Alexander Bazhenov. "Busya and Miavchik". Photo: Moscow International Biennale young art
The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is being held for the sixth time, becoming a familiar and expected event in artistic life capital Cities. This year more than 50 artists from all over the world, under the age of 35, will show their work in the main project. main topic Biennale intrigues with its uncertainty - the exhibition "Abracadabra" will become a discourse on modernity, where the boundaries between private, professional and public spheres life. In addition to the main exhibition, the Biennale will have two more important side projects, as well as a host of interesting events in a parallel program.
Andres Baron. "Print Sunset". Photo: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
At the VI Youth Biennale female face: both the main and strategic projects are supervised by women, and, judging by the announcements, this biennale will be distinguished by increased emotionality. The main project will be conducted by the young curator Lucrezia Calabro Visconti. She is not even 30, she recently graduated from the faculty of visual and performing arts of the Institute of Architecture of Venice and a master's degree from the Ca' Foscari University in Venice. She considers the organization of the non-commercial exhibition and research space CLOG in Turin to be her main achievement. She worked as an assistant to such masters as Francesco Bonami and Maurizio Cattelan. Independently supervised several projects in Amsterdam: “Why is everyone so cute? at the De Appel Art Institute, where she studied under a curatorial program, and at the University of Amsterdam - "Good luck, see you after the revolution!". Visconti knows and loves the Russian avant-garde well, and among contemporary Russian artists, he especially singles out the Chto Delat? group. and Dmitry Venkov, who have already outgrown the age limit of the Youth Biennale.
Moreshin Allahiari. "The one who sees the unknown." Video installation. Photo: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
The current biennale will be the first major international project of Visconti, which has nothing to do with education. For the main project, she chose a theme that contained abysses of meanings. "Abracadabra" got its name from a 1980s hit bands The Steve Miller Band, where we are talking that "everything is spinning and spinning again and again, and when it will end - no one knows." Visconti believes that this, in general, nonsense, abracadabra, accurately describes our modernity, where any boundaries are erased. This is especially true for the territory of art, where it is sometimes difficult to understand where work ends and entertainment begins. The most accurate metaphor modern life here is the dance floor where "energy is created". “In the project I want to talk about the phenomenon nightlife. Here, in Venice, this is especially obvious: there is no longer any difference between going to an exhibition in the pavilion at the Biennale and going to a party after it opens, ”explained in interview Art Newspaper Russia Lucrezia Calabro Visconti. Anyone who has ever been to Venice can testify that this is the case. And if the curator succeeds in creating in Moscow the unique carnival atmosphere of the Venice Biennale, it certainly won't be boring.
Gaveda Road, Egle Kulbokite. "YGRG 14X: read with one hand". Performance. Photo: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
There are many artists from Russia among the participants of the main project, some of them have already managed to declare themselves quite loudly. Ilya Grishaev, a graduate of the Pro Arte Foundation School, was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize; a graduate of the Rodchenko School, sculptor and video artist Elena Artemenko recently performed with the exhibition “Alienated Body”; media artist Alexandra Anikina has participated in several international biennials; Svetlana Vorontsova-Velyaminova, known as a fashion columnist, tries herself as an artist after graduating from the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems.
The Biennale's first strategic project, Thank You, Please Excuse me, is about more prosaic words and relationships than Abracadabra. “Magic words come from the world of childhood as a way to overcome total human egoism and as an acceptable step towards reconciliation,” says its curator Zhenya Chaika, who holds the position of Deputy Director Ural branch State Center for Contemporary Art.
Mark Johnson. "Ultraviolet". Photo: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
If the atmosphere of the dance floor is recreated in the main project, then in the strategic exposition it will be built in the form of a house, where you can look into the bedroom, living room, corridor and attic. The viewer will have to move like in a quest, discovering artistic skeletons in the closet in the back streets. This project has very famous Russian artists, which belong to the Youth Biennale only by age and are clearly chosen as locomotives. Tatyana Akhmetgalieva was the opening of the 1st Youth Biennale, since then she has participated in more than one high-profile international project. The exhibition will show her video "Scales", filmed at a graphite plant for the IV Ural Industrial Biennale. And Timofey Radya, who is called the Russian Banksy, has already become a street art legend. For the most part, the works selected for the strategic project have already been shown at exhibitions in the Russian regions, but are not yet known in Moscow. The Politefish series of photographs by Elena Anosova was presented for the first time at the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art in Vladivostok. The animated film "Holiday" by Nina Bisyarina participated in animation festivals, and now for the first time it can be viewed at a contemporary art exhibition. "Service" by Vladimir Marin, created jointly with the Sysert Porcelain Factory, has not yet been seen in the capital. And the “Map” by the Samara video artist Andrey Syailev has been waiting in the wings for five whole years.
