The intervention Colour Me Surprised consists of two artificially coloured green areas situated in the surrounding park of the Central House of Artists in Moscow. The artists work with a special chalk pigment that is atoxic and therefore absolutely harmless to plants and the environment. Thanks to the high opacity and luminosity of the paint, Nicolas Vionnet & Wouter Sibum succeed in completely turning the external colour appearance on its head, while the structure and surface of the lawns remain unchanged and recognizable. 

 

The idea of Color Me Surprised is to briefly transform a familiar ambience into a new condition and thus make the viewer more aware of his surroundings. The work deals with possible positions of perception. Last but not least, the work also functions as a horizontal "colorfield", an eye-catcher that encourages people to linger and allows them to step out of their daily routine.

​

Under A Tinsel Sun is the title of the III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation; the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow; the National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow; and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA); in collaboration with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Its chief curator is Kathrin Becker.

​

The III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, as its forerunners, focuses on a young generation of artists aged up to 35 years. Titled Under A Tinsel Sun and laid out as a multimedia project, it portrays the heterogeneity of subjects, languages, and styles, which are so urgent in this generation, and at the same time looks into the content-related positioning of these artists born between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s, as well as into the conditions for their development in terms of content. Under A Tinsel Sun assumes that, despite the cultural, economic, and social differences that may exist between the participants from different countries, there is a common factor in the impossibility of locating oneself by belonging to certain peer groups (whether in the ideological or in the artistic sense). With the absence of a “we,” the self-positioning of the individual becomes the pressing imperative of the present especially when being aware that “reality” as such is constructed, subjective, and fragmented. This realization becomes the drive for the artists’ self-positioning and for their production of works that no longer describe an “objective” reality but catalyze a multidimensional and alternative perception of the world.

 

Participating artists (Main Project):

Zarouhie Abdalian & Joseph Rosenzweig, Aids 3D, Akim, Edgardo Aragón, Ruben Aubrecht, Wojciech Bakowski, Gareth Barnett, Peter J. Bartel, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Danilo Correale, Eli Cortiñas, Sarah Decristoforo, Zackary Drucker, Amir Fattal, FAXEN, Judith Fegerl, Elise Florenty, Aslan Gaysumov, Patrycja German, Armin Lorenz Gerold, Karlos Gil, Dor Guez, Lukas Hofer, Laura Horelli, House of Natural Fiber (HONF), Pieter Hugo, Emre Hüner, Francis Hunger, Natalia Isaeva, Anna K.E., K-HOLE, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Leo Klenin, Eva Kotatkova, Jompet Kuswidananto, Marek Kvetan, Laboratory of Poetry Actionism, Alexandra Leykauf, Basir Mahmood, Ryan McNamara, Nandipha Mntambo, Tova Mozard, Ciprian Muresan, Mehreen Murtaza, Marina Naprushkina, Tim Parchikov, Ohm Phanphiroj, Laure Prouvost, Evgeny Pustarnakov, Behrouz Rae, Rosa Chancho, Athi-Patra Ruga, Aykan Safoglu, Robert Schwarz, Marinella Senatore, Lerato Shadi, Celia Eslamieh Shomal, Matías Solar, Kathrin Sonntag, Fiete Stolte, Mikhael Subotzky, Iqra Tanveer, Newsha Tavakolian, Anya Titova, Isaac Torres, Transforma, Margarita Trushina, Ayatgali Tuleubek, Ehsan ul Haq, Aleksey Vasiliev, Conrad Ventur, Nicolas Vionnet & Wouter Sibum, Jorinde Voigt, Charlie Woolley, Yan Xing, Maya Zack, Arseniy Zhilyaev, Ying Zhu, Pablo Zuleta Zahr