Museum of Photography "Metenkov House"

«V-2. PRACTICIAL EXPERIMENTS OF SOVIET DESIGN, 1920s ? 1930s» © Museum of Labels

«1PLACE2» © Sverdlovsk Region Museum of Local History

«PLANNED EXPLOIT» © Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

«CITY AS A PROCESS» © Department of Art History and Cultural Studies, Ural Federal University

«THE END OF THE INDUSTRIAL ART» © White Gallery

«GENIUS LOCI» © Museum of Photography ?Metenkov House?

«SIGHT OF THE OUTSIDER: BLIND MANSOUR FROM ZAKAMSK» © Museum of Soviet Naive with the support of the "New Collection" foundation (Perm)

«CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY PLANT» © Ekaterina Poedinschikova (Conference)

Yekaterinburg Gallery of Contemporary Art

«ART IN QUOTATION MARKS. THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART IN SOVIET MASS MAGAZINES OF THE 1950s ? EARLY 1960s.» ©

Sverdlovsk Regional Belinsky Library

«BEWARE, THE ARTIST!» © Genadiy Sharoikin

?POLE? Gallery

«CITY WALKS» © Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg

ABOUT

GENIUS LOCI

Curator: Artem Berkovich

The photo exhibition is devoted to the cities of the Urals founded by the outstanding mining public figure and statesman of the XVIII century, William de Gennin. These cities not only play a key role in the region but express its mythology: Yekaterinburg, Perm, Sysert, Polevskoy… Latin expression “genius loci” has double meaning: it is both the unique atmosphere of the place and its guardian spirit personified in a mythological or historical character. According to the curator, William de Gennin is the genius loci of the Urals. The exhibition traces the historical connections between the XVIII and the XXI centuries, investigates the fates of industrial heritage in contemporary life. The exhibition uses both archival materials and the works of contemporary photographers: Denis Tarasov, Dmitry Fedorov, Fedor Telkov, Sergey Poteriaev (Yekaterinburg), Alexander Gronsky (Moscow) and others.