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Fleming to head next Moscow Biennial

The Moscow Biennial has asked the Fleming Bart De Baere to be the curator of its next edition in 2016. Bart De Baere is the director of the M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp.

Mr De Baere has accepted the offer despite the strained cultural and geopolitical relations with Russia.

"It's better that a public space for contemporary art continues to exist from where we can think about the future than that it disappears as a result of the powers of the moment."

The M HKA owns a significant collection of art from the former Soviet Union and considers itself to be a Eurasian museum that has the aim of removing possible fears in Europe for Russia and Asia.

The theme of the Moscow biennial is a progressive Europe with Moscow as a meeting place between Europe and Asia. The event was first staged in 2005. Earlier curators include Germany's Peter Weibel of the ZKM-Museum in Karlsruhe, France's Jean-Hubert Martin, the former curator of the Centre Pompidou, and Belgium's Catherine de Zegher, director of the MSK in Ghent. The Moscow Biennial opens on 17 September 2016.

 

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