The 6th Tashkent International Biennale: Art Space

October 14, 2011

The 6th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art to be held as part of Style.Uz Art Week 2011 will kick off on October 23 at p.m. The 9 exhibitions of contemporary art that make up the Biennale will feature photos, pictures and installations by Uzbek and international artists from Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the UAE, the USA and Uzbekistan. Organized by the Fund Forum, the Academy of Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Uzbekistan, the Biennale will also include a roundtable titled “Crisis or Transformation of Multiculturalism: the Biennale Space”.

This year`s Biennale has been given the slogan “Contemporary Art: Artist`s Space and Society”. Artists represent a particular society. Society cannot exist without art as it reflects its values and satisfies its esthetic needs. Nonetheless, an artist consciously emphasizes his or her individuality, with some choosing to be detached or to live in solitude while at the same time needing societal recognition and probing into social aspects and problems through their creative endeavors. This paradoxical state of affairs gives rise to questions on which the 6th Tashkent Biennale will seek to focus: artists` place and role in societal life, their positions and responsibilities. The dynamic processes in contemporary art have posed a need for a reassessment of these categories by the artistic community.

The Biennale Agenda

DAY ONE

5 p.m., October 23, the Youth Creativity Palace

The Opening Ceremony of the 6th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art

• “The World of Fabergé” International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
• Solo Exhibition of Works by Photo Artist Igor Vishnyakov
• Exhibition of works by prominent Spanish painter Joan Miro and contemporary Spanish impressionists Luis Amer, Martin Carral and Jorge Nunez

DAY TWO

10.30-11.30 a.m., October 24, the Central Showroom of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan

The opening of the National Pavilion and the Exhibition of Works by German photographer Frank Rodel

DAY THREE

October 25, the Gallery of Fine Art

10.00–11.30 a.m. - Roundtable “Crisis or Transformation of Multiculturalism: the Biennale Space”.

12.00 a.m. –13.30 p.m. - the opening of international projects:

• Exhibition “Esthetics of Hedonism: Food, Body, Soul” (UK, France, the Netherlands, Turkey, Russia, Uzbekistan.
• Central Asian Salon 2011: an exhibition of works by Uzbek artists.
• Retrospective exhibition “The Severe Style of Otto Dix”.

DAY FOUR

10.00-11.30 a.m., the Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan

The opening of the exhibition “Uzbekistan, my motherland”.

DAY FIVE

October 27, 11.00-12.30 a.m., the International Ikuo Hiroyama Caravanserai

Exhibition “The Jug as a Form of Spatial Thought”

October 29, 5.00-7.00 p.m., the Youth Creativity Palace s

Awards and closing ceremony of the 6th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art.