In the Japanese city of Yokohama hosts a major festival of Contemporary Art - Yokohama Triennale. The event has been held for the third time (the first festival was held in 2001). Triennale - one of the major events in the cultural life of Japan. Over the festival has five supervisors, including such celebrities as Daniel Birnbaum (Daniel Birnbaum, director of the Academy of Arts and Städelschule Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt-am-Main, the editor of Artforum International and the Curator of the 50 th Venice Biennale, and 1-st Moscow Biennale) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery Director and former curator of the Museum of Modern Art of Paris).

In the center of attention at the Triennale, which opened September 13, - installation and performance. The festival invited artists in the 70's and 80's of the last century famous brutal chlenovreditelskimi performances, such as Abramovich Marina (Marina Abramovic) Nietzsche and Hermann (Hermann Nitsch). The festival also involved well-known artists Yoko Ono (Yoko Ono), Mike Kelly (Mike Kelley), Matthew Barney (Matthew Barney), and the Japanese musician extreme Khain Keizo (Keiji Haino). At the festival Yokohama decorate installation - for example, the 10-meter Satch me should I fall ( «Catch me if I fall») Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgrin and Ingar Dragset). The symbol of the festival - the dome of wire and rings created by two famous architects - Sukom Cho Min Koreans and Americans Joseph Grima (Joseph Grima). Under this dome are lectures and other events.

Sources: artdaily.org , yokohamatriennale.jp , artinvestment.ru