Vladimir Marin. "Service". Photo: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
The second strategic project - This Site is Under Revolution ("Revolutionary work is underway") - is supervised by Spaniard Barbara Cueto. Like Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, she graduated from the curatorial program at the De Appel Institute in Amsterdam. In her luggage - the co-curatorship of the festival in Utrecht, exhibitions in the Madrid social and cultural center La Casa Encendida, at the Museum of Modern Art in Seoul. The Moscow Cueto project is dedicated to resisting restrictions on freedom in virtual world. Artists from Europe will climb the virtual barricades, and the exhibition itself will be accompanied by round tables and master classes - both offline and online.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
State Center for Contemporary Art
VI Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Abracadabra
June 8 - July 31
On September 9, 2017 in Moscow, in the New Space of the Theater of Nations, a public talk was held between the curator of the main project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, and the curator of the New Space of the Theater of Nations, Vera Martynov.
During the conversation, it was announced the start of accepting applications from artists and curators for participation in the main and strategic projects6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.The meeting participants also discussed the concept of the main project of the 2018 Biennale for Young Art, called "Abracadabra", talked about curatorial practices and work in interdisciplinary projects. Lucrezia Calabro Visconti talked about the role young curators play today in major international projects like a biennale, about his desire to work with local contexts and about the experience of cooperation with famous artist Maurizio Cattelan.
Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, curator of the main project of the Biennale:
« In 1999, William Mitchell, professor of architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formulated the theory of the "presence economy", which, in a few recent decades blurred the lines between professional, private and social spheres human life. More and more in the world, the most valuable commodity is not commodities, but information, knowledge and experience, creating models of a dystopian economy based on pleasure. Personal efficiency, the ideal realization of all the possibilities of the individual and a good emotional mood have become the main currency today, and in our 24/7 mode of operation, it is increasingly unclear whether we consciously choose this lifestyle or simply no longer know how to act differently. How to exercise your right to own own time? Which hidden powers can we draw to resist burnout?
The word "Abracadabra" was already attributed magical properties in ancient times. Saying “Abracadabra!”, we start the process of transforming reality. Today, this imperative word carries a lot of associations, partly due to the fact that pop culture has appropriated it (think of Steve Miller's disco hit that tore the dance floor in the 1980s in the 1980s). The term "Abracadabra!" binds what grows inside modern culture attention to esoteric, secret practices with modern suggestion and an interest in unpredictable parties all night long, which were previously a form of protest and a means of escape from reality. Our omnipresence-seeking transhumanists today make traditional forms of protest unacceptable, such as the strike as an absence. Abracadabra, on the other hand, is looking for alternative ways to interact with space and time in narratives that can become a source of powerful energy. It is the fantastic transformative energy of these secondary and sometimes hidden narratives that forms the focus of the project “Abracadabra”, based on the charge of the dance floor subculture from the past as a scene where new forms of interaction are created and new, unexpected experiences are acquired. Therefore, we focus on performative practices, video and interdisciplinary research, and among the project participants we would like to see artists who create or reveal new forms and possibilities of today's relationship with space and time» .
During her first trip to Russia, Lucrezia Calabro Visconti visited the Cosmoscow fair, exhibitions fund V-A-C at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Ural Industrial Biennale. Lucretia also met with more than 50 young artists as part of a portfolio review at the Moscow Krasny Center, visited the MMOMA Free Workshops school and private artists' studios.
SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS
From September 21 to November 20, 2017The site www.youngart.ru accepts applications from artists not older than 35 years old to participate in the main project of the Biennale.
Curators not older than 35 can apply with concepts for participation in two strategic projects of the Biennale, which will be held at two venues: the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA).
Illustrations and Additional materials for the press available at the link: https://goo.gl/IDPv3F
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is one of the most ambitious projects in the field of contemporary art in Russia. The objectives of the Biennale are to discover new names, support and stimulate the creative initiatives of artists and curators of a new generation, create conditions for their public expression and, as a result, develop the contemporary art environment. The project participants were given a chance to establish connections and establish creative interaction with professional artistic environment. The Biennale provides a space to showcase the current strategies of a new generation of artists and curators.
