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First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
The First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (January 28–February 28, 2005) caused great response both in RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and abroad. The main exhibition “Dialectics of Hope” included projects by 41 artists from 22 countries and represented art that focuses on one of the most fundamental experiences of a modern human being: hope. The main project was realised at the former Lenin Museum, near the Red Square
Red Square
Red Square is a city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod...
. The Biennale’s special projects and parallel program numbered over 50 exhibitions of Russian actual art as well as European, American and Asian visual artists. Curators (main project): Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum
Daniel Birnbaum
Daniel Birnbaum is the director of the Moderna Museet, the museum of modern art in Stockholm.-Life and career:Birnbaum studied at the Stockholm University, the Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University in New York. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Stockholm University in 1998. In 1998, he...
, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud is a French curator and art critic. He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerôme Sans. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art , and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from...
, Rosa Martinez
Rosa Martinez
Rosa Martínez is an independent curator, art critic and international art advisor based in Barcelona, Spain. Currently she is co-curator of "TRA.Edge of Becoming" for Axel Vervoordt Foundation and Palazzo Fortuny Museum http://www.tra-expo.comAs an independent curator, Rosa Martínez has...
, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London...
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Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
The main project of the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (March 1 – April 1, 2007) titled “FOOTNOTES on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia” showed works of 115 artists from 20 countries. Different curatorCurator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
s and curatorial teams realized 5 exhibitions of the main project united by one theme. The project featured the exhibitions organized at various venues including The State Tretyakov Gallery
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection,...
, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Moscow, Russia. It was opened to public in December 1999. The project of the Museum was initiated and executed by Zurab Tsereteli, president of the Russian Academy of Arts....
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Exhibitions of the main project:
- Nothing but Footnotes? Art in the Epoch of Social Darwinism, Moscow-City, Federation TowerFederation TowerThe Federation Tower is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. Construction of the towers began in 2003. When completed it will be the tallest building in Europe. However, the construction stopped for a long while...
. CuratorCuratorA curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
: Joseph Backstein. Artists: Viktor Alimpiev, Bigert and Bergstrom, Kerstin Cmelka, Keren CytterKeren Cytter-Biography:Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in AvniInstitute for Art, Tel Aviv. After her success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers....
, Federico Herrero, Garry HillGary HillGary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...
, Liu Jianhua, Amal Kenawy, Mikhail Kosolapov, Melvin Moti, Donna OngDonna OngDonna Ong is a Singapore-based, Singaporean-artist. Her father is Singapore sculptor Michael Ong.Ong attended Malvern Girls' College in the United Kingdom. She studied architecture at the Bartlett Centre in University College London from 1996 to 1999...
, Joseph Robakowski, Michael Sailstorfer, Natalia Struchkova, Ilya Trushevsky. - USA: American video art at the beginning of the 3rd Millennium, Shopping centre TsUM. CuratorCuratorA curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
s: Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich Obrist is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London...
. Artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Julieta Aranda, Edgar Arceneaux, Jennifer Bornstein, Mike Bouchet, Xavier Cha, Paul Chan, Ben Coonley, Bernadette Corporation, Sean Dack, Trisha DonnellyTrisha DonnellyTrisha Donnelly is a conceptual artist living and working in New York. She works with various media including photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture and performance....
, Piero GoliaPiero GoliaPiero Golia was born in Naples, Italy in 1974.Since 2002 he has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California.His work has been shown in major galleries and museums in Europe and the United States and featured in numerous exhibitions including Gold Standards at P.S.1 in New York and Uncertain States...
, Wynne Greenwood k8 Hardy, Christian HolstadChristian HolstadChristian Holstad is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York City. He received his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994....
, Shane HuffmanShane HuffmanShane Huffman is a former NASCAR and USAR driver. He drove the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado in the Craftsman Truck Series. In 2006 and 2007, he drove the #88 NAVY "Accelerate Your Life" Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS for JR Motorsports in the Busch Series.Shane Huffman returned to NASCAR...
