Joseph Backstein

Иосиф Бакштейн


1945-2024


Exhibitions

Curated by Joseph Backstein/Иосиф Бакштейн

Moscow Biennales 1-6


2005-2015

Founder and Artistic Commissioner of Biennales 1-6

and Curator of main exhibition, Biennales 1-2

2005

First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Dialectics of Hope

 

28 January - 28 February

Co-ordinating curator, Joseph Backstein with co-curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez, Iara Boubnova and Robert Storr.


The main project sites were the V. I. Lenin Museum,

the Shchusev Museum of Architecture

and the Vorobyovy Gory Moscow Metro station.


As part of the main project, 41 artists from 22 countries presented their works.

In addition to the special projects, a large parallel programme
was organised throughout Moscow.
Separate catalogues were organised for the main exhibition and to document the parallel programme

 

Website of 1 Moscow Biennale on Webarchive.org

2005

1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

Artists selected for main curated exhibition:

Boris Achour, Saadane Afif, Pilar Albarracin, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Vasco Araujo, Micol Assael, Michael Beutler, Johanna Billing, Blue Noses, Blue Soup, John Bock, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Santiago Cirugeda Parejo, Jeremy Deller, Trisha Donnelly, Sam Durant, Cao Fei, Yang Fudong, Carlos Garaicoa Manso, Gelatin, Subodh Gupta, Koo Jeong-A, Alexei Kallima, Irina Korina, Constantin Luser, Ivan Moudov, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Melik Ohanian, Paulina Olowska, Diego Perrone, Michael S. Riedel, De Rijke / De Rooij, Tomas Saraceno, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, Rostan Tavasiev, David Ter-Oganyan, Fatimah Tuggar, Clemens von Wedemeyer

Special Projects

 

Christian Boltanski: Odessa's Ghosts,

State Schusev Museum of Architecture.

Curator: Sophie Schmit

Bill Viola. Greetings

State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Ilya Kabakov. 16 Ropes,

ICA/Kabakov's former studio, Stretensky Boulevard

Art-Klyazma-2005. “The Winter Factor, or Snow Maidens do not Die!”
Klyazminskoe Vodokhranilishe Health Resort
Curators: Nikita Asadov, Dmitry Antjushin
Vladimir Archipov. “What Have You Done, Kolomentsy?!”
Liga Gallery of Modern Art, Kolomna
Bez. From the collection of the MANI Museum
Curators: Alexandra Obukhova, Nikolai Panitkov
Art Projects Foundation
Yuri Vassiliev. Russian Red
NCCA, Curator: Evgeny Umansky

Invasion

Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts and State Schusev Museum of Architecture
Curator: Olga Sviblova

 

Also at: Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts and State Schusev Museum of Architecture

Mikhail Roginsky. My Other Self

AES+F Group: Last Riot

Grisha Bruskin: Mentally with you

Alexander Ponomarec: Topology of Absolute Zero
Andrei Bartenev: Say I Love You!

Maria Serebryakova: Outskirts

Olga Chernysheva: Areas

Ropert Mapplethorpe and Classical Tradition

Curators: Arcady Ippolitov, Germano Celant


Gender Troubles

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Curator: Mila Bredikhina

Anatoly Shuravlev. “Infrathin”
Contemporary City Foundation

Curator: Kathrin Becker

Informbureau: Contemporary Art of Russia
21/5 Kuznetsky Most

curators: Alexandra Obukhova, Yulia Ovchinnikova

Apartment Exhibitions. Yesterday and Today

Curators: Oxana Sarkisyan and Yuliya Lebedeva

Venues across the city

Valery Koshlyakov. Nuvola

State Tretyakov Gallery

Curator: Cecilia Casorati

Anatoly Osmolovsky. Untitled

Installation, underpass nr Proletskaya Metro Station.

Curator: Stella Art Gallery

Post-Diasporas. Voyages and Missions

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Curator: Olga Kopenkina

Russia 2

Central House of Artists

Curator: Marat Guelman

Accomplices. COllective and Interactive Works in Russian Art
of the 1990s-2000s
State Tretyakov Gallery

Curators: State Tretaykov Gallery

Human Project

Central House of Artists

Curators: Lyubov Saprykina, Marina Koldobskaya, Maria Korosteleva, Anna Matveyeva, Arsenii Sergeev

Egalitarianism

Museum Center, Russian State University for Humanities

Curator: Natalia Kamenetskaya

No Comment? Art of Young Russian Artists

Fabrika Project

Curators: Yulia Aksyonova, Elena Zaitseva

Starz

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Organisers: Photofactory, ArArArt.

