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Francesco Bonami lecture – Why contemporary art is really art?

Friday, September 9, 1pm

Francesco Bonami
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Francesco Bonami lecture – Why contemporary art is really art?

Francesco Bonami, famous curator (in 2000 he curated Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana; in 2003 he directed the 50th edition of the Venice Biennale; in 2010 he curated the 75th Whitney Biennial of American Art), author, critic, art historian and senior advisor for Phillips Auctions will introduce Cosmoscow guests to the art market set of values, challenging contemporary art stereotypes.
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Discussion – Art beyond Politics: formation of local contemporary art markets.

Friday, September 9, 2pm

Ali Gureli, Contemporary Istanbul’s Founder and Chairman; Margarita Pushkina, Founding Director of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair. Moderator: Arie Amaya-Akkermans, writer (Hyperallergic), moderator and round tables participant (Art Basel), member of the Ab Anbar team, Tehran, Xenia Vytuleva, art historian, theorist and curator, assistant professor, Columbia University, New York
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Discussion – Art beyond Politics: formation of local contemporary art markets.

The discussion will include questions on the functioning of local fairs, which operate outside the Western context, namely the experience of art fairs, working in volatile areas, where the politics is complicated, and the socio-economic situation is changeable. How do the art fairs survive in these conditions and still manage to fight against stereotypes, draw trust of the international experts, attract galleries and increase the demand for local art?
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Giovanni Gasparini lecture – Contemporary art market development

Friday, September 9, 3pm

Giovanni Gasparini, Programme Director at Christie's Education, MSc Art, Law and Business
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Discussion – Art in the Internet

Friday, September 9, 4pm

Julia Topchiy (Artsy), Igor Markin (Art4), Aristarkh Chernyshev (artist). Moderator: Zain Talyarkhan (Christie’s Russia)
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Discussion – Art in the Internet

Development of Internet technologies contributes to the increase of attention towards virtual network among the professional art community. Artists promote their work on the Web, carried away by the search for art models, which are alternative to the existing market system. They create digital art and net art projects, going beyond traditional boundaries of such notions as authorship, uniqueness and art itself. Auction houses are getting more active online in order to attract new audiences (Christie's). A number of online platforms for trading and storage of virtual art collections is constantly growing (Artsy, Sedition). What is the reason for such rapid art expansion of the Internet? What consequences it may have for the traditional art system? During the discussion, participants will discuss these issues, talking about the advantages, provided by the online mode and the ways artists, their work and audience communicate online.
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Discussion – Photography in search of method

Saturday, September 10, 1pm

Irina Zadorozhnaya, Yuri Gudkov. Moderator: Nadezhda Sheremetova.
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Discussion – Photography in search of method

Discussion deals with the role of the photographic image in contemporary society. In the context of photography’s omnipresence, we no longer trust the snapshot as a testimony about the world, but enter in a complicated relationship with it, in which what is hidden behind the scenes is no less important than the picture itself. Where in this case are the boundaries of photography and what can it picture?
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Discussion – Samizdat culture

Saturday, September 10, 2:30pm

Sergey Bratkov, Igor Mukhin. Moderator: Katerina Zueva
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Discussion – Samizdat culture

Discussion deals with the notion of Zamizdat – production and release of books of various format and content unaffiliated with publishing houses – as a way of expression available to the artist. The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography curator Katerina Zueva and teachers of the of the Rodchenko Art School of Photography and Multimedia Sergey Bratkov and Igor Mukhin will discuss whether each story is worthy of a book and whether each artistic method can be represented in this format. Another topic of discussion is whether this format should be taught to the students and what is the situation with Samizdat at the Rodchenko Art School.
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Discussion – Photo book

Saturday, September 10, 4pm

Anastasia Bogomolova, Julia Spiridonova. Moderator: Nadezhda Sheremetova.
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Discussion – Photo book

Discussion deals with the photo book format as one of the main trends of the professional photographic practice in the world. What is the appeal of this format? What audience does it have? How does its uniqueness effect the visual language of photography and artistic strategies? These questions will be answered by artists who regularly uses the book medium in her projects.
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Discussion – Expanding media boundaries

Saturday, September 10, 6pm

Olga Shishko, Alexey Maslyaev.
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Discussion – Expanding media boundaries

Discussion deals with new artistic practices that arise at the intersection of cultural spheres: poetry, sound art, video, film, performance and visual art. The speakers will focus on the concepts of hybrid media and multiscreening, virtual environment, installation guidelines and categories of space and time, tied together with the viewer's perception.
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Antarctic Biennale as an international socio-cultural phenomenon

Sunday, September 11, 1pm

Pavel Luksha, Alena Ivanova-Johanson, Anna Shvets, etc.
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Antarctic Biennale as an international socio-cultural phenomenon

Cross-disciplinary dialogue through the lens of contemporary art aims to investigate Antarctica's cultural identity and development as an international 'shared space' and a source of inspiration for artistic, scientific, and philosophical research about the cultural future of the planet. We invite all the representatives of the art community to join the discussion.
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Discussion – “Resident: a talk about ways to support young artists”

Saturday, September 11, 3pm

Mariana Gogova, founder of the Gogova Foundation and Artwin Gallery (Moscow), Alexey Maslyaev, Cosmoscow non-for-profit programme curator
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Discussion – “Resident: a talk about ways to support young artists”

