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"Afghan Carpets" is a project presented within the framework of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Biennale's curator Jean-Hubert Martin explains: "Many journalists ask me about Afghan carpets and what they have to do with contemporary art. But these carpets, crafted with observance of the ancient national traditions, is art indeed. Art and applied arts are separated in western culture, in Afghan culture they are not. And when I learnt the history of these carpets I thought they had to be shown in Russia."
Centre for Contemporary Culture "Garage"  |
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Angelika Sher’s series "13" is a bit playful. Utilizing whimsical stagings along with Sher’s own children and their playmates, Sher, a photographer and mother, create scenes that make the viewer yearn for one more day as an eight year old. Angelika Sher immigrated from USSR to Israel in 1990. She started photographing in late the 1990's afetr beginning her studies at the College of Photography in Kyriat Ono, Israel. Angelika has been actively exhibiting both in Israel and internationally since 2007.
Pobeda |
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Curators from five Russian cities and German artists Benjamin Bergmann, Via Lewandowsky, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Claudia Schmacke, Robert Scheipner and "Empfangshalle" group joined their creative forces to form this project. International artistic project "Art on Site" was launched in 2008 and took place in Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod and Saint Petersburg. Russian curators chose several artists and invited them to reside in Russia to create works of art resulting from exploration of the local cultural, social, political, geographical peculiarities and collaboration? with Russian artists and curators. "Art on Site" in Moscow presents all crafted works culled in one place; among the works are grandiose installations, objects, video projections, photographs and "the world's largest panel made of amber".
National Center for Contemporary Art |
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| Atelier van Lieshout: Slave City (Netherlands) |
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Within the frame of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art WinZavod is honored to present the first full-fledged exhibition of Atelier van Lieshout in Russia featuring two installations "Slave City" (2005-2009) and "Cradle to Cradle" (2009). Atelier van Lieshout was founded in those years when the domineering art trend was explained through the notion of "interaction esthetics". In 1990s van Lieshout (first by himself and then as an atelier founder) started launching projects bordering on design, architecture and art to model situations of social interaction . "Slave City" is a turned inside out model of the modern society, oriented on achievements and complete autonomy, denying traditional concepts of good and evil.
WinZavod |
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For the first time ever Pushkin Fine Arts Museum exposes Moscow audience to one of the largest Europe's collections of works of art culled from the private collection of the princes Liechtensteinskye. The presented part of the collection was created in 1815-1848 within the framework of the genre that was later, in the late XIX century, called "Biedermaier". The genre's name originated from the pen name adopted by the poet Ludwig Eichborn and his friend Adolf Kussmaul whose poetry series about Gottlieb Biedermaier was published by the Munich magazine Fliegende Blatter in 1853 -1855. Gottlieb Biedermaier was an fictional German bourgeois-minded middle-class burger who was only concerned with his family and comfort with 'Bieder' meaning virtuous, and 'Maier' being a common German surname, like Jones. Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna and Vaduz possess one of the largest collections of Biedermaier. The exhibition at Pushkin Fine Arts Museum features more than 100 works of art: pictures (portraits, genre pictures and landscapes, interiors, flower still life, urban panoramas), porcelain items and drawings.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum |
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| Icon Painting Masterpieces of XIII-XIX |
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The exhibition presents icon painting of Bulgaria – one of the major centers of Christian culture in Europe. The exposition features about 60 icons of the XIV-XIX centuries and Bachkovo Monestary's shroud of Christ of the XV century - priceless monuments of Bulgaria's church art. Exhibition's centerpieces are icons of the XIV century. Some of them are works of Constantinople school and reflect interactions with Byzantine Empire, others reveal peculiarities of the local art schools. Icons of the XVI-XVIII centuries present two major icon painting trends – the first one stands for the showy painting traditional for icon painting school on Crete and Saint Athos; the second one presents different local schools featuring peculiarities of the special cultural identity. The exhibition also presents two original works of the XIX century – the so called "Jerusalemia" – a large canvas depicting images and scenes on the theme of pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre.
Historical Museum |
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 Luc Tuymans is recognised as one of the most significant and influential contemporary painters working today. Tuymans' work is a vast repository of data, drawn from photography, television and film, combining a range of different styles and subject matter. His subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal - wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects There are also paintings which express abstract emotional states, titled 'Embitterment' or 'Insomnia', which imply existential or philosophical responses to the human condition. In the past ten years, he has prompted a critical rethinking of figurative painting, which in turn influenced the development of contemporary art across media. As a Special Guest of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Luc Tuymans will present his first major exhibition in Russia, “Against the Day”.
