In Berlin, the exhibition takes place in 3 venues
and is accompanied by a program of Performances and Symposia,
and an illustrated Catalogue designed by Barnbrook.
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20:00 - 21:00 Live Performance: Zip Group Protest Aerobics
(District of Civil Resistance)
ZIP Group, an artist-collective from Krasnodar, provides the warm-up for BALAGAN!!! with their expert instruction in stretching and strength training routines guaranteed to improve your flexibility and cardio-vascular fitness in protest. Class starts at 19.30 sharp by the Brandenburg Gate, open to all.
Moscow-based artist Sasha Frolova kicks off BALAGAN!!! with her renowned Aquaaerobika act. Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet meets Lady Gaga in manga-like performances in wild, inflatable costumes.
Olga Chernysheva // Polina Kanis // Katarzyna Kozyra // Almagul Menlibaeva // Sasha Pirogova // Anastasia Vepreva
75 Artists from 14 Countries from the “Former East”:
AES + F [RU] // Afrika (Sergey Bugaev) [RU] // Vyacheslav Akhunov [UZ] // Shaarbek Amankul [KG] // Evgeny Antufiev [RU] // Lutz Becker [UK/DE] // Blue Noses Group [RU] // Sergey Bratkov [UA] // Yvon Chabrowski [DE/DDR] // Olga Chernysheva [RU] // Valery Chtak [RU] // Chto Delat? [RU] // Vladimir Dubossarsky [RU] // Andrej Dubravsky [SK] // Natalia Dyu [KZ] // Sasha Frolova [RU] // Ivan Gorshkov [RU] // Georgy Guryanov [RU] // Dmitry Gutov [RU] // Sitara Ibrahimova [AZ] // Nikita Kadan [UA] // Aleksey // Kallima [RU] // Polina Kanis [RU] // Krištof Kintera [CZ] // Francizka Klotz [DE/DDR] // Irina Korina [RU] // Egor Koshelev [RU] // Katarzyna Kozyra [PO] // Olya Kroytor [RU] // Gaisha Madanova [KZ] // Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe [RU] // Natalie Maximova [RU] // Yerbossyn Meldibekov [KZ] // Almagul Menlibayeva [KZ] // Boris Mikhailov [UA] // Ciprian Mureşan [RO] // Kriszta Nagy (Tereskova) [HU] // Deimantas Narkevičius [LI] // Ioana Nemes [RO] // Pavel Pepperstein [RU] // Pirate TV [RU] // Sasha Pirogova [RU] // RECYCLE Group [RU] // Mykola Ridnyi [UA] // Arsen Savadov[UA] // Mariya Sharova, Dmitriy Okruzhnov [RU] // Haim Sokol [RU] // Slavs and Tatars [Eurasia] // Leonid Tishkov [RU] // Aleksandr Ugay [KZ] // Oleg Ustinov [RU] // Anastasia Vepreva [RU] // VMS Group [RU] // Stas Volyazlovsky [UA] // Viktor Vorobyev, Elena Vorobyeva [KZ] // Vadim Zakharov [RU] // Sergey Zarva [UA] // ZIP Group [RU] // Artur Žmijewski [PO] // Constantin Zvezdochotov [RU]
Balagan!!! is a popular and much used exclamation in colloquial Russian that describes, with celebratory gusto, a farce, a fine mess, the most unholy of cock-ups - but it is also BALAGAN!!! the title of this major exhibition of contemporary art from the former USSR and the Eastern Bloc.These 150 artworks by 75 artists from 14 countries all have one thing in common: the artists’ struggle to digest what they have experienced, and their attempt to reconcile this with their desire for a new, hopefully better, life and art. Yet this exhibition also reveals a world where chaos and misrule, along with the social comedy that results from it, are scathingly exposed. Today, the revolutionary politics of laughter, as well as the cathartic release it promises, are engendered by a sense of outrage at cruelty, inhumanity and the abuse of human rights. This exhibition is about how some artists choose to depict the chaos of our times critically, challenging its power through humour, parody and the power of art itself. - David Elliott
P R O G R A M :
OPENING WEEK PERFORMANCES @ Külhaus Berlin
Sunday 22 November Stiftung Brandenburger Tor Max Liebermann Haus Pariser Platz 7, 10117 Berlin Lecture @ 16:30 DAVID ELLIOTT The Old Woman Who… ? BALAGAN and the Russian/Soviet Avant-Garde 1906-1953
Symposium @ 14:00-20:00 MATHRIN BECKER, KATYA DEGOT, DAVID ELLIOTT, VICTOR MISIANO, BOJANA PEJIC The Russians Have A Word For It: BALAGAN and the World Outside
BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places
is a MOMENTUM Exhibition
for the NORDWIND Festival 2015