Dmitriy Ozerkov, Head of the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Hermitage Museum in Moscow, has left his post in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“I left because I do not intend to have anything in common with Russia today,” Ozkirov wrote in a lengthy statement. Posted on Instagram.
He said he chose to leave again in March, shortly after the invasion began. “The final decision,” Ozerkov said, came after the publication of a newspaper Article – Commodity in the post Rossiyskaya Gazeta In it, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Petrovsky suggested that the West tried to abolish Russia after the outbreak of the war.
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Ozerkov said in an Instagram post that he has not conducted any museum activities since March. His message came with a modified photo of the plane’s emergency exit door.
His departure concludes a 22-year stint at the Hermitage, the institution at which Ozerkov made his name in the art world. Since 2007, he has headed the Contemporary Art Department there, and in 2014, sponsored the Moscow edition of Manifesta, a touring European Biennial.
Ozerkov is hardly the only Russian figure to resign in response to the war. The artistic director of the VAC Foundation and deputy director of the Pushkin Museum left in early March.
“Russia has succeeded in expelling all of us who want nothing but good for its culture,” Ozerkov wrote on Instagram.
Attempts to reach the Hermitage via e-mail were unsuccessful.
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