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PRESENTS

BALAGAN!!!


Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places

Curated by David Elliott


14 November - 23 December 2015


MORE INFO HERE >>
 

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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Part of the NORDWIND Festival 2015

Berlin  //  KAMPNAGEL (Hamburg)  //  HELLERAU (Dresden)

FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM  HERE > >



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OPENING 13 November 2015

- In Two Venues -


Stiftung Brandenburger Tor Max Liebermann Haus & Külhaus Berlin

ZIP Group, Protest Aerobics (District of Civil Resistance), 2015

20:00 - 22:00 OPENING @
Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
Max   Liebermann   Haus

Pariser Platz 7, 10117 Berlin

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.

Sasha Frolova, Aquaaerobika (2015)

21:00 - 02:00 OPENING @
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 

Live Performance
 
Sasha FrolovaAquaaerobika

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.

 AES+F, Inverso Mundus, Police Boudoir,  2015, HD Still;  © AES+F 2015 Courtesy MAMM and Triumph Gallery

With BAR BALAGAN!!!

by Bar Babette

&  AFTERPARTY
with DJ Ilo Pan

Katarzyna Kozyra, Cheerleader, 2006

OPENING RECEPTION
17 November  2015
@   19:00   -   22:00


@    MOMENTUM

Kunstquartier  Bethanien 
Mariannenplatz 2 Kreuzberg



BALAGAN!!!Chicks 


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

LECTURES & SYMPOSIA

@ Hamburger Bahnhof
ICI Berlin - Institute for Cultural Inquiry

@ Stiftung Brandenburger Tor Max Liebermann Haus

Saturday 14  November
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck 
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 

Performances:

18:30-20:00 ERBOSSYN MELDIBEKOV
September, October, November

20:00-21:00          LEONID  TISHKOV
Dabloid Anatomy Lesson

Sunday  15  November
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck 
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 

Performances:
18:00  KRASNAYA  SHPANA
Mazepa- King of Post(DE) ColonialStudies
20:30  MARTYN  JACQUES
Russian Songs

Wednesday  18  November
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck 
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 



Performances:

17:00     OLYA  KROYTOR
Cube
18:00    ANDREY  KUZKIN

Resistance

Thursday  19 November
ICI Berlin
Institute for Cultural Inquiry

Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 


Discussion @ 19:30
DAVID ELLIOTT,  PRECIOSA DE JOYA,
HILLEL SCHWARTZ,  HANS SCHEUER

Trickster Art:   Celebrating
Chaos, Challenging Misrule

Sasha Pirogova, BIBLIMLEN 4, 2013

Friday   20  November
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck 
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 


Performance:
18:00   SASHA PIROGOVA
Let's Play

Sasha Pirogova, BIBLIMLEN 1, 2013

Saturday 21 November
Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck 
Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 


Performance:
20:00  SASHA PIROGOVA
Why Not?

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

Thursday  26 November
ICI Berlin
Institute for Cultural Inquiry

Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 


Discussion @ 19:30
VIA LEWANDOWSKI,  HELENA
BASSIL-MOROZOW

What is to be Undone? Trickery as Political Resistance

Arsen Savadov, Donbass Chocolate (No. 10), 1997

Wednesday 16 December
Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum  für  Gegenwart

Invalidenstraße  50-51,  10557


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

FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM  HERE > >

BALAGAN Also Takes Place @
HELLERAU - Dresden
KAMPNAGEL - Hamburg

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