Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art opens in the Russian capital

The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art has opened at the New Tretyakov Gallery in the heart of the Russian capital. This year’s festival, entitled Clouds⇄Forests, is the seventh instalment of the biennale, and will run for four months instead of the usual one.

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The festival is curated by Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa, who works as the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. Hasegawa describes the title and concept of the Biennale as focusing on “artists as a creative tribe transitioning, expanding and dissipating, from forest to cloud, rebuilding the subjectivity of spectators and showing that creativity is vital to the creation of new environmental spheres”.

Among the 52 participating artists from 25 countries is Icelandic musician and artist Bjork, American artist Matthew Barney and Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Participating artists from the New East include Anastasia Potemkina, Dashi Namdakov, the creative association Where Dogs Run among others.

The Biennale will run until 18 January 2018.