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STRATEGIC PROJECTS OF THE IV MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ART

FROM 25 JUNE TO 10 AUGUST 2014


The Biennale program includes Strategic Projects that will be on view at three exhibition venues.

Pasture Still Green? (MMOMA). Muzzumil Ruheel. Yak Yak Yak, 2012. New media Installation. Image Courtesy Artist

The exhibition halls of the Biennale organizers – National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) and Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), as well as a new spot on the Moscow map of contemporary art – Tsvetnoy Central Market, became venues of the 7 Strategic Projects, which were selected by the curatorial group of the Biennale out of 67 applications received for the international competition of curatorial projects.


Venues of Strategic Projects: 


National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA): 13 build. 2, Zoologicheskaya Street; Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA): 17 Ermolaevsky Lane; Tsvetnoy Central Market: 15 build. 1, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 4th floor.


Dates of Strategic Projects: 


NCCA – through August 3, 2014; ММОМА – through August 10, 2014; Tsvetnoy – through August 6 2014. 


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Irina Gorlova, Head of Art Programs Department at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA):


“As we reviewed the applications, which were received for the competition of curatorial projects within the framework of the Biennale for Young Art, we noted a considerable number of very interesting and well-thought concepts. Unfortunately, not all curators understood the conditions of the competition, and we had to turn down some marvelous exhibition projects with brilliant ideas and impressive lists of participants and works, just because of age limitations. Some of the artists who were included by young curators in their proposed exhibitions not only passed the age of 35 but even ranked among the greatest figures of the early 20th-century art. Unfortunately we couldn’t violate the main rule of the Biennale. However, in spite of that, a lot of projects were selected for the final round, and they far exceeded the potential of exhibition spaces at NCCA and MMOMA. I am really happy that NCCA will host Dreaming Machines exhibition that brings together artists from the UK, Russia, and South Korea. Thanks to the invitation from Tsvetnoy Central Market, Error Message project received an experimental exhibition space, which the curators loved so much. I hope that the viewers will find fascinating the exhibitions from Thailand, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan that will be on view in the four floors of the building at Ermolaevsky Lane – they present the kind of art that is largely unknown to the public.”


Andrey Egorov, Head of Research Department at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA):


“The multifaceted format open for international participation defined the key feature of the Strategic Program of this year’s Biennale – namely, cultural and national diversification of exhibition projects. In a way, the selected exhibitions can be perceived as critically reinterpreted ‘national pavilions,’ especially those housed at Ermolaevsky Lane. They demonstrate an intense sensation of belonging simultaneously to the (pseudo)hermetic national tradition facing historic cataclysms, and the universal cultural and information space. Such a conflicted view of identity underlines the impressive geographical scope of these seemingly local projects, which transfer the viewer from former Soviet republics (Azerbaijan and Ukraine) to Central Europe (Czech Republic), and further to Southeast Asia (Pakistan and Thailand). The paradoxical coincidence of local and global is also evident in the projects presented at NCCA and Tsvetnoy: they, too, can be considered ‘national pavilions’ (of the UK and Russia) that lost the strength of their walls and became depositories for cross-cutting meanings and interpretations.”


Strategic Project of the Biennale for Young Art at NCCA:


DREAMING MACHINES
Curator: Sasha Burkhanova (Russia – UK)
http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=277&id=69 


Strategic Projects of the Biennale for Young Art at MMOMA:

ASTAR
Organizer: YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Azerbaijan). 
Curator: Nailya Allakhverdieva (Russia)
http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=278&id=70

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEMORY>
Curator: Lauren Reid (Australia – Germany)
http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=278&id=71

EXPLOITATION OF THE IMAGINARY
Curators: Sergei Klimko, Lesya Kulchinskaya (Visual Culture Research Centre, Kiev, Ukraine)
http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=278&id=72

PASTURE STILL GREEN?
Curator: Hajra Haider (Pakistan)
http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=278&id=73

PERIPHERAL VISION
Curator: Václav Janoščík (Czech Republic)
http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=278&id=74

Strategic Project of the Biennale for Young Art at Tsvetnoy Central Market:

ERROR MESSAGE 
Curators: Dasha Birukova, Elvira Zhagun (Russia) 

http://youngart.ru/project?en&bid=25&mid=279&id=75


NCCA / MMOMA / TSVETNOY National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA): 13 build. 2, Zoologicheskaya Street
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA): 17 Ermolaevsky Lane
Tsvetnoy Central Market: 15 build. 1, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 4th floor
INFORMATION: • Phone: +7 495 699 65 53
• Website: http://www.youngart.ru
• Mail : youngart@youngart.ru

OPENING TIMES: NCCA
Tue-Sun: 12.00-20.00
Thu: 12.00-21.00

MMOMA
Mon-Sun: 12.00-20.00
Thu: 13.00-21.00

Tsvetnoy
Mon-Sat: 10.00-22.00
Sun: 11.00-22.00
ADMISSION PRICE: 150-250 Rub
CONTACTS: • Anna Svergun Phone: +7 905 544 1883
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• Anton Mirimanov
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