On September 22, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art opens its fourth edition. Titled “Rewriting Worlds,’’ it will run until October 30 and features 64 artists and 14 groups of artists from more 33 countries. The Moscow Biennale will be curated by Peter Weibel, Director of ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Among famous names of the international art scene the Main project will feature artists such as Martin Walde (Australia), Ai Weiwei (China), Richard Hamilton (UK), Manabu Ikeda (Japan), Ken Lum (Canada) and Zheng Shengtian (China), Fabián Marcaccio (Argentina/USA), Walid Ra'ad (Lebanon/USA), Neo Rauch (Germany), Claire Fontaine (France), Susan Hiller (UK/USA), Rebecca Horn (Germany), Christoph Schlingensief (Germany), Olafur Eliasson (Denmark/Germany), Michael Elmgreen (Denmark) Ingar Dragset (Norway) and many others. Commenting on the final list of artists of the Main project Peter Weibel said: “As you can see, we have made a selection of artists ranging from Chile to China, from Ukraine to the USA, from Austria to Indonesia. That means a real global selection of contemporary art. These artists are partially famous and established artists like Richard Hamilton or Gerhard Richter, but many are not famous yet (like Nadezhda Anfalova) but all of them are making an important contribution to the transformations of contemporary art. The exhibition includes all the media, i.e.: classical media like painting and sculpture but also computer-assisted media installations and sound art”. Russian artists will have an active part in the Biennale, exhibiting works by the Blue Soup, Electroboutique, Learning Film, as well as artists Valery Chtak, Alina Gutkina, Olga Kisseleva, Taisiya Korotkova, Taus Makhacheva, Yelena Yelagina and Igor Makarevich and others. “Studying about 300 portfolios of Russian artists I saw a tendency for "decompression" and "deframing". In the soviet time the former generation of artists withdrew from public places to private rooms to preserve and to protect the autonomy of the artwork. By doing this they already "deframed" the artwork as a closed system and turned it into a collective experience. They in effect changed the autonomy of the artwork and also the public. The best artists of the contemporary generation benefit from this launch” – says Peter Weibel.
The FotoLoft Gallery aranged for me a solo exhibition "Empty Spaces" as part of the parallel program of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
Facts
EMPTY SPACES
Curator: Tatiana Kurtanova
Artist: Katerina Belkina
Organizer: FotoLoft Gallery
Exposition date: September 5 – November 7, 2011
Venue address
FotoLoft Gallery
4th Svromvatnichesky lane. 1. D. 9
Moscow, Russia
Artists
Agenda Collective,
Yacine Ait Kaci,
Nikita Alekseev,
Kirill Alexeev,
Maria Anwander,
Oleg Arnautov,
Artlaboratory,
Kim Asendorf,
Alfredo Barsuglia,
Tom Beddard,
Katherine Behar,
Katerina Belkina,
Andrey Blazhnov,
Andrew Boyd,
Ivan Brajkin,
Alexander Brodsky,
Dmitry Bulnygin,
Art Buzz Group,
Cantyouseeimbusy,
Timofey Caraffa-Korbut,
Ben Chang, Chanzanka,
Igor Chirkin, Eva Chytilek,
Tatiana Daniliyants,
Evgenia Demina,
Dmitry Dima Strakovsky,
Where Dogs Run,
Evgenia Donilina,
Polina Dronyaeva,
Constant Dullaart,
Dace Dzerina,
Alexander Edisherov,
Vladislav Efimov,
Galina Emelina,
Ekaterina Emlyanova,
Denes Farkas,
Valentin Fetisov,
Yevgeniy Fiks,
Bernhard Fruehwirth,
Gints Gabrans,
Sofia Gavrilova,
Kirill Gluschenko,
Ivan Gorshkov,
Gran Fury,
Pavel Grishin,
Affinity Group,
Pg Group,
Bombily Group,
Opa Group,
Zvetafor Group,
Dmitry Gutov,
Sarah Hahn,
Hanakam & Schuller,
Johanna Heldebro,
Eno Henze, Eric Holm,
Katrin Hornek,
Marcin Ignac,
Daria Irincheeva,
Ewgenij Iwanow,
Nikita Kadan,
Michael Kargl,
Kavecsprojects,
Daria Kirilova,
Vasiliy Klenov,
Taisia Korotkova,
Egor Koshelev,
Valery Koshlyakov,
Verica Kovasevsca,
Organ Kritscher Kunst And Eclectic Electric Collective,
Serguey Kulikov,
Vlad Kulkov,
Olga Kuprina,
Vladimir Kustov,
Andrej Kuzkin,
Katerina Kuznetcowa,
Juozas Laivys,
Kristin Leklan,
Victoria Lomasko,
Vincent Ludenhoff,
Friso Ludenhoff,
Alexander Lysov,
Diana Machulina,
Igor Makarevich,
Make,
Taus Makhacheva,
Doreen Maloney,
Naziha Mestaoui,
Molleindustria,
Maarit Murka,
Denis Mustafin,
Kiss My Ba Group,
Marina Naprushkina,
Ovosham Net Group,
Brone Neverdauskiene,
Nikola Ovchinnikov,
Photini Papahatzi,
Paolo Pedercini,
Ivan Plusch,
Alexey Podkidishev,
Nikolaj Poliskij,
Anastasia Potemkina,
Alexander Povzner,
Tatyana Provorova,
Tero Puha,
Lukas Pusch,
Tim Radya,
Jarkko Räsänen,
Alyona Rasskazova,
Neo Rauch,
Ilya Romanov,
Russian Artists Tbc,
Silvia Ruzanka,
Rodger Ruzanka,
Elena Savina,
Eva Schindling,
Nikolay Selivanov,
Andrew Sempere,
Alexander Senko,
Sergey Serp,
Eugeniy Shevelenko,
Anna Skladmann,
Yana Smetanina,
Haim Sokol,
Alexei Sokolov,
Leonardo Solaas,
Mariusz Soltysik,
Jonas Staal,
Paulius Stanikas,
Svajone Stanikas,
Joulia Straussova,
Evgeniy Strelkov,
Alexandra Sukhareva,
Woody Sullander,
Minna Suoniemi,
Ivan Surikov,
Andrey Suzdalev,
Kirill Svetlyakov,
Pilvi Takala,
Rostan Tavasiev,
Terminal21,
Leonid Tishkov,
Valentine Tkach,
Gabi Trinkaus,
Chryssa Tsampazi,
Dmitry Volodin,
Alexandеr Vorohob,
Elena Voronovich,
Maarten Vrouwes,
E.w. Walters,
Marius Watz,
Vagner Whitehead,
David Wicks,
Serguey Yepikhin,
Galina Yudina,
Yevgeniy Yufit,
Katherine Zabiyakina,
Monika Zaltauskaite,
Natalia Zintsova,
Zip Group
Curators
Joseph Backstein , Peter Weibel
