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Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, curator of the main project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale young art

The commissioner of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Ekaterina Kibovskaya, on May 12 at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice, presented the curator of the main project of the upcoming exhibition, which will be held in Moscow in June. It was Lucrezia Calabro Visconti - a young independent curator from Italy, co-founder of the non-profit research project CLOG, Master of Philosophy from the University of Ca' Foscari. A graduate of the Faculty of Performative Arts of the Institute of Architecture of Venice, Lucrezia Visconti was Maurizio Cattelan's assistant for the Shit and Die project in Turin, and also made the exhibitions “Why is everyone so nice?” and "Good luck, see you after the revolution" in Amsterdam. Visconti is the author of numerous articles on art in international publications and the founder of online projects such as Curatorshit, shitndie and Ketchup Drool.

The curator of the main project was chosen at a meeting of the expert council of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Members of the expert council took part in the discussion and voting, including Deputy Director of MMOMA Alexey Novoselov, curator international exhibitions Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Ekaterina Inozemtseva, master's degree graduate of the Courtauld Institute, co-organizer of the exhibition "Geometry of the Present", GES-2 Victoria Mikhelson, head scientific department MMOMA Andrey Egorov, art critic and curator Maria Kravtsova, commissioner of the Ural Industrial Biennale Alisa Prudnikova and deputy general director on creative and educational activities ROSIZO-NCCA Daria Pyrkina.

Curator Lucrezia Calabro Visconti and commissioner of the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art Ekaterina Kibovskaya

Lucrezia Calabro Visconti will devote the Biennale of Young Art in Moscow to abracadabra. “I would describe the project as a metaphor of a dance floor, where participants both have fun and follow certain rules, interacting in the most unexpected ways. That is why, when choosing artists, I am going to give preference to those who work with performative practices, video and sound,” Visconti clarifies, describing his vision of the main project. According to her idea, the name of the theme is not only a reference to a magic spell, but also a nod to Steve Miller's disco hit Abracadabra, popular in the 1980s.

The selection of artists for the 6th Biennale will begin this fall on the website www.youngart.ru. This year, according to Biennale commissioner Ekaterina Kibovskaya, great attention will be given to authors from the regions. Curators can apply to participate in a strategic project, but, like artists, they must be under 35 years of age.

Let us remind you that the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art has been taking place since 2008. The project began with the annual festival of young art “Stop! Who's Coming?", which was held by the State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) annually from 2002 to 2006 in collaboration with the Free Workshops school of contemporary art of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA). Project acquired new status due to the growing interest of young artists, curators and critics in it. Through the joint efforts of the NCCA and MMOMA, the concept of the Biennale of Young Art was developed. If previously the curators of the biennale were well-known international experts chosen by the organizers of the project (Daria Pyrkina, Daria Kamyshnikova, Catherine Becker, David Elliott), regardless of their age, then since 2015 the curator of the biennale, like its participants, is a representative of the new generation. Last year, 32-year-old Briton Nadeem Samman became the curator. The Biennale's partners are cultural institutions interested in the development of young art.

The theme of the program “Museum Chambers” on Saturday, July 7 is the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.

The guest of the program is the Biennale commissioner, head of the ROSIZO directorate for special projects Ekaterina Kibovskaya.

So, in Moscow in Once again The Moscow Biennale of Young Art is taking place (which means the participation of artists no older than 35 years). It is younger than the “adult” biennale, but also has quite a history behind it. Moreover, the “youth team” also had a predecessor - the festival of young art “Stop, who’s coming?”, held by the State Center for Contemporary Art together with the Free Workshops school. The Youth Biennale has grown in status in comparison with it - it has received the support of ministries and departments. It also acquired a branched and quite complex structure.

“Abacadabra” is in no way a “value judgment”, but the name of the main project of the biennale. In addition to it, there are two “strategic” projects, a fair number of “special” ones and, finally, a “parallel program”.

By strategic projects, the organizers understand the search for the main directions for the development of young art.

