The VII Moscow International Biennale For Young Art announces the start of the educational program implemented in cooperation with the Winzavod Fund for the Support of Contemporary Art.

For technical reasons, the discussion will not take place on November 16. We apologize. Date to be clarified.

The program consists of three main blocks: a cycle of five international discussions "Salon of Dismissed Categories" (curated by critic and art critic Andrey Shental), "The Biennale Diary" (curated by art critic Boris Klyushnikov) that brings together various communities of theorists and art critics, and a series of master classes from printing workshops (curated by the print-market association Vkus bumagi).

The educational program of the VII Biennale uses the online format, interdisciplinarity, horizontal principle of organization that has an aim to popularize contemporary art among a wide audience of viewers, regardless of their geography.

The cycle of international discussions brings together researchers, philosophers, curators and artists. Among them are: Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen (UK)), adherent to the ecological approach to anthropology and psychology; Gender Studies Professor Jack Halberstam (Columbia University), who applies critical theory to the analysis of art and culture; Italian sociologist, philosopher and writer, Professor of L'Accademia di Brera in Milano Franco "Bifo" Berardi, who specializes in the study of depression; historian, doctor of philosophy Anna Mazanik (Austria), who specializes in the history of medicine; research candidate in Cultural Studies, professor of The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences Oksana Moroz; one of the leading experts in the field of performative practices, artist, working with the theme of age anthropology, Ekaterina Muromtseva and many others. 

THE CYCLE OF INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSIONS IS CURATED BY ANDREY SHENTAL

Andrey Shental (born in 1988, Russia) is an art critic and curator. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art Criticism from Moscow State University and a Master’s in Contemporary Critical Theory from the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. He was a senior contemporary art editor at Theory and Practice from 2013 to 2015 and a contributing editor, writer and translator for Moscow Art Magazine from 2015 to 2017. He has been a foreign correspondent for Flash Art International since 2016, and has contributed reviews, interviews, and essays to various publications and essay collections, including Artchronika, Colta.ru, Art Territory, Idea, Mute, Art Leaks, Little Joe, Flash Art и Frieze. Curatorial projects include: Now Showing: Austerity Measures (co-curator, London, Lisbon, Riga, Athens, Porto, Bucharest, 2013); programs Aesthetics and its Discontents, New Cosmologies, DIAMAT (all co-curated at Winzavod, Moscow; 2016, 2017–18, 2018–2019 respectively); Arseny Zhilyaev's solo exhibition The Return (Winzavod, Moscow, 2017–18) and Turbulence at Cosmoscow International Fair (co-curator, Moscow, 2020)

TIMETABLE OF THE CYCLE OF DISCUSSIONS "SALON OF DISRUPTED CATEGORIES"

10.12.2020 

7 PM (+3 GMT)

Discussion "All ages are submissive" 

Participants: Professor Tim Ingold (UK), artist Ekaterina Muromtseva (Russia) and Doctor of Sociology Anna Shadrina (UK).

The discussion will be moderated by Andrey Shental (Russia).

10.26.2020 

7 PM (+3 GMT)

Discussion "Tyranny of the Positive" 

Participants: Professor Eva Illouz (Israel), Master of Political Philosophy and Social Theory Natalya Protasenya (Russia), critic Boris Klyushnikov (Russia).

11.09.2020

7 PM (+3 GMT)

Discussion "Epic fail /The praise of failure"

Participants: Professor Jack Halberstam (USA), tbt: artist Gaby Sahhar (UK), artist, critic, curator Anastasia Vepreva (Russia).

11.24.2020

7 PM (+3 GMT)

Discussion "The art of Social awkwardness"

Participants: artist Egor Rogalev (Russia), Associate Professor Oksana Moroz (Russia), Professor Franco “Bifo” Berardi (Italy).

11.30.2020

7 PM (+3 GMT)

Discussion "Discussion "The Splendors and Miseries of Illness"

Participants: historian, Ph.D. Anna Mazanik (Austria), Javi Karel (UK), Valeria Kononchuk (Russia).