Blog of the 6th Moscow Biennale

The Main project of the 6th Moscow biennale included a series of keynote speeches. Major researchers offered their take on the question of “How to Gather?”

Elena Kholkina’s project for the Moscow biennale was a performative process where the leading part belonged to the event itself: its place and its time. Within 10 days Elena was observing everything taking...

Media Machine was part of the 6th Moscow Biennale’s main project. During 10 days of the biennale bloggers, photographers and cameramen were working on documentation. Taus Makhacheva combines a dedication...

Rana Hamadeh’s performance “Can you Pull in an Actor with a Fishhook or Tie Down his Tongue with a Rope?” is an eight-channel sound play that is premised on a claim that justice is equivalent to one’s...

Maria Kramar and Keren Cytter met on the 7th day of the Biennale and took a walk through the Central pavilion of VDNKh, discussing the exhibition

The Media Machine was an integral part of the 6th Moscow Biennale’s main project — for ten days the bloggers, photographers and cameramen documented what was happening in the VDNKh’s central pavilion....

Anton Vidokle’s contribution to Moscow Biennale 2015 was a mixture of screening and performance. “The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun” is a video in which Vidokle deepens his research on Russian...

For the 6th Moscow Biennale Luc Tuymans had materialised one of his largest paintings ever. Because he was unavailable for the ten days of the exhibition, he came a week prior. His work was therewith the...

Saadane Afif is a French post-conceptual artist who works with drama, poetry and music. He is especially interested in the procedural components of the art projects. At the 6th Moscow Biennale Saadane’s...

An interview with Yanis Varoufakis.

The co-curator of the 6th Moscow Biennale Nicolaus Schafhausen and the Chinese writer, critic and blogger Mian Mian conducted ten discussions mimicking TV talk show format in the Central VDNKh pavilion....

On September 28 the central VDNKh pavilion became a site of protest rally made up of two opposing groups. However, this action was by no means an intervention into the Biennale space. It was an art work...

Andrey Shental talked to the artist on the connotations of his work

Eyal and Ines Weizman delivered two presentations on the resistance to the system in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, dedicated to dissidents and activists. Andrey Shental comments on their talks. In...

Maya Van Leemput, Tom McDonough and Ilya Budraitskis were invited to take part in the biennale as “mediators” whose role was to reflect on the show and stimulate the discussion within the show. Andrey...

For ten days the main hall of the Central Pavilion of VDNKh is covered with carpets, while mobile racks with Socialist Realism paintings of Caucasian artists are put forward on both sides of an imaginary...