, Jiae Hwang, Matthew Day JacksonMatthew Day JacksonMatthew Day Jackson is an American artist whose multifaceted practice encompasses sculpture, painter, collage, photographer, drawing, video, performance and installation...
, Miranda JulyMiranda JulyMiranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
, Laleh Khorramian, Klara LidénKlara LidénKlara Lidén is a contemporary artist. She lives and works in Berlin. She is known for her installations and videos that respond to specific architectural environments....
, Kalup LinzyKalup LinzyKalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Early Life and Work:Linzy grew up in a small rural community in Florida called Stuckey. He had a large, close-knit extended family, and was raised by his Aunt and Grandmother...
, Nate LowmanNate LowmanNate Lowman is an American artist. His works have been described by New York Times chief art critic as "down-and-out excursions into collage, graffiti and appropriation." Lowman first gained ctitical attention with his works included in the collaborative Museum of Modern Art/P.S.1 Contemporary Art...
, Daria Martin, Matt McCormickMatt McCormickMatt McCormick is a Portland, Oregon based artist and filmmaker. He is an award winning filmmaker and noted video installation artist, his work extends documentary and experimental filmmaking, focusing on the sublime decay of contemporary culture and the landscape both urban and rural.Matt...
, Rodney McMillianRodney McMillianRodney McMillian is an artist based in Los Angeles.McMillian holds a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia...
, Ohad MeromiOhad Meromi-Education :* Bezalel Academy of Art and Design* 2004 M.F.A., Columbia University, New York-Awards and Prizes :* 1998 Nathan Gottsdiner Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv...
, Kori Newkirk, Otolith Group, Seth PriceSeth PriceSeth Price is a New York-based conceptual artist known for investigating the field of contemporary art distribution and media distribution, in general. His work follows the mutability of the web-based archive in refusing to crystallize past art projects and writings...
, Adam PutnamAdam PutnamAdam H. Putnam is the current Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2001 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education and career:...
, Sterling RubySterling RubySterling Ruby is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ruby was born in Bitburg, Germany, to a Dutch mother and an American father, and was raised in Baltimore, Maryland and near Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania....
, Aïda Ruilova, Paul SietsemaPaul SietsemaPaul Sietsema is an artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and received an MFA from UCLA in 1999...
, Catherine SullivanCatherine SullivanCatherine Sullivan is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines video and performance.She was educated at the California Institute of Arts and the Art Center College of Design...
, Mika Tajima, TM Sisters, Mario Garcia Torres, Kon Trubkovich, Jordan Wolfson, Mario Ybarra Jr., Aaron YoungAaron YoungAaron Young is an artist based in New York.Young was born in San Francisco. He works in sculpture, performance, photography and drawing....
. - History in present tense. Moscow-City, Federation TowerFederation TowerThe Federation Tower is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. Construction of the towers began in 2003. When completed it will be the tallest building in Europe. However, the construction stopped for a long while...
. CuratorCuratorA curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
: Iara Boubnova. Artists: Artur ZmijewskiArtur ZmijewskiArtur Żmijewski may refer to:* Artur Żmijewski , Polish actor* Artur Żmijewski , Polish movie maker, visual artist, photographer...
, Dan PerjovschiDan PerjovschiDan Perjovschi is an artist, writer and cartoonist born in 1961 in Sibiu, Romania. Perjovschi has over the past decade created drawings in museum spaces, most recently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in which he created the drawing during business hours for patrons to see. The drawings...
, Nedko Solakov, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Carsten Nicolai, Kutlug AtamanKutlug AtamanKutluğ Ataman is a filmmaker and contemporary artist. He lives in Istanbul.-Life and career:Kutluğ Ataman received his school education in Istanbul before doing his university studies in the US. His interest in film started an early age, and led him to do film studies at UCLA where he graduated...
, Anri SalaAnri SalaAnri Sala is a contemporary artist whose primary medium is video. He studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing...