Youth exhibitions really can’t do without texts, no matter where to a greater extent than at “adult” exhibitions. Indeed, it is somehow indecent not to write something about the appropriation and subversion of institutional rules and not to quote Baudrillard. :)

Special projects are many and varied. Some of them represent the works of students from several schools of contemporary art.

Projects of the Youth Biennale are located everywhere – both in industrial spaces and in individual exhibition halls, and in museums. And in the latter case, not only in the halls for temporary exhibitions. There are also projects that exist on the principle of “introduction” - the works of young authors are introduced directly into the permanent museum exhibition. As, for example, in the museum-apartment of Apollinary Vasnetsov, where even the newfangled “augmented reality” is involved.

A parallel program is the most free part of the overall project. Actually, this is not even part of the project, but the own programs of galleries and other institutions, only included by the organizing committee, if the formal criteria coincide, to their own schedule. These exhibitions are also scattered everywhere - from museum halls and reputable galleries to cute tiny basements.

The Youth Biennale runs almost all summer. Some exhibitions have already closed, others should be rushed to see. There are still many projects ahead - so stay tuned for news (including on the website of the Youth Biennale itself).

Text: Tatyana Pelipeyko

Organizers: National Center for Contemporary Art, ROSIZO, Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Viewers of the V Moscow International Biennale of Young Art will see more than 55 exhibitions this summer. The main project of the biennale, “Deep Inside,” will be presented in the space of the Trekhgornaya Manufactory. Exhibitions of the two Strategic Projects will be held at the State Center for Contemporary Art and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Special projects can be seen at the Multimedia Art Museum, the VINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art, the ARTPLAY Design Center, as well as in the Moscow region, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk and other sites. The cities of St. Petersburg ("Bezmestie"), Voronezh ("V glorious city Voronezh") and Izhevsk ("Izhevsk Speaks. Part 3").

This year's participants include six educational institutions: Russian State Humanitarian University, Institute "Baza", the program "School of Young Artist" of the PRO ARTE Foundation and the North-Western branch of the NCCA, the Yekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art, the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia named after A. Rodchenko and the School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" "Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The parallel program of the biennale included 40 exhibitions. Visitors will also enjoy an extensive discussion and educational program.

STRUCTURE OF THE BIENNALE

Main project "Deep Inside"

2 Strategic projects

16 Special Projects

40 exhibitions as part of a parallel program

Discussion and educational program

MAIN PROJECT

Theme: "Deep Inside"

Place: exhibition spaces of Trekhgornaya Manufactory

Curator: Nadeem Samman

Participants: 87 young artists and artistic associations, representatives of 36 countries

STRATEGIC PROJECTS

Title: Time for Reasonable Doubt

Place: National Center for Contemporary Art

Curators: Silvia Franceschini and Valeria Mancinelli

Participants: 10 young artists from 9 countries

Details in the press release.

Title: G I P E R S V YA Z I

Place: Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane

Curator: Joao Laia

Participants: 18 young artists from 16 countries

Details in the press release

SPECIAL PROJECTS

IN chronological order by opening date

02.06 — 04.09

19/92 First. Anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" MMOMA

04.06 — 02.07

Izhevsk says. Part 1

Udmurt Republican Museum fine arts, Izhevsk

04.06 — 02.07

Izhevsk says. Part 2

Museum of the History of the City of Izhevsk

02.06 — 31.07

Izhevsk says. Part 3

23.06 — 24.07

Procrastination

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10

27.06 — 19.09

ABOUT SR. 10 years of the Rodchenko School

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

01.07 — 31.07

Bar "Joy"

Center for Creative Industries "FABRIKA"

04.07 — 21.08

Workshop 2016. Personal connections

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Tverskoy Boulevard

12.07 — 28.08

Raw/Cooked

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10

16.07 — 04.12

Life of the living

National Center for Contemporary Art, Volga-Vyatka branch, Nizhny Novgorod

28.07 — 28.08

Between us. Space of memories

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10

21.07 — 10.08

Houseware

Studio KOP

29.06 — 31.07

In the glorious city of Voronezh

Center for Contemporary Art "WINZAVOD"

07.07 — 10.08

Inside art

Department store "Tsvetnoy"

