III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art

“Under A Tinsel Sun”

 

The Main Project:

July 11 – August 10, 2012

 

Central House of Artists

(10, Krymsky Val)

 

“Muzeon” Art Park

(10, Krymsky Val)

 

Gorky Central Park

(9, Krymsky Val)

 

 

The Strategic Project:

 

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)

(17, Ermolayevsky Lane)

July 12 – August 18, 2012

 

National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA)

(13, Zoologicheskaya Street)

July 12 – August 12, 2012

 

The III Moscow International Biennale ForYoung Art, one of the major international art events in Moscow, will enrich the city’s cultural scene for the third time in Summer 2012. The Biennale’s entering competition took place in September-December 2011 and attracted over 2700 proposals by young artists and curators under 35 from 77 countries. Alongside with the Main and the Strategic projects featuring works selected by two different curators in the course of the announced competition, the Biennale will present Parallel and Special programs approved by the curators and organizers of the event. In addition, current Biennale will include a vast range of educational and academic activities.

The international status of the Biennale plays an important role allowing the integration of the young Russian art in the international context and defining the perspectives for a transnational artistic dialogue.

 

The Biennale’s Chief Curator Kathrin Becker is a Berlin based art historian currently working as the head of the Video-Forum at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Alongside with a vast number of major exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Barcelona, and Prague, Becker curated solo shows by Louise Bourgeois, Maryam Jafri, Matthias Muller, Artur Zmijewski, Andrei Monastyrsky, Dmitri Prigov, David Zink Yi, and many other renowned artists.

 

Denoting its themeUnder A Tinsel Sun, the Main project of the Biennale will be hosted at the Central House of Artists. The title chosen for the project reflects the key problem of this year’s concept – the indistinguishability of what is “real” and what is “fake”, the lack of self-identity amidst the world rapidly medialized, and the unlimited range of artistic options without a consistent way for development. According to the curatorial concept the audience will be introduced to a multimedia project showing relevant perspectives of the young generation of artists, its specific diversity of methods, languages and styles. In general, the Biennale will address the problem of artists’ self-positioning, and the context of their activity.

The Main project includes works by 98 individual artists and members of artist collectives from 33 countries, of which 11 are from Russia, 7 from Germany, 6 from USA, 6 from Austria, 4 from Pakistan, 4 from South Africa, 3 from Israel, 3 from Great Britain, 3 from Iran, along with artists from Azerbaijan, Argentina, Belarus, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam.

 

The Biennale’s Strategic projectentitled “Inconclusive Analysis” will be displayed at two venues: at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and at the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow. The project will be curated by Elena Selina, a well-known Russian art historian, critic, and gallery owner. The project incorporates works by 71 authors from 33 countries. The main aim of the Strategic project is to study the status of young art today, and to determine the main tendencies and trends, thus presenting the context of contemporary young artists’ activities. Therewith the “Inconclusive Analysis” provides much needed exposure opportunity for those not included in the Main project.

 

The Special programof Curatorial projects was formed by Kathrin Becker in collaboration with the Biennale’s organizers subsequent to the results of the contest open to both curators and curatorial groups. Among 56 applications from 15 countries were submissions from USA, Poland, Latvia, Iran, Belgium, France, China, et al. The 17 projects selected for the Special program will be displayed at various venues in Moscow.

The Special program circumscribes the actual range of methods and problems approached by young curators in the present-day world. One of its main objectives is introducing the wider audience to the product of collaboration between the curators along with the artists of the young generation.

 

The Parallel programincludes 9 projects by young artists and curators along with a lecture, and a special short films program. According to the Biennale’s terms the projects accepted to the Parallel program may be realized at any venue without the need of complying with the main theme of the Biennale. However, the projects are a subject for approval by the organizers of the event.

A number of the Parallel program exhibitions are scheduled to open earlier than the main project of the Biennale allowing the audience to explore the range of topics approached by contemporary young artists and the relevant context of their activity. Furthermore, the projects included in the program will expand the formal framework of the Biennale.

