It's funny indeed, but rather predictable. The art group "War" and its "Dick in the captivity of KGB" has just taken a main award on the Innovation art contest in the nomination "A work of visual art".

Other winners are as follows:

• A curator project. Yury Avvakumov. "Day of Open Doors: mansion – gymnasium – clinic – museum. R... Read more »

The ArtChronica magazine published the final list of the fifty main people in Russian art (in Russian). Here is the first twenty points.

1. Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova. The art collectors and founders of Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
2. Iosif Bakshtein. The commissar of Moscow Biennale
3. Marat Guelman. The M&J Guelman Gallery owner
4. Olga Sviblova. The director of Moscow House of Photography
5. S... Read more »

Short results of the Art Moscow 2010 exhibition. According to preliminary calculations the total sales are about 4,5 million euros. About 2,5 millions is for direct sales and about 2 millions for reservations. 44% of this amount falls on foreign galleries and the rest does on Russian ones.

Five of the most successful Russian galleries are as follows: Frolov Gallery (Moscow), Aidan Gallery (Moscow), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), Barbarian Art Gallery (Zurich), Shiraishi Gallery (Tokyo). The most part of the sales falls on the Russian artists (64%). Three Russian galleries (M&J Gelman Gallery, Elena Vrublevskaya's Gallery and Pauline Lobachevsky's Gallery) and three foreign ones didn't sale anything.... Read more »

The curator of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011 will be Boris Groys. And the commissaries of the Russian Pavilion are Stella Kesaeva (Stella Art Foundation) and Grigory Revzin (Russian architecture critic).

Boris Groys

Boris Groys is one of the greatest cultural theorists in Russia. The professor of the State Higher School of Design in Karlsruhe, the author of numerous articles and monographs, including one of the first works of the Moscow conceptualism as well as the books "Stalin Style", "Comments on the art" etc.

As a curator Groys used to organize a number of the exhibitions. There were in particular "Total Enlightenment. Moscow conceptual art. 1960-1990" (Frankfurt, 20... Read more »

Organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006" are fined. Tagansky Moscow court on Monday sentenced Andrey Erofeev (former head of the department of the latest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery) and Yuri Samodurov (former director of the Sakharov Museum) in fines about twelve thousand dollars totally. The court found them guilty of inciting hatred and enmity as well as humiliation of human dignity by using his official position.

And here's the background. In 2006, Erofeev made an exhibition investigating the issue of censorship in modern Russia. He collected works which were taken from different shows at different times. There were screens with the notices written on them. This exhibition caused the criminal case against the curator. The prosecutor demanded three years in pri... Read more »

The ceremony of awarding of Innovation Contest 2009 took part yesterday on Baibakov Art Projects space at the «Red October» factory.

Video installation «Balaklavskiy Courage» by Sergey Bratkov won in the main nomination «Visual Arts». Project «Kudymkor» (curators Ekaterina Degot and Leonid Tishkov) won in the category «curatorial projects. «Aesthetic Studies» by Andrey Monastyrsky took the prize in the nomination «Theory. Criticism. History». Sergey Kovalevsky won in the nomination «Regional Project» (VIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale). Semen Motolyanets and ... Read more »

NCCA (National Center for Contemporary Arts) shows the exhibition of V All-Russian contest in the field of contemporary visual art "Innovation" (see the short list). The exhibition will be held in the NCCA's space from April 6 to May 2, 2010. And the ceremony of awarding will be on April 15 in Baibakov Art Projects space.

Nikolay Polissky. "Large Hadron Collider" (a part of installation). 2009

A viewer will be able to make a virtual tour of the best exhibitions of the past year at this exhibit... Read more »

Several days ago the expert board of Russian contemporary art contest "Innovation" presented the list of nominees. In different years this prizes were awarded to Oleg Kulik, Oscar Rabin and Dmitry Prigov.

Exhibition "Believe", curator Oleg Kulik, Winzavod, 2007. More than 50 artists were taking part in it

The first ceremony of the "Innovation" award was held on March 30, 2006. In the list of winners were artist Alex Kallima (visual arts), director of the Moscow House of Photography Olga Sviblova (curatorial project), art historian Olesya Turkina (theory, criticism, art history), painter Oscar Rabin (a creative contribution to the development... Read more »