Mariana Gogova, founder of the Gogova Foundation and Artwin Gallery (Moscow) and Alexei Maslyaev, Cosmoscow non-commercial programme curator discuss the need to support young Russian artists, whose art doesn’t fall into regular gallery format. The talk is inspired by the Foundation Artist Residency (GFAR) programme, launched on the grounds of the non-for-profit Artwin Gallery Kicik Qalart art platform (Baku), aimed at promotion of young Russian artists in Russia and abroad, as well as on initiation of a dialogue between them and international art community. Among the Foundation’s first projects is a forthcoming large-scale exhibition of Russian and Austrian artists at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Lower Arkhyz, Karachay-Cherkessian Republic of Russia), implemented in cooperation with Karachay-Cherkessian Republic Ministry of Culture and Austrian Cultural Forum (October 2016)
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Discussion – Artist on the cover

Sunday, September 11, 4pm

Denis Krukov, Alexey Maslyaev.
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Discussion – Artist on the cover

Discussion deals with a question of collaboration between periodical prints (ArtChronika, Garage Magazine, Moscow Art Magazine, Wallpaper Magazine, etc) and artists on making magazine covers. Alexei Maslyaev will share his review of the most notable examples. Denis Krukov will share his experience as a Chief Editor of the free-of-charge Moscow Bytime (Dosug v Moskve) newspaper published by Moscow Department of Culture (each front page of the newspaper was designed by contemporary artists).
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Discussion – Art as a memory tool

Sunday, September 11, 5pm

Andrey Kuzkin, MishMash, Elena Petrovskaya, Gasan Gusejnov, Vladimir Levashov, Alexei Novoselov, Julia Lideman, Alexei Maslyaev, Vasili Tsereteli (MMOMA), Elena Zhukova (Art World Foundation). Moderator: Natalia Tamruchi.
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Discussion – Art as a memory tool

Discussion is devoted to publication of Andrey Kuzkin’s book The Right to Life and MishMash album titled Dentures and Replacements. Both publications are part of corresponding projects of a same name, which were displayed at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in February 2016. Both projects represent a variety of ways of experiencing different events (artistic action), over by now. They provoked a lot of questions related to the performative nature of the event. How is the event transformed it is over, and a thing of the past? Where do its tracks lead? How to keep its living presence in the language? Panelists will offer their answers to these questions, focusing on the linguistic aspect (what are the languages, in which past events continue to talk to us, and how do they function?).
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COSMOSCOW KIDS

Cosmoscow Kids programme is developed by the School of Modern Art (SOMA) specially for Cosmoscow 2016 edition.

Cosmoscow Kids opening hours:

Friday, September 9, from 12 pm to 7 pm
Saturday, September 10, from 12 pm to 8 pm
Sunday, September 11, from 12 pm to 8 pm

As part of the programme, children are encouraged to participate in a fascinating three-day creative adventure. They will discover and master the collage technique as well as individual methods used by a number of important artists from Picasso to Braque. The programme will also include workshops and other sorts of artistic activities, both individual and collective.

COLLAGE CITY

Using a single technique, on day-to-day basis children will be making up beautiful and fascinating world step by step. This unique integral project has to be lived through. Working on this global collage city they will form an attitude towards the world.
ARTIST’S VIEW

What is more important: to reveal your own vision of the world or to see and appreciate the variety of others’ visions? Raising this question nurtures tolerance in children. The kind of tolerance that can only be cultivated in dialogue and socializing, as a result of an ability to hear voices of people around. During the programme each kid will have an opportunity to express himself and to appreciate his contribution to the common cause.
WORLD MADE UP OF PIECES

In a three-day time the kids will build up a city model of small pieces. Resembling a carefully assembled mosaic, it will be unique and individual as a life of each person.

09 September
CREATING THE LANDSCAPE	noon - 3 p.m.	Learning the concept of perspective and the notion of collage, kids will create flat and dimensional figures in form of rivers, roads and hills, filling the space with them.
COLLAGE A LA HANNAH HÖCH	2 p.m. - 4 p.m.	Kids are making collages out of newspaper and magazine pieces on a colorful backdrop, placing them later on an exhibition stand
СВОЙ ОБРАЗ В СТИЛЕ КОЛЛАЖ	3 p.m. - 7 p.m.	Creating a self image. Kids adorn themselves, acting as a living collage.
MULTIMEDIA COLLAGES	3 p.m. - 8 p.m.	Kids are making collages out of old magazines and photographs using the mixed technique that includes fabric, embroidery and other textured materials.

10 September
CONSTRUCTION WORK	noon - 3 p.m.	Making a city landscape, filling it with numerous building along the perspective line. Activities of different kinds and scales. Making infrastructure of the future.
COLLAGE A LA HANNAH HÖCH	noon - 3 p.m.	Kids are making collages out of newspaper and magazine pieces on a colorful backdrop, placing them later on an exhibition stand.
ASSEMBLAGE	3 p.m. - 7 p.m.	Discovering the assemblage technique and famous artists who have used it (Nevelson, Rauschenberg). Making individual pieces.
COLLAGE SELF IMAGE	4 p.m. - 8 p.m.	Creating a self image. Kids adorn themselves, acting as a living collage.

11 September
POPULATING THE CITY	noon - 8 p.m.	Making diverse creatures using a ready-made technique and populating the city with them. “Electrification” o0f the city using LED fairy lights.
MULTIMEDIA COLLAGES	2 p.m. - 6 p.m.	Kids are making collages out of old magazines and photographs using the mixed technique that includes fabric, embroidery and other textured materials.
COLLAGE SELF IMAGE	3 p.m. - 8 p.m.	Creating a self image. Kids adorn themselves, acting as a living collage.
MAIN ASSEMBLAGE	4 p.m. - 8 p.m.	Creating an integrated assemblage work and Its presentation.

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