 

The Educational programconsists of various formats including round tables, lectures, workshops, and film screenings. The program aims to encourage an intensive dialogue between artists, curators, art-historians, gallery owners, collectors, critics, art-students, and the wider audience. The diversity of professionals participating in the Educational program of the Biennale will allow a discursive involvement towards artistic, theoretical, and curatorial approaches.

 

The program presents two round table discussions:

“The multiplicity of reality in contemporary art practice” & “Reality fights back: Drastic shifts in economy and politics and the consequences for contemporary art practice”

 

The Educational program includes the following international and Russian participants: Bridget Baker (artist, London), Ekaterina Degot (curator, Moscow), Julia Draganovic (curator, Modena), Shahram Entekhabi (artist, Berlin / Tehran), Niklas Goldbach (artist, Berlin), Kathy Rae Huffman (curator, Long Beach / Berlin), Adrienne Goehler (curator, Berlin), Alexei Maslyaev (art-critic, MMOMA researcher, Moscow),Melentie Pandilovski (director, Video Pool Video Arts Centre, Winnipeg), Olga Shishko (curator, writer, Moscow), Aneta Szylak (director, Wyspa, Gdansk), Dmitry Vilensky (artist, member of Chto delat? art group, St. Petersburg), Thomas Werner (professor, Parsons The New School for Design, New York).

 

 

Swatch, the Swiss watch trendsetter, is proud to announce its official partnership with the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. In concurrence with the Biennale, Swatch will launchthe Swatch Young Art Prize aimed at supporting young artists working in Russia. A prize of  200 000 Rubles will be awarded to the artist chosen through  an open vote on Facebook. The vote will take place in Facebook from July 10th to August 7th.

The relationship between Swatch and Art  started around 30 years ago with the launch of the Swatch Art collection.  The partnership with the Biennale is a key step in the Swiss brand's longstanding tradition of supporting contemporary art. The most celebrated Swatch designs were created by artists such as Keith Haring, Kiki Picasso, Alfred Hofkunst, Mimmo Paladino, Mimmo Rotella, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Jean-Michel Folon, Ted Scapa. Today the brand’s relationship with art and artists is stronger than ever, and Swatch continues to retain work from both established and emerging artists such as Ivan Navarro, Enki Bilal and Moby. During the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art Swatch will present a special selection of timepieces from the Swatch Art collection. This will allow the Biennale visitors to explore the affair between Swatch and Contemporary Art.   

 

 

 

 

Special Program

Curatorial projects

The Special programof Curatorial projects was formed by Kathrin the Biennale’s organizers subsequent to the results of the contest open to both curators and curatorial groups. Among 56 applications from 15 countries were submissions from USA, Poland, Latvia, Iran, Belgium, France, China, et al. The 17 projects selected for the Special program will be displayed at various venues in Moscow.

According to the Biennale Terms the curatorial projects accepted to the Special Program, reflecting various predominant and peripheral trends and strategies characteristic of contemporary young art, may be displayed at any venue.  The project concepts must be approved by the Chief Curator Kathrin Becker and the Biennale organizers.

The Special program of curatorial projects circumscribes the actual range of methods and problems approached by young curators in the present-day world. The Biennale will include curatorial statements referring to a wide variety of issues such as gender politics, national identity and multicultural dialogue, public and private space, individual experience and social relations. Several projects reflect curatorial try at reinventing both academic traditions and postulate of postmodernism.

One of the Program`s main objectives is introducing the wider audience to the product of collaboration between the curators along with the artists of the young generation.

The III Moscow International Biennale ForYoung Art, one of the major international art events in Moscow, will enrich the city’s cultural scene for the third time in Summer 2012. The Biennale’s entering competition took place in September-December 2011 and attracted over 2700 proposals by young artists and curators under 35 from 77 countries. Alongside with the Main and the Strategic projects featuring works selected by two different curators in the course of the announced competition, the Biennale will present Parallel and Special programs approved by the curators and organizers of the event.