23.06 — 24.07

Kernel level

Gallery street art"Sweater", Ekaterinburg

01.07 — 17.07

Placelessness

ARTPLAY Design Center

09.06 -19.06

After the fact

Museum and Exhibition Center "Worker and Collective Farm Woman"

House-palace-salon-outback-museum-America

(the project takes place at several sites)

23.06 — 31.07

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10

15.07 -31.07
Salon, Kostomarovsky lane. 3, page 12

23.07 — 31.07
House of Architects' Creativity, Moscow region, Leninsky district, Vidnoye, village. Sukhanovo

04.07 — 19.07
Central House architect

02.07 — 31.07
Victor Skersis (apartment exhibition), 880 Laurel Drive, Bethlehem, PA, 18017, USA

PARALLEL PROGRAM

As part of the parallel program of the biennale, 40 exhibitions will be held.

The list of projects is available in the application.

DISCUSSION AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

On July 1 at 12:00 and 14:00 a series of portfolio reviews will be held at the Tech-Hub "Key" at Trekhgornaya Manufactory. Artists wishing to participate are encouraged to showcase their portfolio to leading contemporary art experts on the global art scene: Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Herzliya Aya Luri; art critic and Therese Möllenhoff, curator of the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. Portfolio review provides an opportunity to discuss completed and ongoing projects, find out the opinions and receive comments from internationally renowned curators who have decades of experience working with young artists.

Those interested are asked to send their portfolio to the project address: [email protected] until June 20.
The selection of participants is carried out on a competitive basis by the curator of the discussion and educational program, art critic, deputy director of the NCCA, initiator and chairman of the Expert Council of the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art Daria Pyrkina.

Details on the website

Lucrezia Calabro Visconti. Courtesy CLOG

On May 12, 2017, at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, the commissioner of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Ekaterina Kibovskaya, introduced the curator of the main project of the biennale, which will be held in Moscow in the summer of 2018. It was an independent curator from Italy, Lucrezia Calabro Visconti. The theme she proposed for the biennale was “Abracadabra.” According to Visconti, “The title Abracadabra is a reference to an ancient spell and Steve Miller's eighties disco hit of the same name. I would describe the project as a metaphor of a dance floor, where participants both have fun and follow certain rules, interacting in the most unexpected ways. That’s why, when choosing artists, I’m going to give preference to those who work with performative practices, video and sound.” Let us remind you that since 2015, the curator of the biennale is, like its participants, a representative of the new generation.

Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, 27, is an independent curator and co-founder of the non-profit research project CLOG. She graduated from the Faculty of Visual and Performative Arts of the Institute of Architecture of Venice, trained in Turin and New York, and is currently studying in the curatorial program of the De Appel Center in Amsterdam. As an assistant and coordinator, she took part in a number of exhibition projects, curated by Francesco Bonami and Maurizio Cattelan. She has collaborated with TOILETPAPER and Le Dictateur magazines. Author of articles in various art publications, creator of online projects Curatorshit, shitndie and Ketchup Drool. Among the recent curatorial projects Lucretia: “Why is everyone so nice?” (Why Is Everybody Being So Nice, 2017, De Appel, Amsterdam), Good Luck, See You After the Revolution, 2017, UvA, Amsterdam and Dear Betty: Run Faster, Bite Harder (Dear Betty: Run Fast Bite Hard!, 2016, Gallery of modern and the latest art, Bergamo).

The Moscow International Biennale of Young Art has been taking place since 2008. Founders and organizers of the Biennale – Ministry of Culture Russian Federation, Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) as part of the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO", Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Commissioner of the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art Ekaterina Kibovskaya hopes to expand the horizons of the Biennale and, in addition to specialists from different countries, to attract even more artists, curators and institutions from Russian regions. Acceptance of applications from artists under the age of 35 to participate in the main project of the biennale will begin in the fall of 2017 on the website

Moscow International Biennale of Young Art- one of the most striking artistic events in the capital. The Biennale of Young Art, which has become a rebirth of the annual festival of young art "Stop! Who's coming?" (2002-2008), takes place every two even years, in contrast to the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, which takes place in odd years. Considering that Joseph Backstein this year resigned as commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and its new structure is not yet clear, the Biennale of Young Art today is, perhaps, also one of the most ambitious Moscow international art events. And we can already say about this year’s project that it turned out to be much more interesting than the previous one"adult" Moscow Biennale.

