🗓️September 16 – October 12, 2013
RSUH MUSEUM CENTER
📍6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow 125993 Russia
🔹”Migrants” – A Special Project of the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art🔹
The works on display by artists from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Chile, and other countries offer conceptual interpretations of the sociocultural phenomenon of migration within the contexts of artistic, political, ethnic, and gender discourses.
The artworks—video, installations, objects, photography, and more—represent the idea of migration in both broad and deeply personal ways: family and ancestral histories, the state of one’s own soul (“Earth with Me” by Semyon Agroskin and Ekaterina Sysoeva, “A Hole in My Heart” by Natalia Mali, “My Family” from the RD Sisters project, “Uzbek Wedding” by Marina Lyubaskina); the compatibility and coexistence of the global and the local, co-creation and shared experience, the cosmic and the human in the context of contemporary art (“When All People Were Kazakh” by Kuanysh Bazargaliev, “Moscow – Varanasi – Moscow…” by Tanya Antoshina, “The Sun Revolves Around Us” by Alexandra Dementyeva), and more.
For most of the participating artists, the core idea of migration involves the vulnerability and insecurity of a person who, through fate and social upheaval, becomes a migrant—lonely in an unfamiliar culture. It also reflects the breakdown of traditional values, the endless transformation of what once seemed a stable world, and the erosion of the fundamental principles of humanity.
Artists:
Tanya Antoshina, Semyon Agroskin, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Annushka Brochet, Kuanysh Bazargaliev, Dagmara Wiskiel, Alexandra Dementyeva, Anna Dyuzhenko, Larisa Zvezdochetova, Olga Kiseleva, Marina Lyubaskina, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, Irina Nakhova, Anastasia Nelyubina, Masha Naymushina, RD Sisters (Umit Bek, Irina Naraeva), Natalia Mali, Maria Ovchinnikova, Vera Sazhina, Saule Suleimenova, Ekaterina Sysoeva, Anna Frants, Alexander Fedorenko, Marina Chernikova, Maria Chuikova, Natasha Tsitsiashvili, Olga Yurgenson.
Curators: Natalia Kamenetskaya, Annushka Brochet
Organizers:
Museum Center of RSUH
Department of Gender Studies, RSUH
With the support of:
SauleKurpenovaGallery