 

 

Projects of the Special Program:

 

1.          Go west!

Curated by Andrey Parshikov

Venue: Museon Park of Arts

Dates: July 10 – August 10

 

The project narrates of the emigration wave of the younger generation from the Ex-Socialist Countries to Western Europe. Representing the most mobile and international professional field artists perfectly illustrate the idea of a modern nomad. One of the main issues addressed by the project is the worthwhileness of such emigration, and the problem of home-coming after studies/working abroad, and dealing with re-integration. The exhibition will also feature a newspaper edition including interviews, stories and other materials by the project authors.

 

2.          Second Nature

Curated by Natalya Arkharova and Svetlana Minko

Venue: Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry

Dates: July 12 – July 31

 

 Through the centuries humans created their “second nature”, which until recent acted as a barrier protecting them from the outworld aggressive actions. The anxiety for harmony and comfort resulted in the loss of individuality, while the accessibility of the “second nature” elements led to the phenomenon of “mass culture”. And now, as the development of modern civilization has reached its peak, humans seek ways back to basics of being, hoping for a chance to find their place in the macrocosm.

 

3.          “ARTiculation” Exercise

Curated by Anna Belyaeva and Anna Buivid

Venue: White Hall at Winzavod Contemporary Art Center

Dates: July 12 – August 2

 

The project is based on the never-ending debate between the “multimedia” and the “classical” Arts. Certain art-scene functionality rules bring the two parties to a conflict that seems completely pointless. The exhibition presents a dialogue between two curators each focusing on one of the actual art forms. 

 

4.          Barbarians

Curated by Alexey Korsy and Olga Shirokostup

Venue: PROEKT_FABRIKA

Dates: July 12 – August 2

 

Barbarians aren`t just a theme for an exhibition project, but a method applied by the curators. It is a note, or a key for encrypting and deciphering cultural codes. The project is formed by the actual and intellectual space evolving in time and manifested though intentions and senses. Particular objects and situations saturate the notional space rather than acting as an obvious illustration to conceptual prate.

 

5.          Bestiary

Curated by Anastasia Dorozhkina

Venue: PROEKT_FABRIKA

Dates: July 12 – August 2

 

The project is represented by the allegory oаambiguity, posing a question of inner self-defining. The images created by the artists refer to the world of unconscious. This space is inhabited by fantastic imaginary creatures and essences of the bestiary. They are the “reflections” of the center they fly around. Meanwhile the center accommodates a scholar. He is the “new archeologist” collecting fascinating artifacts. He contemplates and creates. He defines his role and writes his history.

He is the spectator, the artists, the architect. He constructs meanings.

 

1. Stalemate

Curated by Aida Makhmudova, Farid Rasulov, and Faig Ahmed.

Venue: “M’ARS” Contemporary Art Center

Dates: July 12 – August 5

 

The projects deals with the problems of man-woman relations in the world with the borderline between the West and the East, the North and the South is getting more and more indistinct, while the patriarchal mentality encounters the modern paradigm. Young artists from Azerbaijan suggest two antagonistic approaches to the problem of gender in the modern social and artistic field.

 

7.          The Unity of the Entires. Media Performance Festival.

Curated by the Laboratory MP (Asya Mukhina, Yulia Shirina, Patrick K.-H., and Oleg Makarov)

Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art (9, Tverskoy blvd)

Dates: July 12 - August 12

 

The exhibition is presented by the experimental educational course at the “Media Performance Laboratory” – a project allowing its participants to be involved in the continuous artistic collaboration and interactivity. Media performance embodies modernists` dreams of a symbiosis between a man and a machine. The humane and the technogenic transfuse forming visual and notional unity.

 

8.          (UN)Imation. Festival of non-creen animation.

Curated by Patrick K.-H. and Asya Mukhina

Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art (9 Tverskoy blvd), and PROEKT_FABRIKA (bld 1, 1^st floor)

Dates: July 12 – August 12 (MMOMA), July 19 – August 12 (PROEKT_FABRIKA)

 

(UN)Imation is a new form of artistic statement using the language of animation. Following the Dada tradition it pays no attention to the mainstream, drawing on its` inner subjective, and often absurd logic instead. The animators become expressionist artists, having the opportunity to speak “here and now”, while animation no longer depends on the screen.

