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03.08.2012
ARSENALE 2012 web site presents virtual tour around Biennale
Virtual tour enables to see the exhibition halls of Mystetskyi Arsenal
03.08.2012
Second Kyiv International Biennale to open in September 2014
135,000 visitors attended ARSENALE 2012, say its organisers
30.07.2012
ARSENALE AWARDS 2012 winners announced in Kyiv
Phyllida Barlow, Mykola Malyshko, Andriy Sagaidakovsky, Yayoi Kusama, Chiharu Shiota and Song Dond recieve the ARSENALE AWARDS 2012
13.07.2012
Talk with Richard Deacon in Mystetskyi Arsenal
Arsenale 2012 and British Council Ukraine invite you to a talk with Richard Deacon, an abstract sculptor, Turner prize winner that will take place on 19 July at 19.00 in Mytetskyi Arsenal
10.07.2012
Alfons Hug: I’m quite surprised not only about the size of the biennale, its physical dimension, but also the quality and the ambition that goes along with it.
Curator of the Brazilian and the Latin American pavilions at the Venice biennale, the San Paolo biennale curator, Director of Goethe-Institute in Rio de Janeiro, writer Alfons Hug talks about his impresions from ARSENALE 2012 and upcoming first Montevideo biennale (Uruguay)
05.07.2012
Nicholas Cullinan in Mystetskyi Arsenal
Arsenale 2012 and British Council Ukraine are pleased to invite you to a talk with Nicholas Cullinan, Tate Modern international modern art curator that will take place on 10 July at 19.00 in Mytetskyi Arsenal.
28.06.2012
'Very monumental and very impressive' – Charles Merewether on ARSENALE 2012
Dr Charles Merewether, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, compares the First Kyiv biennale to dOCUMENTA
25.06.2012
Biennale Night: 4 July at 9pm
ARSENALE 2012 presents Вiennale Night in Mystetskyi Arsenal, 4 July 9pm to 3am
19.06.2012
“Rethink” - exhibition in frames of ARSENALE 2012 Parallel Program
In the space of Bottega Gallery Group Shapka (Alexandra Tokareva and Olesya Sekeresh) will present their new project “Rethink” in frames of Parallel program of ARSENALE 2012.
18.06.2012
Artistic Director of ARSENALE 2012 David Elliott: contemporary art has to be beautiful
“What is the role of curator in contemporary art?” – “To dream, to research, to discriminate, to meditate, to mediate, to put things together, to exhibit”.
18.06.2012
The week of meetings with Ukrainian artists of ARSENALE 2012 in Mystetskyi Arsenal
Educational Program of ARSENALE 2012 invites all interested to meet with Ukrainian participants of the Biennale. Meetings will be conducted by outside experts in the field of contemporary art - curators, critics, art historians and philosophers. Viewers can ask their questions to the artist and expert.
11.06.2012
Christoph Tannert: The location is excellent!
The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art show visited well-known German curator Christoph Tannert, Director and project coordinator, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. German expert was impressed by Arsenal building and exhibition quality.
01.06.2012
Phyllida Barlow: I am interested in how the world is actually encountered
The ARSENALE 2012 web site is starting to publish interviews with some of the Biennale's star artists
29.05.2012
Liu Jianhua: The fragility of porcelain objects reflects the human thought that at some point, all of us will 'break'
At ARSENALE 2012, one of China's most famous artists presented an installation of household trash, reproduced in porcelain
25.05.2012
Discussion with David Elliott in Mystetskyi Arsenal
Today ARSENALE 2012 artistic director David Elliott will participate in discussion after Ekaterina Gregos lecture 'Speech Matters'. Today at 17.00 second floor of Arsenal Lara Baladi works area.
25.05.2012
Discussion Platform: Katerina Gregos and Renata Salecl conclude lectures' series
The final event of Discussional platform Art After the End of the World will take place in Mystetskyi Arsenal 25 May
19.05.2012
In the frames of ARSENALE 2012 Parallel program Kiev Fashion Park represents instalation "Turnip or an old Eco-tale"
It goes without saying that the growth of the material and cultural needs causes rapid industrial development and acts as the main impetus of technological improvements. Art installation "Turnip or an old Eco-tale" by Natalie Makeeva is a kind of metaphor for self-organization of wasted old gadgets, which hint that a person one day might not be able to control it.
16.05.2012
Art collider will be launched in frames of ARSENALE 2012 parallel programme
Media Art Lab Kyiv in collaboration with Front Pictures / ATMASFERA 360° with the support of the Main Cultural Department of Kyiv City State Administration presents COLLIDER multimedia project by Oksana Chepelyk
15.05.2012
BELGIE
During the opening of the First Contemporary Art Biennale Kyiv and Steve Schepens’ artist residency at the Museum of Ideas, the solemn opening of art space BELGIE, the innovating popUP contemporary art space, will take place in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, on invitation by ESc art centre.
24.04.2012
Battle Of Kyiv And Nestor Makhno – Greek Artist To Create A Diptych For ARSENALE 2012 Based On Ukrainian History
Member of the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, famous Greek artist Stelios Faitakis told reporters about his work, which he created especially for ARSENALE 2012
19.04.2012
British Artist Phyllida Barlow Will Create Three New Art Works For The ARSENALE 2012
From 19th April till April 25th the newest star of contemporary art will operate in Mystetskiy Arsenal on her project for the First Kyiv International Biennale.
06.04.2012
Lecture by Zygmunt Bauman in Mystetskyi Arsenal
On April 6, in Mystetskyi Arsenal, the international conference "Art After the End of the World" will begin. The conference will open with a lecture by world-renowned thinker Zygmunt Bauman, one of today's most authoritative sociologists.
05.04.2012
Golden Lotus blooms in Kyiv’s downtown
Golden Lotus by Korean artist and designer Choi Jeong Hwa will appear on Kyiv’s main square on April 7. The 10-metre-wide plastic inflatable installation shaped like a "golden" lotus flower is one part of the large-scale project Time After Time that will be part of the exhibition at the First Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012
02.04.2012
International Conference in frames of Discussion Platform
On the 6-7th April in Mystetskyi Arsenal will take place an International Conference "Art after the end of world"
30.03.2012
ARSENALE 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale Announces Main Programme
ARSENALE 2012 Commissioner, Nataliia Zabolotna and Artistic Director, David Elliott announced the list of artists and highlights of works to be included in the main programme for the upcoming first Kyiv Biennale
01.03.2012
The Art Newspaper publishes names of two ARSENALE 2012 artists
Yayoi Kusama and Paul McCarthy are among 100 contemporary artists to take part in the biennial. The Art Newspaper’s Anny Shaw was among the first journalists who learned the names of the artists from David Elliott, ARSENALE 2012 artistic director.
08.02.2012
President instructs to support ARSENALE 2012
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has instructed the Cabinet and State Affairs Department to support The 1st Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012
07.02.2012
Oleg Kulik presented his project for ARSENALE 2012
On February 7th a presentation by the artist Oleg Kulik was held in Mystetskyi Arsenal, where he introduced his project for the upcoming First Kyiv Biennial of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012.
15.01.2012
ARSENALE designer Jonathan Barnbrook: "The idea that design is commerce – is long out of date"
The well-known british graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook has created a logo and a graphic style for the First Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art ARSENALE
