Subbotnik

The people of Geneva were invited to come to the park Conches for the first Switzerland subbotnik

Intervention

October 3, 2009
Conches, Switzerland

When visitors enter the Conches garden, they see an immense carpet of flowers which seems to have been planted by the city parks and gardens department. The pattern in the garden beds is indecipherable at ground level but when viewed from the top floor of nearest house it falls into place as the head of Lenin.

Floral pictures are a long-standing tradition, and are still popular today. The people of Geneva were invited to come to the park on 3 October 2009 for the first Switzerland subbotnik to plant the flowers. Volunteer workers from all social backgrounds had time to mix and talk about art and culture while they were working the soil.

Selected video screening:

Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents
Exposure – “Local is the new global”
Curated by Yuriy Kruchak
Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 23 – December 2, 2012

Fine Art Film Festival Szolnok
Video program “Once There Was Art”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Tisza Cinema – Room “B”, Szolnok, Hungary
Friday, October 12, 2012, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

International University in Imagination (I.U.I)
Exhibition – “Let’s Play”
Curated by Jin Sup Yoon, Yongim Kim
“Space Radio M”, Seoul, South Korea
August 04 – August 12, 2012

Now & After 12. Video Art Festival Moskow
Video program “The Best of “Art & the City”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia, Moscow
May 24 – June 10, 2012

CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity
Video program “Memory | Velvet Underground”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Sattal, India
February 24-26, 2012

Modern Art Research Institute
Exhibition – “Ten Years”
Curated by Gleb Vysheslavsky
Kyiv, Ukraine
December 13, 2011 – January 16, 2012

Visual Culture Research Center
Exhibition – «Labour Show»
Curatorial team «HUDRADA»
Kyiv, Ukraine
November 17, 2011 – December 2, 2011

WATERPIECES Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival
Video program “Freedom of Expression”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Art Center NOASS, Riga, Latvia
Friday, September 09, 2011, from 9.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

CologneOFF 2011
Video program “Europe: Ex Soviet Union”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
Rajatila Gallery, Tampere, Finland
Saturday, May 28, 2011, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Art
Video program “Europe: Ex Soviet Countries”
Curated by Agricola de Cologne
St.Petersburg, Russia
Saturday, May 21, 2011, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Supermarket art fair 2011
Video program “Crossing the Dimensions”
Сurated by Yuriy Kruchak
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
February 18-20, 2011

Modern Art Research Institute
Video program “Contemporary Ukrainian Media Art”
Сurated by Maria Kulikovskaya
Kyiv, Ukraine
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.