From May 19 to May 25 Erarta will host International Festival of Synthesis of Arts ▲CROSS ART. During the whole week you will be presented all kinds of installations, exhibitions, performances, plays and musical performances on all floors of our galleries wing.
Dear friends! We are proud to announce the full schedule of the ▲ CROSS ART events. Choose the most interesting to you and build your “must-see”. And we will make sure that every day there will be special and non-trivial: installations, concerts and other interesting events!
The ▲CROSS ART exhibitions will open at 18:00 on May 19.
▲CROSS ART: events and exhibitions
May 19–25. Andre Laban. “Passion for the Blue”. Erarta invites you to experience a fascinating study of color perception at the original exhibition “Passion for the Blue” by Andre Laban, a cameraman of the legendary “Calypso” crew of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Just like the impressionists, Laban strives to capture the effects of light but what is unusual — he does it underwater..! Galleries wing, hall 3.B. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
May 19–25. Pierre Bastien. Installations “Play Meccano Play” and “Paper Orchestra”. Musical robots of Pierre Bastien will be presented to the Russian public for the first time. The visitors will see two large installations: “Play Meccano Play” and “Paper Orchestra”. Both installations the maestro will install himself and for this purpose he arrives to St. Petersburg a few days earlier the opening. As part of the exhibition Bastien will give a lecture and a concert. Galleries wing, halls 4.A, 4.B. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
Cross Art has invited the Dutch Media Arts Festival Impakt to propose a selection of Dutch artists for the Cross Art Festival. Impakt selected four outstanding young artists from the Netherlands that will present multi-media projects: Douwe Dijkstra, Gijs Gieskes, Bas Vermolen and Tijmen Zonnevijlle.
May 19–24. Tijmenrockt & Arts The Beatdoctor. Interactive Installation “Moebius’ Travel Machine”. Audiovisual installation, where the viewers have the opportunity to create and experience their own sound environment. The project is created specifically for the festival. Galleries wing, hall 2.A. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
May 19–24. Gijs Gieskes. Exhibition of Unknown Electrical Objects. The exhibition will feature objects, created of analog chips and vintage game consoles. All the objects will react to the visitors. Galleries wing, hall 5.A. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
May 19–24. Douwe Dijkstra. Video environment based on visual works of one of the most unusual Dutch cartoonists. Three screens will guarantee your complete immersion into an alternate reality. Galleries wing, hall 5.A. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
May 19–25. Alexandr Shishkin-Hokusai. Installation “A Girl with a flower in her head” and “Without a mirror”. Physical implementation of the most bizarre fantasies by a St.-Petersburg stage designer. Galleries wing, hall 3.A. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
May 21, 20:00. “Superposition”. Concert-performance by “SPINA” art-group. Total synthesis of music, video, theater and science. Galleries wing, hall 3.B. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
May 23, 20:00. “High Voltage Concert”. Interactive electro acoustic and video. Patrick K.H., Oleg Makarov, Vladimir Rannev, Sergey Polotovsky. Gallerires wing, hall 3.B. Entrance fee — 400 rub. Or by the ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.).
Special events of the ▲CROSS ART Festival
May 20, 20:00. “Le Cirque De Charles La Tannes” (Moscow). Performances “Velotronik”, “Metrophone”, “Playtronica”. Performances, created specially for the festival by one of the most extraordinary scientific and theater Moscow art-groups. Hall 3.B. Entrance fee — 500 rub.
May 21, 20:00. Hedonic Tragedy “Ashes of Actions”. “AKHE” theatre + “Dakh Daughters” (Ukraine)*. Cabaret “Gloria Transit”. Instantaneous cabaret created only for the festival, which will never happen again. Grand Hall (museum wing, V floor). Pre-sale ticket price — 600 rub., price on the showday — 800 rub.
May 22, 20:00. Alexey Aygi and Pierre Bastien. Concert. Galleries wing, hall 3.B. Entrance fee — 700 rub.
May 22, 20:00. Opera by the stutterers “Dream from the bottom”. “AKHE” theatre + “Dakh Daughters” (Ukraine)*. Cabaret “Gloria Transit”. Instantaneous cabaret created only for the festival, which will never happen again. Grand Hall (museum wing, V floor). Pre-sale ticket price — 600 rub., price on the showday — 800 rub.
May 23, 20:00. Ballet of the outskirts “The Fat of the Land”. “AKHE” theatre + “Dakh Daughters” (Ukraine)*. Cabaret “Gloria Transit”. Instantaneous cabaret created only for the festival, which will never happen again. Grand Hall (museum wing, V floor). Pre-sale ticket price — 600 rub., price on the showday — 800 rub.
May 24, 19:00. “Hexstatic” (UK). Audio-video set. Audio-video set from the pioneer of electronic musical experiments, master of sound and image combinations and representative of the iconic “Ninja Tune” label. Galleries wing, hall 3.B. Pre-sale ticket price — 500 rub., price on the showday — 600 rub.
May 24, 19:00. “Dakh Daughters” (Ukraine). Concert-performance*. For the first time in St. Petersburg, the long-awaited big concert by the bright and extravagant theatre troupe, brought up by the famous “Dakh-theatre”. Grand Hall (museum wing, V floor). Pre-sale ticket price — 800 rub., price on the showday — 1000 rub.
May 25, 16:00. “Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat”/museum of 16 plays/. A special museum project of the “POST” theatre: a performance that is running simultaneously in four halls. A symbiosis of exhibition and dramatic action. Galleries wing, halls 1.А, 2.А, 2.B, 3.B. Entrance fee — 500 rub.
May 25, 20:00. Orhestra of Samples (UK). Video concert. The artists use tiny film and video clips as a material for creating original music and outstanding visual collages. Orhestra of Samples invented their own genre of “videomashup”, which was highly rated both by the Hollywood studios and the “Apple” top-management. Grand Hall (museum wing, V floor). Pre-sale ticket price — 600 rub., price on the showday — 800 rub.
*3-day pass for the performances by “AKHE” theatre and “Dakh Daughters” (May 21, May 22 and May 23) — 1500 rub.
▲CROSS ART TICKETS
1 day-ticket (400 rub.) Includes access to exhibitions on all the floors of the gallery wing and all events of the festival (except the special ones) for one day.
Ticket “Museum + ▲CROSS ART” (600 rub.). Includes access to all the floors of both museum and gallery wings and all events of the festival (except the special ones) for one day. Discounted ticket — 400 rub.
Week-pass (3000 rub.). Includes access to all the floors of both museum and gallery wings and all events of the ▲CROSS ART festival. Valid from May 19 to May 25.
Please note that during the festival week you can also buy a general admission ticket to the museum, which allows you to visit only Erarta permanent collection. For more details about the tickets, please, click here.