, Biljana Djurdjevic, Aidan Salakhova, Diana Machulina, Maja Bajevic - Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation, Moscow-City, Federation TowerFederation TowerThe Federation Tower is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. Construction of the towers began in 2003. When completed it will be the tallest building in Europe. However, the construction stopped for a long while...
. CuratorCuratorA curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
: Nicolas BourriaudNicolas BourriaudNicolas Bourriaud is a French curator and art critic. He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerôme Sans. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art , and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from...
. Artists: Peter CoffinPeter Coffin (artist)Peter Coffin is an artist based in New York City. His work is exhibited internationally and features in several prominent collections....
, Loris Greaud, Kendell GeersKendell GeersKendell Geers is an artist, performance artist, musician and film-maker. Geers was born in Johannesburg in 1968.Geers' commonly given birthdate of May 1968 is fictional. Freire Barnes, "", Artist Pension Trust, 4 October 2007. Accessed 15 February 2011. In Venice in 1993, Geers rose to...
, Jonathan Hernandez, Josephine MeckseperJosephine MeckseperJosephine Meckseper is a German artist based in New York.Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992....
, Flavia Muller Medeiros, Gianni Motti, Elena Nemkova, Ester PartegàsEster PartegàsEster Partegàs is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has an M.F.A. from the Universitat de Barcelona, and has completed Postgraduate studies at Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin...
, Daniel Pflumm, Franck Scurti, Meredyth Sparks, Simon StarlingSimon StarlingSimon Starling is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize. He lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, and is a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.-Biography:...
, SuperflexSuperflexSUPERFLEX is a Danish artists' group founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. Superflex describe their projects as Tools, as proposals that invite people to actively participate in and communicate the development of experimental models that alter the prevailing...
(Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen), Barthelemy ToguoBarthélémy ToguoBarthélémy Toguo, is a Cameroonian painter born in 1967. He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, sculpture, videos....
, Johannes WohnseiferJohannes WohnseiferJohannes Wohnseifer is a German artist based in Cologne.Johannes Wohnseifer was born in Cologne, Germany. He often draws reference to the German history of his youth, such as the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Red Army Faction...
, Carey YoungCarey YoungCarey Young is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and installation into her works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial...
. - After all. Moscow-City, Federation TowerFederation TowerThe Federation Tower is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. Construction of the towers began in 2003. When completed it will be the tallest building in Europe. However, the construction stopped for a long while...
, State Schusev Museum of Architecture. CuratorCuratorA curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
s: Fulya Erdemci and Rosa MartinezRosa MartinezRosa Martínez is an independent curator, art critic and international art advisor based in Barcelona, Spain. Currently she is co-curator of "TRA.Edge of Becoming" for Axel Vervoordt Foundation and Palazzo Fortuny Museum http://www.tra-expo.comAs an independent curator, Rosa Martínez has...
. Artists: Lida AbdulLida AbdulLida Abdul is a video artist and performance artist from Afghanistan. She was born as Lida Abdullah in Kabul in 1973, fled the country as a child during the Soviet Invasion and went on to live in Germany then the United States...
, Narda Alvarado, Shoja Azari, Sergey Bratkov, Olga ChernyshevaOlga ChernyshevaOlga Chernysheva is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Moscow. Her work spans film, photography, drawing and object-based mediums, where she draws on quotidian moments and marginal spaces from everyday life as a way of exploring the increasing fragmentation of master narratives in...
, Elmgreen and DragsetElmgreen and DragsetMichael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are artist-collaborators since 1995 and their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design....
, Carmela Gross, Barnaby Hosking, John Kormeling, Yuri Leiderman, Gianni Motti, Taller de Serigrafia, Javier Tellez, SarkisSarkisSarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, is a Turkish-born Armenian conceptual artist living in France....
, El PerroEl perroEl perro is an Argentine and Spanish, drama film, directed by Carlos Sorín, and written by Sorín, Santiago Calori, and Salvador Roselli. The picture features Juan Villegas and Walter Donado, among others.The film was partly funded by INCAA.El perro is a neo-realist fable about a man and a dog...
