Not Permm one

The Perm Fund for the Support of Cultural Projects "New Collection" of the Patron of the Agishevs officially declared its independence from the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory. Moreover, the owners of the fund announced the desire to open their own gallery, which, in fact, will become the second museum of modern art in Perm - only, unlike Permm , private.

Nadezhda Agisheva not only refused the support of the Perm “cultural revolution”, but also decided to lead her own.

Photo: Evgeny Malyshev

The Perm Fund for the Support of Cultural Initiatives "New Collection" has existed since 2004. The design portfolio of the Fund has grandiose events. The most famous and most expensive project (bypassed by seven million rubles) is the project-“Kudymkor-locomotive of the future” of curator Ekaterina Dgo, dedicated to the work of the Komi-Permyak artist, the artist Peter Subbotin-Permyak. The project was exhibited in Perm, in Moscow at the Winzavod, will soon be represented in St. Petersburg. For “Kudimkor ...”, Ekaterina Dego received the “Innovation” award in the nomination “Curator project”.

The New Collection has been working closely with the Perm Art Gallery for several years. A masterpiece of the Perm wooden sculpture was restored to the funds of the fund - “Christ in the dungeon” from the Pashi Church, and the monograph by Nikolai Serebrennikov, the first collector of the unique collection, was reprinted. In addition, the Fund readily helped the PermM Museum of Contemporary Art, acting as a co -organizer of the Vision and Yakshcho projects. At the dawn of the existence of the museum, he even acquired two works by Dmitry Gutov from the collection of the Russian Poor exhibition and gave them Permm. And these days, the Ural Industrial Biennale is taking place in Yekaterinburg, and the “new collection” acts as its official partner.

At first, the Agishev’s spouses expected it: they had no plans to organize various projects related to contemporary art. Fate intervened in the person of the same Ekaterina Dgo-art critic, curator, art critic and now the chief editor of the “ Art ” section of the OpenSpace portal.

- Having met Ekaterina Yuryevna, we ended up on Biennal in Venice. There we met two Russian artists. We still thought how Ekaterina Yuryevna would present us to them. She turned and said: "Hope and Andrei are collectors from Perm." We sat down slightly from such a recommendation. But since then we have really engaged in collecting, and this performance of Ekaterina Yuryevna still obliges us, ”recalls Nadezhda Agisheva.

The fund forms its own collection according to the representative principle, that is, it acquires not one or two work, but a whole series by which we can judge the period or creative handwriting of the artist. For example, the last acquisition of the fund was the collection of the work of the Perm Realist artist Maxim Katkin (these days eight out of eighteen paintings are exhibited in Perm in the Porta cafe).

The Agishevs focus on the two main sections: Russian actual art and works of Perm artists. Today in the collection of their fund there are works by Dmitry Gutov, Olga Chernysheva, Arsen Savadov, Pavel Pepperstein, Dmitry Tsvetkov, the Blue Noses group. As well as the work of the Perm authors - Alexander Repin, Mikhail Pavlyukevich, Tatyana Necheukhina, Konstantin Nikolaev and the original "naive" artists Rudolf Tyurin and Vera Bartova.

Having opposed herself to the Ministry of Culture, Natalia Shostina replenished the unofficial club of Perm cultural chorers, dissatisfied with the policy of the ministry.

Photo: Evgeny Malyshev

Speaking about the desire to open a new exhibition space in Perm, Nadezhda Agishev, in fact, announces the creation of the second museum of modern art. But, unlike PermM, it will be a private museum with a private collection. There is a similar one in Russia today only in St. Petersburg. The Agishevs have already looked at the room: this is a historical building in the center of Perm, but where exactly it is, they have not yet been said.

The natural question, what could such a strong player as the New Collection Foundation could not be arranged in the actions of the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory, which is why it was necessary to collect a press conference and declare an alternative strategy for behavior?

The reason was the crumpled ceremony of presenting the prize in the field of culture and art of the Perm Territory, which opened the eyes of Nadezhda Agisheva, nominated for the prize for a project jointly with the Perm art gallery, for the policy of the Minister of Culture Boris Milgram.

- The way the ceremony was held shows that the ministry represented by Boris Milgram is disrespectful to the work of many Perm institutions. It seems to me that some skew has formed towards certain projects. This, for example, is the theater theater, whose director in a press release cynically states that they, of course, will not remain without the support of the Ministry of Culture. This is the Permm Museum of Modern Art. At the same time, we sincerely support the creation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Perm, it is important, regardless of how the events will develop in the future, because in any case the institution will remain in Perm, the museum’s collection will remain, ”explains Nadezhda Agisheva.

Nadezhda Agishev is inclined to associate with the unfair, in her opinion, the activities of the Ministry and the protest of the writer Alexei Ivanov, and the departure of the former artistic director of the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of George Isahakan, and the transition to the creative underground of the Support of Cultural and Youth Initiatives of Kramva.

At a press conference, which was dedicated to the opening of the Porta Porta Perm Cafe Perm artist Maxim Katkin, organized by the New Collection Foundation, Nadezhda Agisheva appeared with Natalia Shostina, the director of the Kamwa festival. This joint output gives reason to assume that joint cultural projects are likely in the future. Having contrasted himself with the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory, Nadezhda Agishev and Natalia Shostina replenished the unofficial club of Perm cultural citizens, dissatisfied with the policy of the ministry, including the writer Alexei Ivanov, culturologist Oleg Leibovich, social activist Igor Averkiev.