Manifesta 10. The European Biennial of Contemporary Art

Produced in both Russian and English-language editions, the MANIFESTA 10 Catalogue offers insights into the exhibition’s conception and artworks. In response to the location of the Biennial – in which one third of the exhibition is staged in the opulent Winter Palace (The State Hermitage Museum) – it looks at the idea and the possibilities of showing contemporary art in the context of art history. The Catalogue investigates what juxtapositions of new/old and West/East can mean within the context of various aesthetic approaches. Featuring pages on participating artists illustrated in color, the Catalogue provides comprehensive information on the artworks, the public program, and the film program “Unlooped-Kino.” A selection of short essays by philosophers, curators, and art historians such as Christoph Menke, Helmut Draxler, Ekaterina Andreeva, and Silvia Eiblmayr, highlight aspects of MANIFESTA 10 against the background of current criticism and theory.

Manifesta 10 (28 June – 31 October 2014) considers the historical perspective of St. Petersburg´s view to the West, and its extensive relationship with Europe at large. Over 50 artists were invited by curator Kasper König to illustrate their own sections in the catalogue.

Artists Boris Mikhailov, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Deimantas Narkevicius, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Erik van Lieshout, Francis Alÿs, Henrik Olesen, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Josef Dabernig, Joseph Beuys, Juan Muñoz, Karla Black, Katharina Fritsch, Klara Lidén, Louise Bourgeois, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Maria Lassnig, Marlene Dumas, Mike Kelley, Nicole Eisenman, Paola Pivi, Ragnar Kjartansson, Slavs and Tatars, Susan Philipsz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Timur Novikov, Vadim Fishkin, Wael Shawky, Wolfgang Tillmans