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Forget the crisis, the cold and the autumn depression. In Moscow, contemporary art is booming. In the first 2 days, only the main venue of the Moscow biennial had over 10000 visitors. Kompromat was there: at all VIP openings, professional previews and parties. Against exclusion, we saw all the shows, from the Russian povera and the New Old Cold War. Who else was there?
After the cold war.. - Graffiti by Dan Perjovschi on the wall of the New Old Cold War exhibition, curated by Yulia Aksenova and Karolina Nowak Katja Sokolova
The heart of Moscow - Find 3 centers of power in this picture. Katja Sokolova
Eastern European alliance - Artiest Pavel Kopriva and curators of the New Old Cold War Yulia Aksenova and Karolina Nowak Katja Sokolova
VIP preview - The main project one-and-only curator Jean-Hubert Martin explaining Koen van Mechelen's work to biennale visitors. Katja Sokolova
Artiest Braco Dimitrijevic - Katja Sokolova
Russian artists - Anatoly Osmolovsky and The Blue Noses group: Alexander Shaburov and Vyacheslav Mizin. Katja Sokolova
Roman Abramovich - Russian oligarch at the VIP preview of the main biennale project " Against exclusion" in Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow Katja Sokolova
Darya Zhukova - The girlfriend of Abramovich and the owner of Garage, the main biennale venue, an exhibition space of 8000 m2 located in the former bus station built in 1920's Katja Sokolova
Girl looking at Putin icon - Katja Sokolova
Art critic Ekaterina Degot - Visiting Yekaterinburg underground folk artiest B.U. Kashkin museum. Katja Sokolova
Moscow by car - Traveling between biennale venues takes time Katja Sokolova
Universam: alternatieve art fair - St.Petersburg artiest Irina Drozd and young curator/blogger Alyona Lapina having a drink after a hard day of work, with Russian orthodox church at the background Katja Sokolova
Art in a shopping mall - The entrance to Oleg Kulik's exhibition "Space Lithurgy" in TSUM shopping centre Katja Sokolova
At the Kulik's exhibition - Oleg Kulik used projections of well-known historical Russian contemporary art works to create his Space Lithurgy. Katja Sokolova
Artiest/curator Oleg Kulik - Katja Sokolova
Curator Yara Bubnova and Moscow biennale director Josef Backstein - Katja Sokolova
Artiest Valery Koshlyakov - Katja Sokolova
Curator Andrey Parshikov - Katja Sokolova
Massimiliano Gioni - The NYC New Museum's director of special exhibitions and the artistic director of the 2010 edition of the 8th Gwangju biennial Katja Sokolova
The Overcoat gallery - Selling art undercover Katja Sokolova
Crowds at Luc Tuymans exhibition - In the former Red Oktober factory Katja Sokolova
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Van Moskou tot Magadan
Met Jelle Brandt Corstius door Rusland
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Kompromat Blog Katja Sokolova
11 trains, 4 towns and 3 days
Manifesta 7 Professional preview , July 17-19
Instead of a political hot spot, the one and only European nomadic biennial takes place in a tourist paradise of Trentino/South Tyrol this time. Many Dutch people went there to escape from the rain...
Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death
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Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!
Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.
The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert
The fotoseries The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert consists of portraits taken after death in Harlem New York. Photographed against a black background, using the techniques of making formal portraits...
Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...