Innovation 2013 Award

Russian competition Innovation is becoming every year more and more important for Russian artists, art critics and cultural workers. A greater number of applications is received, the competition is extending and media attention to it is growing. But, in spite of that, the current celebration took place in a small platform in the Moscow Museum in nearly home atmosphere, compared to the previous celebrations.

This year we celebrate the ninth award: the first Russian state prize for modern visual art started in 2005. The competition is organized within the National Centre for Contemporary Arts and supported by the Ministry of Culture, for so many years the benevolent cultural foundation U-Art: You and art is a co-organizer, and Group of UNIDENT Companies is a sponsor.

NOMINATION

A visual art creative work

This year the main Innovation prize was awarded to Yuri Albert and Ekaterina Dyogot’s exposition “What did the artist mean by this?”. Albert’s works exhibition at the Moscow Museum has become not only the first full retrospective view of one of the Moscow 1970−1980s conceptualism most prominent representative, but also it has appeared to be a mutual creative project by Ekaterina Dyogot, an artist and curator.

This year ceremony took place at the Moscow Museum – one of the oldest museums in the city, it was founded in 1896. In 2011 the Museum got a proper stage for its different projects and further development– Proviantsky (Provisions) Warehouse complex, a major classical Russian architecture monument of the first half of the XIX century. Here the Museum can organize topical expositions about Moscow and Muscovites, its modern life and art. Innovation 2013 award ceremony holding in this building witnesses to the vivid connection between history and modern Russian culture.

		Yuri Albert, artist	Russian Government Vice-Premier Olga Golodets and Tamaz Manasherov
		Vasily Tsereteli, Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Elena Milovzorova, Deputy Minister of culture of Russia and Mikhail Mindlin, Director of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts	Anna Tereshkova, Director of the Siberian Centre for Contemporary Arts and Pierre-Christian Brochet, editor and collector

NOMINATION

New Generation

The main prize was awarded to Sasha Pirogova’s project “BIBLIMLEN’, that was created in collaboration with Russian State Library. The author has her own particular creative style that combines modern dance, performance and video.

In her project “BIBLIMLEN” Sasha went over video-sketches to a bigger form, approximate to a movie. Such a form of modern art broadens the traditional points of view existing on the Russian scene.

		Tamaz Manasherov, Promoter of the U-Art Foundation: You and Art	Ekaterina Kochetkova, Executive Director of Innovation Competition
		Special prize of the U-Art Foundation: You and Art. The author— sculptor P. Merabishvili	Giovanna Carnevalli, Director of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, awarding to Sasha Pirogova, the winner in nomination “New Generation”
			Maria Khvoinitskaya (UNIDENT Dentistry) with guests

NOMINATION

Curator project

Elena Selina’s exhibition “Reconstruction” can be considered one of the first attempts to interpret Moscow artistic life during the period 1990 − 2000. This important period of the Russian art development was characterized by an unprecedented intensive artistic life: the flourishing of action art, great group exhibitions at non-commercial stages and galleries being opened everywhere that had immediately become a space for experiments. The project covered the activity of 13 galleries of Moscow and had both authentic creative works and projects and reconstructed ones.

		Theresa Mavika, Director of V-A-C Foundation, awarding the winner in nomination “Curator project”. The prize is being given to Sergey Khripun, who replaces the winner Elena Selina	Anna Monheit, television anchorwoman, Iveta and Tamaz Manasherovs with Maria Selina (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts)
		Marina Loshak, Director of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts	Evgeny Ass, Chancellor of the Moscow School of Architecture and Anna Saprykina, Director of the Museum Association the “Moscow Museum”
		Sergey Krivosheev (OAO Trety Vozrast) with his daughter Elizabeth	Vladimir Smirnov (Severo-Zapad Invest) with his wife Liana

NOMINATION

Theory, critique, art history

International anthology “Haute couture evolution: Art and science in postbiological epoch” is a collection of theoretical articles, their main subject is technobiological art. The publication is dedicated to the analysis of evolutional potential filling the technological trends of the XXI century–robotics, IT and biomedicine.

Each of these tendencies problematizes as much as possible the limits between the life and the death formed up traditionally, as well as the differentiation between a norm and a pathology, the difference between a designed object and a biological creature.

		Nataliya Kuzmina, Vice-Chancellor of MGIMO, Evgeny Zevin, artist, and Iveta Manasherova	David Elliot, writer and art theorist, awarding to Dmitry Bulatov, the winner in nomination “Theory, critique, art history”
		“Modern Art Support in Russia” prize-winner Shalva Breus	Alisa Prudnikova, Director of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Ekaterinburg
		With Andreas Siegrist Lindner (Barclays' Banks, Switzerland)	Sofia Gavrilova and Aleksey Korsi – Special prize Stella Art Foundation winners – for their installation "Don’t Even Think of Touching My Parasol”
		Olga Sviblova, Director of the Multimedia Art Museum	Tatiana Metaksa, Assistant Director of the National Museum of the East

NOMINATION

Modern Art Regional Project

The prize was awarded to the project “Krasnodar: Lines on plane. Krasnodar Institute for Contemporary Arts History”. It was a report exposition of the self-declared Krasnodar Institute for Contemporary Arts, organized by a ZIP art group and the activists of the Krasnodar Institute for Contemporary Arts.

This retrospective show represented a very rare phenomenon in Russia: an independent private institution being created and managed by artists, at the same time this institution is not an artistic association, in the narrow sense of the word, but a full-fledged center for contemporary arts.

“Regional project” prize-winners — ZIP art-group and the Krasnodar Institute for Contemporary Arts

Vladimir Smirnov, Paata Merabishvili, sculptor with the founder of the U-Art

24 September 2014

Vasiliy Schukhaev Exhibition

The Moscow Museum of Modern Arts presents a large-scale retrospective of a master of drawing and painting Vasiliy Ivanovich Schukhaev. UNIDENT and a cultural charity fund U-Art: Art and You are strategic partners of the exhibition.

16 November 2013

International Cello Festival Vivacello 5

The closing concert of the Festival held in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on November 16, was dedicated to the memory of Daniil Shafran, the great cellist, the brightest representative of the Russian cello school who would be 90 this year. The event was attended by such world-renowned cellists as Giovanni Sollima, Alexander Rudin, Boris Andrianov, David Geringas and the unique countertenor Oleg Bezinskikh. The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra directed by the Italian conductor Gianluca Marciano also performed. The program included pieces by Kancheli, Tchaikovsky, Sollima and Martin. At the concert, the audience could hear Amati's cello made in 1630, which Daniil Shafran played his entire creative life.

16 October 2013

The Opening the Fifth Festival Vivacello

On the 3rd of November, the performance of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory will open the Fifth Festival «VIVACELLO». One of the world’s famous bands led by Stefan Vladar will mark the beginning of a number of concerts by the eminent musicians that will be performed at the best Moscow sites for a fortnight.

22 April 2013

The II Photobiennale of The Russian Museum

In St. Petersburg is opening the exhibition the II Photobiennale of The Russian Museum

15 April 2013

Innovation 2012: winners’ awarding

At the ceremony of awarding the winners of the VIII All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition “Innovation” the best art projects of the past year were announced. On April 9, the Manezh central exhibition hall housed artists, art experts, supervisors and people interested in what is going on in the Russian contemporary art.