 

 

9.          Counter Illusions

Curated by Ksenia Podoynitsina

Concept by Stas Shuripa

Venue: Gallery 21, The Zil Cultural Center

Dates: July 12 – August 31

 

The project authors study the borderline between the space of social interaction and an artistic fiction. Reality occupied by the image production and circulation is opposed by the counter-illusions – fragments of actual spaces or notional effects of unexpected insights. Such counter-illusions are designed to help recognizing the boundaries and the abilities of the social logic of space.

 

10.       Action Planning: Reaction

Curated by Yulia Garbuzova and Natalya Prikhodko

Venue: “Art Residence” International Cultural Project

Dates: July 13 – July 15

 

Urban environment and public space are parts of our everyday life. The project incorporates artistic actions demonstrating how forms of one`s spontaneous reactions to a proposed situation become an autonomous language independent from the urban establishment pragmatism.

 

11.       OCULUS Dva

Curated by Anna Buyvid

Venue: Art.Ru Agency

Dates: July 13 – August 7

 

The angle of view being unique in any and each situation is the main theme of the project. Each artist participating in OCULUS Two allows tracking his or her viewing trajectory then focusing on the visual target.

 

12.       Liquid Life

Curated by Oksana Budulyak, Maria Ilbeykina and Sasha Semenova

Venue: Excise Storehouse at “Winzavod”

Dates: July 13 – August 13

 

History of Siberia basically lacks any “light moments” - events one would like to cherish and keep. Hence young artists from Krasnoyarsk are forced to create the new myths of their homeplace. The project participants present their works resulting from tradition negation.

 

 

13.       Exhibition of Young German Art “In the Neighbor`s Garden”

Curated by Alexandra Goloborodko, Alexandra Yuryeva-Tsivyan, and the BUTTERBROT International Cultural Project

Venue: FLACON Design Center

Dates: July 14 – July 21

 

The project theme is based on the Russian saying literally meaning “It`s better where there`s no us” and the German saying “The grass is always greener in the neighbor`s garden”. The sayings reflect the ageless strive for the unknown, inaccessible and strange. The very fact of a German exhibition held at the Moscow Biennale nothing else but a jump over the neighbor`s fence.

 

 

14.       Price

Curated by Irina Drozd and Daria Sedova

Venue: Art.Ru Agency

Dates July 14 – August 12

 

The project participants attempt at answering the question of what do we pay for and what is the price. The price of freedom, the price of life, the price of creating, the price of an act, the price of “eternal youth” – such is the range of question imposed by the young artists. The works included in the display reveal the problem of pricing and evaluation, and the possible reckoning for a certain choice we make.

 

15.       Workshop 2012 – Rejected reality

Curated by Daria Kamyshnikova and Yulia Shirina

Venue: ARTPLAY Design Center

Dates: July 17 – August 11

 

The annual “Workshop” display of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, launched in 2001, continues to discover new names on the Russian art scene. This year the project is exhibited at an independent venue, including both works selected through the traditional open call and pieces created by the former debutants having become successful artists today. The exhibition is dedicated to the problem of reality rejected in result of Internet addiction so symbolic of our times. That said the project will include its new discoveries and sum up the “Workshop” activities of the past decade, while the display analyzes the late changes in the society since 2001.

 

 

16.       Assembling/Grading

Curated by Mitya Nesterov

Venue: Galerie Iragui

Dates: July 18 – August 6

 

Te project observes the problem of technological progress and the new media overtaking the “old world” of representation. The artists study the use of ideas and patterns of the new language by analyzing cinematic shots sequences. Editing and color grading are manipulation tools used in cinema and by our memory – the most «disrealized” reality becoming more and more distant.

