The exhibition, SEATS OF: CHAIRS IN ART, will consist of a selection of images from Mihail Chemiakin’s research on the theme, and, on the first floor of the Museum, original works by contemporary artists.

CHAIRS IN ART originated at the Mihail Chemiakin Foundation in St. Petersburg in Fall 2012.  Chemiakin also created a filmed lecture on the theme for his series “Mihail Chemiakin’s Imaginary Museum” (Kultura, Russia, 2008).

We invite artists to submit original work for the exhibition.  Please send jpeg images with the form Submission form eng  to mail@mihfond.ru for consideration by the Museum’s jury.  Work can be submitted in any medium, including painting, work on paper, sculpture, installation, performance.  No single work should be no larger than 40 x 40 ins.   Up to five submissions may be made by a single artist; not more than two works by the same artist will be accepted for exhibition.

Works that are selected for the exhibition should be delivered to the Museum no later than October 7, 2013.  Artists may pick up their works at the show’s closing, planned for December 2013.

The following links are all to Russian-language sites.

For video on the show in St. Petersburg:

http://www.tv100.ru/video/view/stul-v-iskusstve-hudojnik-mihail-shemyakin-87945/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKqw2b_dLTo

http://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/1077

For the filmed lecture:

http://vdownload.eu/watch/440532-1-3-воображаемый-музей-михаила-шемякина-стул-в-искусстве.html

For some print coverage of the exhibition:

http://video.yandex.ru/users/maishka1/view/2

http://www.rg.ru/2012/09/12/reg-szfo/stul.html

http://wellsmi.ru/novosti/mixail-shemyakin-predstavlyaet-vystavku-stul-v-iskusstve.html

http://www.gorets-media.ru/page/stul-v-iskusstve-ot-shemjakina

We look forward to your submissions!