: German painting of the 19th – 20th centuries from the collection of the Dresden Picture Gallery 11 November 2008 – 29 March 2009 World Museum Masterpieces at the State Hermitage Museum Portrait of Francois-Marius Granet by Ingres. From Granet Museum, Aix-en-Provence 14 November 2008 - 25 January 2009
Lectures No
Conferences Sogdians at Home and Abroad Conference on the 75th Anniversary of the Birth of B.I. Marshak 13-14 November 2008 Personalities from the Era of Peter the Great 18-19 November 2008
Other Cyberfest 2008. Youth Educational Center of the State Hermitage Museum 25-30 November 2008
December
Exhibitions Alberto Giacometti 5 December 2008 - 8 February 2009 The State Hermitage Museum in Publications. The Hermitage-2008 in Photographs 5-14 December 2008 The Caves of a Thousand Buddhas: Russian Expeditions on the Silk Road 9 December 2008 - 5 April 2009 From the Christmas Gift series Russian Porcelain and the Heraldry 23 December 2008 - 29 March 2009 We Draw in the Hermitage 27 December 2008 - 25 January 2009
Lectures No
Conferences No
Other Hermitage Days-2007 From 7 until 12 December 2008 The Hermitage Friends' Day December, 2008