, Fusun Onur, Ana MendietaAna MendietaAna Mendieta was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is known for her "earth-body" art work....
Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
The commissioner of the Biennale was Joseph Backstein. The exhibition program of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (September 24 - November 1, 2009) featured main project "Against exclusion" and more than 39 special projects and 7 special guests shows.Main project "Against exclusion"
The main project of Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art entitled "Against exclusion" (curator Jean-Hubert Martin, best known for his exhibition "Magiciens de la terre" at the Centre Pompidou, ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 1989) was held at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is an important non-profit international arts space based in Moscow founded by Daria Zhukova, which opened in 2008. Garage is dedicated to exploring and developing contemporary culture, whilst serving as a catalyst and meeting place for the city’s emerging...
and was presenting artists from Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, USA, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and Oceania
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
. French curator Jean-Hubert Martin mixed the work of well-known contemporary western artists with non-western and non-professional artists. He was assisted by French Curator Oliver Varenne.
Artists: Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
, AES+F
AES+F
AES+F is a group of four Russian artists: Tatiana Arzamasova , Lev Evzovich , Evgeny Svyatsky , and Vladimir Fridkes . The group was formed in 1987 as AES by three artists: Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich and Evgeny Svyatsky. Photographer Vladimir Fridkes joined the group in 1995, and the name of...
, Aji V.N., Yury Albert, Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer is a contemporary artist living and working in New York City. She emigrated from her birth country at age 11 and was educated in Paris and Nice...
, El Anatsui
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...
, Yoshita Azuma, José Bedia, Michel Blazy, Blue Noses, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Alexander Brodsky
Alexander Brodsky
Alexander Savvich Brodsky is a Russian architect and sculptor. He is one of Russia’s best known architects, particularly for his works of paper architecture.- Early Work :...
, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, also known as Cheik Nadro , is an Ivorian artist.Bouabré was born in Zéprégüé, and was among the first Ivorians to be educated by the French colonial government. On March 11, 1948, he received a vision, which directly influenced much of his later work...
, Berlinde de Bruyckere
Berlinde de Bruyckere
Berlinde De Bruyckere is an artist based in Ghent.She specialises in sculpture in various media including wax, wood, wool, horse skin and hair, though she also works in watercolour and gouache...
, Christoph Büchel
Christoph Büchel
Christoph Büchel is a Swiss artist.-Biography:Christoph Büchel was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1966. Büchel creates hyper-realistic environments that are, in essence, like walking into a mind at work...
, Chéri Chérin, Chéri Samba
Cheri Samba
Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the most famous contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
, Sheba Chhachhi, Ivan Chuikov, Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg
Tony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture. He is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.-Early life:Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949...
, Stephen Dean
Stephen Dean
Stephen Anthony Dean is a former English cricketer. Dean was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.Dean made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1980 Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk...
, Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. He repeatedly links the attractive with the repulsive, creating work that holds within it inherent contradictions- one does not know whether to stare, be...
, Braco Dimitrijevic
Braco Dimitrijevic
Slobodan Dimitrijević , known as Braco Dimitrijević is a Paris-based Yugoslavian artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it....
, Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya is an Indian artist.Atul began exhibiting and selling his work in the early 1980s following his graduation from Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree...
, Anita Dube, Gloria Friedmann, Dmitry Gutov, Fiona Hall, Aspassio Haronitaki, Romuald Hazoumé
Romuald Hazoumé
Romuald Hazoumé is an artist from the Republic of Bénin, best known for his work La Bouche du Roi, a reworking of the 1789 image of the slave ship Brookes....
, Leni Hoffmann, Huang Yong Ping
Huang Yong Ping
Huang Yong Ping is a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. Huang's work combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influence by the intellectual abstraction of Dada and by Chinese numerology traditions...
, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives in New York. He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war - the best known perhaps being the 6-year long...
, Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
, William Kentridge
William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two...
