"MediaUdar. Yekaterinburg" International Activist Art Festival

September 24 at 17:00. For the first time in Yekaterinburg, the opening of the international festival of activist art "MediaUdar" will take place. A press conference and a presentation of the festival will be held at the Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art, which will be held by its founder, art critic, curator, teacher of the Russian State Humanitarian University Tatyana Volkova (Moscow).

For the first time, the festival took place in the fall of 2011 in Moscow, since then the festival events have been held in Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Rzhev and Izhevsk. In 2013, MediaUdar entered the shortlist of the Innovation State Prize in the nomination “The Best Curatorial Project of the Year”.

Media Shock is an international community dedicated to the study, articulation, documentation, support and development of activist art. It is important to include art projects in real socio-political practices, such as participating in campaigns to protect the rights of minority groups, for the release of political prisoners, protecting the environment, developing an alternative healthcare system, and combating censorship and defamation of cultural figures.

Admission to all events is free.

Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art

st. Krasnoarmeyskaya, 32

tel. (343) 350-22-00, 358-99-96

www.uralgallery.ru

Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art was founded in 2004. The permanent exhibition presents works by Ural artists of the 20th century. The main activities are the formation of private and corporate collections, the organization of personal and national exhibitions of artists, the sale of works of art, counseling, examination of works of art.