Free Workshops

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FREE WORKSHOPS

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WHAT IS IT? The School of Contemporary Art ÂŤFree WorkshopsÂť is one of the oldest educational centers, forming the future of Russian art. It is directed on the education of the new generation, setting waypoints, plunging into the context of the world art, imparting skills of thinking and feeling actual tendencies, giving an opportunity to study professional disciplines, to communicate with interesting representatives of the world of art, to learn from the well-known teachers.

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MISSIONS The main mission of the School is to prepare professionals able to work proficiently in the contemporary art area, to give inexperienced artists and curators an opportunity to self-actualize in group and solo projects.

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PERSPECTIVES As a part of the MMOMA, the School supports inexperienced artists, assisting them with participation in group exhibition projects (annual exhibitions of young art “Workshop”, since 2000), organization of the first solo exhibitions (the “Debut” program), development of artistic careers (the “Second Floor” program), acquisition of artworks in the MMOMA collection.

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THE “DEBUT” PROGRAM Participants of the “Debut” program are not only students and graduates of the School, but also young artists, who have manifested themselves at large exhibitions, organized by the MMOMA. Over the years, dozens of young artists, whose names are among active partakers of the contemporary art scene, have appeared in the project

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THE SCHOOL’S TARGET AUDIENCE The School’s graduates are professionals ready for independent movement in the world of art. We are happy when our students have a formed background, theoretical knowledge and practical skills.

We welcome students and graduates of artistic, architectural, humanitarian universities (i.e. Moscow State University, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Architectural Institute, Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Higher school of economics, etc.).

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THE SPACE OF THE SCHOOL

The School has a large audience, designed for lectures, practical seminars, and master classes. The most interesting lessons are captured on video and the videos are uploaded to the web.

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THE SCHOOL’S STRUCTURE The School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” is a department of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. We offer 2 main training courses, i.e. “Contemporary Art” (for artists) and “Curator of Actual Art Projects”. In addition to the base courses we plan to provide special courses, seminars and open lectures (open to all comers).

Special disciplines, as well as general lectures and seminars, discussion clubs and round-table meetings are provided for artists and curators. The aim of the lessons is to develop professional discussion skills, critical statement, to establish communication links and collaboration between artists and curators. We expect that our graduates will master the full range of skills, necessary for preparation of exhibition projects, and can work in future without institutional support or can find it by themselves.

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CURATOR OF ACTUAL ART PROJECTS LIST OF COURSES: Theory of Contemporary Art; History of Curating; Actual Curatorial Strategies; Exhibition Design; Basics of Storage, Registration, Restoration of Works of Contemporary Art; Coordination of Exhibition Projects; Writing of Explications (practical training).

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CONTEMPORARY ART LIST OF COURSES: Philosophy of Art; Actual Practices of Contemporary Art; Interactive Media in Contemporary Art (practical training); Language of Photography in Contemporary Art (practical training); Strategies for Self-promotion for Beginning Artists (practical training); Specifics of Interaction with Institutions of Contemporary Art (practical training); Workshop of Art Project by D. Kamyshnikova; Workshop of Video Art by K. Preobrazhensky.

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GENERAL LECTURES: History of Foreign Art of the 20th-21st cc.; History of Russian Art of the 20th-21st cc.; History and Theory of Media; The Latest Trends in Contemporary Art. ELECTIVE COURSES: History of Photography; History and Theory of Video Art; Theory and History of Performance; Extra-Institutional Practices of Contemporary Art.

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DARIA KAMYSHNIKOVA Curator, designer, head of the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops VERA DAZHINA Doctor of Art History, Professor, Chair of General History of Art, Department of History and Theory of Art, Faculty of History, Moscow State University. One of the School’s founders.

ANDREI VELIKANOV Artist, philosopher, art theorist. Winner of international media art contests.

DARIA PYRKINA Candidate of Art History, curator, critic, teacher of History of Contemporary Art, head of the New Generation program in the National Centre for Contemporary Art, one of the initiators of two first Biennales for Young Art

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OLGA TURCHINA Art historian, curator. Senior Scientific Worker of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. IRINA TOLKACHEVA Art historian, engaged in history of photography.

Teacher in the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops, “Photoplay” Photo School, VGIK College of Cinema, TV and Multimedia and Photo School “Photographer” VGIK-PHOTO. ANTONIO GEUSA Independent curator and art critic, PhD in Philosophy, defended a PhD thesis on media art in the University of London, head of Education Department of the National Centre for Contemporary Art. YULIA PRONINA Research associate of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Engaged in history of performance and media art.