 

17.       Ally/Foe. Collective Comprehention of Borders.

Curated by Vita Dumchyute

Venue: PROEKT_FABRIKA

Dates: August 7 – September 7

 

The project investigates the problem of one`s identity formation. How does the borderline, dividing “Allies” from “Foes” functions? By using various visual terms artists from Russia, Belarus, and Sweden study the methods of becoming “Allies” in a strange community while keeping one`s identity. The project also includes detailed questionnaires filled by participants describing their experience of becoming a part of “Allies”.

Non-competition program

 

Projects of the Parallel program

 

The Parallel programof the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art includes 9 projects by young artists and curators along with a lecture, and a special short films program. According to the Biennale’s terms the projects accepted to the Parallel program may be realized at any venue without the need of complying with the main theme of the Biennale. However, the projects are a subject for approval by the organizers of the event.

A number of the Parallel program exhibitions are scheduled to open earlier than the main project of the Biennale allowing the audience to explore the range of topics approached by contemporary young artists and the relevant context of their activity. Furthermore, the projects included in the program will expand the formal framework of the Biennale.

 

 

The Moscow International Biennale forYoung Art being one of the major international art-events will enrich the city`s cultural scene for the third time in summer 2012. The Biennale entering competition took place in September-December 2011 and attracted over 2700 proposals by young artists and curators under 35 from 77 countries. Along with the parallel and the special programs the Biennale presents the main and the strategic projects featuring works selected by two different curators in the course of the competition announced.

 

 

Projects of the Parallel program:

 

 

1.          The Feast of Being

Curated by Anastasya Skvortsova

Venue: RuArts Gallery of Contemporary Art

Dates: May 31 - July 14

 

Directly or implicitly using a ritual representation artists reflect on the topic of existence of men in the modern world. Considering the “table setting rules”, social regulations and unspoken laws the project participants attempt at studying the world surrounding and defining their position towards those laws and regulations.

 

 

2.          Art for Fake

Curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova and Svetlana Poroshina

Venue: K35 Art Gallery

Dates: June 19 – July 1

 

This project was inspired by a single material object – a “fake” knock-off bag.  An individual is surrounded and obduced by things at times capable of devouring those who pay too much of a tribute to consumption. Artworks presented in the project directly relate to the objectivity of a fake thing or, on the contrary, deliberately reject its presence. Thus the phenomenon of a fake is rethought as a counterpart to reality.

 

 

3.           Vladimir Kurashov “Poetics of Locality”

Curated by Maria Burasovskaya

Venue: Glaz Gallery

Dates: June 21 – July 31

 

Artist`s debut exhibition is formed by three parts. The main part presents a series of photographs aesthetisizing seemingly banal landscapes of Moscow and its region while the second part displays a daring survey on the urbanized space. The final part is a combination of the subjects described above – pastoral scenes in conjunction with urban environment images are recreated in panoramic shots.

 

 

4.          Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf “Take control!”

Curated by Daria Kamyshnikova

Venue: The S.T. Konenkov memorial museum-studio

Dates: June 22 – July 29

 

The series by Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf called “Take control!” approach the various meanings of the invocation.

On one hand it can be seen as one`s aim at managing a situation, managing his or her life and the world surrounding. On the other – it is the perception of destiny making one feel helpless and incapable of changing a thing.

 

 

5.          “School of Freedom”

Curated by Bogdan Mamonov, Arseniy Zhilyaev

Venue: Paperworks Gallery

Dates: June 26 – July 20

 

The project is organized by the European Gymnasium in collaboration with the leading Russian contemporary artists. Bringing together actual artistic and educational practices this project is unique for the Russian cultural scene. While sharing a certain range of knowledge and skills with their students the artists also obtain a new experience in recreating the world around.

 

 

6.          Victoria Sorochinski “Anna and Eve”

Curated by Laura Serani

Venue: Moscow House of Photography Museum / Multimedia Art Museum

Dates: June 27 – July 22

 

 

7.          Oleg Dou. “Another Face”.

Venue: Moscow House of Photography Museum / Multimedia Art Museum

Dates: July 5 – July 29

 

The project brings together Oleg`s signature large-format portraits with small prints from his family album. The artist draws a parallel and unveils connections between his childhood experience and his artistic practice.

