How to Gather: Acting Relations, Mapping Positions [electronic resource].

Kunsthalle Wien M HKA Kunstinstituut Melly V-A-C Foundation 2019

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We never dreamt we would create the biennial as it occurred. Nor did we imagine we would be publishing this book two years later. The 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, as an exhibition, was never fully ours, just as this book is not fully ours either. We are merely a node in a network that feels the urgency for proper public reflection. A similar kind of urgency led us to devote our best efforts to an almost defunct biennial, which resulted in an exhibition of remarkable vitality created under exceptional circumstances. This publication is the outcome of a shared feeling among the biennial’s producers and participants that it had been successful on one of the most important levels a cultural project can hope to achieve: in generating a collective sense of capacity, meaning, and camaraderie. Over ten days — a brief period for an international survey of contemporary art — the biennial re-oriented the public platform of VDNKh’s Central Pavilion, the former Soviet exhibition venue for Achievements of the National Economy, toward the question of how to gather. It was a question that functioned both as the engine and the outcome of the engagement we embarked upon in Moscow under highly volatile conditions in which the relations between the two poles of Europe — the European Union and Russia — and, more locally, between the biennial and the city partners, were rapidly deteriorating…
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Art--Exhibitions
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Marie Egge
Ackbar Abbas
Saâdane Afif
Maria Theresa Alves
Burak Arikan
Joseph Backstein
Babi Badalov
Gleb Berg
Birdhead
Sergey Bratkov
Ricardo Brey
Ilya Budraitskis
Park Chan-kyong
Vaast Colson
Keren Cytter
Simon Denny
Els Dietvorst
Boris Dolgin
Igor Doshlygin
Fedor Dubinnikov
Jimmie Durham
Marie Egger
Ieva Epnere
Anastasya Gacheva
Isa Genzken
Pascal Gielen
Liam Gillick
Evgeny Gontmakher
Nadia Gorokhova
Evgeny Granilshchikov
Ulrike Guérot
Flaka Haliti
Rana Hamadeh
Ho Tzu-Nyen
Fabrice Hyber
Ivan Isaev
Anna Jermolaewa
Leon Kahane
Alevtina Kakhidze
Elena Kholkina
Suchan Kinoshita
Daniil Kolchanov
Aleksander Komarov
Maria Kotlyachkova
Maria Kramar
Donna Kukama
Andrey Kuzkin
Gabriel Lester
Li Mu
Hanne Lippard
MadeIn
Ives Maes
Taus Makhacheva
Juliette Malot
Mariana Mazzucato
Tom McDonough
Robert Menasse
Almagul Menlibayeva
Mián Mián
Nástio Mosquito
Maria Mkrtycheva
Vanessa Joan Müller
Katja Novitskova
Anatoly Osmolovsky
Goran Petrovic
Lu Pingyuan
Michelangelo Pistoletto
David Polzin
Qiu Zhijie
Jon Rafman
Meggy Rustamova
Saskia Sassen
Ekaterina Savchenko
Augustas Serapinas
Andrey Shental
Marina Simakova
Otto Snoek
Sona Stepanyan
Maria Stepkina
Studio for New Music Ensemble
Luc Tuymans
Alexander Ugay
The Unbound
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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Maya Van Leemput
Johanna Van Overmeir
Maarten Vanden Abeele
Yanis Varoufakis
Dmitry Venkov
Anton Vidokle
Eyal Weizman
Ines Weizman
Lee Weng-Choy
Peter Wächtler
Lu Yang
Zhao Yao
Anastasiya Yarovenko
Vasily Zharkov
Arseny Zhilyaev
Alexander Zhuravlev
Anna Zhurba
Konstantin Zvezdochotov
Maria-Louiza Ouranou
Daria Kalugina
Evi Bert
Pablo Martinez Fraga
Ben McGarr
Evgenia Shestova
Dina Akhmadeeva
Thomas Clark
Ksenia Poluektova-Krimer
Kirill Medvedev
Gerda Maria Newhoner
Alexander Pisarev
Anna Pronina
Maria Pronina
Thomas Reynolds
Katya Taylor
Sabine Herrygers
Eleanor Taylor
Ayumi Higuchi
Roman Gornitsky