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COSMOSCOWINTERNATIONALCONTEMPORARYARTFAIRANNOUNCES2017EDITIONCELEBRATING5THANNIVERSARY

Cosmoscowwilltakeplaceatthehistoricmarketplace,GostinyDvoron8-10September,supportedby

strategicpartnerCreditSuisseandjewelrypartnerGarrard

The 5th-anniversary edition of Cosmoscow, Russia’s only international contemporary art fair,

willonceagain takeplacewithinMoscow’shistoricmarketbuilding,GostinyDvor,on8–10

September2017,supportedbystrategicpartnerCreditSuisseandjewelrypartnerGarrard.The

Fairmarks its5thanniversarywithanewColloborationssectionwithshareddisplaysbetweenRussianandinternationalgalleries,andaNon-commericalProgramme,Whereistherevolution,

timedwiththe100thanniversaryoftheBolshevikRevolution,featuringspeciallycommissioned

large-scale installations by Cosmoscow 2017 artist of the year Ivan Gorshkov and Krasnodar

CenterforContemporaryArt,Typography.

“WearehappytoannounceCosmoscowartfair’s5thanniversaryedition.Havingseveralyears

ofexperiencebehindusnow,wecancertainlysaythatsofarCosmoscowhasfirmlyestablisheditselfasasteadyplatformforconsolidationofRussiancontemporaryartmarket,servingasadrivingforceofitsdevelopmentandintegrationwithintheinternationalcontext.Cosmoscowis

theonly national fair introducingWestern collectors to thenewmarket andnewnames.Wecarryonsupportingyoungartistsfarandwide,helpingthemtobuildupadialoguewithboth

Russianandinternationalcollectors,patronsandartlovers.Wewilldoourbesttoensurethatthe 5th anniversary edition of Cosmoscowwill turn out to be as vibrant and inspiring as ourpreviousfairs.Wearegratefultoourexpertcommittee,advisoryboardandlong-termpartners,

suchasCreditSuisseandSt.RegisHotelandnewpartnerGarrard”,saysMargaritaPushkina,

FoundingDirector,Cosmoscow.

Credit Suisse has become Cosmoscow's Strategic Partner for the third consecutive year.

Throughthispartnership,theSwissbankaimstocontributetothedevelopmentoftheRussiancontemporary art market and help the fair achieve its goal of increasing the visibility and

accessibilityofRussianartistsandtheirworkbothdomesticallyandglobally.CreditSuissehas,for many years, worked with leading cultural institutions around the world to encourageinnovative arts projects and wider access to theatre, dance, music, and the visual arts. The

bank’s sponsorship commitments include, for example, the National Gallery in London, theBeijingMusicFestivalandtheKunsthausinZurich.InRussia,CreditSuissehasbeentheGeneralSponsoroftheBolshoiTheatresince2007.

Cosmoscow’s core programme will include theMain and the Discovery sections. The lattertraditionallyfeaturesgallerieslessthanfiveyearsold,andthoserepresentingemergingartists.

Thisyear’seditionwill introduceanewCollaborations sectionthatwillserveasanadditionalspaceforcollaborationbetweenRussianandinternationalgalleries.Participationinthissection

providesvisitinggalleries,and theirartists,withauniqueperspectiveon theRussiancultural

landscape and art market, and useful and meaningful dialogues with established Russiangalleriesandlocalartists.

AnumberofgallerieshavealreadyconfirmedtheirparticipationinCosmoscow2017including11.12 Gallery (Moscow),Anna Nova Art Gallery (St. Petersburg),Artwin Gallery (Moscow),

Marina Gisich Gallery (St. Petersburg), Pechersky Gallery (Moscow), pop/off/art gallery

(Moscow),ReginaGallery (Moscow),RuArtsGallery (Moscow),Temnikova&Kasela gallery

(Tallinn),XLGallery(Moscow),andGalerieIragui(Moscow).Thecompletelistofparticipating

gallerieswillbeannouncedseparatelyinsummer2017.

CosmoscowNon-commercialProgramme

ForitsNon-commercialProgrammeCosmoscowbringstogethervariousexhibition,educational

andcharitableinitiatives.Everyyeartheprogrammeislinkedbyacommontheme,thisyear’s

topic“Where is theRevolution?” is inspiredbytheanniversaryof therevolutionaryeventsof1917.

“The 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution is a perfect occasion to reflect on the significance and meaning of the revolution in contemporary culture. We welcome our guests to look at the works of art on display in a certain perspective, in terms of their revolutionary essence and transforming power. Captured by an impulse, persistently directed to the future, we want to carry our guests with a search for utopian spaces and worlds, which are opposite to any history”,saysAlexeiMaslyaev,CosmoscowNon-Commercialprogrammecurator.

