Biennial Finissage Week Hospitality Program
To enter the venues you need a QR-code or vaccination certificate. Biennial events have blue highlights.
05.12
Bus-tour to the final exhibition of the artist in residence projects «More than you expect»
11:00, Бесплатно, requires registration
Coming back to Yekaterinburg at 15:50
The final performance of the 28 ways to think and move laboratory
14:00, Free, requires registration
Mediation performance «Look, there is a place for ____» by Alexandra Puchkova
Screeing of La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) by
When a journalist's (Romy Schneider) boyfriend (Alain Delon) allows her former lover (Maurice Ronet) to drown, the couple must answer questions from an inspector.
16:00, Free, requires registration
Former Salut Cinema theatre, ul. Tolmacheva, 12
Ural-Biennial mediators perform «We» (dir. Anna Ustyakina)
Nelson Sauvin 5th anniversary
14:00 — Detox-bar w/local mineral water and chicken soup
18:00 — Good Mead and its sacred meaning - lecture
19:00 — Micro-fest of Ural home breweries
19:00 — DJ and live sets
Nelson Sauvin, Malysheva, 21/4
Death Cafe
Memento mori - the discussion club on death and dying.
Metenkov House, Karla Libknehta, 36
Performance Roman Elegies
The ancient Rome poetry in modern Yekaterinburg.
16:00, Tickets 600 Rub
Yeltsin Center, Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3
Концерт L'Homme Absurde (Moscow)
Supported by Teach me violence и Rapiére.
Past events:
29.11
Biennial-podcast recordings
Interactive theatre-play Why do I remember it? (dir. Dmitriy Zimin)
Why do I remember it? is an interactive theatre-play about the 1990s: TV programs of these days, the war in Chechnya, freedom and problems.
19:00, Tickets 300 Rub
Yeltsin Center, Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3
Screening of the Compartment No. 6
Traveling by train from Moscow to Murmansk, a Finnish student forms an unlikely friendship with a gruff Russian miner.
It shared the Grand Prix of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Asghar Farhadi's A Hero.
29.11 12:00 // 30.11 18:00 // 01.12 12:30
Yeltsin Center, Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3
Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man 4K remaster screening (in English)
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Yeltsin Center, Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3
30.11
To control or to adapt? The Life and Death of the Urban Systems. Lecturer Ruslan Dokhov.
19:30, Free, requires registration
Former Salut Cinema theatre, ul. Tolmacheva, 12
VsemPsi (Psy-for-All) exhibition opening
The final project of the «VsemPsi» community introduce guests to modern art and invite them to a conversation using art therapy as a medium. This medium should stabilize psychoemotional and help to achieve persona growth.
Igor Ponosov's Artist talk
Russian artist, Partizaning activist, curator and researcher focused on Urban Art. Author of books: Art and the city and Russian Urban Art: History and Conflicts. Laureate of The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (St Petersburg).
Curator guiding tour at the RGB exhibition (Darya Kostina)
The exhibition is divided into three sections by three basic colours Red, Green, and Blue.
18:30, Tickets 100-150 Rub
Sinara Art Gallery, Verkh-Isetskiy Bul'var, 15
Stage play Anna Karenina (dir. Nikolay Kolyada)
Anna is 26 and Vronsky is 21. This is a love story of very young people who, as they thought, found their half in the world, but it turned out - there are no such halves in the world, no matter what smart people say.Every viewer will probably have a question: will he see a traditional performance or a modern, avant-garde?
Nikolai Kolyada invents the artistic world, draws with actors scenes of Russian life, which, it would seem, are long in the past, but take a closer look: everything is today.
A century and a half ago this great novel was written. Tolstoy has everything alive, everything as if from the street: passions, jealousy, death, love. And the feelings of the current person are no different from what worried Tolstoy’s heroes. Except that the costumes changed, and the man - he remained the same.
Everything is like in the novel: the passionate love of Anna and Vronsky, the contempt of society and the terrible death of the heroine. Yet, despite the tragedy, there is light in the finale of the play. And this light carries Levin. He had a child, he and Kitty are happy in the family idyll, which means that life continues, it is invincible by death.
19:00, Tickets 600 Rub
01.12
Multimedia participatory performance lecture «The Soviet gesture» (Isadorino Gore)
The performance combines historical materials about forgotten experiments in early Soviet art and modern multimedia theatre and performance technologies. By immersing the viewer in the dance aesthetics that did not manage to develop in the Soviet era, the performance enables us to reflect the Soviet heritage outside the existing dichotomies.
19:00, Free, require registration
CANCELED
«Water knitting» workshop by Laura Rodriguez
Laura Elidedt Rodriguez is a Mexican artist based in St Petersburg, where she curates the Bioart: Biomeda and New Nature program of the Art&Science Centre of ITMO University. Using her background in Biotechnology Engineering and Molecular Biology, she explores possible posthuman futures and the deepness of the matter through experimenting with electronics, bacterias, cells, and mythologies. As an independent curator, she worked on such projects as Staying with the Trouble (AIR) and Pangardenia: Ars Electronica.