Baibakov Art Projects |
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| Nikolai Krymov: Landscapes |
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"Nashi Khudozhniki" Gallery hosts an exhibition timed to the 125th anniversary of the landscape painter Nikolai Krymov. Several canvases focus on modernism features in his outwardly traditional landscapes and complete artist's oeuvre is available in a catalogue-raisonne presented at the exhibition. The exhibition is presented in two painting halls (only landscapes) and on graphics hall. Nikola Krymov painted landscapes, only landscapes, lots of green landscapes, some winter landscapes… He referred himself to realistic painters, stigmatized formalists saying that "you have no right to paint know you know instead of what you see; there is no painting where material is not reproduced".
Nashi Khudozhniki |
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| Thomas Joshua Cooper and Bill Fontana (USA) |
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 Within the frame of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, GMG Gallery is pleased to present a special project "Thomas Joshua Cooper and Bill Fontana". This project will comprise of exhibitions by two outstanding American artists - "True" by Thomas Joshua Cooper and "Silent Echoes" by Bill Fontana. Charting a two year journey to the polar regions of the Atlantic basin, the exhibition True, from renowned international photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper, presents new works from the series, The World's Edge - an ongoing work that seeks to map the extremities of the land and islands that surround the Atlantic Ocean. For the past 30 years, the artist has travelled to some of the most isolated and far-flung locations across the globe, making images with his 19th century Agfa camera and specially made photographic plates. Bill Fontana is an internationally known artist, pioneering experiments in sound. For the past 30 years he has been creating installations that use sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural settings. Influenced by John Cage's idea that 'music is continuous and listening is intermittent' Fontana encourages us to hear the most silent and unmusical things. In Silent Echoes Fontana has used modern measurement technology to reveal a hidden world of perpetual acoustic energy within an apparently dormant bell.
GMG Gallery |
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Vulnerability is one of the more highly valued, authentic, mysterious and yet obvious characteristics that makes a human being human. Vulnerability, as opposed to degradation, is a characteristic necessary for human development and cannot be subjected to standard measures of evaluation. Vulnerability is that category of genuine human characteristic that presents itself as and is taken as weakness in the patriarchal paradigm. Therefore, for this project, vulnerability is the theme of women’s contemporary art, women’s artistic expression. ‘Vulnerability’ is part of an ongoing project entitled ‘The Workshop of Women’s Creative Work. The History of Women’s Culture in Post-Soviet Space: 1989-2009.’ Issues of self-definition and attempts to capture the spirit of the times continue to be some of the most important themes for the artists featured in the exhibition, who work with photography, video, installation, painting, sculpture. Artists: Natalia Abalakova, Tanya Antoshina, Anna Alchuk, Maria Arendt, Anna Brochet, Vita Buivid, Katya Golitzyna, Alexandra Demenetieva, Olya Ziangirova, Eva Zhigalova, Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Olga Kisseleva, Natalia Kushnareva, Liudmila Block, Anastasia Neliubina, Natalia Mali, Ekaterina Sysoeva, Ira Waldron, Natasha Tziziashvili, Tatyana Liberman, Alexandra Luniakova, Marina Liubaskina (Berlin), Maria Naimushina, Aidan Salakhova, Vera Sazhina, Via Muragina, Irina Nakhova, Katarina Nitsch (Sweden), Olga fon Franskevich-Eransson, Olga Tobreluts, Maria Ovchinnikova, Marina Chernikova, Maria Chuikova.
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| XXVII Russian Antique Salon |
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XXVII Russian Antique Salon is an important event for the Russia antique art market. Russian and foreign galleries present works of painting, sculpture, graphics and decorative and applied arts. By tradition many galleries will prepare theme expositions focusing on artistic values of the old items. Theme expositions consists of 13 projects including "Gems from Private Collections (canvases by Aivazovsky, Shishkin, Polenov, Makovsky, Sverchkov), "Graphic Masterpieces. Academy" (rare graphic works by the outstanding masters of the XIX century – Alexander Orlov, Ivan Kramskoi, Victor Vasnetsov and others), "Samurais. Path of Brush and Sword" (swords and armour made by the famous masters for the great daimyos – commander-samurais – and picturesque rolls, xylographs, screens, ceramics, bronze and furniture).
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