Features of the Biennale of Young Art is that only young authors can take part in it. Something important happened at the Biennale this year organizational change- not only artists, but also curators of the main and strategic projects were under 35 years of age. The commissioner of the Biennale is also younger than 35 years old, a position introduced this year. Assigned to itEkaterina Kibovskaya, responsible for the conceptmodern development of Gorky Park in 2011-2013.

The expert council selected the project of 32-year-old Briton Nadeem Samman as the main project of the biennale. Anyone could submit an application to participate in the main project via an electronic form. The final participants were selected by the curator.

Nadeem Samman- curator of more than 40 exhibition projects in London, Zurich, Moscow, Vienna, Marrakesh. Including the project curator"Alexander Ponomarev. Concordia" and "Antarctopia" in the Antarctica pavilion at Venice Biennale 2014. You can get acquainted with selected projects of Nadeem Samman on his website. Nadeem Samman is also known as an art historian who studied the inclusion/exclusion of the art of Soviet conceptualists in Western contexts, including during the emigration of Soviet artists to New York.

Main project of the V Biennale of Young Art

Main project of the V Biennale of Young Artwill be held at Trekhgornaya Manufactory from July 1 to August 10. For the project, Nadeem Samman chose the theme “Deep Inside” and selected works by 87 young artists from 36 countries. Program statements of the Biennale, as befits the large-scale format international show, are of a universal, global and even universal nature:

“Our time is a time of cracks, faults, penetration and cavities. Our culture is the culture of the abyss. If modernism tried to strike at the very foundation of culture - to reach the “zero point” of painting, to change the structural foundations of human psychology, historical laws and economic science, then today we parted with these illusions. We're falling deeper—or falling—into a kind of black hole. So it's only to be expected that artists have become interested in opaque, mysterious phenomena, conspiracies: those that are on the other side of the event horizon, as well as everything that is associated with instability and versatility. We peer deeply into the abyss, and the abyss looks back at us. However, in a strange way, there is much more contained in this abyss than we can imagine: as evidenced by the giant reflection of X-rays in the corona of the star Markarian 335, the abyss can erupt. Curator Nadeem Samman talks about the project.

Felix Kissling. Germany. Anti Sun.

A deep black hole in the exhibition space, absorbing with its intangible depth. The round frame is made of wood and coated with a layer of black pigment with a high light absorption coefficient.

Eddie Wagenknecht. USA. Data and dragons.

A series of sculptures that intercept and record anonymous data received from nearby actors Wi-Fi networks in real time. Circuit boards assembled together and network cables, themselves gloomy and ascetic, symbolize the “cloud”, social media, data, leaks and what turns social capital into a single object.

Christian Fagarolli. Italy. Remember, repeat, redo.

The artist decided to bring to Moscow a copy of a brain model made in 1885 and first visited Moscow at the end of the 19th century - to study the parts of the brain responsible for archiving memory processes, feelings and emotions.

Alvaro Urbano. Untitled. Spain.

Artist from Madrid punched a hole in the wall and invited us to look inside into an imaginary landscape from another reality. Painting wildlife, which does not fall into any classification, is like a museum diorama that gave birth to itself.

Paul Rosero Contreras. Ecuador. Wave.

An artist from Ecuador living in Los Angeles made a bio-controlled installation, which included a 3D model sound wave, created from silk by hundreds of silkworm caterpillars, and a computer monitoring system: it produces sounds and images by tracking the movements of the worms. This live installation introduces the idea of ​​organic 3D printing as part of a hybrid manufacturing mechanism.

Katarina Grutsay. Austria. Military halls.

