Artistic Training Between Tradition and Experiment: Art

Academies and Alternative Art Schools in Europe and Russia

Two days seminar aims to investigate different experiences in art school education in
various countries as means to developing new perspectives for a contemporary
curriculum. Among contributors are art theorists, fine art practitioners and cultural
sociologists.

Venue: New Holland Island, Commandants House (Mayak School for Creative
industries)

190000, Saint Petersburg, Admiralteysky Canal Embankment, 2

Friday, October 13th

11.00 Registration and morning coffee

11.30 Seminars opening

Margarita Kuleva and Silvie Jacobi

Nikita Basov
Olga Smirnova

11.45 Session 1. Conceptualizing Artistic Training and its Ideological

foundations

Maria Safonova

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

National Research University Higher School of Economics

The Da Vinci Cotta, or Ideologies and Politics behind the European Academies of
Fine Arts

Anastasia Tarasova

Chief Keeper of the Archival Collection at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,

Moscow

Art Education as Engaged Practice in Museums

Dmitry Vilensky

Artist, founding member of Chto Delat?/What is to be done? group and the School of
Engaged Art
Pedagogical Experiences of the School of Engaged Art

14.00 -15.00 Lunch

15.00 Session 2. Comparative studies of art education

Silvie Jacobi

Joint PhD Candidate, Dept. of Culture Media and Creative Industries at Kings
College London & Geographisches Institut at Humboldt University Berlin

Art Schools and Their Relationship with Place: Reflection on British and German Art
Schools Including Emerging Alternatives

Nadya Sokolova

MA in Sociology and independent researcher

Becoming an Expert in Art Perception: Professional Socialization of Art Historians

Jenny Judova

MPhil in Art History, author and independent researcher, founder of Art Map London

The Rise of Alternative Art Schools in London: a waste of time or a career

opportunity for artists?

16. 45 17.15 Coffee Break

17.15 - 19.15 Artistic training and artists careers and wellbeing

Margarita Kuleva

Lecturer and researcher, National Research University Higher School of Economics;

PhD fellow, Centre for German and European Studies SPBU Bielefeld University

Career Starts of St. Petersburg Contemporary Artists with Dissimilar Educational

Background

Evgeniya Polyakova

PhD in Economics, Research Fellow in Laboratory for Labor Market Studies,

National Research University Higher School of Economics
People with Art and Cultural Education in Russia: Who They Are?

Aleksandr Montlevich

Co-curator of Paideia alternative art-school; Scientific researcher at Laboratory of

the composition of contemporary forms of dance of the Vaganova Ballet Academy

Contemporary Art as a Professional Minority

19.30 Dinner at Kuznya (at New Holland Island)

Saturday, October 14th

12.00 Learning from artistic practice

Olga Smirnova

Founding director, Mayak School for Creative Industries

[presentation title]

Sarah Rowles

Founding Director of Q-Art & Doctoral Candidate at the Institute of Education,

University College London

Questioning the Role, Audience, and Purpose of a Contemporary Fine Art Education
in The UK

Ivan Plusch

Artist, Founding member of Nepokorennie Open Studios

Woe from raftmanship: A ritical View on Professional Art-education in Russia

14.30 Lunch break (lunch will be served at Mayak school)

15.00-16.30 Concluding discussion

16.30 Organizers final remarks

Margarita Kuleva and Silvie Jacobi