SUPPORTING CAST
MUDAM MUSEUM OF LUXEMBOURG
Mudam, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, is the foremost museum dedicated to contemporary
art in Luxembourg.
Ieoh Ming Pei, its architect, visualised a museum that stands on the very rampart wall that surrounded the arrow shaped inner fortress.
The Mudam collection and programme reflect current artistic trends, appreciating the emergence of new artistic practices on a national and international scale remaining open to every artistic discipline: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, as well as design, fashion, graphic design and new media are all on show.
www.mudam.lu
VICTORIA - THE ART OF BEING CONTEMPORARY (VAC)
VAC is a new institution founded in Moscow in 2009 committed to providing contemporary art in Russia. It has strong institutional commitment to the growing importance of art made in Russia and abroad.
Russian contemporary art is quite closed and unknown territory for the western world. One of the goals of the institution is to integrate Russian contemporary art within both Russian and international art history.
VAC aims to provoke the professional debate around contemporary art as well as to foster the broad public engagement with it through publishing, forum and educational programs, workshops and lectures.
www.v-a-c.ru
BARBARIAN ART GALLERY BY NATASHA AKHMEROVA
Natasha Akhmerova's Barbarian Art is an international contemporary art gallery, member of “Die Zuricher Gallerien” Association, based in Zürich and Moscow. The Gallery has participated in such celebrated art events as 53rd Venice Biennale, May 2009, collateral project, Alexander Ponomarev, SubTiziano, (a catalogue was published by the gallery), Exhibition “The Cosmos of the Russian Avant-Garde: Art and Space Exploration, 1900-1930”.
Barbarian Art staged two art performances in Cabaret Voltaire, former Dada Haus, Zurich.
The gallery hosts charity events, lectures, book readings etc.
In summer 2010, the gallery won the competition under the aegis of the Government of Zurich “Art in Public Space” (Installation “The Private Moon for Zurich” by Leonid Tishkov was on display at Sigi-Feigel Terrasse).
www.barbarian-art.com
OXANA MALEEVA AND ART APART
Oxana Maleeva is the founder of Art Apart, a curatorial agency based in Zurich, Switzerland and Milan, Italy that produces art projects and offers art advisory services. The agency conducts, invents, creates and organises contemporary art events and exhibitions on an international scale (including The Storm and the Harbour, Venice Biennale; Beyond the Ego, Moscow Biennale 2005; 1:1 - Luca Pancrazzi, Moscow Biennale 2007, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, among others).
Collaborations: Novatek Company, Unicredit Group, Maserati (Ferrari Group), Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Institute for Culture, The Palaces of the Russian Museum Restoration Fund, Victoria - the Art of being Contemporary (VAC).
www.artapart.org