In Conversation with Art & Culture
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Since its inception in 2011, RUSSIAN ART + CULTURE has become the most popular and comprehensive international guide to the world of Russian art and culture. Our new podcast will feature even more creative conversations around tradition, fine art, education and more.
Owned by art collector and professional Natasha Butterwick RUSSIAN ART + CULTURE features listings of the best selected events all over the world, exclusive interviews with the world-renowned professionals of the Russian cultural scene, reviews of the latest books, exhibitions and performances, research articles and opinion pieces, and the latest reports on the art market.
Throughout the year we host seminars, lectures, film screenings, conferences and organise private art tours. In 2014 we published the UK-Russia Year of Culture magazine and, in 2015, commissioned the first-ever in-depth analysis of the Russian Auction Market – an invaluable and much-quoted source of reference for art professionals.
RUSSIAN ART + CULTURE has regularly featured in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, Huffington Post, Blouin ArtInfo, The Moscow Times and RIA Novosti – and on the BBC. We are the founders of the RUSSIAN ART WEEK in London – an exclusive network uniting the leading auctions of Russian Art at Sotheby’s, Christie's, MacDougalls and Bonhams with the coinciding Russian-themed exhibitions and cultural events.
We publish a comprehensive bi-annual OFFICIAL RUSSIAN ART WEEK GUIDE, coinciding with the June and November auctions of Russian Art at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, MacDougall’s and Bonhams. The Guide is available across London at locations from the Courtauld Institute, via the Saatchi Gallery to the Russian Embassy, to leading auction houses, business centres, restaurants and hotels, including The Dorchester, Claridge’s and The Ritz providing an insight into the most important events and topics.
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27. Zsolt Bodoni - art, hygiene, politics
July 27, 2022 10:35 - 33 minutes - 61 MBZsolt Bodoni is a Romanian artist, who experiments with a range of media in his paintings to create dimension. His latest venture are semi-transparent multi-layered works with light. In late 2021, his exhibition viewed in darkness at David Kovats London, introduced the artist to the UK. We were really excited to talk to him about his process, the evolution of his practice and what comes next. Find Zsolt: https://davidkovats.com/artist/zsolt-bodoni/ https://www.instagram.com/zsoltbodonid/?h...
26. Kusochek 2.0 - Irina Kikina
May 16, 2022 20:46 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBIrina is from Moscow and takes much of her creative inspiration from Russian cultural references that she discusses in this episode, especially film, art, and literature. Irina got her MA in graphic design at the Stroganov Academy of the Applied Arts, the alma mater of Rodchenko and Mayakovsky. She moved to Antwerp, Belgium to study Dutch and then to Moscow to work as a designer and art director at magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Empire. After 10 years in the industry, she took the lea...
25. Kusochek 2.0 - Saffy Mirghani
May 09, 2022 10:12 - 24 minutes - 14.1 MBSaffy talks about her research into the influence of literary legend Fyodor Dostoevsky on African American literature and the Blackness of Alexander Pushkin. Saffy talks about her favourite novels and recommends the best way for newbies to Russian literature to get into Dostoevsky. She also discusses the existential themes of suffering, salvation and oppression that appear in Dostoevsky’s work and subsequently relate to African American slave culture in African American literature. Saffy als...
24. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - War & Music
April 29, 2022 13:09 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBThis episode is about Music and War. While preparing I came across an mazing work by Brent Thomas Yorgason who wrote a dissertation on the subject in 1997 for Utah State University. I found it very informative and complete, so todays episode is based on this work. War has always had a powerful influence on music. At times it has the ability to motivate composers even more than love, religious belief, or money. Throughout the ages, both war and music about war have changed dramatically. The...
23. Kusochek 2.0 - Curse Like a Russian with Elmira Kuznetsova and Jess Pollard
April 20, 2022 15:52 - 40 minutes - 26.4 MBJess is a Canadian born and raised, Elmira a Muscovite. Both currently reside in Vancouver and met for the first time when they became flatmates. Jess is an illustrator and Elmire a piano teacher and copywriter. Jess had lived in Siberia for a few months and speaks Russian, meaning that Elmira and she would talk often about Russian language and culture, including swearing. Together over lockdown they decided it would be fun to create and Instagram account of the most inventive Russian swearw...
22. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - Rita Wagner
April 12, 2022 09:08 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBMany of Rita’s students remember her luminous nature, her laughter and positivity, which is very rare amongst music teachers. Often, too often teacher’s authority is based on fear, humiliation and suppression of a student. But how is it related to Rita? In this episode I’ll tell you how Rita (probably totally unconsciously) broke a cliché of dominant teaching method and introduced a loving, kind and patient approach. You will also hear various people talk about Rita: amongst them pianist s...
22. Talking music with Olga Jegunova - Rita Wagner
April 12, 2022 09:08 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBMany of Rita’s students remember her luminous nature, her laughter and positivity, which is very rare amongst music teachers. Often, too often teacher’s authority is based on fear, humiliation and suppression of a student. But how is it related to Rita? In this episode I’ll tell you how Rita (probably totally unconsciously) broke a cliché of dominant teaching method and introduced a loving, kind and patient approach. You will also hear various people talk about Rita: amongst them pianist s...
21. Kusochek 2.0 - Serian Carlyle on cinema
April 04, 2022 14:57 - 45 minutes - 31.7 MBListen in to Serian’s Russian journey, starting with her teaching post in Chelyabinsk leading her to dedicate years of study to the field of Russian cinema, particularly Soviet-era youth cinema and the crossover of the themes of bodies, gender, health, and nationalism on screen. What a way to start the new series! Find Serian and Dr Rachel Morley’s chapter here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-45160-8_12 Find the Soviet Sex Podcast here: https://sovietsexpodcast.wordpre...
20. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - Art and Aggression
March 27, 2022 09:53 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBIn the conversation with classical cellist and life coach Tatiana Bejenari we try to find the way to carry on while the East and the West are in the state of a major conflict. How can we eat, sleep, shop, be creative, make love and smile without feeling guilty and responsible? We must start with looking after ourselves, our children, partners and parents. We must work and socialise. Because now and here we need to control what we can still control and look after things that are still i...
19. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - on a 20th century treasure
January 05, 2022 16:59 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBThis episode is about one of the greatest compositions of the 20th century - a piano concerto in G by French composer Maurice Ravel. So why is it great ? It is a known fact that Mozart could create works of a great length in the matter of days (the famous example is the Linz symphony which was composed in 4 days) and could hear the symphony instantly in a matter of seconds before putting it on paper. The other composers take longer time to come with original and non-trivial music. It too...
18. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - on stage fright
September 16, 2021 13:53 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBEpisode 5 of Talking music with Olga Jegunova podcast is about Stage fright or Performance anxiety. It is a common state of mind before or during performance and public speaking. Symptoms of it can vary from cold hands, stuttering to nerve ticks and dizziness. If not taken under control, state fright can destroy a performance. Many artists suffer from it. Frederic Chopin, for example, played only 10 concerts because of the stage fright. There is also cellist Pablo Casals, soprano Rene Flemin...
17. Talking Music by Olga Jegunova - on friendship
August 13, 2021 08:18 - 9 minutes - 8.71 MBThe 4th episode of podcast “Talking music by Olga Jegunova” is about friendship. You may wonder why a podcast on classical music suddenly touches upon a relationship theme? Plato said that music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Indeed, music is about life as everything that we do and think, fear and dream, has already been expressed through music. Friendship amongst it, of course. Not to mention the recent Harvard research sa...
17. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - on friendship
August 13, 2021 08:18 - 9 minutes - 8.71 MBThe 4th episode of podcast “Talking music by Olga Jegunova” is about friendship. You may wonder why a podcast on classical music suddenly touches upon a relationship theme? Plato said that music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Indeed, music is about life as everything that we do and think, fear and dream, has already been expressed through music. Friendship amongst it, of course. Not to mention the recent Harvard research sa...
16. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - Freny Nina on Indian Classical Music
June 16, 2021 13:07 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIn this episode we will discover theory, mystery and beauty of Indian Classical music. Freny Nina will be playing sitar while talking about Raga and Dhrupad - the most important genres of Indian Classical Music. Although so very diverse, Eastern and Western cultures are very similar as they touch upon same values such as meaning of music, its content and impact on the listener. Guest - Freny Nina Editor - Matylda Dymek Photographer - Roman Drits Visual designer - Christian Moehring
16. Talking Music - Olga Jegunova and Freny Nina on Indian Classical Music
June 16, 2021 13:07 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIn this episode we will discover theory, mystery and beauty of Indian Classical music. Freny Nina will be playing sitar while talking about Raga and Dhrupad - the most important genres of Indian Classical Music. Although so very diverse, Eastern and Western cultures are very similar as they touch upon same values such as meaning of music, its content and impact on the listener. Guest - Freny Nina Editor - Matylda Dymek Photographer - Roman Drits Visual designer - Christian Moehring
15. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova #3
April 22, 2021 18:17 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBThis episode is all about tempo in music. How to define and interpret it? Who decides on the tempo : composer or performer? Do we practise with or without metronome? You will learn about 4 main ways how composers express their will and how subjective it can be. Host: Olga Jegunova https://www.olgajegunova.com/ Editor: Matylda Dymek Visual design: Christopher Moehring Music excerpts used in this episode: F. Händel - Water music. Minuet. The English Bach Festival orchestra, Christopher...
