artists & participants

Natalia AbalakovaMarina Abramovic AES+FYuri AlbertAnna AlchukNikita AlekseevVictor AlimpievLara AlmarceguiGhada AmerEl AnatsuiNadezhda AnfalovaMauro AnnunziatoTanya AntoshinaTatiana AntoshinaMarcel Antunez RocaVladimir AnzelmValentina ApukhtinaMaria ArendtVladimir ArkhipovOleg ArnautovAlexandre Arrechea Art ProjectVasil Artamonov Atelier van LieshoutSasha AuerbakhJames AugerGert AurellArseny AvraamovYoshita AzumaZbynek BaladranBrandon BallengeeAndrej BartenevJose BediaVika BegalskaLaura BeloffAlexander BelovMarina BelovaGuy Ben-AryElena BergBenjamin BergmannNikolai BernshteinJulia BezshtankoAndrei Biljo BiokinoElena BizunovaMichel BlazyAlina & Jeff BliumisLiudmila Block Blue Soup GroupVasily Bogachev Botto & BrunoFrederic Bruly BouabreCeleste Boursier-MougenotDavid BowenCatti BrandeliusAnna BrochetAlexander BrodskyChristoph BroichChristoph BüchelIlya BudraitskisVita BuividDmitry BulatovEric BulatovDmitriy BulnyginJohn CageAfghan CarpetsOron CattsVladimir ChaikaIgor ChatskinAdrian David CheokCheri CherinMarina ChernikovaSergei ChernovOlga ChernyshevaSheba Chhachhi Chiharu ShiotaIvan ChuikovMaria Chuikova Chun Kwang YoungFound Clothes FactoryOfri Cnaani Collective ActionsThomas Joshua CooperCarlos CorpaTony Cragg Critical Art EnsembleOleg DanilevichIosif DashevskyEva DavidovaJoe DavisVictor DavydovBerlinde De BruyckereMarta de MenezesEleonore de MontesquiouEkaterina DegotWim DelvoyeAlexandra DemenetievaLouis-Philippe DemersKolesnikov DenisovBraco DimitrijevicAtul DodiyaAlina & Victor DorokhovyErwin DriessensAnita Dube Dubossarsky & VinogradovTagny DuffAlexei DyakovVladislav EfimovElena Elagina ElikukaArthur Elsenaar EmpfangshallePer EnokssonMona-Lisa Eriksson Escape GroupEmre EvrenosAlexander FedorenkoYuri FesenkoEugeniy FiksYevgeniy FiksAndrej FilippovVadim FishkinMichael FliriOlga FlorenskyAlexander FlorenskyBee FlowersMarina FomenkoBill FontanaJulie FreemanGloria FriedmannPaula Gaetano AdiCyprien Gaillard Galim & Zauresh MadanovAleksandra GalkinaAna Garcia-SerranoLekha GarikovichAladin GarunovAlexei GastevRimma GerlovinValeri GerlovinGeorge GessertKen GoldbergEkaterina Golitzyna GolovaIsa GordonAntony GormleyAndy GraciePaul GranjonMichail GrobmanTommi GrönlundSz GroupPeppers GroupArtkukhnya GroupBoris GroysZer GutAlina GutkinaDmitry GutovKeremdjan GyumyushtashFiona HallAspassio HaronitakiRomuald HazoumeTatyana HengstlerMateusz HerczkaLeni HoffmannEmma HowesJean-Olivier Hucleux Inspection Medical HermeneuticsAlisa IoffeMaria Ionova-Gribova IRWINAlfredo Jaar Jeon JoonhoYang JiechangPark JunebumFloris KaaykIlya KabakovVladimir KalashnikovNataliya KamenetskayaVerena KaminiarzSamuel Kane KweiAnish KapoorAndrei KarpovYakov KazhdanWilliam KentridgeAnastasia KhoroshilovaKonstantin Khudyakov KimsoojaOlga KiselevaGeorgy KizevalterSvetlana KlieElena KlimovaAlexej Klyuykov Komar & MelamidNikolai KonstantinovMaria KonstantinovaDonghee KooPavel KoprivaIrina KorinaTaisia KorotkovaEgor KoshelevValery KoshlyakovAlexei KostromaJannis KounellisJiri KovandaElena KovylinaJuul KraijerMaria Krasnova-ShabaevaAnders KrisarTatiana KrolNika KukhtinaOleg KulikAlexei KuripkoNatalia KushnarevaAnastasia Kuznetsova-RufKane KweiKwon Kyung WhanRadim LabudaBertrand LavierJoan LeandreSergei LebedevJean-Jacques LebelYongbaek LeePaul LeibergVia LewandowskyTatyana LibermanAlexander LishnevskyGeorgy LitichevskyAnton LitvinMarina LiubaskinaVyacheslav LivanovAlexander LobanovJimmy LoizeauVictor LukinAlexandra LuniakovaOleg LystsovDiana MachulinaHeinz MackEsther MahlanguIgor MakarevichNatalia MaliSergei MalyutinBogdan MamonovDjambawa MarawiliChristian MarclayDen MarinoNikolai MatsenkoErina MatsuiBrian McKeeVitaly MelnichukMario MerzAnnette MessagerAgnes Meyer-BrandisBoris Mikhailov MioonVladimir MishukovVyacheslav MizinAndrei MonastyrskiLeonel MouraIgor MuchinVik MunizVia MuraginaGalina MyznikovaMaria NaimushinaMasha NaimushinaIrina NakhovaMarina NaprushkinaDeimantas NarkeviciusTanya NazarenkoTanya NeklyudovaAnastasia NeliubinaPetteri NisunenKatarina NitschChampions Of The World OrlanBoris OrlovVictor OrlovAnatoly OsmolovskiAnatoly OsmolovskyMaria OvchinnikovaNikolai PanitkovAlexander PankinMike ParrAndrei Pavlenko Peng YuPavel PeppersteinKsenia PeretrukhinaDan Perjovschi 'Roland PerssonAlexei & Natalia Petrovy Pierre et GillesPiero PierucciRegina Pilawuk WilsonViktor Pivovarov Plancton Art StudioKatya PoedynschikovaAlexander PogorgelskyMaria PogorzhelskaiaNikolay PolisskyNikolai PolisskyAlexei PolitovAlexandre PonomarevJulius PoppThe Potter LabSergio PregoDmitry Prigov Provmyza groupSergey ProvorovAlisa Prudnikova Pulsart R.E.P. Group 'Markus RaetzRavinder G ReddyNicolas ReevesDoreen Reid NakamarraJulia ReodicaIlja RepinReynold ReynoldsJoanne RichardsonGia Rigvava RimmaKen RinaldoValery RivanKathleen RogersEvgeni RomashkoAgatoak Ronny KowspiPhilip RossClaude RutaultAidan SalakhovaCheri SambaDmitri SamodinVera SazhinaPavla ScerankovaRemko SchaRobert ScheipnerClaudia SchmackeSabine Maria SchmidtLisa SchmitzSergej SchutowVladimir SeleznevEvgeni SemenovMasha ShaYuri ShabelnikovAlexander ShaburovConrad ShawcrossCraig ShillittoKim Shin-IlEvgeny SholpoYinka ShonibareJason ShulmanAlexander ShumovStas ShuripaRoman SignerAlexander SigutinAlexander SitnikovNatasha SitnikovaJiri SkalaVictor SkersisVasily SlepchenkoOleg SlepovElisabeth SmolarzMaria SokolHaim SokolAlexander SolnechnyiVitas StasyunasGerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger StelarcMladen StilinovicSoup StudioKiran Subbaiah Sun YuanNina SvenssonOlga SviblovaVladimir Sychev Symbiotica Research GroupEkaterina SysoevaVladimir TarasovOlga & Oleg TatarintsevyRostan TavasievFedor TelkovAvdei Ter-OganianDavid Ter-Oganyan The Blue NosesLeon ThereminPaul ThomasJohan ThurfjellWolfgang TillmansLeonid TishkovThe Tissue CultureOlga TobrelutsCyprien TokoudagbaTomaz TomazinIlya TrushevskyVladimir TryamkinMichail TsekhanovskyDmitri TsvetkovDmitry Tsvetkov TungaSpencer TunickLuc TuymansOleg TyrkinNatasha TziziashviliEvgeny UmanskyAji V.N.Koen VanmechelenYury VassilievVasily VdovinMaria VerstappenJonathan VilleneuveYulia VinterTanya VisosevicNatasha Vita-MoreNikolai VoinovSergei VolkovTatiana VolkovaStas VolyazlovskyCarl Michael von HausswolffBill VornAndrei VradiyIra WaldronKnutte WesterThomas WredeNawurapu WunungmurraErwin WurmPiotr WyrzykowskiZhang XianyongDanwen XingSoichi YamaguchiBoris Yankovsky Yarisal & KublitzHuang Yong PingSun Yuan & Peng YuVadim ZakharovAdam ZaretskyEva ZhigalovaArseniy ZhilyaevOlga ZiangirovaNatalia ZintsovaIonat Zurr 

