In Conversation with Art & Culture

About In Conversation with Art & Culture

Since its inception in 2011, RUSSIAN ART + CULTURE has become the most popular and comprehensive international guide to the world of Russian art and culture. Our new podcast will feature even more creative conversations around tradition, fine art, education and more. Owned by art collector and professional Natasha Butterwick RUSSIAN ART + CULTURE features listings of the best selected events all over the world, exclusive interviews with the world-renowned professionals of the Russian cultural scene, reviews of the latest books, exhibitions and performances, research articles and opinion pieces, and the latest reports on the art market. Throughout the year we host seminars, lectures, film screenings, conferences and organise private art tours. In 2014 we published the UK-Russia Year of Culture magazine and, in 2015, commissioned the first-ever in-depth analysis of the Russian Auction Market – an invaluable and much-quoted source of reference for art professionals. RUSSIAN ART + CULTURE has regularly featured in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, Huffington Post, Blouin ArtInfo, The Moscow Times and RIA Novosti – and on the BBC. We are the founders of the RUSSIAN ART WEEK in London – an exclusive network uniting the leading auctions of Russian Art at Sotheby’s, Christie's, MacDougalls and Bonhams with the coinciding Russian-themed exhibitions and cultural events. We publish a comprehensive bi-annual OFFICIAL RUSSIAN ART WEEK GUIDE, coinciding with the June and November auctions of Russian Art at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, MacDougall’s and Bonhams. The Guide is available across London at locations from the Courtauld Institute, via the Saatchi Gallery to the Russian Embassy, to leading auction houses, business centres, restaurants and hotels, including The Dorchester, Claridge’s and The Ritz providing an insight into the most important events and topics.

Publisher

Izba Arts

Category

arts · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jul 2020

Latest episode

27 Jul 2022

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Jul 2022

   27. Zsolt Bodoni - art, hygiene, politics

   Zsolt Bodoni is a Romanian artist, who experiments with a range of media in his paintings to create dimension. His latest venture are semi-transparent multi-layered works with light. In late 2021, his exhibition viewed in darkness at David Kovats London, introduced the artist to the UK. We were really excited to talk to him about his process, the evolution of his practice and what comes next. Find Zsolt: https://davidkovats.com/artist/zsolt-bodoni/ (https://davidkovats.com/artist/zsolt-bodoni/) https://www.instagram.com/zsoltbodonid/?hl=en (https://www.instagram.com/zsoltbodonid/?hl=en) https://davidkovats.com/artist/zsolt-bodoni/ (https://davidkovats.com/artist/zsolt-bodoni/) Find Ksenia: https://www.instagram.com/essentialaspects/ (https://www.instagram.com/essentialaspects/) https://kseniakazintseva.wixsite.com/fineart (https://kseniakazintseva.wixsite.com/fineart) Find us via: https://www.russianartandculture.com/ (https://www.russianartandculture.com/) https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/ (https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/) https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture (https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture) https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/ (https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/) Music by Alexandr Solodchenko

2. 

   16 May 2022

   26. Kusochek 2.0 - Irina Kikina

   Irina is from Moscow and takes much of her creative inspiration from Russian cultural references that she discusses in this episode, especially film, art, and literature. Irina got her MA in graphic design at the Stroganov Academy of the Applied Arts, the alma mater of Rodchenko and Mayakovsky. She moved to Antwerp, Belgium to study Dutch and then to Moscow to work as a designer and art director at magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Empire. After 10 years in the industry, she took the leap in 2020 to set up her own business, a sustainable e-commerce brand called Kikina Designs aimed at Gen-Z and Russian culture lovers. On her website you can expect to find futurist manifestoes hand-painted on silk scarves, post-Soviet cult classic movie heroes on t-shirts, and silver age poetry on hoodies. In this episode, Irina describes her favourite Russian food, films, and literature with a passion that would make anyone want to eat, watch, and read all of the above. Find Kikina designs here: https://irinakikina.com/ (https://irinakikina.com/) and here: https://www.instagram.com/kikina_designs/ (https://www.instagram.com/kikina_designs/) Find Zviagintsev’s quote here: https://www.indiewire.com/2004/02/return-of-the-prodigal-father-andrey-zvyagintsev-talks-about-the-return-79164/ (https://www.indiewire.com/2004/02/return-of-the-prodigal-father-andrey-zvyagintsev-talks-about-the-return-79164/) Find Pozner’s interview (in Russian) with Zviagintsev here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7oTyY__zs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7oTyY__zs) Find the film “I am Twenty” part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5NzS4h4MOg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5NzS4h4MOg) Find the film “I am Twenty” part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFmPXhadAHk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFmPXhadAHk) Find the film “July Rain” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohakjwIYkrE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohakjwIYkrE) Find us via: https://www.russianartandculture.com/ (https://www.russianartandculture.com/) https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/ (https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/) https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture (https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture) https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/ (https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/)

3. 

   9 May 2022

   25. Kusochek 2.0 - Saffy Mirghani

   Saffy talks about her research into the influence of literary legend Fyodor Dostoevsky on African American literature and the Blackness of Alexander Pushkin. Saffy talks about her favourite novels and recommends the best way for newbies to Russian literature to get into Dostoevsky. She also discusses the existential themes of suffering, salvation and oppression that appear in Dostoevsky’s work and subsequently relate to African American slave culture in African American literature. Saffy also explains why it is argued that Pushkin had an affinity to black culture through his own suffering and feeling like an outsider due to his heritage. Tune in to hear more of Saffy’s fascinating perspective on Russian literature and her and recommendation on how to get a well-rounded insight into Russian culture. Saffy is in her second year of her PhD and hopes to contribute a valuable piece of scholarship to an otherwise not hugely written about topic. She has ambitions to pursue either academia or creative writing or both once her thesis is done. Find Saffy here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/saffy-mirghani (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/saffy-mirghani) Find Slovo, UCL SSEES’s academic journal here: https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/slovo/ (https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/slovo/) Find Nabokov’s lecture on Dostoevsky here: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/magazine/nabokov-on-dostoyevsky.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/magazine/nabokov-on-dostoyevsky.html) Find the SRB podcast here: https://srbpodcast.org/ (https://srbpodcast.org/) Find us via: https://www.russianartandculture.com/ (https://www.russianartandculture.com/) https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/ (https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/) https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture (https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture) https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/ (https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/)

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