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Landscape objects festival "Archstoyanie" is a unique project, which offers a new approach to territory development and presents the idea of interaction with landscape via creative practice and contemporary art.
In the framework of the festival there are created large-scale art and architecture objects.
The festival as well is an open-space experimental ground and simultaneously a well-organized park with most beautiful natural landscape (50 hectares of square).

The festival in Nikola-Lenivets village (Dzerzhinsky district, Kaluga region) is being held since 2006/
Festival is organized by non-commercial partnership "Project Nikola-Lenivets".
Festival participants are famous Russian and foreign architects, artists, designers.

Except for landscape objects festival there are held various educational seminars and master-classes.

Every year festival organizers chose a theme topical for art and culture and this theme is treated by invited authors. The festival id held twice a year.

Presently there are 30 objects on the park territory near Nikola-Lenivets village.

"Archstoyanie" festival takes part in international festivals, exhibitions. Honors:
2006: Archmoskva, grand-prize in "Best non-commercial project" nomination
2006: Festival is granted by Potanin Fund (in the course of competition)
2008: "Landscape architecture. View from the house", a diploma for development of professional creative communications
2008: Archmoskva, a diploma for "Best installation"
2008: Festival is granted by the European Union

Festival participants and partners:
Francois Roche (France), Sami Rintala (Finland), Adriaan Geuze (West 8, The Nitherlands), Nikolai Polissky, Totan Kusembaev, Anton Nadtochiy and Vera Budko, Vladimir Plotkin, Alexander Ponamarev, Studio-school Edas and Vlad Kirpechev, Yuriy Avvakumov, Arhc 4 architectural group, A-B architectural bureau, Galina and Igor Lichterovy, Project Meganom architectural bureau and Yuriy Grigoryan, Taf studio, Vyacheslav Kolejchuk, Vasiliy Schetinin, Timur Bashkaev, Alexey Kozyr, Evgeniy Azz, Vlad Savinkin, Vladimir Kuzmin, Alexander Brodsky, Anna Schetinina, Powerhouse company Holland bureau, Typo Grapgic Design, Oskar Madera, Electroboutique, Atelier 710

All the festivals >>

Archstoyanie 2009. Summer
Archstoyanie 2009. Winter
Archstoyanie 2008. Summer
Archstoyanie 2008. Winter
Archstoyanie 2007. Summer
Archstoyanie 2007. Winter
Archstoyanie 2006. Summer

Archstoyanie 2007. Summer
The Border

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Extraordinary beautiful landscapes of the Nikolo-Lenivets region are all-sufficient in their beauty. One could be sure there is no appropriate human invention to come up with them. Since vital activity of a human being as a user is limited with his/her resources, strength, landscape opportunities there is always some kind of frontier space somewhere at the periphery of his/her potential where he or she faces a conflict. This year we offer to include the theme of this conflict into vital and intellectual activity of users. The theme ’Frontier’ is an opportunity to work at the interfaces between contemporary art and architecture: in a country landscape of Nikolo-Lenivets region and inside the open-air museum, in the wildlife preservation and at the same time at the outskirts of the village, in the actively developing complex but situated in the deep province, inside formed original environment, original social structure, at the territory striving to develop it’s own charisma covering various social and cultural levels. Nikolay Polissky the genius of the place and Adriaan Geuze, a Holland guru of environmental design from the highprofile West8 company are realizing their ideas on the subject. By the end of their work a special festive event is going to be arranged providing all those interested with an opportunity to appreciate the new exhibits of the amazing museum and to get acquainted with artifacts of the passed seminar. International seminar Infinity in Russia is held from July 18 to August 5, 2007. Young specialists in humanitarian spheres from 7 European countries including Russia are invited to use arts as the means of European-Russian intercommunication. In comfortable communicational atmosphere they’ll provide a critical overlook of the new portrait of the country. The main task of the project is to involve young people into the process of working out of actual development strategies of contemporary cultural landscape in Russia on the basis of international and intercultural collaboration.

Participants and objects>>

Pine pavilion
Adriaan Geuze

Border of empire
Nikolay Polissky

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