Forits5theditionCosmoscowhastraditionallyselectedtheartistoftheyear,whowillpresenta

specially commissioned large-scale installation for thenew fair’sedition. In2017Cosmoscow

haschosenIvanGorshkov,Voronezh-bornartist,oneofthemostprominentrepresentativesofthe‘Voronezhwave’movement,andaco-founderoftheVoronezhCenterofContemporaryArt

(anon-commercial,artist-ledinstitution).

Non-commercialProgrammewillbealsofeaturedwithaspeciallycommissionedprojectmadebyTypography (KrasnodarCentreforContemporaryArt)–theonlyKrasnodar institutionthat

consistently support and promote contemporary art in the region. Founded as part of the

KrasnodarInstituteofContemporaryArt,TypographywasanindependentinitiativeoftheZIPart-group,incorporatingnumerousactivitiesfromartisticandeducationalcoursestoresidency

forartists.

ParallelProgramming

In early September 2017 Moscow’s cultural scene will be intensified with a number of

exhibitionstakingplaceinmajorcity’smuseums,foundationsandinstitutions.Tocoincidewith

CosmoscowtheMoscowMuseumofModernArt(MMOMA)preparedanextensiveexhibitionprogrammeincludingproject‘Unbowed’andfirstRussianretrospectiveofGiosettaFioroni.

“For years Cosmoscow remains the only international contemporary art fair in Russia. It is a

great honor for MMOMA to be a long-term partner of such a large-scale project featuringleading Russian and international galleries. There is no doubt that Cosmoscow work has apositiveeffectonRussianculturalscene:itfostersanappreciationformuseum-levelartamong

theaudienceandcontributestothedevelopmentoftheartmarket.Itisworthpointingoutthefair'scommitmentto introducingnewnamesofbothRussianand internationalartists,andatthesametimetoacquaintingthepublicwithwell-knownauthors. In this respect,Cosmoscow

missionmostlycorrespondstothemissionofourmuseum:westrivetomaintainasolidrhythmoftheartisticlifeintheregionbycarryingoutdifferentprojectsaroundtheworld”,saysVassily

Tsereteli,executivedirectoratMMOMA.

The ‘Unbowed’projectwill followthe logicofММОМАexhibitionpolicy, introducingworkof

St. Petersburg based artists to a broader audience. This summer MMOMA (Gogolevsky 10

venue)willdisplayworksby IrinaDrozd, IvanPlusch, IlyaGaponov,TanyaAkhmetgalievaandotherartists,mostofthemgraduatesofthefamousMukhinaArtSchool(monumentalpainting

department).

This autumn MMOMA will also host a first Russian retrospective of Italian artist Giosetta

Fioroni, a bright representative of pop art and the muse of the Valentino 2015 wintercollection.ThisexhibitionisanextensivesurveyofFioronioeuvreatfullbreath, includingherworksthatwerepartofthe1964VeniceBiennale,theonethatwentdowninhistoryas‘pop

biennale’.CosmoscowFacts

CosmoscowartfairwaslaunchedbyRussiancollectorandphilanthropistMargaritaPushkinain2010. Since the very beginning, its concept implied participation of both Russian and

internationalgalleries,artistsandcollectors.An inauguraleditionof the fair successfully tookplace in 2010 (December 17-19) at theMoscowRedOctober former factory premises. Since

thenitisanannualSeptembereventwithitsownplaceinaninternationalartcalendar.Over

the years Cosmoscow has hosted a number of important international galleries, includingBlain|SouthernGallery,SprüthMagers,Beck&Eggeling,MassimoDeCarlo,MichaelWerner,

Matthew Bown Gallery, Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Christine König Galerie, Galerie

Gebr. Lehmann,GalerieNordenhake,SimonLeeGallery,andWentrupGalleryalongwith themostnotableRussianones, includingXLGallery,TriumphGallery,ReginaGallery,pop/off/art

gallery,FrolovGallery,GaryTatintsianGallery,11.12Gallery,andMarinaGisichGallery.

In the intervening years, Cosmoscow has been successfully collaborating with numerous

museums, foundations and independent institutions, including Garage Museum of

ContemporaryArt,MoscowMuseumofModernArt,MHKA (MuseumofContemporaryArt,

Antwerp), V-A-C Foundation, Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin Foundation, IN

ARTIBUS Foundation, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Christie’s auction house, Artsy onlineresourceandmanyothers.Suchcooperation,besidesproducingsuccessfulprojectsofdifferent

kinds,alsocontributestoexchangeofexperienceandconsolidationoftheartcommunity.

