Katja Sokolova

Birds, guns and shadows from afterlife

A visit to the 3rd moscow biennial

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?

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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

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The heart of Moscow - Find 3 centers of power in this picture. Katja Sokolova

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Eastern European alliance - Artist Pavel Kopriva and curators of the New Old Cold War Yulia Aksenova and Karolina Nowak Katja Sokolova

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VIP preview - The main project one-and-only curator Jean-Hubert Martin explaining Koen van Mechelen's work to biennale visitors. Katja Sokolova

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Artist Braco Dimitrijevic - Katja Sokolova

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Russian artists - Anatoly Osmolovsky and The Blue Noses group: Alexander Shaburov and Vyacheslav Mizin. Katja Sokolova

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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

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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

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Girl looking at Putin icon - Katja Sokolova

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Art critic Ekaterina Degot - Visiting Yekaterinburg underground folk artist B.U. Kashkin museum. Katja Sokolova

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Moscow by car - Traveling between biennale venues takes time Katja Sokolova

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Universam: alternatieve art fair - St.Petersburg artist 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

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Art in a shopping mall - The entrance to Oleg Kulik's exhibition "Space Lithurgy" in TSUM shopping centre Katja Sokolova

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At the Kulik's exhibition - Oleg Kulik used projections of well-known historical Russian contemporary art works to create his Space Lithurgy. Katja Sokolova

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Artist/curator Oleg Kulik - Katja Sokolova

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Curator Yara Bubnova and Moscow biennale director Josef Backstein - Katja Sokolova

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Artist Valery Koshlyakov - Katja Sokolova

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Curator Andrey Parshikov - Katja Sokolova

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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

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The Overcoat gallery - Selling art undercover Katja Sokolova

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Crowds at Luc Tuymans exhibition - In the former Red October factory Katja Sokolova