The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art has been held since 2008. The project was initiated by the annual festival of young art “Stop! Who goes?" (conducted by the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) annually from 2002 to 2006 in collaboration with the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)). The project acquired new status in connection with the growing interest of young artists, curators and critics. Through the joint efforts of the NCCA and MMOMA, the concept of the Young Art Biennale was developed. If earlier the curators of the Biennale were well-known international specialists chosen by the project organizers (Daria Pyrkina, Daria Kamyshnikova, Catherine Becker, David Elliott), regardless of their age, then since 2015 the curator of the Biennale, like its participants, is a representative of a new generation. Biennale partners are cultural institutions interested in the development of young art.
The theme of the program “Museum Chambers” on Saturday, July 7 is the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.
The guest of the program is Ekaterina Kibovskaya, Commissioner of the Biennale, Head of the ROSIZO Directorate for Special Projects.
So, in Moscow Once again the Moscow Biennale for Young Art takes place (which means the participation of artists not older than 35 years). It is younger than the "adult" biennale, but it also has a sufficient history behind it. Moreover, the "youth" had a predecessor - the festival of young art "Stop, who's coming?", Conducted by the State Center for Contemporary Art in conjunction with the school "Free Workshops". The Youth Biennale has grown in status compared to it - it has received the support of ministries and departments. And also acquired a branched and rather complex structure.
"Abacadabra" is by no means a "value judgment", but the name of the main project of the Biennale. In addition to it, there are two “strategic” projects, a fair amount of “special” ones, and, finally, a “parallel program”.
The organizers understand the strategic projects as the search for the main directions for the development of young art.
Youth exhibitions really cannot do without texts, to a much greater extent than at exhibitions of "adults". Indeed, it is somehow even indecent not to write something about the appropriation and undermining of institutional rules and not to quote Baudrillard. :)
Special projects are many and varied. Some of them represent the work of students from several schools of contemporary art.
The projects of the Youth Biennale are located everywhere – in industrial spaces, in individual exhibition halls, and in museums. And in the latter case - not only in the halls for temporary exhibitions. There are also projects that exist on the principle of "introduction" - the works of young authors are introduced directly into the permanent museum exposition. As, for example, in the museum-apartment of Apollinary Vasnetsov, where even the newfangled “augmented reality” is involved.
The parallel program is the most free part of the overall project. Actually, this is not even a part of the project, but the own programs of galleries and other institutions, only ranked by the organizing committee, with the coincidence of formal criteria, to own schedule. These exhibitions are also scattered everywhere - from museum halls and solid galleries to pretty tiny cellars.
There is a youth biennale almost all summer. Some exhibitions have already closed, others should hurry to see. A lot of projects are still ahead - so stay tuned for the news (including on the website of the youth biennale itself).
Text: Tatyana Pelipeyko
Acceptance of applications: 01.06 - 03.06.2018
MMOMA, GOGOLEVSKY 10
Curator: Barbara Cuerto
A great chance for those who would like to become not just a visitor, but a full-fledged participant in the Strategic Project of the VI Moscow International Biennale for Young Art! MMOMA announces additional set performers to participate in three biennale projects:
1. Performance by Wonka Peak at the opening of the Biennale (June 8 from 20.30 to 21.15). Everyone can become a participant in the performance here. English proficiency preferred foreign language, or sign language.
2. HyperReadings program - 3 reading groups during the biennale (please note that each reading group has two days of work). If you are passionate about reading, like to share information, and are good at using a computer and are open modern technologies- then this project is for you! All that is needed other than what has already been said is your time.
3. At the Art&Feminism workshop (July 22 from 16:30 to 19:00). Librarians, students, art historians or enthusiasts who want to search for information resources with us, get to know themselves first, and then introduce the basics of Wikipedia editing to the project participants, are perfect for this project.
A detailed description of all projects is below. Your application can be sent until June 3 inclusive to Valeria's mail: valeria.. Go for it!
1. Open-call for participation in the performance of Puck Vonk
Date and time of performance: 8/06/2016, 20:30-21:15;
Rehearsals: 5/06/2016 - 8/06/2016;
One performance during the opening of the Biennale;
Details: any person is invited to participate in the performance, regardless of age or gender;
Language Proficiency: Proficiency in English or another foreign language or sign language is preferred. However, this is an optional requirement;
Performance tags: voice objectification, your voice as a force, voice generators and artificial intelligence, body language, sign language, non-verbal communication and empathy.
