The Ministry of Culture gave Moscow Biennale 30 million

The Ministry of Culture allocated 30 million rubles to hold the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, said Alexander Zhuravsky, Deputy Minister of Culture, at a press conference in Moscow, at a press conference in Moscow.

“This year we allocate 30 million rubles for this project. - quotes the Deputy Minister of RIA Novosti . “Two years ago it was a little more - 51.”

The 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will be held from September 22 to October 1. About 70 artists and art groups from different countries will take part in it.

Curators of the main project Biennale “How to live together? A look from the city center to the heart of the island of Eurasia ” - Director of the Center for Contemporary Art of Witte de with (Rotterdam) Defna AIAS, director of the Muhka Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp) Bart de Bar and Director of Kunsthalla (Vienna) Nikolaus Shafhausen.

The main project will be accepted by the three pavilions of VDNH - “Central”, “Popular Education” and “Atomic Energy”. According to Commissioner Biennale Joseph Bakstein, Biennale participants will try to comprehend and reconstruct the specifics of Soviet collectivism, the space of VDNH and make it an international project.

In addition to the main project, Biennale will present the program “Special Guests”, “Special Projects” and “Parallel Program”, one of the speakers of the discussion program will be the Minister of Finance of Greece Janis Varufakis . Outside of the VDNH, the Biennale program will be presented in the Pushkin FMI, Multimedia Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art "Garage" and at other venues in Moscow.