Seminar "Art-mediation in the museum"

November 20-22, 2019 in the Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, Karl Marx Str. 57) on the initiative of the Pushkin Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, leading specialists of the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg) as part of the Culture and Exhibition Center of the Russian Museum in Kazan will hold a seminar "Art-mediation in the museum"

The theme of the seminar seems to us very important, relevant.

Art mediation is a rapidly developing line of work of museums today, a new dialogue method of building relationships with the audience.

Formally, the work of an art mediator is like a tour - communication with a group of visitors about a work of art. However, ideologically, they are fundamentally different. The art mediator is a moderator of dialogue. He refuses ready-made assessments and interpretations, unlike the guide, does not act on behalf of the museum as a carrier of “objective” or “authoritative” knowledge. The mediator does not broadcast information. Its role is to help visitors gain a high-quality experience in communicating with the work, with the museum and with each other.

Thus, mediation is the construction of short-term, but significant relationships, all of whose participants are fundamentally equal. The mediator proceeds from the belief that everyone has the right to interpret their own experience, and supplies participants not with ready-made judgments, but with means for deeper contact with the work, for expressing their own feelings and thoughts.

Seminar participants will learn the basics of the mediator approach, with methods and tools that allow you to build an equal and meaningful dialogue that enriches all its participants, regardless of their knowledge, experience and beliefs.

The seminar will be held by:

Boyko Alexey Grigoryevich - leading methodologist for museum and educational activities at the Consulting and Methodological Center of the Art Museums of the Russian Federation department of the Russian Museum, Ph.D. in art history, associate professor, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and art;

November 21, 2019 at 18.00 in the lecture hall of the Gallery of Modern Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, Karl Marx St., 57) a lecture by Alexei G. Boyko will be held

Lecture “Renaissance” and “Enlightenment”: past eras? completed projects? state of the present moment? ”- the fifth in the framework of the lecture series“ Contemporary Art and the Heritage of Classical Culture: Dialogues with a Concerned Society ”.

The era of Renaissance and Enlightenment glorified, outlived, completed, solemnly and irrevocably buried. Humanism was debunked and redefined. How did all this turn out for contemporary art? Lecturer - Alexey G. Boyko, Ph.D. in art history, leading methodologist for museum and educational activities at the Russian Museum’s Consulting and Methodological Center for Art Museums of the Russian Federation, author of numerous publications on museum pedagogy and the socio-cultural role of the museum, associate professor of the Theory and History of Architecture and Art Department of St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University, Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art

Admission to the lecture is free.

Ievleva Natalya Viktorovna - leading specialist in public relations of the applied sociology and youth sector of the Russian Museum