Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Russia)

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Organisation: Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA)
Year founded: 2008

The Biennale focuses on a young generation of artists aged up to 35 years.

Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is a large-scale project realized on the Moscow art scene in the field of contemporary art. The Biennale brings together artistic initiatives from all over Russia and the world. Leading art centers of Moscow in collaboration with regional and international partners take part in the Biennale’s preparation and realization. The Biennale focuses on a young generation of artists aged up to 35 years.

The aims of the Biennale are to support and encourage the creative development of a new generation of authors and to demonstrate the work of modern art to interested audiences. The Biennial program is addressed to people of all ages, to the large number Russian and foreign art-lovers who are interested in processes happening in contemporary art today. It aims to attract an interest of professional art community: art historians, critics, curators and gallery owners, who are searching for new talents for a long-term perspective.

The founders of the Biennale are the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, the National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA).

Soeren Siebel, Clapping, 2009. Cotton, rice starch, ballons, helium gas, strings.

Kathrin Becker. Photo: Courtesy Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

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Apply: Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2011-10-06

The submission of applications for participation in the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Qui Vive?” is now open and will run till December 15th.

III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Qui Vive?”

10 July–12 August 2012
Main Locations:
Central House of Artists (CHA) –10 July–10 August 2012
National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) – 11 July–12 August 2012
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA) – 11 July–12 August 2012

Curator of the Biennale: Kathrin Becker (Germany), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) She works with institutions in Europe, Asia, Russia, United States and Latin America. “Under A Tinsel Sun” is the theme of the III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.

The Biennale focuses on a young generation of artists aged up to 35 years. “Under A Tinsel Sun” assumes that, despite the cultural, economic and social differences that may exist between the participants from different countries, there is a common factor in the impossibility of locating oneself by belonging to certain peer groups (whether in the ideological or in the artistic sense). With the absence of a “we”, the self-positioning of the (artistic) individual becomes the pressing imperative of the present, especially when being aware that “reality” as such is constructed, subjective and fragmented. This realization becomes the drive for the artists’ self-positioning and for their production of works that no longer describe an “objective” reality but catalyze a multidimensional and alternative perception of the world.

For the first time at the Biennale 2012 there will be set up a competition among the participants. The jury will include leading Russian and international experts in the field of contemporary art.

An educational program will be introduced, consisting of a series of master classes, lectures and round tables with participation of art historians, critics, curators and artists from all over the world. Biennale for Young Art “Qui Vive?” will present works by young artists—objects, graphics, paintings, installations, photos, multimedia, videos, performances, sound art, etc.

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Under A Tinsel Sun. The III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2012. 2011-12-01

Curator Katrin Becker about her concept for III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2012.

The III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2012, as its forerunners, focuses on a young generation of artists aged up to 35 years. Titled Under A Tinsel Sun and laid out as a multimedia project, it portrays the heterogeneity of subjects, languages and styles, which are so urgent in this generation, and at the same time looks into the content-related positioning of these artists born between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s, as well as into the conditions for their development in terms of content. Under A Tinsel Sun assumes that, despite the cultural, economic and social differences that may exist between the participants from different countries, there is a common factor in the impossibility of locating oneself by belonging to certain peer groups (whether in the ideological or in the artistic sense). Cultural science often refers to this as an "almost desperate isolation" (Wolfgang Kaschuba), as the final state of a development in the field of art that had already begun in the mid-1970s, manifesting itself in the end of the historical avant-gardes and in their reassessment as part of a dominant canon. The collapse of ideologies at the end of the 1980s and the dawning of the post-ideological age both play a role within this mesh, as much as the end of the narrative of youth culture representing the universal culture of renewal, induced by the merciless commercial exploitation of the subcultures in the mid-1990s, which in turn coincides with the onset of commercial availability of the World Wide Web in 1994.

In this decisionistic ground state with its infinite possibilities of free decision and development and, as a consequence, with the absence of a "we", the self-positioning of the (artistic) individual becomes the pressing imperative of the present, especially when being aware of the increasing medialization of the world, the loss of one's own body and the indistinguishability of what is "real" and what is "fake". The long established alleged bipolarity between reality and virtuality gives way to the consciousness that also "reality" as such is constructed, subjective and fragmented.

This realization becomes the drive for the artists' self-positioning and for their production of works that no longer describe the phenomena surrounding them as "objective", but that aspire to catalyze a multidimensional and alternative perception of the world. Poetic shifts, emotionality, subjective appropriation are the tools, which the artists of this generation operate with, intending to faciliate new ways of seeing.

With this being the focus, Under A Tinsel Sun. The III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2012 explores the works of the young generation of artists and presents drawing, painting, photography, video, performance, mixed media, installation and sound art. The exhibition project promotes the critical examination of the conditions for artistic production today. It is accompanied by an extensive publication (in English and Russian, with numerous illustrations, essays and short texts about the participating artists).

Kathrin Becker is a Berlin based curator and writer who currently works as the head of the Video-Forum of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.).
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