The artist's wishes to potential performers: “I am looking for performers with experience in performances (in any field). Your ability to speak loudly, as well as to master the movements of your body, at least to a small extent, will be useful. Your participation in rehearsals, lasting +/- 4 days and participation in the performance will be required. You will be offered a written script to perform, however, he will be very open to your suggestions, and the actual performance will be a combination based on the script and the uniqueness of the particular performer. The rehearsals will partly shape and complement the final version of the performance.”
- Project name
- your first and last name
— describe your experience of participating in performances and attach a photo/video documentation of the events in which you took part
Please note that the application form must be completed English language; volume up to 1500 characters with spaces
Your application can be sent until June 3 inclusive to Valeria's mail: valeria..
2. Open-call for events throughout the Biennale
Open-call for volunteers - people who are passionate about reading, literature - to participate in the HyperReadings discursive program - an open space for joint learning during the exhibition.
Wishes for volunteers: We are looking for volunteers to take part in a seminar in the exhibition space at least once a week during the readings. If you are passionate about reading, like to share information, and also know how to use a computer and are open to modern technologies, then this project is for you, and we are happy to invite you to join it. By "reading" in this case, we propose to understand everything that can be read, including texts, images, films, digital and non-digital objects. Reading lists will not be purely academic or elite, moreover, you will be able to form them yourself.
HyperReadings is an open source software system developed and maintained by Sean Dockray and Benjamin Forster. Also joining this collaboration is Julia Bavyka, helping to physically manifest this elusive infrastructure. We invite you to join us!
Volunteers are encouraged to use the public program space to pursue their own interests, however, below are some ideas for potential workshops and events. We've also created a Google calendar to help you schedule events quickly. All volunteers are given full access to create and edit events as they see fit - they can attend meetings on any schedule, and they can also invite other people.
Workshop Types: Please note that in addition to these fixed dates, impromptu events may occur at any time. Follow the Google calendar for up-to-date information - https://bitly.com/2HSBjEy.
2.1. "Peer-to-peer network"
Dates and times: Saturday 16 June and 7 July, 17:00-18:30
Cooperative learning is planned during this type of event: You will learn about the new p2p web technologies that Hyper Readings and Dat Library are built on, as well as Beaker Browser and Dat Protocol. You will need a laptop to participate in the seminar - please bring your personal computer with you.
2.2. "Experimental Reading Group"
Date and time: Saturday 23 June and 14 July, 17:00-18:30
We offer three different ways start a reading group. The volunteer who leads the project can choose between the following options:
1. Joint reading of one text aloud. Each participant is invited to read one page, where the text is passed in a circle.
2. Open microphone, where any participant can read any text at their discretion. Participants are encouraged to bring their own books or choose texts of their choice. Ideally, this type of seminar should be an impromptu game, where each participant reads his text, entering into a dialogue with the text of other participants. Also, a possible scenario for such a seminar can be a comparison of a comparative list of all the texts read during the seminars.
3. Classical reading group, where participants are invited to read the text first, and then to conduct a public discussion. It is suggested that the recommended reading list be used as a guide.
2.3. Reading group: "Reading and writing"
Date and time: Saturday 30 June and Friday 20 July 17:00-18:30
In the context of this group, a collaborative discussion of reading lists is proposed. What is your reading list today? What can he be?
We invite people to participate in the project when choosing various ways for the formation of the social environment. The ways we suggest are as follows: seminars can be conducted 1) based on existing knowledge and individual interests, 2) compiling and sharing reading lists, 3) conducting joint readings, 4) creating new reading lists so that they become accessible to other participants. It is important that anyone who participates is part of the project and contributes to the modeling social forms knowledge production.
Please, in the questionnaire for this event, indicate:
- Project name
– tell us what type of events you would like to take part in and why
- please share information about your favorite books
3. Open-call for participation in the "Edit-a-thon" project of the group "Art&Feminism"
Are you a librarian, art student or enthusiast? We need your specific skills and expertise for the most popular online research platform in the world! For the first time, the Art&Feminism project based on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place in Russia. As a volunteer, you will perform tasks such as searching for information resources, helping project participants and getting them acquainted with the basics of editing Wikipedia. Volunteers do not require Wikipedia editing experience, we will teach you these basics before the project.
Art + Feminism is a do-it-yourself and do-with-others campaign that is open to educating people of all gender identities and expressions, and invites Wikipedia to be edited to expand content on gender, feminism, and art. The project is based in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), with parallels with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate Gallery (London); art gallery Ontario (Toronto); MAXXI (Rome); Smithsonian Museum american art(Washington, DC); and hundreds of others. Thus, the project was founded in 2014, and more than 10,000 people in more than 800 events around the world took part in the "Edit-a-thons" project of the Art&Feminism group, as a result of which more than 33,000 articles were created and supplemented in Wikipedia.