 

 

8.          “St.Petersburg. Urban classic.”

Curated by Katerina Zueva

Venue: The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography

Dates: July 11 – August 16

 

Katerina Zueva, a young Russian curator, presents a personal exhibition of works by Vladimir Antoschenkov - “the most famous architects among photographers”. The display includes the best shots from the series produced since 1980ies and dedicated to the city of Saint Petersburg. The artist`s signature style combines a specific photographic intuition with the intent look of a professional (Vladimir is the head of the department of urbanities and urban design at the Saint Petersburg University of Architecture and Construction).

 

 

9.          Nicholas Cullinan

        Lecture by Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern in London organized by the British Council.

Venue: WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center

Dates:July 12 at 7 pm

 

10.       Museum of Proletarian Culture. Industrialization of the Bohemia.

Curated by Kirill Svetlyakov

Venue: State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

Dates: July 13 – September 9

 

The five-part exhibition created by Arseniy Zhilyaev introduces a fabricated history of popular (or folk) art creation. Each part represents a specific stage of creativity and a certain historical period. The project is based on the documentary history of folk and workfolk art along with the history of labor and its subject. However merely a half of the objects presented are original artifacts. 

 

11.       Special Selection of Future Shorts programs on the topic of “Authentic and Fake”

Venue: MUSEON Art Park, and “Open Cinema”

Dates: July 22

 

Future Shorts is a major short film and animation festival with the most developed screening network. The festival recurrently takes place in more than 20 countries. The festival aims at bringing the short film into the wide release and therefore introducing the masterpieces of the genre to a much greater audience.

 

The educational Program of the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

 

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) 9 Tverskoy boulevard July 13 – July 15

National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) 13 Zoologicheskaya street July 12 – July 14

 

The Educational Program of the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Artis formed by events presenting a variety of academic and educational formats: seminars, discussion panels, screenings, and lectures. The program is aimed at promoting intense interaction and interlocution between artists, scholars, students, curators, critics, and public at large, along with establishing conditions and resources for employment of artistic, theoretical and curatorial approaches in various fields of professional expertise. The educational program events are designed to study diverse methods of deconstructing “objective” reality, and their manifestations in the works by artists of younger generation.

 

Workshops| Renowned international artists will share the technical aspects and conceptualizing methods in art with students and young artists. The workshops will involve such forms of artistic practice as video- and cinema art, photography, performance and installation, linked with image formation as well as with approaches in search for self-identity.

The artists engaged in the program will discuss the issues of creating and constructing reality and virtuality, and integration of the concepts into the present-day self-determination concept. In the modern world self-identity may be presented by a flexible and diversified image, while various ethnic, gender, cultural, and social factors dissolve amid general globalization, becoming fragmentary introductions in the contemporary art practice.

The new forms of older adaptations of mass media – films accidentally discovered, digitized images and documentaries are used as elements of pseudo-reality and multilayered personal space, evoking alternative world perception.

 

Panel Discussions | The discussions will bring together a group of Russian and International scholars of various fields in Humanities, which will enable an interdisciplinary exchange of opinions concerning actual subjects in contemporary artistic practice realized in the context of present-day discourse diversity. By all means we look to the active involvement of the wider audience.

 

 

Biennale Educational program events schedule
	July 12 | NCCA 12 pm – 4 pm Workshop by Niklas Goldbach(Germany)
July 13 | MMOMA 9 Tverskoy blvd 12 pm – 4 pm Workshop by Shahram Entekhabi (Iran)
6 pm – 7 pm Discussion panel  “The multiplicity of reality in contemporary art practice” Participants: Julia Draganovic(Germany), Ekaterina Degot(Russia), Kathy Rae Huffmann(USA), Olga Shishko (Russia). Moderator: Alexey Maslyaev(Russia).
	July 14 | NCCA 6 pm – 8 pm Lecture + screening, Curator Alfred Rotert (Germany)
	8 pm – 9 pm Discussion panel: “Reality fights back: Drastic shifts in economy and politics and the consequences for contemporary art practice” Participants: Adrienne Goehler(Germany), Melentie Pandilovski(Australia), Aneta Szylak(Poland), Dmitry Vilensky (Russia). Moderator: Alexey Maslyaev(Russia).
July 15 | MMOMA 9 Tverskoy blvd 12 pm – 4 pm Workshop by Bridget Baker (South Africa)
5 pm – 7 pm Lecture by Thomas Werner (USA) «Artist as Producer»

