Tag Archives: Russian contemporary art

Regina Gallery to close its London location and part ways with Arseny Zhilyaev, Evgeny Antufiev

Just shy of a month after news went out that Regina Gallery would not be participating in Art Basel, now Artguide reports that the gallery will be closing its London location. The London outpost opened its doors in April 2010. … Continue reading

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Art Paris announces its 2013 focus on Russian – Not just Moscow! – Galleries

The Art Paris Art Fair has announced that its 2013 Guest of Honor will be Russia, with a selection of 11 galleries from all over Russia. And we mean all over. Whereas past discussions of the Russian gallery scene have … Continue reading

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Radya, Taus and Biennales Galore: In Which We Get Excited about 2013

In today’s post on Artforum.com, Linda Yablonsky surveyed the opening of New York’s first post-Sandy season, which saw the triumphant return of galleries like David Zwirner, Casey Kaplan and Wallspace. Well, sort of triumphant. In Yablonsky’s words, all the openings … Continue reading

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APERTO Gallery brings the spirit of Szeemann to St Petersburg

Today, the Pirogov Loft – home to St Petersburg’s newest creative cluster, The Quarter – will reopen to the public as APERTO Gallery, a new, independent art center and gallery that echoes its namesake – Harald Szeemann’s influential addition to … Continue reading

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V_Museum: Platform Moscow brings young Russian artists to Berliner Festspiele

This year’s Berliner Festspiele features a RusImport program, which, in addition to Chekhov productions, includes the launch of V_Museum: Platform Moscow. The virtual museum platform was developed by the Sputnik Art Foundation in Moscow, and has appeared in various iterations … Continue reading

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Moscow’s Art World gathers to discuss plans for a Russian National Museum of Contemporary Art

Last week, the ADAA announced its new relief fund, which would provide financial support to the Chelsea galleries and nonprofits hardest hit by Sandy. Recipients include Wallspace, Bortolami and Printed Matter, whose inventory was particularly devastated. As Gallerist reports, David … Continue reading

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BAM- and then it hits Brooklyn! – The Prokhorov Fund partners with BAM right as Russia’s Ministry of Culture seeks to cut off its museums

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has permeated the NY consciousness with its ubiquitous advertising campaign “BAM – And then it hits you,” an often-unsettling array of scenarios in which city-dwellers at their most Gregory Crewdson-esque are caught in moments … Continue reading

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Pussy Riot not on the Kandinsky Prize Shortlist

Today the shortlist for the 2012 Kandinsky Prize was announced. The 21 nominees for Project of the Year (culled from a list of 188) and 16 (out of 197) for the Young Generation Award will be featured in an exhibition … Continue reading

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V.A.C. shows the Venice Architecture Biennale “The Way of Enthusiasts”

While for the art world, August is typically a vacation month, in Russia, it is a traditionally a time of change (or at least, so argues Irina Prokhorova in the opening words to her recent blog for Echo Moscow.) This has certainly … Continue reading

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The Garage announces a program of stipends for young artists

As the Museum of Everything makes its way around Russia (by our calculations they should currently be on route to Nizhny Novgorod), Moscow’s Garage is addressing a broader problem. While prizes like ArtChronika’s Kandinsky Prize and the state-funded Innovation Prize are quick … Continue reading

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