For the third time Cosmoscowwill take place inGostinyDvor – one of themost historically

significant architectural monuments of the Russian capital, designed by Italian architect

GiacomoQuarenghiattheorderofCatherinetheGreatissuedin1786.

The advisory board of the fair is consisted of longstanding members such as Dillyara

Allahverdova, AntoineArnault andNatalia Vodianova, TeresaMavica, Ekaterina andVladimirSemenikhin,Vassily Tsereteli, andOlgaVaschilina. Theexpert committeemembers areElena

Selina(XLGallery,XLProjects)andOlgaTemnikova(Temnikova&KaselaGallery).

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23(bldg.2),GagarinskyLane(1stentrance,1stfloor),MoscowNotestoeditors:CosmoscowCosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, aimed at bringing together both Russian andinternational collectors, galleries and artists, was launched by Russian collector and philanthropist

Margarita Pushkina in 2010. Cosmoscow is the only international art fair in Russia and the CIS. Since2014 it is an annual September eventwith its own place in an international art calendar. The latesteditionofthefairtookplaceattheGostinyDvoronSeptember9-11,2016representing38Russianandinternational galleries and welcoming nearly 16,000 guests. 2,000 people visited Fair’s collectors’preview.Cosmoscow2017ArtistoftheYearIvan Gorshkov was born in Voronezh in 1984. He graduated from the Fine Arts department of theVoronezh State Teacher Training University. He is one of the founders of the Voronezh Center ofContemporary Art (2009). He is ranked 20 in the top-50 young Russian artists according to the ArtNewspaper Russia. He has been granted scholarship in the emerging artist support program of theGarageMuseumofContemporaryArtthreetimes.HissoloshowstookplaceinVoronezh,Moscow,St.Petersburg,Paris,Vienna,andBudapest.CosmoscowArchitectNatalia Zaychenko was born in Moscow to a family of architects. She graduated from the MoscowInstituteofArchitecture(Prof.EugeneAsseclass).SheisamemberoftheUnionofMoscowArchitectssince 2008. In 2007 shewon the state scholarship of the Russian president. In 2009 she became thewinner-finalistoftheNEXTcompetition.SheenteredtheTop-15ofRussianarchitectsunder33yearsoldaccording to the Project Russia magazine. In 2011 she graduated from the STRELKA Institute ofArchitecture,MediaandDesign,Moscow.Since2012sheisfocusedonexhibitionprojects’design.Herportfolio includesworks forCosmoscowfair,PushkinStateMuseumofFineArts,MoscowPolytechnicMuseum, and Russian Impressionism Museum. A number of Natalia’s projects were awarded withprofessional prizes (Arch Moscow, New Names, Archstoyanie, INTERNI, Perspective, Golden Section,etc.).MMOMAMoscowMuseumofModernArt(MMOMA)wasfoundedin1999.It isthefirststateRussianmuseumthatconcentratesexclusivelyontheartofthe20thand21stcenturies.TodaytheMuseum,withitsfivevenues in the historic centre of the city, plays a vital part in theMoscow art scene. TheMuseum’spermanent collection representsmajor stages in the formation and development of the avant-garde,especiallyinRussia.OneoftheMuseum’sprioritiesistopromoteyoungandemergingartists,bringingthemintothecontemporaryartisticprocessandtocreateinclusiveprojects.http://www.mmoma.ru/Partners

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CosmoscowOfficialHotelTheSt.RegisMoscowNikolskayaisaluxurioushotellocatedinthehistoricalcenterofthecity,theheartof the Russian capital, just a few steps away from the Red Square, the Kremlin and Gostiny Dvor –CosmoscowFair’svenue.Thehoteloffers210spaciousroomsandsuites,includingthePresidentialandRoyalsuites,150sq.m.each.SomeoftheroomsoverlooktheLubyankaSquare,othersfaceacozyinnercourtyard. The hotel features an Italian osteria A Tavola, lobby bar and Orlov lounge, 6 conferencerooms,includingtheRooftoproomwithapanoramicviewoftheKremlinandtheRedSquare.Thehotelalso offers an exclusive Iridium SPA complex with an indoor pool and patio, sauna, hammam and amodernfitnesscenter.Adistinguishedfeatureofthehotelisitsbutlerserviceforallroomtypes,whichprovidesindividualserviceforeveryguest.www.stregismoscow.com@stregimoscownikolskaya