viennacontemporary is the largest art fair in the region, offering the highest concentration of Eastern European galleries worldwide. Exhibitors from the Baltics to the Balkan will showcase their local talents as well as internationally renowned artist. Continue reading
Berlin based gallerist Volker Diehl talks about the curated solo presentation of Olga Chernysheva at his booth during the fair in 2014 and his interest in Russian art. Continue reading
I am not an art critic, so I will leave topics like the engagement of art and politics to the professionals. In this post I will share with you my experience of Manifesta 10, which I enjoyed and frankly, the main achievement of Kasper König is that the biennial is happening despite the controversy and the … Continue reading
VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary co-hosted “Preview Night” at WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art, where the most important Moscow galleries for contemporary art presented new exhibitions. Among the permanent projects located at the Winzavod, visitors also had the opportunity to visit pop-up exhibitions of MSK Gallery, Open Gallery, and Gallery Triumph as well as a chance … Continue reading
Sonia Cillari, Italian media artist, winner of VIDA 13.0: Art & Artificial Life International Competition (Madrid, 2010) and honorary mentioned artist (Interactive Art) by Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (2011), just left Moscow. She ran the EMOTIONAL SKIN workshop there as a part of the “Polytech.Science.Art” program of the Polytechnic Museum. The entire title of … Continue reading
Moscow Museum of Modern Art is showing one of the best exhibitions seen in Moscow in recent times. Continue reading
We have one new blogger from Moscow. Natalia Fuchs is interdisciplinary projects curator at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, Russia. Continue reading
Minimal art is not necessarily the first thing that comes to one´s mind when reflecting upon the Moscow Art Scene. Nevertheless, having returned from the US, Dima Hunzelweg has been exploring this artistic field for now more than five years. Together with his friend photo artist Ksenia Voeykova they presented their first personal show in … Continue reading
Minimal art is not necessarily the first thing that comes to one´s mind when reflecting upon the Moscow Art Scene. Nevertheless, having returned from the US, Dima Hunzelweg has been exploring this artistic field for now more than five years. Together with his friend photo artist Ksenia Voeykova they presented their first personal show in … Continue reading
VIENNA Live was series of performances at VIENNAFAIR 2013 that shifted viewers out of their daily routine and enriched their visit at the fair with new exciting emotions. Continue reading
Check out the institutions that participated in VIENNAFAIR 2013. Continue reading
On the 23rd September the very talented Russian actress Galina Shimanskaya began performing the second performance in the series ‘Exercises for seeing Stars’ by Irish artist Ella de Burca. In this series, the artist negotiates with an actor to recite a piece of prose written by the artist specially for each occasion. The only catch is … Continue reading
We asked British art historian Ruth Addison and Zane Onckule, the program director at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, to give us a look behind the scenes at The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Continue reading
The world happiness report, released on Monday by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, ranks Russia as the 68th happiest country in the world. Every Sunday at 12:00, Russian seniors gather together in a few of Moscow’s parks. Regardless of the weather, they meet each other and dance. Since I was a child I remember seeing them … Continue reading
New blogger from Moscow and Berlin. Daria studied at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and at the Pratt Institute in New York, worked freelance for seven years in NYC. Marchik merges photography and costume design to create characters that are both otherworldly and human, a freeze-frame performance piece. Dramatic female characters … Continue reading