curators

press release

The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art was established in 2003 as a part of the federal program “Culture of Russia. 2001-2006”. It is one of the most important cultural events organized under the aegis of the Russian government. The First Moscow Biennale (January 28 –February 28, 2005) generated great response both in Russia and abroad, and made serious steps towards becoming a respectable international event. The main exhibition, “Dialectics of Hope”, presented projects by 41 artists from 22 countries, the idea behind the project was in defining the 21st century visual arts movement. There was also a number of special projects introducing trends in the Russian contemporary art. The Biennale’s special projects and parallel program included over 50 exhibitions opening an unprecedented showcase of Russian actual art as well as European, American and Asian visual artists. The Second Moscow Biennale (March 1 –April 1, 2007) proved the success of this large international show. The main project titled “FOOTNOTES on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia” showed works of 115 artists from 20 countries. 5 exhibitions of the main project united by one theme were realized by different curators and curatorial teams. The project featured the shows organized at 40 venues including The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The 3rd Biennale will open its doors from September 24 to October 25 at the Garage Center of Contemporary Culture. The commissioner of the Biennale is Joseph Backstein, main project curator is Jean Hubert Martin, and organizing committee lists the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow Government, State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation. The exhibition program of the Third Moscow Biennale will feature the Main Project presenting 80 artists from Europe, USA, Asia, South America, Africa and Oceania, more than 39 special projects and 7 special guests shows. The total exhibition area will exceed 10,000 square meters. Main Project Works from a selection of artists from all over the world , including Africa and Oceania will be on display at the 2009 Biennale. Some of them may often be seen in the gallery network, but others will bring to light the intense creativity that resides outside the world of the conventional art circuit. Biennale 2009 will bear the title «Against exclusion». Consequently the show will not have any specific artistic theme but in the name of free creation will aim at a global survey. More than 80 artists from over 25 countries will participate, representing every continent. Curator of the main project: Jean-Hubert Martin, France - curator of National Museums of France, former director of Centre Pompidou, author of exhibitions which have long become the classics of curatorial art: "Moscow-Paris”, “Moscow-Berlin”, “Magiciens de la Terre”.