, Kimsooja, Valery Koshlyakov, Agatoak Ronny Kowspi, Juul Kraijer, Samuel Kane Kwei, Jean-Jacques Lebel
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Jean-Jacques Lebel is a French artist, poet, poetry publisher, political activist and scholar born in Paris in 1936. He is known primarily for his work with Happenings, and as an art theory writer and art curator. He is the son of Robert Lebel, art critic and friend of Marcel Duchamp.-Life and...
, Alexander Lobanov
Alexander Lobanov
Alexander Pavlovich Lobanov was a Russian outsider artist known particularly for his detailed self-portraits, noted for their frequent inclusion of guns and for their self-aggrandizing nature.-Early years:...
, Heinz Mack
Heinz Mack
Heinz Mack is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art.- Biography :Heinz Mack...
, Esther Mahlangu, Djambawa Marawili, Erina Matsui, Annette Messager
Annette Messager
Annette Messager is a French artist who was born in 1943. She is known mainly for her installation work which often incorporates photographs, prints and drawings, and various materials. Messager has exhibited and published her work extensively...
, Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz
Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...
, Doreen Reid Nakamarra
Doreen Reid Nakamarra
Doreen Reid Nakamarra was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter. Reid was considered an important artist within the Western Desert cultural bloc. She was a leading painter at the Papunya Tula artist cooperative in Central Australia.Reid was born in Mummine near Warburton, Western Australia...
, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Mike Parr
Mike Parr
Mike Parr is an Australian performance artist and printmaker. Parr's works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including in Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.-Early life:...
, Pavel Pepperstein, Julius Popp
Julius Popp
Julius Popp is an artist based in Leipzig.Popp was born in Nuremberg. His work often uses technology, resulting in interdisciplinary ventures which reach across the boundaries of art and science...
, Markus Raetz, Ravinder G Reddy, Reynold Reynolds, Claude Rutault, Conrad Shawcross
Conrad Shawcross
Conrad Shawcross is a British artist, the son of the writers William Shawcross and Marina Warner. He specialises in wooden mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas.-Life and work:...
, Chiharu Shiota, Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, is a British-Nigerian artist living in the UK. He readily acknowledges physical disability as part of his identity but creates work in which this is just one strand of a far richer weave.-Life and career:...
, Jason Shulman, Roman Signer
Roman Signer
Roman Signer is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, installations photography, and video.-Early life and career:...
, Haim Sokol, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are artists living and working collaboratively in Beijing. Sun was born in Beijing and Peng in Heilongjiang...
, Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German Fine-art photographer and artist. His comprehensive and diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and also the first...
, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Tunga
Tunga
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, Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.-Biography:...
, Koen Vanmechelen, Stanislav Volyazlovsky, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Nawurapu Wunungmurra, Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg, Austria.Since the late 1980s he has developed an ongoing series of "One Minute Sculptures", in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday...
, Soichi Yamaguchi, Yang Jiechang.
Special guests shows
- Olga ChernyshevaOlga ChernyshevaOlga Chernysheva is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Moscow. Her work spans film, photography, drawing and object-based mediums, where she draws on quotidian moments and marginal spaces from everyday life as a way of exploring the increasing fragmentation of master narratives in...
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. "Present - Past", Baibakov Art ProjectsBaibakov Art ProjectsBaibakov Art Projects provides a platform for cultural production within Moscow. Founded in 2008, the initiative was the first to make use of the extensive Red October Chocolate Factory in the center of Moscow...
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Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
The curator of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will be Peter WeibelPeter Weibel
Peter Weibel is an artist, curator and theoretician.Raised in Upper Austria he started to study French and cinematography in Paris...
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A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
, artist
Artist
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, theorist of media arts and director of the Center of Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
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Germany
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). Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place in September-October 2011. Commissioner and the artistic director of the Biennale will be Joseph Backstein.
External links
- Neue Review, "The First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Exhib. Review)"
- Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
- Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
- Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
- Frieze Magazine, "3rd Moscow Biennale"
- Art Margins, "The 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Exhib. Review)"