Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow Government, and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation are delighted to present the Third Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. The 3rd Biennale will open its doors from September 24 to October 25 in Moscow.

The main project for the Third Moscow Biennale at the Garage Center of Contemporary Culture is called Against Exclusion, which highlights the open and international character of the exhibition. As a part of this project, art from regions such as Central Asia, Oceania, New Zealand and Africa will come to Russia for the first time. No common topic has been suggested — which is usually a tradition for the Biennale — as the organizers don’t want to limit the participants’ self-expression. More than 80 artists from over 25 countries will participate, representing every continent.

The British Council is the official partner of the biennale and is happy to present the works of three famous British artists: Anish Kapoor, Conrad Shawcross, and Jason Shulman.

Conrad Shawcross

Conrad Shawcross (born 1977, London) is a British artist, who specializes in wooden mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. Shawcross received his education at Chelsea School of Art and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (University of Oxford). He designs and builds machines with the intention of exploring the laws of science, and demonstrating the abstract nature of scientific thought in a practical manifestation. Shawcross' work came to prominence at the 2004 New Blood exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery at County Hall, London, when he exhibited The Nervous System. Credits include his inclusion among The Observer's 2004 list of 80 most talented young people, the First Base Acava Free Studio Award and the Ray Finnis Charitable Trust Award in 2001.

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor (born 1954, Bombay) has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s where he moved to study art at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Kapoor has gained international acclaim, with solo exhibits at venues such as the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel, Haus der Kunst Munich, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MAK Vienna. He represented Britain in the Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize. Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, and Sky Mirror at the Rockefeller Center, New York. Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. Most often, the intention is to engage the viewer, evoking mystery through the works' dark cavities, awe through their size and simple beauty, tactility through their inviting surfaces and fascination through their reflective facades.

Jason Shulman

Jason Shulman’s work has been exhibited in London, Dallas and New York. Having been nominated as best emerging artist at -scope London in 2004 by Marc Quinn, Shulman has since had a solo show at Madder Rose in 2006 and taken part in numerous group shows most notably Avatar of Sacred Discontent (London, September 2007). Shulman combines scientific experimentation with more formal artistic trajectories, using optics, and other aspects of basic science to expose the falsehoods that underpin our experience of reality. Producing counter-intuitive pieces, Shulman provokes and manipulates doubts within the spectator. His most prominent works include ‘A Piece of My Father’, made from Shulman’s father’s cremated remains; ‘Sean’, a portrait of the artist’s dead friend; and ‘Candle Describing a Sphere’, an attempt to solidify light.