In a series of photographs, strange views appear before the viewer: at first glance, these are war scenes, but if you look closely, they begin to tell a completely different story. In photographs taken in Moscow, in Central Museum Great Patriotic War, - partially personalized spaces that emerged against the backdrop of war scenes depicted in museum dioramas. Banquettes, chairs, telephone sets, located in front of paintings with scenes of war, turn out to be strange and isolated objects here.

Julia Selin. Sweden. Disease.

Painting was not actively represented at the Biennale, but was also represented.An artist in her studio dances on a canvas lying on the floor. The physical act and choreography appear in the imprints of fingers, feet and knees in the paint layer. At the same time, an association with the landscape arises. The canvas conveys the feeling of the body in nature.

Juliana Cerqueira Leite. Brazil. Three Dances.

A nightclub is a space for mediating cultural experience. The dance floor creates a space of “collective effervescence” and an ecstatic legitimation of an alternative to productive behavior accepted in a pragmatic capitalist world. The artist makes a cast of her moving body using multi-colored plaster over several days. The result is a composition of three plaster groups - imperfect traces of dance, abstract objects in space.

Strategic projects of the V Biennial of Young Art:

Hyperconnected at the Moscow Museum Contemporary Art(Ermolaevsky 17). The exhibition, which brought together 15 artists from 17 countries on 5 floors of the museum, reminds us that we are all moving in a single flow, where each becomes a multitude, the individual becomes a part of the whole, and all this can be called hyperconnections.

Curated by João Laya: "In an era of universal acceleration, our minds and bodies change, adapting to the environment and environment in which we find ourselves every day. We are reborn by opening windows, closing folders and peering into reflective surfaces; unclear boundaries force us to rethink our identity. As a result, any hypothetical the separation of culture from nature disappears and the natural environment around us becomes a cultural environment. The artists I invited abandoned the apocalyptic and utopian vision of modernity, realizing the world as a plurality of states and positions."

Adrien Mexico. France. Rehabilitation center wildlife.

Neringa Cherniauskaite. Lithuania. Lost heritage.

IN State Center Contemporary Art (Zoological 13) "Time of reasonable doubt." Curators: Silvia Franceschini. Valeria Mancinelli:

"The works exhibited at the exhibition offer A New Look to the value artistic research, developing in the current conditions of uncertainty, fear and anxiety about both the future and the past, which determine individual and collective ideas about the world and become a way of organizing it."

Daniela Ortiz. Spain. We watched the video and it was full of xenophobia.

Between 2014 and 2015, Daniela Ortiz with her students high school in Catalonia, she worked on a project centered on critical analysis migration control systems. The result of the research was a series of drawings and Toolkit to address issues related to xenophobia, Eurocentrism, immigration control and colonial policies.

Basma Alsharif. Palestine. USA

"I didn't think I'd be contemporary artist, when I emigrated to the states, but everyone constantly asked me about politics, about culture, about my emotions, so I decided to express them in figurative form" -Basma Alsharif.

Parallel and special projects of the V Biennale of Young Art

In total, several dozen parallel and special projects will be held within the framework of the biennale, at various exhibition venues in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk, Voronezh. An important feature of the biennale will also be interaction with the city. Exhibitions will take place not only in art spaces, but also in Shopping centers and parks.

In the Tsvetnoy Department Store together with the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin will host the exhibition "Inside Art", during which it will be possible to study great paintings from the museum’s collection under X-ray radiation.

IN botanical garden MSU "Pharmaceutical Garden" exhibition " Simple names. Selected synonyms". Young Russian artists built their biomorphic objects into a natural context formatted by landscape gardening art.

In the ARTPLAY Central House there is an exhibition INTERNATIONAL. Graduates of the PRO ARTE Institute have created a micro-community that is not subject to outside influence. They locked themselves in a confined space, traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow in a half-broken Gazelle and did not forget about own works which are presented at the exhibition. Training program"The School of Young Artists" (St. Petersburg), organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation, is addressed to young practicing artists from 20 to 30 years old. The goal of the program is to develop creative potential And critical thinking young artists, create a field for their professional communication and support new projects that would meet the requirements of the current situation in the field of contemporary art.