RIGA, "All’s Good Between Us"

19.03. 18.00 Thirty-Three Monsters. Conversation Participants: Dalībnieki: Eleonore de Montesquiou (EE/FR), Deniss Hanovs (LV), Jenny Zinovieff (GB) Thirty-Three Monsters by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907) is a novel in diary form, first published in 1907 in St Petersburg, but banned due to the fact that it was the first lesbian novel in Russia. The text was published as a bilingual English-Russian edition in 2022 with illustrations by the artists Eleonore de Montesquiou and Varvara Toropkova. "All’s Good Between Us" 15.02. - 31.03.2024. The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) 19.03. 18.00 Thirty-Three Monsters. Conversation To reflect on the making of the book today and Lidiya Zinovieva-Annibal's text within the broader framework of questions of identity, sexuality and emancipation in the past and today, the conversation will feature artist Eleonore de Montesquiou and cultural historian and researcher Deniss Hanovs, as well as historian Jenny Zinovievff. “Thirty-Three Monsters” by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal the first work of Russian literature to deal openly with the theme of lesbianism and critiques the objectifying male gaze. is a young woman’s intimate diary. It is written to another woman, Vera, her lover. Vera is older than the narrator and forces her to sit for 33 male painters who will paint 33 versions of her body, the 33 monsters. Vera initiated this search for truth, the exposure of her lover’s beauty to men and to art. Born in St Petersburg into an aristocratic family, Zinovieva-Annibal was a rebel and nonconformist throughout her life and in her work. She was an emblematic figure of symbolist circles in Petersburg in the early 1900s. With Viatcheslav Ivanov, her second husband Lydia organised the famous Wednesday meetings in their home the „Tower“ where Petersburg intellectuals and artists of the Silver Age gathered at the turn of the century. Lydia Zinovieva died of scarlet fever at the age of 41, shortly after the “Thirty-Three Monsters”. Eleonore de Montesquiou is French-Estonian, she was born in 1970 in Paris. Her work revolves around the articulation between private and official histories, personal and national identities. It tackles the intricacies and ambiguities of living in the margins, based on her personal experience of uprootedness. Eleonore is primarily working with film, she tapes testimonies, creating prosthetic memories of repressed histories. In her documentary-informed works, her camera becomes the voice of these voiceless people. Her work is based on a documentary approach, translated into films, drawings, and texts; it deals mainly with issues of integration/ immigration/ meaning of a nation in Estonia. Since 2007, she has filmed women living in the Estonian-Russian border town of Narva: “Na Grane”, in 2016, she started working with asylum seekers from French-speaking countries in Estonia: “Hope is no home” while pursuing a long-time film project in France with peasants in the Haute-Alpes: “Traverses”. Dr. art. Deniss Hanovs, (1977) wrote his PhD. On cultural practices of Latvian national movement in Latvian media of the 19th century and since then (2003) teaches at various universities in Latvia and abroad. Since 2021 he is a professor at the Latvian Art Academy. He is also DJ and created series of talks on integration issues in Russian language radio Baltkom (Kultprosvet) and also a series of stories dedicated to the development of European opera history of the 18th century. Jenny Zinovieff lives in Cambridge UK and worked for twenty years building up the alumni relations programme for the university. She was married, also for twenty years, to composer and musician Peter Zinovieff and began researching the history of the Zinovieff family, finding writings by ancestors going back to 1601. She translated private memoirs by Leo Alexandrovich (Peter’s grandfather) and his father Alexander Dmitrievich, which led in turn to the life and work of his sister, Lydia, her 33 Monsters and a collaboration with Eléonore, another direct descendant.

AMSTERDAM: we don't want to be stars, but....

we don't want to be stars but parts of constellations curators: Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska (NL, Suns and Stars) invited artists: Eleonore de Montesquiou (EE), Viktorija Ilioska (MKD), Elke Uithuis (NL) January-February 2024, in Amsterdam Autumn 2024: seminar (Amsterdam)

33 Monsters in Sonntagsclub /

https://sonntags-club.de/programm/monster.php ab 18 Uhr: FrauenLesben*Freitag - Der Abend für queere Frauen und nichtbinäre Lesben 18.30: Lesben* Buch-Club 20.30: Lesung: 33 Monster
Reading and presentation of 33 Monsters by Lydia Zinovieva Annibal at the cult lesbian Berlin club Sonntagsclub, next friday, January 19th, at 20.30 Women welcome!!!!

