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A Manifesta without a manifesto: contemporary art in St Petersburg

Manifesta 10 walks a tightrope between confronting Russia’s right-wing drift and avoiding being shut down.

14 Oct 2014 12:00

Kit Messham-Muir

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Wolfgang Tillmans, Arkadia I, 1996 (detail). St. Petersburg Installation. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Germany. Commissioned by MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg. Image via www.contemporaryartdaily.com

Manifesta is a nomadic European biennial exhibition of contemporary art that sets up camp in a different European city every two years. In 2012, Manifesta 9 was held in Limburg, Belgium, and considered the theme of modernity and modernism in post-industrial Europe.

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Kit Messham-Muir

About the Author

Kit Messham-Muir is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at University of Newcastle. He does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations. This article was originally published on The Conversation.