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THE 2nd URAL INDUSTRIAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Ekaterinburg, Russia

September 13 – October 22, 2012

Initiator: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, The National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA)

Co-Initiators: Governor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region, The Sverdlovsk Regional Government, The Ekaterinburg City Administration

Organizer: The Ural Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts

Biennial Commissioner: Alisa Prudnikova

Curator of the main project: Iara Boubnova

Curators of Special Projects: Dimitri Ozerkov, Valentin Dyakonov, and Vyacheslav Samodurov

VERNISSAGE WEEK AND PRESS PREVIEW: September 12-15, 2012

Biennial Venues

Main Project: former Ural Worker Printing Press 

Special Projects: Ural Heavy Engineering Plant, Ural Transport Machinery Plant, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

Art Residences: Pervouralsk Mining Equipment Plant (Pervouralsk), Nizhny Taghil Museum-Factory (Nizhny Taghil), Nevyansk State Museum of History and Architecture (Nevyansk), "Titanium Valley" Special Economic Zone (Verkhnyaya Salda), former Experimental Skates Manufacturing Plant (Verkhoturye)

Main project participants:

1. Adel Abdessemed (born 1971, Constantine, Algeria. Lives and works in Paris, France)

2. Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961, Istanbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Istanbul, London and Barcelona)

3. Zbyněk Baladrán (born in 1973, Prague, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic)

4. Luchezar Boyadjiev (born 1957, Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria)

5. Malevich's brigade (Marina Razheva, Viktor Oborotistov, Vladimir Romanov, Elena Gladysheva) (art-group, 2004, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

6. Lize Harlev (born in 1973, Odense, Denmark. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany)

7. IRWIN (Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik) (art-group, 1983, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

8. Anna Jermolaewa (born in 1970, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria)

9. Igor Eškinja (born in 1975, Rijeka, Croatia. Lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia)

10. Adam Frelin (born in 1973, Grove City, PA, USA. Lives and works in Troy and Brooklyn, NY, USA)

11. Peter Kogler (born in 1959, Insbruk, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria)

12. Olga Kroytor (born in 1986, Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow, Russia)

13. Irina Korina (born in 1977, Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow, Russia)

14. Agnieszka Kurant (born in 1978, Lodz, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland)

15. Where Dogs Run (Natalia Grekhova, Olga Inosemtseva, Alexei Korzukhin, Vlad Bulatov) (art-group, 2000, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

16. Cristina Lucas (born in 1974, Jaen, Spain. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain)

17. Boris Mikhailov (born in 1938, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Berlin and Kharkiv)

18. Elena Nemkova (born in 1971, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. Lives and works in Milan, Italy)

19. Anton Vidokle (born in 1965, Moscow, Russia. Lives and works in New York and Berlin)

20. Dan Perjovschi (born in 1961, Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania)

21. Lia Perjovschi (born in 1961, Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania)

22. Timofej Radya (born in 1989, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Lives and works in  Ekaterinburg, Russia)

23. Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta) (art-group, 1992, New Delhi, India)

24. Recycle (Andrey Blochin, Georgy Kuznetsov) (art-group, 2008, Krasnodar, Russia)

25. Vladimir Seleznev (borin in 1973, Nizhnij Tagil, Russia. Lives and works in Ekaterinburg, Russia)

26. Alexander Shaburov (born in Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow, Russia)

27. Slavs and Tatars (art-group, USA, France, Poland)

28. Société Réaliste (Ferenc Gróf, Jean-Batiste Naudy) (art-group, 2004, Paris, France)

29. Nedko Solakov (born in 1957, Cherven Briag, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria)

30. Monika Sosnowska (born in 1972, Ryki, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland)