1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
January 28-February 28, 2005
Press conference: January 26
Press preview: January 27
The 1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art “Dialectics of Hope” opens at January 28, 2005.
Artists: Boris Achour , Saadane Afif, Pilar Albarracin, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Vasco Araujo, Micol Assael, Michael Beutler, Johanna Billing, Blue Noses Group, BlueSoup Group, 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
Curators: Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Commissioner: Evgeny Zyablov, Director of the State Centre for Museums and Exhibitions ROSIZO.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee: Michail Shvydkoy, Head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography.
Organizers: Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication of the Russian Federation; Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography; Moscow City Hall; ROSIZO
Venues: The main project will be realised at the former Lenin Museum (2/3 Revolution Sq., near the Red Square), Museum of Architecture (5a Vozdvizhenka Street) and the metro station “Vorobiovi gori” (Red Line of the underground transportation net). The working time is 11am – 8 pm except Mondays. The metro station is open from 6 am till 1 am every day.
Program: The main project of the 1 Moscow Biennaleof Contemporary Art is accompanied by 24 special projects representing contemporary international and Russian art and a wide parallel program. The projects are located in the major state museums and exhibition venues around the center of the city.
The catalogue will be published in two volumes – in English and in Russian. Contact
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