Once the center of the Soviet industrialization drive and a world-renown destination for Constructivist architecture, now the region is defined by its “intermediate” economy. It is neither post-industrial Europe, nor industrial Asia, but rather, a hybrid that links the two, thereby giving a global significance to the local socioeconomic situation.

The Ural Industrial Biennial is a format initiated and developed by the director of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg branch, Alisa Prudnikova. It is intended to be “an international contemporary art event of a scale unmatched in the region, a platform to integrate business and artistic elites, which is decisive in the development of creative industries in the one of Russia’s most thriving areas”.

Source: en.uralbiennale.ru