Moscow Conceptualism

Publishing project, WAM no15/16. Eds. Vadim Zakharov, Ekaterina Dyogot

 

2007

Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia

2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

1 March-1 April

Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

Commissioner and co-curator
with Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud,
Fulya Erdemci, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Rosa Martínez, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
Venues, Main Exhibition: Federation Tower (Moscow’s newly opened and tallest building, under construction) and TsUM Department store.

90 artists from 20 countries were shown.

 

The organizers of the Biennale were the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (FACC) and the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO.

 

Conference: 'Creating Thinking Worlds, International Conference on Philosophy, Politics and Aesthetic Theory'

was organised as part of the Second Biennale.

See publication, Sternberg press, in writings.

 

 

Webarchive.org of 2nd Moscow Biennale website

2007

2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

The curation of the main exhibition was divided into different sections:

 

Joseph Backstein Nothing but Footnotes? Art in the Epoch of Social Darwinism

Federation Tower

Viktor Alimpiev, Bigert and Bergstrom, Kerstin Cmelka, Keren Cytter, Federico Herrero, Gary Hill, Liu Jianhua, Amal Kenawy, Mikhail Kosolapov, Melvin Moti, Donna Ong, Joseph Robakowski, Michael Sailstorfer, Natalia Struchkova, Ilya Trushevsky

 

Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist
USA: American Video Art At The Beginning Of The 3rd Millenium, TsUM
Allora & Calzadilla, Julieta Aranda, Edgar Arceneaux, Jennifer Bornstein, Mike Bouchet, Xavier Cha, Paul Chan, Ben Coonley, Bernadette Coporation, Sean Dack, Trisha Donnelly, Piero Golia, Wynne Greenwood, k8, Hardy, Christian Holstad, Shane Huffman, Jiae Hwang, Matthew Day Jackson, Miranda July, Laleh Khorramian, Klara Lidén, Kalup Linzy, Nate Lowman, Daria Martin, Matt McCormick, Rodney McMillian, Ohad Meromi, Kori Newkirk, Otolith Group, Seth Price, Adam Putnam, Sterling Ruby, Aïda Ruilova, Paul Sietsema, Catherine Sullivan, Mika Tajima, TM Sisters, Mario Garcia Torres, Kon Trubkovich, Jordan Wolfson, Mario Ybarra Jr., Aaron Young

 

Iara Boubnova History in Present Tense, Federation Tower

Artur Zmijewski, Dan Perjovschi, Nedko Solakov, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Carsten Nicolai, Kutlug Ataman, Anri Sala, Biljana Djurdjevic, Aidan Salakhova, Diana Machulina, Maja Bajevic

 

Nicolas Bourriaud Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation
Federation Tower

Peter Сoffin, Loris Greaud, Kendell Geers, Jonathan Hernandez, Josephine Meckseper, Flavia Muller, Medeiros Gianni Motti, Elena Nemkova, Ester Partegas, Daniel Pflumm, Franck Scurti, Meredyth Sparks, Simon Starling, Superflex (Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen), Barthelemy Toguo, Johannes Wohnseifer, Carey Young

 

Fulya Erdemci and Rosa Martinez After All,

Federation Tower

Lida Abdul, Narda Alvarado, Shoja Azari, Sergey Bratkov, Olga Chernysheva, Elmgreen and Dragset, Carmela Gross, Barnaby Hosking, John Kormeling, Yuri Leiderman, Gianni Motti, Taller de Serigrafia, Javier Tellez, Sarkis El Perro, Fusun Onur, Ana Mendieta

 

Special Projects and Guests

 

Darren Almond. If I Had You

I Believe!

Matter and Memory

Monuments of our discontent: Expiration of Place

We are your Future

VINAZAVOD Contemporary Art Centre

Valie Export

NCCA, Ekaterina Foundation

Movement. Evolution. Art

Ekaterina Foundation

Yoko Ono. Odyssey of a Cockroach

31 May – 24 June.

Йоко Оно «Одиссея таракана». ЦУМ, Москва.
Joseph Backstein co-curated with Philip Dodd.

