TAUS MAKHACHEVA AT THE 6TH MOSCOW BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

 

Taus Makhacheva will participate in the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, co-curated by Bart De Baere, Director of MUHKA, Antwerp; Defne Ayas, Director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; and Nicolaus Schafhausen, Director of Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. The title of the biennale is How to Gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia opening on 22 September and running until 1 October 2015.

 

The central pavilion of VDNKh will become a site to embrace art and thinking in action, encompassing daily keynotes by thinkers, in situ work and performances by artists as well as workshops with Russian and international cultural figures who will convene to find answers to questions such as:

 

What are the fundamentals of a better life?, What are the grounds on which to formulate a constituency? Who are we (people, city, nation, empire, etc.)? What will Moscow be like in the future? All these questions primarily address an urgent dilemma: How can we live together?

 

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August 4, 2015