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Call for Artists and Curators: IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
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Founders: The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Organizers: National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Co-organiser of the Main Project: The Museum of Moscow
Artistic Director of the Biennale: David Elliott
Biennale Theme: «? Time for Dreams»
Event Dates: 26 June 2014 — 10 August 2014
Main Project Venue: The Museum of Moscow
Venues for Strategic Projects National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Curator of the Educational Program: Antonio Geusa
Acceptance Period for Participant Application: 12 November 2013 — 30 January 2014
The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, one of the largest and most ambitious projects in the field of contemporary art, will be take place this summer for the fourth time. The Biennale combines the creative initiatives of artists of the new generation from Russia and abroad. Leading Moscow museums and centers of contemporary art, in collaboration with regional and foreign partners, have participated in the preparations for this event.
The project attracts the steady attention of critics, curators and other representatives of professional society and a wide section of the public; all who are not indifferent to the future of art.
One of the main tasks of the Biennale is to discover new young artists. The project presents an opportunity to the new generation to create links and set up creative partnerships within the professional art scene. The Biennale provides a space to demonstrate the relevant strategies of the new generation of artists and curators.
This year the artistic director of the project will be David Elliott, curator, author and museum consultant. From 1979 to 1996 he was the head of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford (England), and then the museum of Modern Art in Stockholm (Sweden). Between 1996 and 2001 David Elliott was the founder and director of the Mori Museum of Art in Tokyo (Japan), from 2001-2006 Elliot was the first director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Turkey). In 2007 he became the artistic director of the Sydney Biennale (Australia). In 2008 he took up the position of professor of art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany). He was then invited to be the artistic director of the First International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Kiev (Ukraine), from 2011 to 2012 he worked as a consultant in the Centre for Contemporary Arts CPS Project in Hong Kong, and since 2008 he has been a visiting professor of museum studies at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.
David Elliott chose the title of the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art «A Time for Dreams» by rephrasing the famous «I have a dream» speech by Martin Luther King. With this title the curator emphasizes the chronic instability of our time and the acute need for the young generation to have dreams, hopes and opportunities, to not blindly go with the flow but to invest their strength into the perfection of the world.
The main project of the Biennale in 2014 will be presented in the Museum of Moscow. The educational programs of the Biennale will also be organized in collaboration with the museum.
Institutions are invited to collaborate and young artists and curators to participate.
Works submitted to the Biennale may be those of Russian or foreign artists of the new generation, working in the field of contemporary art with the latest strategies, concepts, and techniques (individual, collective, or as part of curatorial projects). Artists of the new generation are defined as those whose age at the time of the opening of the Biennale does not exceed 35 years.
The right to apply for participation in the Biennale is limited to the authors of projects (artists and curators in the case of a curatorial project) and non-commercial artistic institutions.
Applications for the strategic projects of the Biennale or for curators (curator groups) which will take place in the exhibition spaces provided by the organizers of the Biennale, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), are received regardless of financial means. Expenses related to the organization and realization of the strategic projects will be covered by resources from the government budget, regional government budgets and non-governmental sources.
Applications for curatorial projects of the Biennale’s parallel program and for the special projects are accepted only from organizations provided they have a space and guaranteed financing.
The application process is free. Authors and curators will not receive payment. Copyright remains the author’s. The organizers of the Biennale do not guarantee financing for the production of works or the provision of an exhibition budget.
In applying for the Biennale, the artist is complying with the conditions and requirements shown in the application.
Applications can be submitted for both works already realized and displayed as well as for unrealized works, the development of which is shown in a detailed sketch. There are no restrictions on the number, type, genre and technique of execution.
The artistic director (curator group) will consider all applications and compile a selection of participants in the Biennale.
1. For solo projects, complete an application for an individual project.
2. For group projects, complete an application for the project with information about each participant in the collective.
3. For one artist or group of artists submitting more than one project, complete a separate application form for each project.
4. For a curator project, complete a separate application for a curator project which contains an additional form for each work in the project.
5. All sections, excluding patronymic and pseudonym, must be completed.
6. All information must be completed in English.
7. When filling in the section marked «e-mail» only one email address may be given.
8. At least one image of the work / project must be submitted in the form of a photograph or sketch.
9. A portrait photograph of the author of each project must be submitted.
10. All uploaded images must be of a quality sufficient for printing (the resolution of which must not be less than 300dpi, minimum size of 10×15 cm). Downloadable images must be submitted in JPEG, GIF and PNG formats. Files may not exceed 3MB per file.
11. Uploading videos is forbidden, but a hyperlink to a video may be included in the «Detailed description of the project» section if desired. 12. To add information about the author of the project, click «Add author». To add another author, click the «Add Author» again. If necessary, any information about the author of the project can be changed by clicking on his name in the email application.
13. If the application has not been completely filled out, an error message will appear after «Submit» has been clicked and the application will not be submitted. For your convenience, it is possible to save the form; simply click «Save». It will then be possible to open a saved application form and complete it at a later date.
14. It is possible to view all applications saved to your personal account. Note the status of your application, only applications marked «completed application» will be considered.
15. Please read the conditions specified at the bottom of the form carefully, and tick the appropriate checkbox.
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