International Art Fair ART MOSCOW

From September 21st to 25th, the International Art Fair ART MOSCOW, the principal annual event on the Russian art calendar focusing on contemporary art, will be held at the Central House of Artists.

ART MOSCOW is held annually, presenting to the public new works, names and galleries and each year it develops and evolves. This year the number of specialists in the Expert Council increased with the introduction of international professionals from Great Britain (Rachael Barrett) and Germany (Anne Maier). The structure of the exposition area has also been altered. Following the international model, ART MOSCOW now offers a system of equal exposition area. Galleries are offered to stand out for the quality of their expositions but not for their size. During the build up to the 2011 ART MOSCOW, presentations have taken place at other key international art events in Berlin, Cologne, London, Madrid and Basel. This has resulted in an increased number of international exhibitors and an expanding pool of international mass-media interest.

This year over 40 national and international galleries introduce their expositions at the 15th ART MOSCOW Fair. Adora Calvo Gallery (Salamanca, Spain), Aidan Gallery (Moscow, Russia), La Acacia Gallery (Havana, Cuba), AL Gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Alma Gallery (Riga, Latvia), Anca Poterasu Gallery (Bucharest, Romania), Art&Space (Munich, Germany), Atelier 2 (Moscow, Russia), Barbarian Art Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), Black Square Gallery (New York, USA), Vostochnaya Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Gagliardi Art System (Torino, Italy), Gallery21 (Moscow, Russia), Green Art Gallery (Perm, Russia), Zvono Gallery (Belgrade, Serbia), Iragui Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Collage Habana Gallery (Havana, Cuba), Knoll Gallery (Vienna, Austria/Budapest, Hungary), Kiev Fine Art (Kiev, the Ukraine), Krokin Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Kultproekt (Moscow, Russia), Glaz Gallery (Moscow, Russia), M&Y Guelman Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Marina Gisich Gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Mironova Gallery (Kiev, the Ukraine), Nadja Brykina Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), Pobeda Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Riga Gallery (Riga, Latvia), RuArts (Moscow, Russia), Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallinn, Estonia), Triumph Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Fine Art Gallery (Moscow, Russia), FotoLoft Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Frolov Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Forsblom Gallery (Helsinki, Finland), Whitestone Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), XL Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Collection Gallery (Kiev, Ukraine), TSEKH Gallery (Kiev, the Ukraine).

In addition this year will see ART MOSCOW present not only commercial galleries, but also a number of individual exhibitions including: photo-works by Jeff Cowen, an exhibition of Vitas Stasyunas, the paintings of Rafael Reno, 3D-projects supervised by Liza Plavinskaya and a group show of young artists from Great Britain in Translate/Transcribe. At the Fair there will a lso be lectures by Carlos Amorales and Adrian Notz, panel discussions with Artchronikamagazine and Goethe Institute, a panel discussion with Christies Auction House; creative workshops and seminars. Artist and lecturerIan Gonczarow will host a lecture at British Higher School of Art and Design on contemporary art trends.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Parallax of good and evil. Dualism of volume construction. Curator: Liza Plavinskaya
ArtMoth.Vitas Stasunas. Curator: Maria Chuikova
Kitchen-laboratory by Raphael Renaud. Curator: Ekaterina Iragi
Insight. Jeff Cowen Curator: Eric Schlosser
Translate/Transcribe. Curator: Ian Gonczarow
Tadjiks-Art. Curator: Kirill Shamanov
Russia - we need the actual culture!
“Russia - we need the actual Culture!" finalists' video show. The competition was held in conjunction with ART MOSCOW, British Higher School of Art and Design and RuTube.

PROGRAM

September, 20:
4 p.m.– DNK Hall, ART MOSCOW press-conference
5 p.m.– level 2, ART MOSCOW press tour
6 p.m. – DNK Hall, balcony, New Culture Festival press tour
7 p.m.– Roza Azora gallery. I Art Sandwich Biennale

September, 21:
2 p.m.– main hall, level 1. Official opening of ART MOSCOW fair
3 p.m.– hall 21 (level 3). Translate/Transcribe project presentation. Ian Gonczarow will give a brief tour of the exhibition. Artists Leanne Bell Gonczarow, Sam Adams, Benjamin Jenner and Martin Fletcher Systems House will be present to answer questions about the work.
8 p.m.– courtyard, PLANETA LEM. New Culture Festival programme - world premiere of «Planeta LEM» performance by Biuro Podrózy, ground-breaking Polish theatre (grandiose multimedia installation with impressing decorations and illuminating effects, inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s prose).

September, 22:
3 p.m.- British Higher School of Art and Design. Artist Benjamin Jenner will give an overview of his practice to students.
4 p.m.- ART MOSCOW guide tour (provided by the organizers). Meeting at information desk.

September, 23:
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.– DNK Hall. “Ahead of the Curve: Works from the Peter Norton Collection.
What it is to be a private collector with a public responsibility”. A panel discussion by Christies Auction House. Moderator - Matthew Stephenson. Participants - collectors, artists, critics.
4 p.m.– press centre. Carlos Amorales’s lecture (featuring Adrian Notz)
4 p.m. - ART MOSCOW guide tour (provided by the organizers). Meeting at information desk.
4:30 p.m.– the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Private Collections Museum. Round table “Foreign collectors of contemporary art"
7 p.m. - press centre, round table “Wie wandert die Kunst?” (How does art travel?). Project "The Moscow talks." Organizer: Goethe Institute.  With the support of the German-Russian Forum, German Embassy in Russia, Moscow German newspaper and the Institute of International Relations. Participation is by appointment only – praktikant@deutsch-russisches-forum.de

September, 24:
2 p.m.- press centre, round table “Art-school: how to become an avant-gardist”. Organizer: Artchronika magazine
4 p.m.- FotoLoft stand  (8-23). Opening of the exhibition “Empty Spaces” by Katja Belkina
4 p.m.- ART MOSCOW guide tour  (provided by the organizers). Meeting at information desk.
6 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.- WINZAVOD (1/6, 4 Syromyatnicheskiy pereulok,). WINZAVOD evening vernisages.
7 p.m.- press centre, presentation of the album by Aleskey Talaschuk

September, 25:
4 p.m.- ART MOSCOW guide tour  (provided by the organizers). Meeting at information desk.

REFERENCE:
ART MOSCOW has been held since 1996, this year it celebrates the 15th anniversary.

Expert Council: Josef Backstein  (Russia), Marat Guelman (Russia), Hans Knoll (Austria), Aidan Salakhova (Russia), Yelena Selina (Russia), Christina Steinbrecher (Germany), Rachael Barrett (Great Britain), Anne Maier (Germany).