Project
Temporary Exhibition «A pocketful of dreams. Art Deco Fashion in the Collections of the State Hermitage Museum and Nazim Mustafayev»
Category
Best Implemented Project of Temporary or Permanent Museum Exhibition
About the project (provided by the applicant)
The exhibition is dedicated to one of the shortest yet most vivid periods in world culture — the Art Deco style. The main exhibits — dresses and shoes from the Art Deco period (early 1920s – early 1930s) — are placed in the context of the interwar period, between the end of World War I and the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Party. The Hermitage Museum’s art collection helped create a vivid sense of the era through works by Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, and other masters. The collection of dresses and shoes was provided by Nazim Mustafayev.
A distinctive feature of the exhibition is the Hermitage’s collaboration with private collectors, as well as the creation of a large educational program around the temporary exhibition. For example, the Hermitage Youth Advisory Board implemented the project «Timeline» at the exhibition, which, according to M.B. Piotrovsky, gave the exhibition an academic depth.
The exhibition design was created by theatrical artists Emil Kapelyush and Yuri Suchkov, who crafted an atmosphere reminiscent of the «Roaring Twenties».
Location
34, Dvortsovaya Embankment, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Project implementation year
2025
Project website
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/what-s-on/iuhf34t5f7834tg349gj2g6?lng=en
Applicant
The State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum is one of the largest art and cultural-historical museums in the world. Its main complex is located in the historic center of Saint Petersburg and includes six interconnected buildings — the Winter Palace, the Winter Palace Reserve House, the Small Hermitage, the Old (Large) Hermitage, the New Hermitage, and the Hermitage Theatre. Additionally, the museum manages the General Staff Building, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, the Restoration and Storage Center «Staraya Derevnya», and the Menshikov Palace. The contemporary collection of the museum includes about 3 million works of art and cultural artifacts from the Stone Age to the 21st century.
Authors of the project
Exhibition concept authors – Nina Ivanovna Tarasova, Leading Researcher, Department of Russian Cultural History, State Hermitage Museum, and Nazim Sultanovich Mustafayev, Collector and Independent Researcher.
Exhibition coordinator – Svetlana Anatolyevna Datsenko, Advisor to the General Director of the State Hermitage Museum and Coordinator of the Hermitage Youth Advisory Board.
Photo
Alexey Bronnikov
Customer
The State Hermitage Museum
Other participants
Yuri Suchkov, theatrical artist, exhibition design author.
Emil Kapelyush, theatrical artist, exhibition design author.
Evgeny Dedinkin, Anastasia Egorova, Maria Chebatyuk, Alexandra Shcherbakova, Ulyana Yalova – members of the Hermitage Youth Advisory Board.
Mikhail and Yulia Gribovy – heads of the International Association of Balls, organizers of the «Jazz Promenade» educational project held as part of the exhibition.
Status of the project
Implemented