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NATALIA SMOLYANSKAYA PhD, associate professor of Russian School of Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities, head of the program of the International College of Philosophy in Paris.

TATIANA CHERNAYA Art historian, research associate of Exhibition Department of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Interested in Egyptology and art of photography in contemporary art.

KIRILL PREOBRAZHENSKY Russian artist. Mostly works with video. Teacher in the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops and in the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (workshop of video art).

YURI SHABELNIKOV Russian artist. Teacher of Actual Practices in Contemporary Art course in the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops

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OLEG MAKAROV Composer, sound artist, media artist, engineer of interactive hardware and software systems and tools. Teacher in the Media Performance Laboratory, the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia.

PATRICK K.-H. (ANTON YAKHONTOV) Sound-Artist, performer, Media Artist, Visual Artist and contemporary art programs curator, Media Archeologist.

MARIA IONOVA-GRIBINA Photographer, artist. Teacher in the Moscow Academy of Photography.

JULIA MARVEEVA Art historian, head of Conservation Department of Moscow Museum of Modern Art

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OVER THE YEARS WE HAVE WORKED WITH: Andrey Bartenev, Ksenia Bogemskaya, Alexander Zabrin, Leontiy Zybailov, Igor Kamyanov, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Andrei Kolosov, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Elena Malikova, Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Nasedkin, Vladimir Opara, Valery Orlov, Alexei Orlovsky, Alexander Ponomarev, Valery Stigneev, Valery Turchin, Leonid Feodor, Olga Shishko, Olga Yablonskaya

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ARTISTS AND CURATORS, WHO HAVE COLLABORATED WITH US WITHIN SPECIAL PROJECTS: Yuri Albert, Sergei Anufriev, AES+F, Marat Gelman, Lyudmila Gorlova, Totart, Peter Greenaway, Dmitri Gutov, Ekaterina Degot, Vyacheslav Efimov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Francisco Infante, Irina Korina, Valery Koshlyakov, Oleg Kulik, Xavier Rognoy, Georgiy Litichevsky, Vladimir Nasedkin, Vladimir Nemukhin, Boris Orlov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Georgiy Ostretsov, Alexander Ponomarev, Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov, Avdei Ter-Oganian, Leonid Tishkov, Hirose Shoko and Takefusa Sashida, Natalia and Valery Cherkashins, Olga Shishko, Marlen Spindler, Sergei Shutov and others

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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS: The School offers open programs: “First-Hand” and “PerformActivity”. As a part of the First-Hand program there were master classes by the AES+F art group, Olga Tobreluts, Vladimir Dubosarsky, Vladislav Efimov, Olga Shishko. In the PerformActivity program, the following artists took part, i.e. Flavia Ghisalberti (Switzerland), Valentin Jing (Russia), Patrick K.-H. (Russia), Oleg Makarov (Russia) and Asya Mukhina (Russia), John Giskes (Holland) and others.

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CONDITIONS OF EDUCATION: To become a student of the School, you should submit your application with the attached motivation letter online in the website of Moscow Museum of Modern Art and pass an interview. Applications will be accepted until September 10. Interviews will be conducted after considering applications from September 16 to September 20.

We welcome persons, who have higher or incomplete higher education in the humanities or art, creativity and original thinking, understanding of contemporary art and who wish to develop professional skills in this area. Despite the fact that lessons are held in Russian, knowledge of foreign languages is desired. Upon successful completion of the training course, graduates are awarded a certificate of the School’s own standard.

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Cost of training is 35,000 rubles (hire-purchase is possible). Funded education places are available. The School’s admissions committee will decide on distribution of funded education places according to the interview results.

The training start date is October 1; the end date is May 31.

Classes will be held from 7pm till 9 pm on weekdays and from 12 am till 6 pm on Saturdays.

Telephone: 8 (495) 231 27 36 E-mail: freeworkshops@mmoma.ru

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THE SCHOOL’S GRADUATES: Anna Zhelud, Daria Usova, Roman Mokrov, Alexandra Kuznetsova, Maria Safronova, Anton Kuznetsov, Andrei Terekhov, Nika Kukhtina, Alina Gutkina, Marina Fomenko, Sergei Erkov, Yulia Mirontseva, Maksim Rusakov, Asia Mukhina, Vera Undritsova, and others