Luca Pancrazzi “1:1”

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Zurab Gallery

Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean

Jeff Wall

State Schusev Museum of Architecture

Yury Albert: Exhibition

ERA, the Elena Berezkina Foundation for Visual Arts

Nikita Alexeev: 54 Winters

Katoptron (Direction of the Mirror Glances)
Museum Center, Russian State University for Humanities

Bornhouse
VHUTEMAS Gallery, Moscow Architectural University
Alexander Brodsky
State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia
By Interaction
former Lenin Museum
The Diary of an Artist
Central House of Artists

Left Pop (Bringing it Back Home)

Yuri Leiderman: Here Comes the Swiss Captain Home and see there is a round box on the table (Geo-poetics - 5)

Petroliana

Urban Formalism, 2005-2006

9000KM Trans-Russian Art Project
Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Wang Guofeng: Assertion of Ideality
Zurab Tseretely Gallery of Arts
Olga Kisseleva. The Artist as Part of the Attacking Multitude What we Hear, What Watches Us, Visual Acoustics
NCCA

Matthew Barney in Moscow
Central House of Writers, Rodina Cinema (St Petersburg),

and Record Cinema (Nizhniy Novgorod)

Pierre and Gilles
Manezh Central Exhibition Hall

Alexander Pomnomarev: Secret Fairway
Moskva River, 55' 44' 877" N, 37, 36', 806" E.

Pam Skelton: Burning Poems
Project Fabrika

SOC-ART, Political Art in Russia and China

Thinking Realism
State Tretyakov Gallery

Something About Power
L Gallery

Through the "painting"
Federation Tower

 

Video Art: History and Theory

CINE-FANTOM CLUB

 

WIT WORKS WOE

State Literary Museum, Trubnikovsky Pereulok

 

Witnesses of the Impossible

Moscow Centre of Arts

 

Vadim Zakharov: Caramel in the Botanical Garden. A Late Commentary on Boris Groys' Article 'Moscow Romantic Conceptualism'

Contemporary City Foundation

 

2009

 

Against Exclusion

3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

25 September-25 October,
extended to 1 November

 

Комиссар, Third Moscow Biennale.

 

(Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin)

 

Garage. Center for Contemporary Culture

Центр современной культуры, Гараж.

 

78 artists from 26 countries were shown.


Organised by Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow Government, State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation

 

Webarchive.org of 3rd Moscow Biennale Website

 

2009

3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

Artists

Main Project: Marina Abramovich, AES+F, Aji V.N., Yury Albert, Ghada Amer, El Anatsui, Yoshita Azuma, José Bedia, Michel Blazy, Blue Noses, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Alexander Brodsky, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Christoph Büchel, Chéri Chérin, Chéri Samba, Sheba Chhachhi, Ivan Chuikov, Tony Cragg, Stephen Dean, Wim Delvoye, Braco Dimitrijevic, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, Gloria Friedmann, Dmitry Gutov, Fiona Hall, Aspassio Haronitaki, Romuald Hazoumé, Leni Hoffmann, Huang Yong Ping, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Valery Koshlyakov, Agatoak Ronny Kowspi, Juul Kraijer, Samuel Kane Kwei Jean-Jacques Lebel, Alexander Lobanov, Heinz Mack, Esther Mahlangu, Djambawa Marawili, Erina Matsui, Annette Messager, Vik Muniz, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Mike Parr, Pavel Pepperstein, Julius Popp, Markus Raetz, Ravinder G Reddy, Reynold Reynolds, Claude Rutault, Conrad Shawcross, Chiharu Shiota, Yinka Shonibare, Jason Shulman, Roman Signer, Haim Sokol, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Tunga, Spencer Tunick,Koen Vanmechelen, Stanislav Volyazlovsky, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Nawurapu Wunungmurra, Erwin Wurm, Soichi Yamaguchi, Yang Jiechang, Afghan Carpets

 

Special Guests:

Olga Chernysheva: Present - Past
State Schusev Museum of Architecture

 

Atelier Van Lieshout: Slave City - Cradle to Cradle
WINAZAVOD

Curators: Sabine Maria Schmidt, Anna Zaytseva

 

Vladimir Sychev: РЕПОРТАЖREPORTAGE
State Tretyakov Gallery

Curator: Anna Chudetskaya

 

Vladimir Tarasov: Sound Games

MAMM - Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Curators: Olga Sviblova, Ekaterina Kondranina

 

Luc Tuymans. Against the Day

BAIBAKOV art projects, Red October

 

Michail Grobman: The Metamorphoses of Collage
Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Curators: Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

 

Antony Gormley: Domain Field and Event Horizon
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Moscow
July 16 – September 2, 2009

 

A further 40 Special Projects were organised in addition to an extensive parallel programme of exhibitions.

