Curatorial program by Eleonore de Montesquiou includes:

Eleonore de Montesquiou “Kreenholm” (25')
Romana Schmalisch  “Real Estate Avantgarde” (20')
Marge Monko “Forum” (24')
Sandy Amerio “Exiting the factory” (3’45)

Élise Leclercq: “Everything will vanish” (10’)

Eleonore de Montesquiou works with video, many times participated in Moscow and St. Petersburg exhibitions, including 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her work “Kreenholm” consists of videos, shot at the Estonian textile factory  and “Octyabr” (“October”) factory in Moscow. Those films explore fates and opinions of people, working there.

However, this is the problem of today for St. Petersburg, where a lot of  factories and plants are in stagnation and waiting for their future doom.

Work of Romana Schmalisch “Real Estate Avantgarde” was made in St. Petersburg, at “Krasnoe Znamya” (“Red Banner”), during her stay in NCCA residence in Kronshtadt. Film focuses on industrial constructivist architecture and its correlation to political and social changes, during the epoch of avant-garde in 1920s and then on attitude of workers to the processes of conversion.

Also, Eleonore de Montesquiou presents paper “For example, Fabrika”, issued during Moscow exhibition.

Founded in 2004, PROEKT_FABRIKA is the first independent not-for-profit contemporary visual art organisation in Moscow. Our project has more than 700 square metre of exhibition spaces, an international residency and 1000 square metres of venue space destined to accommodate diverse cultural and social events such as dance, theatre and music concerts. Originally designed to present a program of collective exhibitions, the project is now committed to promoting cultural and intellectual diversity through the presentation of international contemporary art and culture. In 2008 our centre became a member of Trans Europe Halls ( European network of independent culture centers). 

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