Shamanism in artistic discourse between St. Petersburg and Berlin
- Nastia Eliseeva, St. Petersburg
- Maria Garkavenko, St. Petersburg
- Daniel Janek, Berlin
- Anna Myga Kasten, Berlin
- Inna Posina, St. Petersburg
- Andrei Rudjev, St. Petersburg
- Veronika Rudjeva-Ryazanzeva, St. Petersburg
- Petr Shvetsov, St. Petersburg
- Vera Svetlova, St. Petersburg
- Ania Zholud, St. Petersburg
“Like shamans, artists produce and work with worlds of images that are messages to society, be it to voice clearly their position, to stimulate thought or to simply provoke some sort of reaction. Just like Jackson Pollok and Joseph Beuys have done in the Western world, a group of young artists from St. Petersburg and Berlin has picked up themes that stem from shamanism and that remain closely tied to it. They use given images of powerful animals, for instance, to work them with their own imagination into new impressions. Thus, traditional figures are represented in their original form and meaning to refer to their traditional role to be transposed into unexpected contexts adding other and new meaning.“ (Excerpt from the accompanying text by Iris Schneider).