Visual codes of contemporary art. A lecture by Ekaterina Inozemtseva

DESCRIPTION

As part of Garage’s program in partnership with UNIQLO, the Museum’s Senior Curator Ekaterina Inozemtseva will give a lecture on the specific perception and accessibility of contemporary art.

One of the most enduring myths about contemporary art deals with its incomprehensibility and the impossibility for, say, classical painting lovers to grasp why an exhibition space should contain palm trees, horses, ropes and bricks, and sometimes even nothing and no one at all.

In her lecture, curator Ekaterina Inozemtseva will try to undermine this set of persistent beliefs and clarify why Velasquez and Bosch are transcendental compared to contemporary artists and perhaps even more provocative than any recent performance acts. She will also attempt to “decipher”, or “expose” selected contemporary artworks that will help to put an end to allegations of its speculative nature and the incompetence of artists, as well as to discover in the listeners the ability to love that which is happening here and now, and concerns our own selves in the first instance.

ABOUT THE LECTURER

Ekaterina Inozemtseva is a senior curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. She graduated in Philology from Moscow State University in 2004 and subsequently obtained her Candidate’s Degree in Philology there in 2007. From 2003 to 2004, she worked in the Department of Experimental Programs at the National Center for Contemporary Arts. From 2004 to 2005, she was a curator at Gary Tatintsian Gallery (Moscow) and from 2006 to 2011 a curator and deputy art director at Proun Gallery (Moscow). From 2011 to 2014 she was chief curator and deputy director at Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, where she curated over fifty projects. Inozemtseva has been a curator at Garage since 2014 and a senior curator since 2017. She has written for exhibition catalogues and art periodicals and was awarded Kariatida Prize in 2013.

PARTNER

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HOW TO TAKE PART

Free admission with advance registration.

The lecture will be interpreted into Russian Sign Language and is accessible to deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

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