The fifth Moscow Biennale for Young Art, taking place this summer for six weeks only from July 1-August 10, today announced the participants of the main project “Deep Inside,” curated by Berlin-based independent curator Nadim Samman, who co-organised the fourth Marrakech Biennale in 2012. More recently, Samman was also a curator at the TBA-21 Academy, a branch of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary foundation in Vienna, and oversaw the Antarctic Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014.

Taking place in the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura, one of Moscow’s oldest textile mills, the main exhibition will feature 87 works by 93 artists, selected from over 2000 applications, under the curatorial focus of tackling recent issues in ecology and economics. The project will also tackle questions regarding the dangers presented by new technologies and social instability.

“Ours is the time of fissures, of prying apart, of penetration and cavities,” Samman said in a statement. “We are climbing, or falling, ever deeper into a kind of black hole. As we do, it is perhaps to be expected that artists should be fascinated by opacities, by occultations, encryptions and conspiracies—the other side of the event horizon. Also, that they should rhapsodize about instability and polydimensionality. Deep Inside is a view from the chasm,” he explained.

The Moscow Biennale for Young Art was first held in 2008, and grew from the combined efforts of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) to offer a platform for emerging artists. Now in its fifth iteration, the biennale—commissioned by Ekaterina Kibovskaya—continues its mission to draw attention to a new generation of artists representing recent developments in the global art community. 

Trehgornaya Manufactory, building #5
Photo: Courtesy of the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

Coinciding with the main project, the fifth Moscow Biennale for Young Art also announced two additional curated exhibitions: “HYPERCONNECTED” is curated by João Laia, and will take place at Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Ermolayevsky Pereulok; and “Time of Reasonable Doubts,” curated by Italian curators Silvia Franceschini and Valeria Mancinelli, will be held at the National Centre for Contemporary Art. Both projects will run from June 30-August 14. 

The participating artists in the main exhibition “Deep Inside” include:

1. Ozan Atalan, Turkey — USA
2. Stacy Belevicheva, Ukraine
3. Matilde Benmayor, Chile
4. Julius von Bismarck, Germany
5. Pamela Breda, Italy
6. Vladislav Brut, Russia / Alisa Beketova, Kazakhstan — Russia
7. Ekaterina Burlyga, Ukraine — Germany
8. Olga Butenop, Russia
9. Martin Callanan, Great Britain
10. Noor Ali Chagani, Pakistan
11. Julian Charrière, Switzerland — Germany
12. Revital Cohen, Israel / Tuur van Balen, Belgium — Great Britain
13. Juan Covelli, Colombia — Great Britain
14. Chris Coy, USA
15. María Dalberg, Iceland
16. Jasmin Daryani, Iran — Sweden
17. Petr Davydtchenko, Russia — Sweden — Great Britain
18. Jonathan Doweck, Israel
19. Liat Elbling, Israel
20. Hüseyin Mert Erverdi, Turkey
21. Karin Ferrari, Italy — Austria
22. Christian Fogarolli, Italy
23. Verena Friedrich, Germany
24. Veronika Geiger, Denmark — Switzerland
25. Adam Gibney, Ireland
26. Iuliana Golub, Ukraine
27. Florian Goldmann, Germany
28. Katharina Gruzei, Austria
29. Logi Leó Gunnarsson, Iceland
30. Ali Jan Haider, Pakistan
31. Elisabeth Haust, Russia — Czech Republic
32. Joey Holder, Great Britain
33. Marguerite Humeau, France — Great Britain
34. Marc Johnson, France
35. Graham Kelly, Great Britain — The Netherlands
36. Daria Khlapova, Russia
37. Felix Kiessling, Germany
38. Paul Kneale, Canada
39. Fabian Knecht, Germany
40. Darya Koltsova, Ukraine
41. Lilia Kosyreva, Russia
42. Egor Kraft, Russia — Great Britain — Austria
43. Ksenia Kuleva, Russia
44. Joshua Leary (Evian Christ), Great Britain / David Rudnick, Great Britain — USA
45. Juliana Cerqueira Leite, USA
46. Ekaterina Lukoshkova, Russia
47. Eli Maria Lundgaard, Norway
48. Vlad Lunin, Ukraine — Canada
49. Steve Maher, Ireland — Finland
50. Nadja Verena Marcin, Germany — USA
51. Maxime Marion, France / Émilie Brout, France
52. Zoë Claire Miller, USA — Germany
53. Alice Miceli, Brasil — The Netherlands
54. Marina Moskalenko, Russia / Tatiana Smirnova, Russia
55. Lee Nevo, Israel
56. Alisa Nikolaeva, Russia — France
57. Ismael Ogando, Dominican Rebulic
58. Tim Parchikov, Russia
59. Pau Pahana, USA — Germany
60. Claire Paugam, France — Iceland
61. Davide Quayola, Italy
62. Marina Ragozina, Russia
63. Martin Reiche, Germany
64. Rune Rasmussen, Denmark
65. Farid Rasulov, Azerbaijan
66. Paul Rosero Contreras, Ecuador
67. Vesna Rohaček, Croatia — Sweden
68. Andrew Ranville, USA
69. Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, USA
70. Hadas Satt, Israel
71. Dagmar Schürrer, Austria — Germany
72. Julia Selin, Sweden
73. Jura Shust, Belarus — Belgium
74. Rustan Söderling, Sweden — The Netherlands
75. Emmy Skensved, Canada — Germany / Grégoire Blunt, Canada — Germany
76. Joe Sobel, USA — France
77. Wilf Speller, Great Britain
78. Yulia Spiridonova, Russia
79. Arya Sukapura Putra, Indonesia
80. Natalia Tikhonova, Russia
81. Alvaro Urbano, Spain — Germany
82. Ivar Veermäe, Estonia — Germany
83. Martin Volman, Argentina — Germany
84. Addie Wagenknecht, USA — Austria
85. Beny Wagner, Germany — USA
86. Andrew Norman Wilson, Germany — USA
87. Helga Wretman, Sweden — Germany