On the 2nd of July the second International Biennale for Young Art “Qui Vive?” - the main summer art event - starts in Moscow. The programme, which goes on until the beginning of August, embraces more than 60 events: exhibitions, performances, video projects, master classes, with more than 1500 artists and art groups from all over Russia and other 52 countries presenting their works.
Qui vive?" Moscow Biennale for Young Art is one of the largest and ambitious projects, realized on the Moscow art scene in the field of contemporary art at present. One of the main tasks the organizers of the Biennale are facing is the recruitment of young artists, which will help to attract new names to the Russian art scene and to create active, pulsating, and saturated art context.
The First Biennale was to reflect the full range of art experiments made by the young generation of artists, and it was a kind of the «reconnaissance in force. The second experiment was decided to devote to one of the central themes, characterizing the contemporary situation of the young art. The phenomenon of Boundaries and its possible interpretations were selected as the main theme of the 2010 Biennale.
According to the Biennale curators the key criteria for participant selection was not only age, but also in many cases phase. The matter concerns the spirit, the pathos of the young art, creative passion, bold experiments in search of new vision and method.
The British Council is delighted to invite you to see the works by the British artists displayed as a part of the Biennale exhibitions
MMOMA, Ermolaevsky per., 17
Daphna Weinstein (UK)
Young artists from 20 countries explore the concepts of freedom and choice. Ignoring received social, political and moral ideas, they threaten to turn the audience's worlds upside-down.
Design Centre ARTPLAY
Freya Powell (UK – US)
A major international project about the map of the world and a multitude of ways to escape its restrictions.
Era Fund
Young talents from one of the most important centers of contemporary art – London's Royal College- explore the idea of time as an endless stream and as a reality that is fragmented by art.
MMOMA, Petrovka str., 25
Ben Charles Edwards (UK)
The infinite variety of erotic experience determines an infinite variety of visual expression of these experiences.
Tsaritsyno State Museum-Reserve
Anna Mawby (UK) (close map)
The word Calabi-Yau refers to the multidimensionality of planes that are parallel to ours. For this festival of performance, the artists have invited artists to venture beyond the boundaries of 3-D space and enter the world of fantasy.
Cinema Hall “Pioneer”
Andreas Pashias (Cyprus – UK)
Video programme on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 21:15
ПROEKT_FAБRИКА
A terrifying secret is hidden in the murky depths of England. Transidency is composed of six artists who met at the London College of Arts in Chelsea. It is hard to imagine what so terrified the artists in Chelsea into making a show about it.
MMOMA, Gogolevsky bul., 10
Kendra Walker (UK)
«Junk» exhibition focuses on the problem of human self-identification within the metropolis urban environment. It «diagnoses» the society with an intention to reveal the aspects of socio-cultural reality, which «stick out», i. e. are most traumatically perceived by city dwellers.
National Centre for Contemporary Art
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Department of Culture of the City of Moscow
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