Kolmes vahetuses. Töö lõpp / В трех сменах. Конец работы / In three shifts. End of work

SILLAMÄE, the film, will be shown in Sillamäe in a show curatd by Milena Appajeva, Õnne Paulus and Siim Raie (from 12/01/23 till 14/01/23)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1996360600723006 ------------------------------------------------ Sillart kunstigaleriis Sillamäel avatakse 12. jaanuaril kell 16.00 näitus “Kolmes vahetuses. Töö lõpp”. Sillart kunstigaleriis avatakse 12. jaanuaril kell 16.00 näitus, mis toob kokku Ida-Virumaa muuseumide kogudes olevad teosed ja kaasaegse videokunsti. Näituse keskmes on Kai Kaljo, Ivar Veermäe, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Marge Monko, Raivo Kelomehe ja Maria Kapajeva videokunsti teosed, mida on kõrvutatud Ida-Virumaa muuseumikogudest (Sillamäe muuseum, Kohtla-Järve Põlevkivimuuseum) pärit maalide ja graafikaga. Näituse kuraatorid on Eesti Kunstiakadeemia tudengid Milena Appajeva, Õnne Paulus ja Siim Raie. Vaid kolmel päeval avatud näitus tegeleb Ida-Virumaal jätkuvalt aktuaalse ja tundliku teemaga: traditsioonilise tööstuse, töökohtade kadumise ning töö ja töötamise viiside muutusega. Videokunsti, klassikalise maalikunsti ja graafika abil annab näitus ülevaate, kuidas on muutunud töötamine, sellega seotud väärtused ning töö kujutamine viimase poolesaja aasta jooksul kunstis. Näitus on avatud 12.–14. jaanuaril, iga päev kell 13.00–18.00. Avamine toimub 12. jaanuaril kell 16.00 Sillart galeriis (Mere pst 3, Sillamäe). 13. ja 14. jaanuaril kell 14.00 ja 16.00 toimuvad näitusel kuraatorituurid. Näitust toetab Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Kunstiteaduse ja visuaalkultuuri instituut, Sillamäe Muuseum, Sillart ja Purtse pruulikoda. ––––– 12 января в 16.00 в галереи Sillart города Силламяэ открывается выставка “В трех сменах. Конец работы”. В художественной галереи Sillart открывается выставка, которая объединяет произведения искусства собранные из коллекций музеев Ида-Вирумаа и современных работ видеоарта. Центральными фигурами выставки являются работы Кай Кальё, Ивара Веермяэ, Элеоноре де Монтескью, Марге Монко, Райво Келомехе и Марии Капаевой, которые выставлены в одном пространстве с живописью и графикой найденной в музейных коллекциях (Силламяэский музей, Музей Сланца города Кохтла-Ярве). Кураторами выставки являются ученики Эстонской Академии Искусств - Милена Аппаева, Ынне Паулус и Сиим Райе. Выставка, которая будет открыта три дня, фокусируется на непрестанно актуальной для региона теме: исчезновению промышленных предприятий и нехватке рабочих мест, а также тому как изменилось понятие о работе и ее виды. С помощью видеоарта, живописи и графики, выставка предоставляет обзор того, как изменилась работа, ценности связанные с ней и ее изображение в искусстве за последние пятьдесят лет. Выставка открыта с 12–14 января, c 13.00–18.00. Открытие состоится 12 января в 16.00 в галерее Sillart (Mere pst 3, Sillamäe). 13 и 14 января в 14.00 и 16.00 пройдут кураторские туры. Выставку поддерживает Эстонский Культурный Капитал, Эстонская Академия Искусств, Силламяэский музей, галерея Sillart и пивоварня Пуртсе.

Photobook Week in Aarhus

ATOM CITIES books and my SHEROES postcards will be exhibited at Photobook Week in Aarhus, Denmark on November 2-5. thank you to Maria Kapajeva and Triin Kerge for curating the event.
A very brief announcement of the exhibition is already online here: https://photobookweek.org/updates/exhibition-on-photo-and-artistic-books-from-estonia/

FESTIVAL RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES

I am very happy to invite you to the premiere in France of my film SWORDFISH SWORDFISH 2023 color Russian with EnglishST Prodution country: France ask me for the link if you cannot come to the festival!!! it was Moscow...2015...assassination of the opponent Nemtsov and the end of a period of time where we could still go to the street without being incarcerated now hatred, violence and fear reign. Schedule information: MEP Maison Européenne de la Photographie - Screening - Wednesday 1st November - 8PM

33 MONSTERS in bookstores all over the world...and upcoming presentations

I am delighted to share with you all the list of wonderful bookstores that have adopted our 33 Monsters: in Berlin: ap bookstore, Hopscotch, Shesaid, Ocelot, proqm, Motto... in London: gaystheword, Marcus Campbell Art Books in Copenhagen: Bladr in NY: Printed Matter in Paris: Petite Egypte, Les mots à la bouche We are planing a presentation with Hopscotch Berlin, November 2023 and at Sonntagsclub, Berlin, on Janary 19th, 2024. Riga, March2024, event organised by Andra Silapētere from LCCA And of course Tallinn in summer 2024 during our exhbition in Kunstihoone.