High-profile leaders of Russian art and cultural institutions have been resigning from their jobs en masse in the wake of the country’s invasion into neighboring Ukraine:
Leaders at the Pushkin Museum, the VAC Foundation, and the Cosmoscow fair have stepped down.An employee and a visitor at the Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
Most of the statements from these curators and directors suggest that the decision to leave was voluntary, but there is some evidence to suggest that many have been forced out by colleagues and bosses over their perceived lack of support for president Vladimir Putin’s war.praised the museum’s digital development and other achievements over the course of his career.
The VAC Foundation operates two spaces, in Venice and Moscow. The latter, called GES-2, is a cultural center opened in 2020 that is funded by Leonid Mikhelson, who has close ties to the Kremlin and is chief executive of Novatek, Russia’s largest private gas group. Before joining the VAC Foundation in 2017, Manacorda was artistic director of Tate Liverpool, and was a co-curator of the 2016 Liverpool Biennial. In 2007, he curated the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2009 he oversaw the biennial’s New Zealand pavilion.Former Cosmoscow art director Simon Rees at the 24th St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Photo by Artyom GeodakyanTASS via Getty Images.
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