Art&Feminism has expanded its scope to include other curatorial projects. Art&Feminism projects are reviewed by Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, CBC, Canadian Art and BBC, as well as co-founders who have been named the world's leading thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine. Art&Feminism is led by Sian Evans, Jacqueline Mabay, Mackensie Mack and Michael Mandiberg. We invite you to find out more information on our website: http://www.artandfeminism.org/.
Please, in the questionnaire for this event, indicate:
- Project name
- your first and last name, as well as education
— please tell us how you understand feminism and why you are interested in the project
Please note: the questionnaire is filled out in English, the volume is up to 1500 characters with spaces
Your application can be sent until June 3 inclusive to Valeria's mail: valeria.. Go for it!
Moscow International Biennale for Young Art- one of the brightest artistic events capital Cities. The Biennale of Young Art, which has become a rebirth annual festival young art "Stop! Who's coming?" (2002-2008), takes place every two even years, unlike the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, which runs in odd years. Considering that Iosif Backshtein stepped down as Commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art this year, and its new structure is not yet clear, the Biennale for Young Art today is perhaps also one of the most ambitious Moscow international art events. And about this year's project, we can already say that it turned out to be much more interesting than the previous one."adult" Moscow Biennale.
Feature of the Young Art Biennale that only young authors can participate in it. This year there was an important organizational change at the Biennale - not only the artists, but also the curators of the main and strategic projects were under 35 years old. Under the age of 35 is also the Commissioner of the Biennale, a position introduced this year. She was assignedEkaterina Kibovskayaresponsible for the conceptmodern development of Gorky Park in 2011-2013.
The project of 32-year-old Briton Nadim Samman was chosen by the expert council as the main project of the Biennale. An application for participation in the main project could be sent by anyone through electronic form. The final participants were chosen by the curator.
Nadeem Samman- Curator of more than 40 exhibition projects in London, Zurich, Moscow, Vienna, Marrakesh. including project managerAlexander Ponomarev. Concordia" and "Antarctopia" in the Antarctic pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2014. You can get acquainted with selected projects of Nadim Samman on his website. Also, Nadim Samman is known as an art critic who studied the issues of inclusion / exclusion of the art of Soviet conceptualists in Western contexts, including during the emigration of Soviet artists to New York.
The main project of the 5th Biennale for Young Art
The main project of the 5th Biennale for Young Artwill be held at Trekhgornaya manufactory from July 1 to August 10. For the project, Nadim Samman chose the theme "Deep Inside" and selected the works of 87 young artists from 36 countries. The program statements of the Biennale, as befits the format of a large-scale international show, are universal, global and even universal in nature:
"Our time is the time of cracks, breaks, penetration and cavities. Our culture is the culture of the abyss. If modernism tried to strike at the very foundation of culture - to reach the "zero point" of painting, to change the structural foundations human psychology, historical laws and economic science, today we have parted with these illusions. We are sinking deeper - or falling - into a kind of black hole. So it is only to be expected that artists would become interested in opaque, mysterious phenomena, conspiracies: those that are on the other side of the event horizon, as well as all that is associated with instability and versatility. We look deep into the abyss, the abyss looks back at us. However, in a strange way, there is much more to this abyss than we can imagine: as evidenced by the giant X-ray reflection in the corona of the star Markarian 335, the abyss can erupt. talks about the project curator Nadim Samman.
Felix Kissling. Germany. Anti Sun.
A deep black hole in the exhibition space, absorbing with its intangible depth. The round frame is made of wood and covered with a layer of black pigment with high coefficient light absorption.
Eddie Wagenknecht. USA. Data and dragons.
A series of sculptures intercepting and recording anonymous data from nearby Wi-Fi networks in real time. Collected together, circuit boards and network cables, dark and austere in themselves, symbolize the "cloud", social networks, data, leaks and what makes social capital a singular object.
Christian Fagaroli. Italy. Remember, repeat, redo.
The artist decided to bring to Moscow a copy of the brain model, made in 1885 and first visited Moscow at the end of the 19th century, to study the parts of the brain responsible for archiving memory processes, for feelings and emotions.
Alvaro Urbano. Untitled. Spain.
Artist from Madrid punched a hole in the wall and invited us to look inside at a fictional landscape, from another reality. A picture of wildlife that did not fall into any classification is like a museum diorama that gave birth to itself.