 

 

 

2011

Rewriting Worlds

4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

22 September - 30 October

 

(Curator: Peter Weibel).

 

Art Play, Moscow.

61 artists and 16 groups from 33 countries were shown.

 

Organisers: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow Government and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation

 

Webarchive.org of 4th Moscow Biennale website

 

2011

4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

Artists selected for Main Project:

Nadezhda Anfalova (Russia) Marina Alekseeva (Russia) Kader Attia (France) Catalina Bauer (Chile) Bernadette Corporation (USA) Michael Bielicky / Kamila B. Richter (Czech Republic/Germany) BlueSoup (Russia) Alexei Borisov & Olga Nosova and VTOL (Россия) Roberto Cabot (Brazil) Jim Campbell (USA) Daniel Canogar (Spain) Rejane Cantoni & Daniela Kutschat (Brazil) Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan) Valery Chtak (Russia) Stan Douglas (Canada) Claire Fontaine (France) Electroboutique (Russia) Olafur Eliasson (Denmark / Germany) Michael Elmgreen (Denmark) & Ingar Dragset (Norway) EVOL (Germany) Thomas Feuerstein (Austria) Gints Gabrans (Latvia) Andrea Galvani (Italy / USA) Kate Gilmore (USA) Paolo Grassino (Italy) Shilpa Gupta (India) Alina Gutkina (Russia) Richard Hamilton (UK) FX Harsono (Indonesia) Jeppe Hein (Denmark / Germany) Susan Hiller (UK / USA) Rebecca Horn (Germany) Manabu Ikeda (Japan) Wang Jianwei (China) Isaac Julien (UK) Olga Kisseleva (Russia / France) Jürgen Klauke (Germany) Taisia Korotkova (Russia) Learning Film Group (Yevgeny Fiks, David Riff, Ilya Budraitskis, Nikolay Oleynikov) (Russia) Armin Linke (Italy / Germany) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/ Canada) Ken Lum (Canada) and Zheng Shengtian (China) Ingeborg Lüscher (Switzerland / Germany) Anna Maria Maiolino (Brazil) Igor Makarevich / Elena Elagina (Russia) Taus Makhacheva (Russia) Fabián Marcaccio (Argentina / USA) Casey McKee (USA / Germany) Almagul Menlibayeva (Kazakhstan) Achim Mohné & Uta Kopp (Germany) Lada Nakonechna (Ukraine) Yong-seok Oh (Korea) Ahmet Öğüt (Turkey / Netherlands) Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Netherlands) Anna Marta Overaa (Norway) Walid Ra'ad (Lebanon / USA) rAndom International (Germany / UK) Neo Rauch (Germany) Rosângela Rennó (Brazil) Ki-bong Rhee (Korea) Gerhard Richter (Germany) R&Sie(n) (France) Charles Sandison (UK / Finland) T. V. Santhosh (India) Christoph Schlingensief (Germany) Ruth Schnell (Austria) David Shrigley (UK) Christa Sommerer (Austria) & Laurent Mignonneau (France / Austria) Jonas Staal (Netherlands) Joulia Strauss (Germany/Russia) Yasuhiro Suzuki (Japan) Yuken Teruya (Japan) Timo Toots (Estonia) Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Lithuania) in collaboration with Tracey Warr Guido Van der Werve (Netherlands) Mariana Vassileva (Bulgaria/ Germany) Martin Walde (Austria) Ai Weiwei (China) Tintin Wulia (Indonesia) Cerith Wyn Evans (UK) Kijong Zin (Korea)

 

 

Special Guests

Irina Nakhova, ROOMS

Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, May 19 – July 3

Irina Nakhova: STRANGE PRIMER

Elena Berezkina Foundation for the Support of Visual Arts ERA September 27 – October 30

William Kentridge Five Themes

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture

30 September - 4 December 2011

 

Jannis Kounellis S.T.

Red October

October – November

Bertrand Planes: Bump it ! Tour 2011

Ekaterina Cultural Foundation

Organisers: Ambassade de France en Russie, Institut français Russie, Alliance Française

Semen Faibisovich: Three in One

Red October, September – October

 

65 Special Projects were organised in 2011

in addition to an extensive parallel programme.

 

2013

 

More Light

5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

Commissioner. 5th Moscow Biennale

 

(Curator: Catherine de Zegher).