14. Kusochek - Anoushka Alexander-Rose
April 07, 2021 17:50 - 26 minutes - 37 MBThis week Lara interviews PhD student Anoushka Alexander-Rose about her research on one of Russia’s most well-known émigré authors: Vladimir Nabokov. Anoushka is looking into the themes of Jewishness and antisemitism in Nabokov’s life and work and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. Tune in to learn more about the well-known author who has much more to him than his famous novel Lolita and find out Anoushka’s recommendations on Russian books you need to read! Find Anoushka: https:...
13. Kusochek - Phil Cavendish
March 30, 2021 19:27 - 53 minutes - 73 MBThis week Lara interviews Phil Cavendish of SSEES, UCL about Soviet and Russian film, though the conversation veers in wonderful directions, even leading to a comparison of Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. Tune in to hear why Phil thinks he could write an entire module on just one Tarkovsky film and why he hates Love Actually and Irony of Fate (one of Lara’s favourite Soviet films!). Phil also shares a number of talented filmmakers from Russia, Ukraine and East Europe that listeners are recomme...
12. Talking Music - Vladimir Jurowski & Olga Jegunova
March 19, 2021 16:36 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBInterviewer: Olga Jegunova Editor: Matylda Dymek Visual design: Christopher Moehring Find Vladimir: https://www.instagram.com/vladimir_jurowski/ Find Olga: https://www.olgajegunova.com/ https://www.instagram.com/olgajegunova/ https://www.facebook.com/olga.jegunova.9 Music excerpts used in this episode: Introduction: A.Scriabin - Nocturne for the Left Hand (Leon Fleishner) Interview: D.Schostakovich - Symphony No 6 (Russian National Orchestra & V.Jurowski) I.Stravinsky - Soldier’s tale ...
12. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova - Vladimir Jurowski
March 19, 2021 16:36 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBInterviewer: Olga Jegunova Editor: Matylda Dymek Visual design: Christopher Moehring Find Vladimir: https://www.instagram.com/vladimir_jurowski/ Find Olga: https://www.olgajegunova.com/ https://www.instagram.com/olgajegunova/ https://www.facebook.com/olga.jegunova.9 Music excerpts used in this episode: Introduction: A.Scriabin - Nocturne for the Left Hand (Leon Fleishner) Interview: D.Schostakovich - Symphony No 6 (Russian National Orchestra & V.Jurowski) I.Stravinsky - Soldier’s tale ...
12. Talking Music - Vladimir Jurowski
March 19, 2021 16:36 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThe covid war, music and objectivity.
11. Kusochek - Denis Stolyarov
March 16, 2021 19:09 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBTune in to this week’s episode of Kusochek to hear Lara interview Muscovite Denis Stolyarov, a PhD graduate of The Courtauld institute, London who is active in the contemporary art world and knows all there is to know about late Soviet and early post-Soviet artistic movements. Denis describes how he went from studying the London Victorians in Moscow to the Moscow Conceptualists in London and gives his optimistic predictions for the art world and creative production post-corona. Denis also gi...
10. Kusochek - Ieva Blazeviciute
March 02, 2021 20:16 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBThis week Lara interviews Ieva Blazeviciute, a Lithuanian art director at Vice who has recently designed and published a photography book exploring the meaning of the label Post-Soviet and what this concept means to people from former Soviet states, not just Russia. Ieva discusses how her understanding of identity has been impacted by learning new languages, travelling abroad alone and witnessing the sudden trend in the West of adopting Soviet aesthetics. She shares the story behind her artw...
