2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
On the Fontanka, not far from Moskovsky Prospekt, in a picturesque place, opposite Derzhavin's estate, there is a former tenement house built in 1915. The building stood for almost a century, decorating the embankment, until Marina Gisich came into view. It was the nineties of the last century. At that time, Marina bought a spacious apartment in this house overlooking the Fontanka. This is how the gallery of Marina Gisich was born. Emb. Fontanka River 121 - her current address.
Apartment house
Gradually, revealing her creative potential, Marina transformed a large apartment into a unique art space, which eventually turned into a successful gallery of Marina Gisich. The first contemporary art gallery in St. Petersburg.
Modern Art
Modern art is considered to be the whole setartistic movements, styles and practices that arose in the middle of the 20th century, immediately after the Second World War. On the one hand, it is a continuation of the search for avant-garde, Dadaism and modernism in general. But, on the other hand, contemporary art represents a new look, a new artistic language, previously inaccessible and unknown, because thanks to the development of science and technology, artists and actionists have acquired tools and objects for creativity that were unattainable in the past. Contemporary art has become for many people an outlet, a breath of freedom in the age of total dominance of consumerism and lack of spirituality.
In St. Petersburg at the moment there are about ten sites representing contemporary art. The oldest and most successful of them is the gallery of Marina Gisich.
Marina Gisich
Marina Gisich, a former gymnast, multiple champion of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, not seeing great prospects, left the sport and in the early nineties became interested in art. With the help of her husband, an art historian, Marina joined the world of exhibitions and galleries. Life was filled with an enchanting feeling of lightness and joy in the creative search for oneself.
But the lack of education made itself felt, and she took up self-education or autodidactics, as Marina herself likes to call it. She plunged headlong into a new business for herself, attended classes at the Hermitage, went to art history lessons with the famous Mikhail German, went to photography historian Alexei Loginov. And mostmost importantly, I got friends who are well versed in the art business. She studied with Moscow colleagues, gallery owners and exhibition organizers. Marina remembers especially warmly the art historian Elena Selina and her gallery.
It was all just theory, but to succeed in the art business, you need practice - you need to understand what you are doing. Then Marina took up interior design and implemented the first ideas in her apartments on the Fontanka. Having bought neighboring apartments, she set up a real creative testing ground and turned it into an art house, into her own gallery. Design orders were not long in coming. An interesting job began, bringing good earnings and endless pleasure. At the same time, Marina was organizing exhibitions. These two things became the meaning and joy of her life. And since then, she earns by design, and invests in art.
Art Space
In her apartment, Marina Gisich combined the gallery, collection and living area into one art space. There are no boundaries or limits here. Luxury coexists with rigor, elegance with pragmatism. The interior is not striking, but pacifies and is present as a backdrop for paintings and installations. On the ground floor of the apartment there is an area for guests and visitors: there is a living room, a huge multifunctional kitchen and a gallery. In the center of the living room is a long table at which they communicate, sign contracts and have lunch. On the wall is a large-scale portrait of the owner of the gallery. Russian Parisian Andrey Molodkin, a conceptual artist, depicted Marina with ballhandles. And on the second floor there is a private zone, Marina's living rooms with her husband and daughters' bedrooms. The photo below shows the gallery of Marina Gisich in St. Petersburg.
Gallery
Marina Gisich Gallery was opened in 2000 and immediately won public recognition. It presents the most diverse range of contemporary art, from graphics to video installations, from traditional techniques to impulsive actionism. The authors of the exhibitions held in the gallery are mostly St. Petersburg artists, although there are also representatives of other cities. Among them are Kerim Ragimov, Pyotr Bely, Kirill Chelushkin, Grigory Mayofis, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Gleb Bogomolov, Marina Alekseeva, Vladimir Kustov, Dima Tsykalov, Evgeny Yufit, Valeria Matveeva-Nibiru.
The gallery also opens new names, helping young artists to express themselves. In addition to exhibition activities, the gallery takes part in specialized fairs, cooperates with museums, closed funds and other platforms of contemporary art both in Russia and in Europe. And recently there have been close ties with various avant-garde movements and groups. According to Marina, she especially remembers the cooperation with the association "Parasite" and its leader Vladimir Kozin. These are artists who are especially lively and brightly responding to the challenges of our time. They are open to dialogue and enrich the gallery with fresh ideas, as well as impress those around them with their sincere position. Thanks to this friendship, Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Semyon Motolyanets, Konstantin Govyadin, Ivan Tuzov andAlexander Morozov. The Marina Gisich Gallery in St. Petersburg is one of the most interesting places in the cultural capital. It is visited by both residents and guests of the Northern capital.
One of the central activities of the Marina Gisich Gallery is the promotion of contemporary art from Russia on international stages and thematic exhibitions. For Marina Gisich, it is important that Russian art be extremely Russian, and not only in origin, but in mentality. So that the Russian code fully manifests itself, but not in the oily-balalaika interpretation, but in the modern European style.
Marina Gisich Gallery. Address. Opening hours
Opening hours
Monday - Friday: 11-00 - 19-00.
Saturday: 12-00 – 18-00.
Address: St. Petersburg, Fontanka river embankment, 121.
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