Opening on September 18, 2017
The 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art:
Clouds⇄Forests
The main project of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art Clouds⇄Forests, curated by Professor Yuko Hasegawa, will take place in New Tretyakov Gallery (The State Tretyakov Gallery, 10, Krymsky Val, Moscow) from September 19, 2017 to January 18, 2018.
The project Clouds⇄Forests focuses on a new eco-system formed through a circulation of “Cloud Tribes,” who were born on the Internet cloud space, and “Forest Tribes” who are born on cultural origins. The works of the artists of the main project will be displayed in a dialogue with works from the permanent exhibition of The State Tretyakov Gallery. 52 artists from 25 countries will participate in this project. It includes works of such well-known artists as Matthew Barney, Olafur Eliasson and Björk.
Yuko Hasegawa, curator of the main project:
“Clouds⇄Forests focuses on artists as a creative tribe transitioning, expanding and dissipating, from forest to cloud, rebuilding the subjectivity of spectators and showing that creativity is vital to the creation of new environmental spheres. Taking into account perceptions on the generation of new subjective environmental spheres, the curatorial criteria for this exhibition includes giving life to new technologies as well as exploring ways to obtain animistic artistic languages and connect cultural roots, and leveraging the rhizome-based organic system to traverse history, genres, and media.”
Dates: September 19, 2017–January 18, 2018
Opening: September 18
Opening Hours: 10:00-18:00 (Tue, Wed, Sun), 10:00-21:00 (Thu, Fri, Sat)
Closed: Monday
Venue: New Tretyakov Gallery (The State Tretyakov Gallery)
10, Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia
Organizer: 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Mathieu Merlet-Briand, Tryptich Google Red, Google Yellow, Google Blue. Hommage à Alexandre Rodtchenko, 2015 Photo by the artist
The full list of the participants is as follows:
- Nadim Abbas, Hong Kong
- Adel Abidin, Iraq / Finland / Jordan
- Nindityo Adipurnomo, Indonesia
- Farah Atassi, Belgium / USA
- Kanako Azuma, Japan
- Matthew Barney, USA
- Natalia Bazowska, Poland
- Bahar Behbahani, Iran / USA
- Björk, Iceland / United Kingdom
- Hussein Chalayan, Cyprus / United Kingdom
- Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Israel & Belgium / United Kingdom
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, United Kingdom
- Rohini Devasher, India
- Louise Drulhe, France
- Olafur Eliasson, Denmark / Germany
- Justine Emard & Mirai Moriyama, France / Japan
- Cécile B. Evans, USA / Germany
- Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Russia
- Valia Fetisov, Russia
- “Forensic Architecture”, United Kingdom
- Theaster Gates, USA
- Gauri Gill, India
- Marta Gornicka, Poland
- Alina Gutkina, Russia
- Joey Holder, United Kingdom
- Elliott Hundley, USA
- Pierre Huyghe, France / USA
- Ali Kazma, Turkey
- Nile Koetting, Japan / Germany
- Siji Krishnan, India
- Alexey Martins, Russia
- Mathieu Merlet-Briand, France
- Marie-Luce Nadal, France / Spain
- Michael Najjar, Germany
- Koji Nakazono, Japan
- Dashi Namdakov, Russia
- Uriel Orlow, Switzerland / United Kingdom
- Anastasia Potemkina, Russia
- Laure Prouvost, France / Belgium
- Aurora Sander, Norway / Germany
- Susan Schuppli, United Kingdom
- Sayaka Shimada, Japan
- Wieki Somers, Netherlands
- Yuken Teruya, Japan / USA
- Sissel Tolaas, Norway / Germany
- Michael Tolmachev, Russia
- Ryan Trecartin, USA
- Hanna Tuulikki, Finland / United Kingdom
- Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky, Russia
- “Where Dogs Run”, Russia
- Robert Zhao Renhui, Singapore
- Marina Zurkow, USA
The 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art selected 69 projects for the parallel program of the Biennale with 49 institutions participating. For the first time the parallel program introduces many different types of institutions—from big museums to small workshops and galleries. The parallel program includes: Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM), the center of contemporary art “Winzavod,” VDNKh, creative association XOLST, Darwin Museum, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow State University Botanical Garden “Aptekarsky Ogorod” and others.
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