THE ART OF BEING

Parallel exhibition programme
Curators: Larisa Grinberg, Nadezhda Gura, Irina Skuratovskaya, Natalya Stepanova-Goncharova
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
06.03.2019 — 02.06.2019
Pharmaceutical Garden, Moscow State University
Botanical Gardens, Moscow
14.06.2019 — 28.07.2019
NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
13.09.2019 — 13.10.2019
The inclusive exhibition “The Art of Being” was a project of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, realized in partnership with the charitable foundation Gulf Stream. The works created for the exhibition by leading Russian artists represented various forms of relations that arise between art and the public. The project’s inclusive agenda was manifested in both the subject of the works and the suggested forms of interaction with them — visual, audio and tactile. Numerous lectures, workshops, guided tours and performative events presented a variety of languages and methods for communication, as well as the latest strategies for including people with disabilities in the life of a museum. In 2019, the project “The Art of Being” was shown in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, and 2020 saw a continuation of this in a tour through Russia’s regions.