"Border". International Exhibition Project Automatic translate
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Where does Europe end and where does Asia begin? What are the boundaries and who draws them? These are the main issues of the Border exhibition project, which the Goethe Institute will show in 2017-2018. in collaboration with numerous partners from Eastern Europe, Germany and Central Asia.
On January 31, 2017, the exhibition starts in Moscow, from where it will then go to St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kiev, Tbilisi, Minsk and Dortmund, and in 2018 will continue its journey in Central Asia.
“Border” explores and analyzes borders and their appearance in a variety of forms: as territorial isolation or, on the contrary, as annexation, as cultural or social barriers, as an instrument that separates “us” from “others” or, in fact, generates this dichotomy. The word "border" here should be understood as a metaphor, as a conditional image, which is the subject of an agreement and subject to change - a hot topic for Russia and the former Soviet republics, as well as for Germany and Europe. In this case, the “red line” is the geographical and cultural border between Europe and Asia. The project considers these topics from the standpoint of artistic creativity, from the cultural dimension. “Our goal is to contribute to the most versatile study of the processes, motives and reasons for the emergence of borders,” says Astrid Wege, head of the cultural programs department of the Goethe Institute in Moscow.
The project focuses on the young generation of artists who, starting in 2017, will present their understanding of the topic, their thoughts on it at a traveling exhibition in Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Germany. Symposia supplementing it will be held along the entire route of the exhibition, at which local experts and experts from Germany will speak. The curators of the exhibition are Inke Arns, director of the public organization for the promotion and support of media art HMKV in Dortmund and Thibault de Ruiter, curator and art critic from Berlin.
In the preparatory phase of the project in September 2016, artists and cultural figures from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, from Russia and Germany met in the framework of the international laboratory at HMKV and in this way a space of direct contact, artistic and intellectual interaction arose. Already at the design stage, the creators of the exhibition had the opportunity to get acquainted closely with the experience and vision of the world of their colleagues, to feel for possible similarities and differences. Among the others, such artists as: Umida Akhmedova and Oleg Karpov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), Alisa Berger (Cologne, Germany), Vyron Erol Woerth (Berlin, Germany), Aytegin Jumaliev (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Natalia are invited to participate in the exhibition Du (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Saule Dyusenbina (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Tasya Zhivkova (Kiev, Ukraine), Olga Zhitlina (St. Petersburg, Russia), Katya Isaeva (Moscow, Russia), Anton Karmanov (Novosibirsk, Russia), Alina Kopitsa (Kiev, Ukraine), “Where Dogs Run” (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Gaysha Madanova (Almaty, Kazakhstan / Munich, Germany)), Taus Makhacheva (Moscow, Russia), Eleanor de Montesquieu (Berlin, Germany), Stanislav Mukha (Berlin, Germany), Hamlet Hovsepyan (Ashnak, Armenia), Marat Rayymkulov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Alla and Alexey Rumyantsevs (Dushanbe, Tajikistan),, Sofia Tabatadze and Nadia Tsulukidze (Georgia), Alexander Ugai (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Farhad Farzaliev (Baku, Azerbaijan), Sergey Shabokhin (Minsk, Belarus).
The exhibition will be presented in a specially designed mobile exhibition space.
Anastasia (Tasia) Zhivkova (Ukraine), “The Limits of the Gilea”, photo, 2016
Taus Makhacheva (Russia), “Nineteen a Day”, photo, 2014 Photographer: Shamil Gadzhidadayev
Byron Erol Wörth (Germany), “All Borders Inside Us”, fabric printing, 2016
Stanislav Mucha (Germany), “Center of Europe”, doc. movie 01:26:00 min, 2004
Sofia Tabatadze, Nadia Tsulukidze (Georgia) art group “Khinkali Juice”, “National Anthem of Georgia”, video 00:01:34 min., 2006