Art and Revolution: Curators/Leaders Symposium is the third cultural event dedicated to contemporary art topics. Occuring during the centennial year of the October Revolution, this discussion gave a chance to comprehend the nature of revolutionary processes and the degree of their impact on Russia’s cultural space. The Revolution had an unprecedented influence on Russian artists and their works. Over the last decades, the cultural community has studied quite a few aspects of that. But the 21st century raises new questions and opens new areas in the topic of Revolution in Arts

Contemporary art symposium brought in heads of the top museums and scholars, curators and artists from Russia, Denmark, Japan, Italy, Greece, Austria, Germany and China. Moderator: Semyon Mikhailovsky, Rector, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; Commissioner of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The list of participants includes: Tatiana Andreeva, Senior Research Associate, Tsarskoe Selo State Museum; Irina Velikanova, Director, Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (Moscow); Elena Voronovich, Senior Research Associate, State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow); Dmitry Gutov, artists, art theorist; Irina Karasik, Senior Research Associate, Russian Museum; Marina Loshak, Director, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow); Pavel Prigara, Director, Maenege Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg); Sanne Kofod Olsen, Rector, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark); Anatoly Osmolovsky, artist, art theorist, curator (Moscow); Nadezhda Stepanova (Art Director, Institute of Russian Realist Art (Moscow); Vyacheslav Fyodorov, Supervisor, Department of the History of Russian Culture, State Hermitage; Paul Mosterd, Deputy Director, Hermitage Amsterdam.