Doc -performance «The road home»
In 1937, there were repressions against the «Harbin people», who came back to the USSR. They were accused of espionage and terrorism. Soviet NKVD tracked 25 000 ex-workers of the Chinese railroad from Manj Manchuria, and their children born there. The theatre artist from Yekaterinburg Tatyana Malinovskayavsky and Abram Subbotovsky were among them. The play contains personal letters, newspaper articles and Alexander Vertinskiy's songs.
19:30, Tickets 300 Rub
Yekaterinburg History Museum, Karla Libknekhta, 26
Music Performance Demon (Mikhail Lermontov)
The orchestrated ballet performance by the Ural Oper Ballet Theather directors.
19:00, Билеты 500 Rub
Sinara Art Gallery, Verkh-Isetskiy Bul'var, 15
02.12
«Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes» play
Solo performance based on bestseller novel of the Russian author Guzel Yakhina.
It describes the lives of various people, including the titular protagonist, struggling to survive in exile in Siberia from 1930 to 1946. The book won the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award and the Big Book Award in 2015.
19:30, Tickets 600 Rub
Center for Contemporary Drama, ул. Malysheva, 145А lit. F
Screening of The House of Gucci (in Eng)
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge — and ultimately murder.
02.12 15:30 // 03.12 12:00 // 21:00 // 04.12 17:10 // 20:40 // 05.12 13:50 // 20:30
Yeltsin Center, Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3
Stage play Anna Karenina (dir. Nikolay Kolyada)
Anna is 26 and Vronsky is 21. This is a love story of very young people who, as they thought, found their half in the world, but it turned out - there are no such halves in the world, no matter what smart people say.Every viewer will probably have a question: will he see a traditional performance or a modern, avant-garde?
Nikolai Kolyada invents the artistic world, draws with actors scenes of Russian life, which, it would seem, are long in the past, but take a closer look: everything is today.
A century and a half ago this great novel was written. Tolstoy has everything alive, everything as if from the street: passions, jealousy, death, love. And the feelings of the current person are no different from what worried Tolstoy’s heroes. Except that the costumes changed, and the man - he remained the same.
Everything is like in the novel: the passionate love of Anna and Vronsky, the contempt of society and the terrible death of the heroine. Yet, despite the tragedy, there is light in the finale of the play. And this light carries Levin. He had a child, he and Kitty are happy in the family idyll, which means that life continues, it is invincible by death.
19:00, Tickets 600 Rub
03.12
The Telepathic School: Transmission of thoughts by Daniel Blanga Gubbay
Describing a form of contact without physical contact – or as a form of connection between two points that are not subjected to coded language– the term telepathy was coined in 1882 by psychologist Frederic Myers at the intersection of telecommunication and psychology.
The Telepathic School merges theoretical contributions, poetry, sonic performances and exercises of telepathy: three hours, organised in 10 transmissions of thoughts, and 3 interfering channels –How to Communicate when Language is Poisoned; Interspecies Telepathy; The Capitalisation of Telepathy. Their voices and sounds gather on line in the space of the Biennale, joining from a distance–Bogota, Beirut, Berlin, or Barcelona–, and creating a remote experience of shared thoughts.
It invites the listeners to reflect together from a distance, by travelling in the history of telepathy and its relevance today: from para-magic to feminist perspectives on language, from interspecies communication, to the ongoing re-appropriation of telepathic experiments by surveillance capitalism.
You can join the event via the UB-facebook page or live.
The Seemness exhibition opening
Dom Makletskogo, Turgenevea, 15
Concert MGZAVREBI (Georgia). 15th band aniversary
F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1926) silent movie screening with the live score
19:00, Free, requires registration
Ельцин Центр, ул. Бориса Ельцина, д. 3
Nelson Sauvin 5th anniversary
Rare beer on taps, specialities and new beer releases.
18:00 — Nelson Sauvin collaboration beers presentation Red Rocket, Coma and Ame Wild Freaks breweries
21:00 — Cork shooting competition
21:00 — New Nelson Sauvin merchandise presentation
Nelson Sauvin, Malysheva, 21/4
04.12
Bus-tour to the final exhibition of the artist in residence projects «More than you expect»
11:00, Free, requires registration and badges
Coming back to Yekaterinburg at 15:50
Recital of Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union by Intertext Music Lab
18:00, Free, requires registration
Former Salut Cinema theatre, ul. Tolmacheva, 12
Pre-party of the Ural Biennial closing
Jazz singer Maria Kozlochkova will sing to the piano and welcome drinks will be served for you to get comfortable.
Ruakh (רוח) performance on the modern history of the Jewish community in Yekaterinburg and the Urals (in Russian)
21:00, Free, requires registration
Center for Contemporary Drama, ул. Malysheva, 145А lit. F
Concert Death Grind Massacre
Bastard Youth - Grindcore // Inopexia (Moscow) - Goregrind // Ossuary Anex (Ufa) - Brutal Death // Insect Inside (Chelyabinsk) - Slamming Brutal Death
Nelson Sauvin 5th anniversary
13:00 — Mikkeller Running Club
14:00 — Early opening
16:00 — Beer studies lectures
18:00 — DJ and live sets
19:00 — Geogessar competition
20:00 — Fantasy liquor-store «Max»