 

Manege. ЦВЗ «Манеж»

 

Organisers: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow Government, State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO, Museum and exhibition association "Manege"and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation

 

 

72 artists from 40 countries were shown

 

5th Moscow Biennale on webarchive.org

 

2013

5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

Artists in Main Project:

Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland, 1959) Umida Akhmedova (Uzbekistan, 1955) Vyacheslav Akhunov (Uzbekistan, 1948) Viktor Alimpiev (Russia, 1973) Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan (Philippines / Australia, 1965, 1962) Shuvinai Ashoona (Canada, 1961) Abilsaid Atabekov (Uzbekistan / Kazakhstan, 1965) Richard Bell (Australia, 1953) Peter Belyi (Russia, 1971) Andrea Bianconi (Italy, 1974) Geta Bratescu (Romania, 1926) Alexander Brodsky (Russia, 1955) David Claerbout (Belgium, 1969) Collective of Artists (Russia, Ukraine, France)* Lorraine Connelly-Northey (Australia, 1962) Adam Cvijanovic (US, 1960) Edith Dekyndt (Belgium, 1960) Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan / Egypt, 1977) Parastou Forouhar (Iran / Germany, 1962) Yona Friedman (Hungary / France, 1923) Aslan Gaisumov (Russia, 1991) Gao Rong (China, 1986) Simryn Gill (Malaysia / Australia, 1959) Gisèle Gordon (UK / Canada, 1964) Micro-art-group "Gorod Ustinov" (Russia) Ulrike Grossarth (Germany, 1952) N.S. Harsha (India, 1969) Mona Hatoum (Lebanon / UK, 1952) Jumaadi (Indonesia / Australia, 1973) Amar Kanwar (India, 1964) Aisha Khalid (Pakistan, 1972) Bouchra Khalili (Morocco / France, 1975) Suchan Kinoshita (Japan / The Netherlands, 1960) Valery Koshlyakov (Russia / France, 1962) Eva Kotatkova (Czech Republic, 1962) Elena Kovylina (Russia, 1971) Nicolas Kozakis and Raoul Vaneigem (Belgium, 1967, 1934) Ricardo Lanzarini (Uruguay, 1963) Farideh Lashai (Iran, 1944-2013) Mark Licari (US, 1975) Mikhail Lukachevsky (Russia, 1986) Gabriella and Silvana Mangano (Australia, 1972) Erin Manning (Canada, 1969) Masasit Mati (Syria) Julie Mehretu (Ethiopia / US, 1970) Alan Michelson (US, 1953) Tom Molloy (Ireland, 1964) Wangechi Mutu (Kenya / US, 1972) Avis Newman (UK, 1946) Maya Onoda (Japan, 1979) Selma and Sofiane Ouissi (Tunis / France, 1972, 1975) Panamarenko (Belgium, 1940) Alexandra Paperno (Russia, 1978) Sopheap Pich (Cambodia, 1971) Ed Pien (Taiwan / Canada, 1958) Robin Rhode (South Africa / Germany, 1976) Ranjani Shettar (India, 1977) Alexander Sigutin (Russia, 1959) Song Dong (China, 1966) Frances Stark (US, 1967) Samuil Stoyanov (Bulgaria, 1975) Tavares Strachan (Bahamas / US, 1979) Alia Syed (UK, 1964) Tantra Drawings** Sarah Vanagt (Belgium, 1976) Dmitry Venkov (Russia, 1980) Ria Verhaeghe (Belgium, 1950) Adrian Villar Rojas (Argentina, 1980) Gosia Wlodarczak (Poland / Australia, 1959) Yin Xiuzhen (China, 1963) Yang Yongliang (China, 1980) Irina Zatulovskaya (Russia, 1954)

 

MIROSLAW BALKA. FRAGMENT Video installation, 1998 – 2010

Curators: Marek Godziewski, Natalia Goncharova

National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) VINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art, the halls of the former wine warehouse

 

JOHN BALDESSARI. 1+1=1

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow

 

UTOPIA AND REALITY? EL LISSITZKY, ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV Curators: Charles Esche (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Olga Sviblova (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow), Dimitri Ozerkov, Daria Bubnova (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow 

 

ANDREI ROITER. OPEN HOUSE

Curator: Irina Gorlova

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

 

VADIM ZAKHAROV. DANCE OF THE DEAD LANGUAGES.

Autumn Clothing Collection

TSUM Art Foundation 

 

ERWIN WURM. ABSTRACT ABSTRUSE / ТРУСЛИВЫЙ ТРАКТОР

WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art, Red Hall

 

 

2015

 

How to Gather?
Acting in a Center in a City
in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia

6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

September 22 - October 1

 

Commissioner, 6th Moscow Biennale

 

(Curators: Bart de Baere, Defne Ayas and Nicolaus Schafhausen)

 

Pavilion No.1 in Moscow’s VDNKh

(the Exhibition of Achievements of the People’s Economy).

