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D137 Art club
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Former nameD137 Art Gallery
Established1996
LocationSt.Petersburg,
191002, Rubinstaina str., 15-17
TypeArt Gallery
DirectorOlga Osterberg
Websitehttp://www.d137.ru/

D137 — St.Petersburg contemporary art gallery.

History of gallery[edit]

D137 was founded in St. Petersburg  in 1996. The name of the gallery comes from the loading dock, which was  located on Krestovsky Island, where the first exhibitions and concerts were held. Since 2000, the gallery had been working on Nevsky Prospect in the house 90-92, where in the famous cellar with brick walls for ten years there were interesting exhibitions and events - personal exhibitions of Timur Novikov, George Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev - Monroe, Edward Lucie-Smith, Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones) and others. Among the artists of the gallery are well-known masters, whose works are in the largest museum and private collections, as well as young St. Petersburg authors. In 2010, transformed into the Art Club D137 and, along with exhibition activities, conducts various artistic (including charitable) actions, round tables, film shows dedicated to contemporary art, creative meetings with artists and cultural figures, concerts, publishes catalogs and books on art. It is located on Rubinshtein Street.

Director – Olga Osterberg

Exhibitions on the D137 loading dock[edit]

The D137  first exhibition took place in 1996 and showed the works of St Petersburg underground artists. Later, D137 held more art shows, musical evenings, and meetings with artists.Those were one-day events, the gallery wasn’t public, one could only visit by prior appointment.

Among the most interesting events of those years were the exhibition "Mitki Revolution", dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the October Revolution, and an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of psychoanalysis that was visited by a delegation of American psychoanalysts. Timur Novikov held the Ball of the New Academy of Fine Arts "East West"

D137 on Nevsky Prospect[edit]

D137’s first exhibitions were groping for identity. The most interesting events was putting Dmitry Kaminker’s sculpture of an Egyptian goddess in front of the gallery entrance in 2000. Wrapped in a transparent film: inside it, there was a blue backlight, and in the dark, extra light was projected from a nearby building. It looked great, particularly on the Nevsky prospect.

D137’s collaboration with Timur Novikov started with the Neoacademic exhibition entitled St Petersburg Light Drawing in 2001. It was followed by a few roundtable discussions, exhibition The Image of Timur Novikov in the Russian Art of the Last Third of the 20th Century, and Timur’s last exhibition while alive, Air Navigation and Sea Navigation. D137 have shown most of the artists of the New Academy and those close to it: Olga Tobreluts, Egor Ostrov, Aidan Salakhova, Andrey Medvedev, Edward Lucie-Smith, Stas Makarov, Mikhail Rozanov, Alexandra Fedorova, and others.

Georgy Guryanov, an artist and a musician of the legendary Kino band, was a special friend of the gallery. D137 held three of his personal shows and organize his exhibition at the XL Gallery in Moscow. Guryanov’s art was shown, with great success, at the international art fairs in Moscow and Berlin.

With the help of the XL Gallery, D137 have held two solo exhibitions of Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and exhibitions of Oleg Kulik and Konstantin Zvezdochetov.

The gallery constantly worked with Sergey Sergeyev, Georgy Guryanov, as well as with young artists - Julia Kosulnikova, Sergei Sapozhnikov, Marina Fedorova and others.

D137 took active part in international art fairs, such as Art Manezh in 2000, Art Moscow in 2000–2007 and 2008 (in the parallel program), Art Forum Berlin in 2002, Arte Fiera in 2006 (Bologna, Italy), Art Vilnius in 2009 (Lithuania).

The gallery worked a lot with artists-musicians. In 2007, during the tour "The Rolling Stones" in St. Petersburg, in D137 was an exhibition of Ronnie Wood, the artist and the famous guitarist "The Rolling Stones". It was Ronnie Wood who chose the gallery D137 as the venue for the exhibition. Also there were exhibitions of Nikolai Kopeikin, musician of the group NOM, and two exhibitions of media artist, musician and psychic Pakhom (Sergei Pakhomov).

Apart from many outstanding exhibitions, D137 gallery organized film screenings, art book presentations, roundtable discussions, and meetings with artists. Afterwards, gallery often released materials of those discussions, compiled exhibition catalogues, and published books. The gallery was recognized by the State Russian Museum for ‘its essential contributions to the St. Petersburg contemporary art division,’ D137’s assistance was acknowledged by the young artists contest Orientiry, D137 were awarded diplomas of the Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF) and the New Academy of Fine Arts.

Among the numerous visitors of D137 were musicians Bryan Ferry, David Byrne, PJ Harvey, cult directors Ios Stelling, Alexander Sokurov and Alexei German, actress Helen Mirren and film director Taylor Heckward.

In 2002, the gallery was recognized as the best institution of the year in the "Review of the artistic life of St. Petersburg", and also, the newspaper "Izvestia" awarded the D137 the second place in the rating of the best art projects of the year.

D137 actively collaborated with foreign art institutions, including Goethe-Institut, the Nordic Countries Institute, and the consulates of Great Britain, Finland, Germany and the USA, as a result of which the city saw a number of unique projects.

Gallery D137 has gratitude from the Consul General of Germany Ulrich Schöning for support of the project of the General Consulate for the promotion of contemporary art in St. Petersburg in Germany, as well as from Consul General of France Pascal Mober.

Art Club D137[edit]

In 2010, D137 changed its concept and became Art Club D137, going beyond the limits of the gallery operation and staring projects in various art-related fields: publishing, art therapy, music, etc.

In 2011, D137 changed its address and completed a few unfinished projects at the premises on Zvenigorodskaya street. The most interesting  were the exhibitions of Sergeev Sergey, Grigory Yushchenko, collection of Artemy Troitsky, and the photo and film screening dedicated to Marlene Dietrich.

Artemy Troitsky suggested regard D137 as a club of extracontemporary art, meaning that D137 shouldn’t limit ourselves to current time but be free to make choices.

Art remains the main direction of D137. It’s all about creativity, research, and singularity no matter what other people or curators may expect.

It is due to the club format that D137 was able to implement the Kresty project, an investigative exhibition focused on freedom and non-freedom, faithfulness and treason, truth and lie. The exhibition took place at the Kresty prison in St. Petersburg and addressed the inmates and guards alike. There were reports that the prison atmosphere mitigated significantly for a month after the opening.

Sergeev Sergey’s Captcha was another event worth mentioning, as it was also the presentation of psychiatry professor Viktor Samokhkvalov’s book Philosophical Intoxications, as well as the ongoing research project "Bowiemaniya", which began in 2017 and  dedicated to the memory of the great musician.

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