9000 km

event site and dates

Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka

1 march 2007 — 1 april 2007

project description

9000 kilometres is the distance from the westernmost to the easternmost frontier of Russia. The project arose from an ambition to represent the new artistic geography of each region, to show their cultural components and at the same time to wake up to the common artistic ideogram, which would be identical to the current state of the Big Homeland — European and Asiatic, liberal and conservative, metropolitan and provincial at the same time. The prime objective of the project is to look for points of contact between Vladivostok and Kaliningrad by lining up a single 9000 km long “cultural axis”. The project explores current trends in Russian contemporary art, seeking at once to be a guide to the new culture of Russia and to show points of assemblage of different regions. Many projects are provocative from the outset and raise vexed regional problems such as the Chinese in Vladivostok. Reflections register a certain condition of an area undergoing not only temporal but also mental, social and cultural change.

organiser

• National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhnii Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad

manager of the NCCA program “Conceptions, Strategies, and Technologies

• Leonid Bazhanov (Artistic Director, NCCA, Moscow)

project manager

• Evgeny Umansky (Artistic Director, NCCA, Kaliningrad)

coordinator

• Yulia Gnirenko (NCCA, Moscow)

institutional partners

• Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• European University, St. Petersburg
• Sverdlovsk Oblast General Research Library, Yekaterinburg
• Ural State University, Yekaterinburg
• Ural Youth Museum, Yekaterinburg
• Kemerovo State University
• Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex
• Kurgan Oblast Museum of Fine Arts
• Eurasian Centre of Modern Art, Kurgan
• Novosibirsk Museum of Fine Arts
• ANO Actual Culture Bureau, Novosibirsk
• Videology International Festival of Audiovisual Arts, Volgograd
• Arca Gallery, Vladivostok
• Primorskii Krai Organisation, Union of Russian Artists, Vladivostok
• ArtEast Artists’ Association, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
• Eastern Alliance, Prague, Czech Republic

Project supported by EPSON

regional topics

Moscow
Derelict, or Suspicious
Curator: Valeri Korchagin (NCCA, Moscow)
Artists: Dmitri Gutov, Valeri Korchagin, Valeri Orlov & Aleksandra
Mitlyanskaya and Alexander Shaburov

St. Petersburg
Surviving inside a Monument
Curators: Anna Matveeva (free-lance curator) and Maria Korostyleva (NCCA, St. Petersburg)
Artists: Vladimir Kozin, Dmitry Pilikin, Andrey Ustinov and Dmitry Shubin

Nizhnii Novgorod
Void
Artists: Nikolai Oleinikov and PROVMYZA Group

Kaliningrad
Foreign Territory
Curator: Irina Chesnokova (NCCA, Kaliningrad)
Artists: Yuri Vasiliev, Common Shudder Group, Evgeny Umansky and Aleksei Chebykin

Vladivostok
That’s the Limit.
Curator: Ekaterina Sedykh (Vladivostok).
Artists: Lilya Zinatulina, Lidiya Kozmina, Evgeny Makeev, Elena Nikitina, Mikhail Pavin, Konstantin Solo and Irina Fomicheva.

Krasnoyarsk.
Depth
Curator: Viktor Sachivko (Krasnoyarsk Museum — Exhibition Centre)
Artists: Oleg Ampilogov, Dmitry Kukharenko, Oleg Ponomarev and Viktor Sachivko

Yekaterinburg – Nizhnii Tagil
Tender Industrial
Curators: Svetlana Bulatova, Alisa Prudnikova, NCCA, Yekaterinburg
Artists: Sergey Abashev, Viktor Davydov, Alexandra Krivolutskaya, KudaBegutSobaki (WhichWayDogsAreRunning) Group, Oleg Lystsov, Dan Marino, Ne s Ruki (Out of Position) Group, Viktor Oborotistov, Marina Razheva, Vladimir Seleznev, SISTRA Group

Novosibirsk
Childhood Diseases
Curator: Konstantin Skotnikov (АNO Actual Culture Bureau, Novosibirsk)
Artists: Dmitry Bulnygin, CAT Group, Evgeny Ivanov, Vyacheslav Mizin

Perm
Classified Experiments
Curator: Sergey Teterin
Artists: Sergey Stakanov, Sergey Teterin

Kurgan
People beyond a Nervous Breakdown
Curator: Vadim Osadchy (Eurasian Centre of Modern Art)
Artists: Vladimir Cheban, Dmitry Gabitov, Vadim Osadchy

Kemerovo
Miner’s Day or New Carbonari
Curator: David Zaripov
Artists: Evgeny Goryaev and PNK Group

Czech Republic, Prague
Learn Russian, We’ll Come Back Yet!
Curator: Alena Boiko (Eastern Alliance)
Artists: Vasil Artamonov, Aleksei Klyuikov, Vaclav Magid

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Paradise Lost
Curators: Murtabek Dzhumaliev and Gulnara Kasmalieva (ArtEast Artists’ Association)
Artists: Gamal Bokonbaev, Ulan Dzhaparov, Murtabek Dzhumaliev, Joshua, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Aleksei Shindin



A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is coming out on the 1st March.

E-mail: info@moscowbiennale.ru