9. Talking Music with Olga Jegunova
February 24, 2021 21:43 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBTalking music with Olga Jegunova Editor: Matylda Dymek Visual designer: Christian Moehring Photo: Roman Drits Special thanks to Bernard Oppetit Find Olga: https://www.olgajegunova.com/ https://www.instagram.com/olgajegunova/ https://www.facebook.com/olga.jegunova.9 Find us via: https://www.russianartandculture.com/ https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/ https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/
8. Kusochek - Liudmila Tomanek
February 04, 2021 19:42 - 40 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this week's installment of Kusochek, Lara interviews Liudmila Tomanek, a chartered translator and PhD student of polyphony in translation. Tune in to hear about Liudmila's memories of the collapse of the USSR and the wild 90s, her analysis of Nobel Peace Prize winner Svetlana Alexeivich's works of literature and a bit of etymological trivia about French and Russian. Liudmila also reads an excerpt from her Russian recommendation of the week and explains why you might find onions sprouting ...
7. Kusochek - Liza Grivnyak
January 26, 2021 16:44 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBIn Lara’s second instalment of her “Kusochek” series, she interviews Liza Grivnyak, an art student soon to be womenswear designer from Moscow. Liza describes the Russian folkloric inspiration for her latest designs, dives into the beauty of the colourful Russian language, shares her favourite to Russian artworks and museums and has a delicious Russian Recommendation of the week to keep us warm in these cold months. Find Lara: https://www.instagram.com/lolszowska/ https://uclpimedia.com/onli...
6. Lara Olszowska's "Kusochek" - Daria Mosolova
January 12, 2021 21:30 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBWelcome to the first episode of the mini-series Kusochek. Today, one of our contributors Lara Olszowska will be interviewing Daria Mosolova, a Russian native speaker and student of Comparative Literature at University College London. Tune in to hear Daria’s take on Russian literature, art, Russian national identity and New Year celebrations. Daria also has an excellent recommendation for listeners who are looking to get a kusochek (a piece, a taste) of Russian culture without having to leave...
5. Olga Jegunova - living in the USSR, is music a man's world?
January 07, 2021 20:12 - 21 minutes - 39.3 MBOlga Jegunova tells Ksenia Kazintseva about her upbringing, being Russian in Latvia during the fall of the USSR, being a woman in the music world and much more. Find Olga: https://www.facebook.com/olga.jegunova.9 https://www.instagram.com/olgajegunova/ http://www.olgarhythm.com/donatefunds Find Ksenia: https://www.instagram.com/essentialas... https://kseniakazintseva.wixsite.com/... More on Russian Art and Culture via: https://www.russianartandculture.com/ https://www.instagram.com/rusart...
4. Olya Voronetskaya in conversation with RAC Director Natasha Butterwick
December 14, 2020 11:57 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBToday we bring you an interview with our director Natasha Butterwick by one of our brilliant contributors Olya Voronetskaya. They discuss running RAC, the team, Russian Art Week and the journey from collecting to consulting, as well as dealing Russian Art. Find Olya: https://www.instagram.com/olya.voronetskaya/ https://www.russianartandculture.com/authors/olya-voronetskaya/ https://www.facebook.com/olya.voronetskaya.1 Find Natasha: https://www.instagram.com/natashabutterwick/ https://twitt...
3. Art Roundup
September 01, 2020 07:44 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MBToday we bring you the Art Roundup, amidst preparations for the Russian Art Week, we want to keep you updated with everything that's reopened and ready to visit in London and beyond. From small galleries to auction houses and online exhibitions, get your art news from us! Find us via: https://www.russianartandculture.com/ https://www.instagram.com/rusartculture/ https://twitter.com/RusArtCulture https://www.facebook.com/RusArtCulture/ Music by Alexandr Solodchenko
2. Art Collecting for the Beginner (The Emerging Contemporaries)
July 27, 2020 16:01 - 4 minutes - 6.43 MBWant to start out your collecting journey or get a piece of work you have valued? We have a consultancy service where our team of professionals can help you begin via https://www.russianartandculture.com/consultancy/. Meanwhile, here's the first of our series on collecting for the beginner by artist Ksenia Kazintseva. Stay tuned for professionals dealing in masterpieces and more interviews! Find Ksenia: https://www.instagram.com/essentialaspects/ https://kseniakazintseva.wixsite.com/fineart...
1. Alexandr Ryzhkin
July 07, 2020 18:30 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBFirst guest is Alexandr Ryzhkin, a Moscow-based artist and educator in conversation with Ksenia Kazintseva on his latest series inspired by fairytales and Russian sayings as well as the European education system vs the Russian one. We also discuss his work with Stroganov School of Art and a freedom of style approach to teaching. Find Alexandr: https://www.youtube.com/user/rizhkins https://www.facebook.com/alexandr.ryzhkin https://www.instagram.com/alryzhkin/ Find Ksenia: https://www.instag...