 

95 participants/70+ artists.

 

6th Moscow Biennale on webarchive.org

 

2015

Participants in Main Project

6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

Abbas, Ackbar; Afif, Saâdane; Alves, Maria Thereza; Arikan, Burak; Ayas, Defne; Badalov, Babi; Birdhead; Bratkov, Sergey; Brey, Ricardo; Budraitskis, Ilya; Choy Lee, Weng; Colson, Vaast; Cytter, Keren; Denny, Simon; Dietvorst, Els; Durham, Jimmie; Epnere, Ieva; Genzken, Isa; Gielen, Pascal; Gillick, Liam; Gontmakher, Evgeny; Granilshchikov, Evgeny; Guérot, Ulrike; Haliti, Flaka; Hamadeh, Rana; Honoré δ'O; Hyber, Fabrice; Jermolaeva, Anna; Kahane, Leon; Kakhidze, Alevtina; Kholkina, Elena; Kinoshita, Suchan; Komarov, Alexander; Koolhaas, Rem; Kukama, Donna; Kuzkin, Andrey; Lester, Gabriel; Lippard, Hanne; Lotina, Goran Petrović; Madeln; Maes, Ives; Makhacheva, Taus; Mazzucato, Mariana; McDonough, Tom; Menlybaeva, Almagul; Mian Mian; Mosquito, Nástio; Mu, Li; Ninidze, Merab; Novitskova, Katja; Nyen, Ho Tzu; Osmolovsky, Anatoly; Park, Chan-Kyong; Pistoletto, Michelangelo; Polzin, David; Rafman, Jon; Rustamova, Meggy; Sassen, Saskia; Schafhausen, Nicolaus; Serapinas, Augustas; Snoek, Otto; Tuymans, Luc; Ugay, Alexander; Ulman, Amalia; Van Kerckhoven, Anne-Mie; Van Leemput, Maya; Van Overmeir, Johanna; Vanden Abeele, Maarten; Varoufakis, Yanis; Vidokle, Anton; Weizman; Wächtler, Peter; Yang, Lu; Yarovenko, Anastasiya; Zhijie, Qiu; Zvezdochotov, Konstantin; admin maya reel futures; u/n multitude;  

 

Special Projects

Moscow Biennale Art Foundation Prize was established in 2015 under Maison Ruinart patronage and aimed to support contemporary Russian artists and strengthening international exposure of Russian visual art.

 

Andrey Bartenev. Say: I Love You!
Organizer: Moscow Museum of Modern Art The general partner of the project: RuArts Foundation The partner of the project: Capital Group

Curators: Olga Sviblova, Vasily Tsereteli

Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art

September 30 - November 8, 2015

 

Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: The Cells
Organized by Haus der Kunst, Munich in collaboration with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Curator: Kate Fowle

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

September 25, 2015 – February 7, 2016

 

peter_weibel: technē_revolution
Organizer: Moscow Museum of Modern Art

The general partner of the project: OAO NOVATEK

Supported by AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM MOSCOW

Curator: Joseph Backstein

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

September 11 – November 1, 2015

 

Jiri David. Prequel
Organizers: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Czech Center Moscow

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

November 3 – December 6, 2015

 

Anish Kapoor. My Red Homeland
Curator: Maria Nasimova

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

September 22, 2015 - January 17, 2016

 

Alexander Ponomarev. Windtruvian Man
Organizer: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts With Mercury Company and Hevel LLC support

Curator: Alexandra Danilova

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

October 1 – November 1, 2015

 

Michal Rovner. Dislocations
Organizers: Moscow Government, Moscow City Department Of Culture, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Pace Gallery Project partner: Julius Baer Technical partner: Panasonic With the support of Embassy of Israel in Russia

Curators: Olga Sviblova, Anna Zaitseva

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

September 18 - November 29, 2015

 

Andrey Filippov. Department of Eagles
Organizers: The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, E.K.ArtBureau

Curator: Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich

Ekaterina Cultural Foundation

March 8 – April 28, 2015


On Moscow Conceptualism

1987-2019

 

Russian Art at International Venues

 

 

Russian Art Exhibitions

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Please address all enquiries about Joseph Backstein's estate/writing <br>
to his widow: Katy Deepwell katy@ktpress.co.uk