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Applicationperiod for the “Qui Vive?” 2nd Moscow International Biennale forYoung Art is finished.
Olga Lopukhova Scholarship grant “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art supports the cultural initiative of the Moscow-based VICTORIA — The Art of Being Contemporary foundation to establish the annual grant for young Russian artists — Olga Lopukhova Scholarship grant. This year, competition for the grant will be held for the first time within the “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale of which Olga was an executive director. The winner will have the opportunity to live and work in the UNIDEE in Residence International programme by Chittadelarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy) during four months — from 15 June 2011 till 15 October 2011. “The prematurely departed Olga Lopukhova remains a landmark figure of our time — a symbol of faith in the future of young contemporary art. That is precisely why we would like this opportunity for the young to be named in honor of her”— says VICTORIA — The Art of Being Contemporary press statement. Scholarship aims at enabling the artists to attain a professional, creative, productive and socially relevant dimension to their work, as well as to develop an international perspective and creating new career prospects for artists. The winner of the competition, which is held among young Russian artists presented in the program of the Biennale will get a residency opportunity at the UNIDEE in Residence International programme of Cittadellarte Pistoletto Foundation (Italy). The UNIDEE is one of the most famous and prestigious interdisciplinary residences in Europe in the field of contemporary visual arts. UNIDEE seeks to explore the relationship between Art and Society and fosters the role of artists and creative practitioners as activators for a responsible social change in society. At the core of the program, there is the intention to strengthen and support the participants for the completion of their proposed project. There are also weekly seminars and a series of workshops with experts from various fields, such as sustainable architecture, sociology and general culture, as well as studio visits, meetings with art critics and curators, trips and excursions. The grant of the VICTORIA foundation would cover the cost of participation in all the activities of the program, work, and life in the residence, as well as plane tickets, visas, insurance, domestic travel within the program. A winner will be announced at the final press conference of the II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art "Qui Vive?”in July 2010. Any artist who lives and works in Russia, presented at the II Moscow International Biennale “Qui Vive?” and has been included in the number of participants of the Biennale is eligible to apply. They are supposed to receive the invitation letter with all detailed information and requirements. Applicants can’t send the documents directly to the UNIDEE programme. Further information about the UNIDEE program can be found at the Foundation Chittadellarte Pistoletto website at http://www.cittadellarte.it. Further information about the terms and conditions of Olga Lopukhova Scholarship grant can be inquired for at: VICTORIA — The Art of Being Katerina Chuchalina (495) 643-19-76 lopukhova.grant@gmail.com *** Dearapplicants! Applicationperiod for the “Qui Vive?” 2nd Moscow International Biennale forYoung Art is finished. Thank you for your interest to the project. We have received 2575 application from 70countries. Such extraordinary number of applications demonstrated a realinternational interest to our young, but ambitious event. 2485 applications were sent to us by the artists. We also received 87 applications fromcurators, who proposed to the “Qui Vive” 2nd Moscow InternationalBiennale for Young Art different curatorial concepts.
Geography: Russia (848), Germany (143), USA (123), Great Britain (115), France(71), Italy (67), Austria, Serbia, Ukraine (56 each), Finland (47), Canada(37), Brazil and Romania (36 each), Switzerland (34), Lithuania and Norway (28each), Croatia (27), Belorussia (26), Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia (24 each), Greece and Israel (22 each), Estonia (21), Bulgaria (20),Belgium, Kirgizstan,Macedonia, Moldova, Poland (18 each), China and Sweden (17 each), CzechRepublic (15), Latvia And Mexico (14 each), Hungary (12), Portugal (11), India(10), Armenia, S.A.R. and Japan (9 each),Bosnia and Herzegovina (8), Australia,Denmark, Kazakhstan, Costa Rika (7 each), Slovakia (6), Cyprus, Singapore, Turkey (5 each), Uzbekistan(4),Argentina, Columbia, Chile (по 3), Albania, Egypt, Indonesia, Salvador ( 2 each) and alsoHonduras, Dominican Republic, Ireland, Kuwait, Кувейт, Lebanon, New Zeeland, Oman, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uruguay, Monte Negro,South Korea (1 each) . * * * "Qui vive?" Moscow Biennale for Young Art is one of the largest and ambitious projects, realized on the Moscow art scene in the field of contemporary art at present. The Biennale unites artistic initiatives of the whole Russia, the countries of near and far abroad. Leading art centers of Moscow in collaboration with regional and international partners take part in its preparation and realization. The key criteria for participant selection are not only age, but also in many cases phase. The matter concerns the spirit, the pathos of the young art, creative passion, bold experiments in search of new vision and method. We say «Stop!» to the young authors, asking them to stop their Brownian motion for a minute and to reflect upon where it is going, asking them to articulate their creative and conceptual positions. To stop and to formulate who, strictly speaking, and where is moving. New generation of artists gradually becomes objective reality. Count on youth and big potential for development is often risky, though mainly reasonable undertaking, and the results don’ t keep us waiting. Realization of the I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art "Qui vive?" has revealed considerable interest to the project and its current importance, its necessity in the context of art. Young authors have presented a wide range of problems, interesting to them, plastic ideas and artistic methods. The project has attracted proper attention of critics, curators, professional community and wide audience, i. e. those who are not indifferent to the future of the young art. The First Biennale was to reflect the full range of art experiments made by the young generation of artists, and it was a kind of the «reconnaissance in force» that displayed a great number of young art tendencies in the real art venues. The second experiment was decided to devote to one of the central themes, characterizing the contemporary situation of the young art. The phenomenon of Boundaries and its possible interpretations were selected as the main theme of the 2010 Biennale. It is logical to talk about boundaries after the slogan «Stop! Qui vive?», the invariable motto of the Biennale. It is timely to raise a problem of the divide between the «young» and «mature» art, to examine peculiarities of the development of art of the globalization era artists, who have been brought up after the symbolic date in the modern era, the fall of Berlin wall (it has been also a metaphoric border between two worlds). The idea of boundaries is connected with the problem of communication, artistic creativity in the epoch of new technologies, implying elimination of geographical barriers and putting artistic ideas into free circulation. Many other adjacent and related topics will be touched in the project. The Biennale participants will be selected, based on the results of the open admission of applications. Individual or group artwork applications as well as curator project applications will be accepted. We invite institutions to collaborate with us and authors to participate in the Biennale. For more information and application rules, please, visit our web-site www.youngart.ru. Executive directorate of The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Qui Vive?” 8 (495) 699 59 67
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