Only 50 years have passed since the beginning of Leningrad's “unofficial art” heyday, but many of its realities, stories and concepts already require a separate talk. It is especially valuable when this talk comes from a witness of the time, which is Dmitry Pilikin. In his lecture he will dwell on how the nonconformist artistic life of Leningrad in the 1970s and 1980s was organised, what the “flat exhibitions” looked like, what was the meaning of the term “Gaza-Nevsky Culture”, how the Association of Experimental Fine Art was founded and much more. Dmitry Pilikin will share as well his contemporaries' memories of the artist Nikolai Sazhin, whose exhibition opened at the Museum of 20^th–21^st Century Art of St Petersburg.

Dmitry Pilikin is an artist, curator, art critic and art historian. Since the early 1970s he has been close to the movement of nonconformist artists. He lectures on various aspects of contemporary art at St Petersburg University, the Hermitage Youth Education Centre, the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow and others.

Duration: 1.5 hours