On the grounds of Moscow will be the best I Moscow International Biennale of young artists. Numerous exhibitions, performance, concerts, film and video screenings, debates, round tables will be attended by 467 young artists from different countries

1 July 2008 opens I Moscow International Biennale of Young Art «Stop! Who goes? » . The organizers of Biennale became National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art Stella Art Foundation.V numerous exhibitions, performance, concerts, film and video screenings, debates, round tables will be attended by 467 young artists from different countries. Events at the Biennale will be held for more than 50 venues in Moscow and Moscow region. Biennale will run until 30 July.

«Stop! Who goes? »- One of the largest and most ambitious projects, implemented at the Moscow art scene in the field of contemporary art. Biennale presents works of young artists from all over Russia and abroad, in its preparation and conduct involving the leading artistic centers of Moscow, in cooperation with regional and international partners. In the Biennial Curator group included Daria Pyrkina (program manager «New Generation» National Center for Contemporary Art), Daria Kamyshnikova (Head of the School of Contemporary Art «Free Studios» at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art), Vladimir Levashov (art director of Stella Art Foundation), Anna Zaytseva (head-profit exhibition program of the Center for Contemporary Art «Winery») and Irina Yashkova (Curator of the Center for Contemporary Art M'ARS).

Program Biennale curator formed a group to an open admission applications. The main criterion for selection of young art biennale «Stop! Who goes? »- Not only age but also stadialny. This is the spirit of Paphos young artists, the creative charge of the boldest experiments in the search for a new look and method. «Stop!» - We say to young authors, calling on them for a moment suspend its «Brownian motion» and wonder where it is directed, encouraging them to express their creativity and conceptual position. Stop and articulate, who is, strictly speaking, is ...

In particular, the July 4, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Tverskaya Boulevard curator Andrey Bartenev and artists from Norway, Great Britain, the United States and Russia will present exhibition project «Souvenirs N.L.O. Oslokino U.F.O. ». The project focuses on zvezdoletam and astronauts, planets and galaxies, and the missile launcher, suit and telescopes, aliens and UFOs.

In addition, within the framework of the Biennale, one of the participants in the music institute Red Bull Music Academy professional musician Pascal Bideau tell and show how, in his view, created the music in other worlds as it takes the form, shape and begins physically exist, as it turns into an image and the image back to the music.

This year's annual festival of young art «Stop! Who goes? », Initiated by the State Center for Contemporary Art in 2002-2006, as well as the annual exhibition of young art« Atelier », which in 2001 organized by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and went together to a new level, have become the format of Biennale. To join the project partners - the institutions and free curators who are interested in the development of young artists. Versatile, single initiative but are united in a common large-scale project. His goal - to support and encourage the creative development of a new generation of authors and demonstrate the newest product of modern art interested audience.

Anna Savitskaya

Sources: www.ncca.ru , www.mmoma.ru , www.lenta.ru , www.youngart.ru , artinvestment.ru