30 September 2009

// Euronews
The 3rd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow includes work by 80 artists from 25 countries and aims to shine a spotlight on contemporary art outside the conventional art circuit.

30 September 2009

// The Moscow Times By Olga Katkova
He’s taken photos of 18,000 naked people in Mexico City, 7,000 in Barcelona and now Moscow streets are getting the Spencer Tunick treatment as can be seen in a new exhibition on as part of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

22 September 2009

// The Moscow Times by Ksenia Galouchko
The Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art promises to introduce Moscow to a wider world of art as curator Jean-Hubert Martin, the former director of the Pompidou Center, pushes African, Indian, Australian and Chinese modern art into the spotlight.

21 September 2009

// The Moscow News, Vladimir Kozlov
From mirror mazes in glittering shopping centres to the incongruous intimacy of nudes on Moscow's streets, via the bulldozing of "unofficial" Soviet-era art, the city's 3rd Biennale of Contemporary Art has scoured the globe to bring us the best, brightest and most challenging modern art from September 25 to October 25.

09 September 2009

// The Art Newspaper by Gareth Harris
Belgian artist Luc Tuymans talks to us on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the US

08 September 2009

Russian art collective AES+F looks set to hit the headlines (again) in its home country with the launch of the "Defilé" series (2000-07) of lightbox works at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture (Moscow Biennale, 25 September-25 October). These images, seen at Miami's Bass Museum last year, show a selection of unidentified, wizened corpses digitally clad in haute couture clothing. "In granting these morbid forms a sense of dignity and beauty in death, in a sense an afterlife, we hope our audience will find something of value in this project," says AES+F. What kind of reaction will the macabre works get in the Russian capital, home of both the super rich and the impoverished?

04 September 2009

// ARTMARGINS, Max Seddon
Formerly director of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Bern, and the Paris Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Jean-Hubert Martin is perhaps still best known for his 1989 exhibition Magiciens de la terre, which featured fifty artists from the art world's "center" and fifty from its "margins", including many far removed from what is commonly thought of as "contemporary art". A member of the Kandinsky Prize jury, Martin has been deeply involved in Russian art for over thirty years.

03 September 2009

// THE TIMES
In the third edi­tion of this event, the organisers have gone with the theme of Against Exclu­sion. And so, they write, they will aim for "free creation" in this global survey that will include 80 artists from more than 25 countries.

01 September 2009

// The Art Newspaper, Rosie Spencer
"Against Exclusion" theme sees greater emphasis on South American, Asian, African, Aboriginal and older artists