About Art Moscow
The Art Moscow international programme will take place from May 17th to 21st 2006 at the Central House of Artists in Moscow. Included in the Art Moscow programme: the Art Moscow contemporary art fair, several non-commercial exhibitions and a series of lectures, seminars and master classes. The fair provides a comprehensive overview of Russian and foreign contemporary art from the 20th to 21st centuries. Every year there are also exhibitions for Art Moscow by winners of the Black Square prize, which from 2004 will be devoted to an exhibition for the Studio Art Moscow programme in November at the Central House of the Artist.
Statistics
Every spring since 1996 Art Moscow has invited participants and visitors from all over the world. Every aspect of modern art is represented at the fair: from video and photography to painting, sculpture and installations. In 2005 the fair was attended by more than 35,000 visitors, including a large number of art lovers, representatives of Russian and foreign museums, curators, art critics and collectors.
Participants of the Art Moscow
As a regular annual event Art Moscow has become fundamental to the infrastructure of Russian contemporary art. In the last few years the number of participants at the Art Moscow fair has risen significantly, and in 2005 some fifty galleries from Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Spain and Latvia took part. Among the participants were such galleries as B&D Studio Contemporanea (Milan), Galerie Albert Benamou (Paris), i-20 gallery (New-York), ibid projects (London - Vilnius), Schuebbe Projects Gallery (Duesseldorf), Karin Sachs Gallery (Munich), Wetterling Gallery (Stockholm), and many others.
Expert Council of the Art Moscow
An international Expert Council maintains the quality of artworks exhibited at a world-class level, evaluating gallery applications for participation and using their expertise to make the final selection. Members of the Expert Council: Aidan Salakhova (Aidan Gallery, Moscow), Marat Guelman (Guelman Gallery, Moscow), Elena Selina (XL Gallery, Moscow), Yekaterina Dyogot (curator and critic, Moscow), Joseph Backstein (Institute for Problems of Contemporary Art, Moscow), Viktor Miziano (Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal, Moscow), Volker Diehl (Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin), Hans Knoll (Hans Knoll Gallery, Vienna - Budapest).