Digital symposium Russian Avant-Garde: Original and Fake

Schedule

Thursday, November 5, 2020
7-9pm: Hubertus Butin. Fakes in Museums – Scandal or Chance?
Talk in German presented by Freunde des Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und des Museum Ludwig

Friday, November 6, 2020
Moderation: Rita Kersting, Museum Ludwig & Konstantin Akinsha, RARP

2-5pm:  Russian Avant-garde. Provenance Research and Attribution
Welcome: Dr. Yilmaz Dziewior, Director Museum Ludwig
Prof. John Bowlt & Prof. Nicoletta Misler, University of Southern California & Università di Napoli
Irina Kochergina & Liubov Pchelkina, State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow
Willem Jan Renders, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Independent Scholar, New York
Prof. Dr. Konstantin Akinsha, Russian Avant-garde Research Project and Visiting Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt

5-7pm: Russian Avant-garde: Technological Research
Petra Mandt, Conservator Museum Ludwig
Dr. Maria Kokkori, The Art Institute of Chicago
Dr. Jilleen Nadolny, ArtDiscovery (formerly Art Analysis & Research), London
Dr. Svetlana Pisareva & Irina Kadikova, Laboratory of Physical and Chemical Research, The State Research Institute for Restoration (GOSNIIR), Moscow 

Saturday, November 7, 2020
Moderation: Rita Kersting, Museum Ludwig & Konstantin Akinsha, RARP

3-5pm: Russian Avant-garde and Museum: How museums handle Russian Avant-garde works
Marta Ruiz del Árbol, Curator Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
René Zechlin, Director Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
Dr. Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator MoMA, New York
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Gaßner, former Director Kunsthalle Hamburg
Dr. Wolfgang Schöddert, Provenance Researcher Berlinische Galerie, Berlin  

5-7pm: Avant-garde, Art Market and Crime: The Dark Side of the Boom. The mass faking of the Russian Avant-garde
James Butterwick, art dealer and collector London
Alex Lachmann, art dealer and collector, Cologne/London
Dr. Friederike von Brühl, K&I Gates, Berlin
Maria Klunke, Public Prosecutor/Staatsanwältin, Staatsanwaltschaft Wiesbaden
René Allonge, Federal Bureau of Investigations / Landeskriminalamt, Berlin

Free registration: zoom-museum [​at​] gmx.de
Find out more about the exhibition here.

Supported by
Freunde des Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Museum Ludwig 
Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung
Russian Avant-garde Research Project