Valentin Dyakonov coined the term “the New Boring” in 2008, in his article on the 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, to define a group of Russian artists who had returned to the practices of Western Conceptual and participatory art of the 1970s. Another aspect that distinguished them from their predecessors and contemporaries was their special interest in philosophy and leftist thought. One of their first successful projects was the exhibition Machine and Natasha at Proekt Fabrika. Some artists accepted the name the New Boring, while others rejected it as simplistic. By now, the term, initially referring to a particular group of like-minded artists, has also come to denote a certain style.
The Family Tree of Russian Contemporary Art. Lecture 10. Valentin Dyakonov on the New Boring
Date
Schedule
19:30–21:00
Place
Garage Education Center
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Valentin Dyakonov is a curator and art critic, a regular contributor to Kommersant, Artguide, Iskusstvo and Frieze. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (Thesis: “Moscow Art Scene in the 1950–1960s. The Birth of Underground Art”). In 2012, he curated Philosophy of the Common Task at Perm State Art Gallery and showed his performance-tour A Piece of Europe in a Winter Garden at the 2nd Industrial Biennale in Yekaterinburg. In 2014 he curated Detective at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. His curatorial projects also include OZLYANAZ by MishMash duo at Roza Azora Gallery and Volume Two at the New Wing of Gogol House.
how to take part
Free admission