Paul Rosero Contreras. Ecuador. Wave.
An Ecuadorian artist based in Los Angeles has made a bio-controlled installation that includes a 3D model of a sound wave made from silk by hundreds of silkworm caterpillars and a computer monitoring system that produces sounds and images by tracking the movements of the worms. This living installation introduces the idea of organic 3D printing as part of a hybrid production mechanism.
Katharina Grutsay. Austria. military halls.
In a series of photographs, strange views appear before the viewer: at first glance, these are military stories, but if you look closely, they begin to tell a completely different story. Pictures taken in Moscow Central Museum Great Patriotic War, - partly personalized spaces that emerged against the backdrop of military scenes depicted in museum dioramas. Banquettes, chairs, telephones in front of paintings with scenes of war, are strange and isolated objects here.
Yulia Selin. Sweden. Disease.
Painting at the Biennale is not active, but it was also presented.The artist in her studio dances on a canvas lying on the floor. The physical act and choreography show up in the fingerprints, feet and knees in the paint layer. At the same time, there is an association with the landscape. The canvas conveys the feeling of the body in nature.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite. Brazil. Three Dances.
The nightclub is a space for the mediation of cultural experience. The dance floor creates a space of "collective boiling" and ecstatic legitimization of alternatives to productive behavior accepted in the pragmatic capitalist world. The artist makes a cast of her moving body with multi-colored plaster over several days. The result is a composition of three plaster groups - imperfect traces of dance, abstract objects in space.
Strategic projects of the 5th Biennale for Young Art:
Hyperconnected in the Moscow Museum Contemporary Art(Ermolaevsky 17). The exhibition, which brought together 15 artists from 17 countries on 5 floors of the museum, reminds us that we all move in a single stream, where everyone becomes a multitude, the individual becomes part of the whole, and all this can be called hyperlinks.
Curator Juan Laya: "In an era of global acceleration, our minds and bodies change to adapt to the environments and environments we find ourselves in on a daily basis. We are reborn by opening windows, closing folders, and peering at reflective surfaces; fuzzy boundaries force us to rethink our identity. As a consequence, any hypothetical the separation of culture from nature disappears and the environment around us natural environment becomes a cultural environment. The artists I invited abandoned the apocalyptic and utopian vision of modernity, realizing the world as a plurality of states and positions."
Adrien Mexico. France. Rehabilitation center wildlife.
Neringa Chernyauskaite. Lithuania. Lost heritage.
IN State Center Modern Art (Zoological 13) "A Time of Reasonable Doubt". Curators: Silvia Franceschini. Valeria Mancinelli:
"The works exhibited at the exhibition offer A New Look on the value artistic research developing in the current conditions of uncertainty, fear and anxiety about both the future and the past, which determine individual and collective ideas about the world and become a way of organizing it.
Daniela Ortiz. Spain. We watched the video and it was full of xenophobia.
Between 2014 and 2015, Daniela Ortiz, together with her students high school in Catalonia, she worked on a project centered on a critical analysis of the migration control system. The result of the study was a series of drawings and Toolkit to address issues related to xenophobia, Eurocentrism, the migration control system and colonial politics.
Basma Alsharif. Palestine. USA
"I didn't think to be contemporary artist when I emigrated to the states, but everyone constantly asked me about politics, about culture, about my emotions, that I decided to express them in a figurative form" -Basma Alsharif.
Parallel and Special Projects of the 5th Biennale for Young Art
In total, the Biennale will host several dozen parallel and special projects, at various exhibition venues in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Voronezh. An important feature of the Biennale will also be interaction with the city. Exhibitions will take place not only in art spaces, but also in shopping malls and parks.
In the Tsvetnoy Department Store together with the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin will host an exhibition "Inside Art", during which it will be possible to study the great paintings from the museum's collection under x-rays.
In the botanical garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary garden" exhibition " Simple names. Selected synonyms. Young Russian artists embedded their biomorphic objects into a formatted landscape art natural context.
In the Central House ARTPLAY exhibition BEZMESTIE. Graduates of the PRO ARTE Institute have created a micro-community that is not subject to outside influence. They locked themselves in a closed space, traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow in a half-broken "gazelle" and did not forget about own works that are presented at the exhibition. Training program"School of a young artist" (St. Petersburg), organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation, is addressed to young practicing artists from 20 to 30 years old. The goal of the program is to develop creative potential and critical thinking of young artists, create a space for their professional communication and support new projects that would meet the requirements of the current situation in the field of contemporary art.
