The theme of the 6th Ural Biennale was announced

Today, May 21, the team of the 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, which will be held in Yekaterinburg in the fall of 2021, announced its topic-"time to hug and evade arms."

According to the Biennale press service, the topic is an altered quote from Ecclesiast (“Hug the time and time to evade hugs”, Ek. 3: 5). The subject of understanding the project will be a touch, the right to touch, the boundaries of the body and private experience.

“If in the first meetings devoted to the thematization of Biennale, we paid attention to changing conventions of interpersonal communication, to the ethics of touch, to gesture mechanics, now we have been an unequivocal impossibility of contacts. The sensations and actions that seemed inalienable: to hug a loved one, to touch the face mechanically, push the door with your hand, pay a pair of bills-we are not available for a while, ” the Biennale team says in the manifesto .

“Immortality”, the theme of the 5th Biennale , became the starting point of reflection on the present and future of human existence.

“We were looking for the topic of the new Biennale, answering the question“ What to do after immortality? ” And they found him in motion from the macrocosm of immortality to the microcosm of their own body and its new state in today's transitional moment. Of course, the theme of hugs surprisingly resonates in today's test with unhappy and inviolability, but I am sure that this dilemma will remain relevant for a long time, ”comments the Commissioner of the Ural Biennale Alisa Prudnikov.

The curator of the main project of the 6th Ural Biennale will be declared in the summer of 2020. It will be selected by members of the Expert Council, which includes Alisa Pruudnikova, curators of the main project of past issues, Biennale Shaooy Wan, Joan Ribas, Lee Zhenhua, Billyana Chirich, Yaroslav Bubnova, Kosmin Kostinas, as well as the director of Istanbul Bienna Orer, director of the Liverpool Biennale Fatosh. Founder Blockchain . ART , former director of ViennaSontemporary, Christina Steinbraher-Pfandt and head of the new media department Olga Shishko.

The Ural Industrial Biennale - the largest regional international art project on the territory of the Russian Federation - has been carried out since 2010 and explores industrialism as a legacy and urgent practice of the Ural region.

Since 2020, the organizers of Biennale have been the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, the State Center for Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg and the Center for Support and Development of Contemporary Art of Zaart .