 

July 12 | NCCA | 12 pm – 4 pm  Workshop by Niklas Goldbach(Germany)

 

Niklas Goldbach, born in Witten, lives and works in Berlin. Being trained in video and photography at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences he received a degree at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2006. In 2005 he became a Fulbright grant-holder in New York and studied at New York Hunter College.

In his sculptures, videos and photographs Niklas Goldbach puts emphasis on the dystopic aspects of postmodern urban life, underlining the political background and the tensity between social and private parts of life. Alarming rural sceneries in his works resonate with contemporary architecture smooth glass facades and ruins of bombed-out disco halls. His characters (“Fillers”) dressed in a typical uniform of an urban resident (black pants and a white shirt) dwell in their temporary abodes as if being the first and the last inhabitants of the prepared and preliminarily elaborated world.

Working at the junction of reality and fiction Goldbach pays great attention to the role of personality in the constantly evolving homogenized world, at the same time raising questions on how the subjective experience perceived and characterizeвby the inner sense of disorientation, anxiety and social disunity.

 Niklas Goldbach participated in a vast number of personal and group exhibitions at various venues including Te National Museum in Madrid, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, and Salzburg Museum of Modernity. He also took part in Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Currently he works at the Berlin University of the Arts as a visiting professor.

 

 

July 13 |  MMOMA 9 Tverskoy Blvd | 12 pm – 4 pm Workshop by Shahram Entekhabi (Iran)

 

Shahram Entekhabi is an artist and sculptor of Iranian background, whose works were included in a large number of exhibitions around the globe. Currently he lives and works in Iran and Europe. In his works Shahram considers the urban space as a aviary for heterosexual middle class members of society. He investigates social preconceptions and prepossessions towards “different” people through visualizing fear, paranoia, and stereotypes referring skin color, religion, or ethnicity. Along with that he studies the restrictions of human perception imposed by political views, propaganda, and control.

Through his works Entekhabi aims at turning attention to people forced into seclusion: communes and Diasporas of emigrants from the Middle East, and people of cultures perceived as marginal in the Western world. The problem of visibility and invisibility often acts as the key point in Shahram`s art. He studies the subject through various performative practices, assembling, digital art, and usage of architectural elements.

Shahram Entekhabi is also involved in the “Parasite Architecture” movement, which questions the aspects of social communication on the background of public and private space destruction.

 

 

July 13 | MMOMA 9 Tverskoy Blvd | 6 pm – 7 pm 

Discussion panel “The multiplicity of reality in contemporary art practice”

 

The discussion will focus on such subjects as necessity of self-determination in the constantly changing reality, virtuality in the young generation artistic practice, means of communication, the concept of “truth” and its relevance today.

 

Participants: Julia Draganovic(Germany), Ekaterina Degot(Russia), Kathy Rae Huffmann(USA), Olga Shishko (Russia).

Moderator: Alexey Maslyaev (Russia).

 

 

July 14 | NCCA | 6 pm – 8 pm Lecture + screening by curator Alfred Rotert

 

Alfred Rotert is the director of the annual European Media Art Festival (EMAF) – one of the most authoritative forums, exerting great thematic and aesthetic influenceуin the media-art sphere. Every year EMAF offers a range of experimental films, art-installations, performances, and studies of digital format capacities on the social and provocative political levels.

