New online biennale to feature emerging Russian artists

A new online biennale, the first to take place entirely on the internet, will be exhibiting the work of 180 emerging artists from around the world including four from Russia. BiennaleOnline will feature work from Timofei Radya, a street artist from Yekaterinburg; Taus Makhacheva, a video artist who divides her time between London and Moscow; Nikolay Oleynikov, a Moscow-based artist, activist and member of Russian collective Chto delat?; and Anna Parkina, an artist from Moscow.

Artists were selected by a panel of 30 highly-acclaimed curators from around the world including the Guggenheim’s Nancy Spector, the Serpentine’s Hans Ulrich-Obrist and MoCA Tokyo’s Yuko Hasegawa. According to David Dehaeck, co-founder of the biennale, the aim of the online exhibition is to provide a platform for artists in remote countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iran.

Entry costs to the biennale which opens on 26 April is $80 in the first week and $8 thereafter until October when the exhibition will be available for free as an archive. “The one week preview is for the really serious collectors who want to discover new young talent,” said Dehaeck.