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Moscow hires hotshot curators
// The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Daily Edition
16 june 2006
BASEL. The
organisers of the second Moscow Biennale have decided to abandon their original method
of organising the event, they announced at Art Basel yesterday.
Instead
of a single committee, eight curators have been chosen who will work semi-autonomously.
Each will present a personal selection in three venues across the city, choosing around
80 artists.
The curators include Joseph Backstein, the director of the Institute
of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Gunnar Kvaren, the director of the Astrup Feamley
Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of exhibitions
at the Serpentine, Gallery in London.
Although the organisers refused to name
any artists whose work will be on show, one of the eight curators, Rosa Martinez,
cocurator of the Sao Paulo Biennale this year, was spotted negotiating for Barnaby
Hosking’s Black Flood at the Max Wigram stand in Art Statements.
Another
curator, theBulgarian-based Iara Boubnova, said that last year the organisers had the «romantic
notion» of selecting emerging artists for thefirst biennale with whom they hoped to work
for the next decade. For the 2007 event, Boubnova admitted they needed more famous names
to draw an international crowd to Moscow in the middle of the winter. They’
have already arranged a programme of «special guests» to present solo shows, including
Darren Almond, Valie Export, Yoko Ono, Pipilotti Rist, Jeff Wall and Robert Wilson.
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