Rotert took part in organizing a number of network-based projects within the EU framework. Among such projects are: “VCM” – the platform for digital mass media cultural exchange, “Europe in Shorts” – experimental film program including works by Zbigniew Rybczynski, Matthias Muller, Ilppo Pohjola et al. In collaboration with Guido van der Werve, AL+AL, and Corinna Schnitt he helped creating the «Stories behind the Screen» DVD almanac, narrating of the latest achievements of the video-art in Europe. Along with that Rotert initiated the «Mediaartbase.de» - a joint archive of EMAF and ZKM documentations. He is a partner of the international “DCA – Digital Contemporary Art” project, which brings together 25 European institutions at the «Europeana» portal.

Rotert carried out multiple workshops and presentations at universities, museums, and art-festivals. He participated in the following projects: «Synthetic Times» at the National Art Museum in China (NAMOC), «Experiments in Visual Arts» in Kyoto, «International Film and Video Festival» in Beirut, and many more.

 

 

July 14 | NCCA | 8 pm – 9 pm Discussion panel: “Reality fights back: Drastic shifts in economy and politics and the consequences for contemporary art practice”

The discussion will concentrate on the topic of impact such political and economic realias as neoliberalism, social insecurity and precarity, urbanism and segregation, ecology and sustainability have on the artistic practice.  Along with that it will focus on the significance of art institutions in the sphere of education and cultural mediation while constructing contemporary models of institutionary processes and evaluation mechanisms.

Participants: Adrienne Goehler(Germany), Melentie Pandilovski(Australia), Aneta Szylak(Poland), Dmitry Vilensky (Russia).

Moderator: Alexey Maslyaev (Russia).

 

 

July 15 | MMOMA 9 Tverskoy Blvd | 12 pm – 4 pm Workshop by Bridget Baker (South Africa)

 

South African artist Bridget Baker lives and works between London and Cape Town. Her works stand on the border between documentaries and mythology, creating series of complex visual fragments, filmed and represented in installations and pseudo-realistic performances.

Baker`s artistic practice and her visual language are based on studies full of assumptions and migrating images, which at the end rarely suggest historical or eventful veracity. Her works present very personal (in terms of historiography) view on “nonexistent archives” personality subjugation: certain historical marks, linked with speculations about a “white man” growing up amidst the rise of apartheid in South Africa.

Experimenting with various old-fashioned and new mass media and drawing on archival notes Baker uses the method of repeated presentment, which escalates spectator`s perception and creates mythical space in the common and widely accepted historical past. The artist investigates the chain of lost and forgotten historical events by using of formal and empirical approaches and elements of cinematographic micro-narratives. She combines humor, painstaking work, and graceful fragility.

Bridget Baker`s works were displayed at international shows and exhibitions: CAB in Burgos, The Wapping Project in London, Diet Gallery in Miami MAMBO in Bologna. Her films were accepted to the program of the Found Footage Film Festival 2012 in Bologna, the 57^th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, and the Glasgow Short Film Festival competition. Baker participated in group exhibition such as «Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa» and the Contemporary Photography from South Africa Neue Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin.

 

 

July 15 | 9 Tverskoy Blvd | 5 pm – 7 pm Lecture by Thomas Werner (USA)

Thomas Werner is a photographer, Director BFA Program and Assistant Professor at parsons School of Design and Photography, photo-projects curator. He graduated from The University of Wisconsin with a BS in Communications, The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a BA in photography and a film minor, and Long Island University with a Masters of Fine Art in New Media and Performance.

Thomas Werner lives in New York, where he also owns a gallery in Chelsea (Thomas Werner Gallery). He also works as afine art and commercial photographerat his Manhattan studio. He lectures and teaches internationally on a regular basis in the States and abroad, acts as a photography consultant for COACH and Rodale Publishing on special projects regarding contracts, licensing, negotiations and usage.

Also he was a two term Director on the National Board of the American Society of Media Photographers, is the former President of ASMPs 800 member New York Chapter and ASMP Foundation, among other positions.

 

The admission to Educational Program events is free of charge.

 

Among the events, taking place concurrently with the Moscow International Young Art Biennale Educational Program we are happy to mention the lecture by Nicholas Cullinan, Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern in London (July 12 at 7 pm, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center), organized by the British Council.