The exhibition, organized jointly with the London Gallery, Charles Saatchi, will be the works of young artists

Today in the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace presents "Newspeak: British Art Today", organized by the State Hermitage Museum in collaboration with Charles Saatchi Gallery (London). Visitors can see works of young artists - as the British, and those who had emigrated to Britain in the past few years.

The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography and installation performed by such artists as Hervin Anderson, Jonathan Baldock, Pablo Bronstein, Spartacus Chetwynd, Steven Kleydon, William Daniels, Dick Evans Tessa Farmer, Robert Fry , Sigrid Holmwood, Mustafa Hulusi, Scott King, Alastair McKinven, Goshko Makuga, Ryan Moseley, Arif Ozaki, Barry Reigate, Daniel Silver, Fergal Stapleton, Donald Urkat, Jonathan Uoteridzh, Toby Ziegler, Jed Quinn.

This fall, the British channel BBC2 launched a reality show, Charles Saatchi (working title Saatchi's Art Stars). The purpose of this project - to find new talented artists of modern art. Six finalists will undergo training in the television art school, where they will share the wisdom of recognized masters. In addition to the Saatchi, the participants will be judged show the artist Tracey Emin, art critic Matthew Collings, collector Frank Cohen, and head of the Barbican Art Gallery of Kate Bush. The winner gets a chance to exhibit their works in the Hermitage, and then in the Saatchi Gallery. In addition, the winner will get the opportunity to work for free for three years in the studio, located in the London district of Chelsea.

Exhibition "Newspeak. British Art Today, "will run until January 17, 2010. Its curator - Dmitry Ozerkov, Section Head of the State Hermitage Museum of Contemporary Art, Ph.D. in Philosophy. The exhibition is part of the project "Hermitage 20/21", large-scale program to expand the collection of Western art in the XX and XXI centuries, designed to provide in the Hermitage works of contemporary artists.

The exhibition organizers have prepared an illustrated catalog, which has introductory remarks by the Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky. Contributors - Dmitry Ozerkov and Patricia Ellis.

summer 2010 exhibition opens at Saatchi Gallery. It will last until January 2011-th.

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: press release of the State Hermitage, artinvestment.ru