Head of the Hermitage Department of Contemporary Art Ozerkov resigned after an interview with the museum director
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Dmitry Ozerkov announced his dismissal from the post of head of the Hermitage’s contemporary art department. He noted that he made the decision after the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine, but finally left after an interview with museum director Mikhail Piotrovsky about the culture of cancellation and the reaction of the world to the military operation.
Mr. Ozerkov said that he handed over the collection for which he was responsible, and since March he has not participated in the museum’s activities. “I left because I don’t intend to have anything to do with today’s Russia,” Mr. Ozerkov wrote on Instagram (the social network belongs to Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation). He spoke out against military operations in Ukraine.
Dmitry Ozerkov is 46 years old. He has headed the contemporary art department since 2007. Prior to that, since 1998, he was a researcher at the Department of the History of Western European Art at the Hermitage.
Mr. Ozerkov also left the Art and Science program at ITMO University, the Zifergauz multimedia art gallery, and the city council for culture under the governor.
Mr. Piotrovsky in June in an interview “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” said that Russia, by conducting a military operation in Ukraine, is making “great global transformations.” “And we, respectively, are in them and with her,” Mr. Piotrovsky said. He noted that “there are situations when it is absolutely clear that a person should be with his country.”
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