Expanding Space: Out of the Centre

Expanding Space is a large-scale continuation of the V–A–C project of the same name in 2015-16, whereby contemporary artists developed works for the urban environment, producing pieces from scaffolding to street signs and metro station installations. This time round, selected artists are working further afield on the outskirts of the city, with a variety of local institutions and associations including libraries, cinemas, chess clubs, public squares and houses of culture, in order to get to know these communities and create new cultural opportunities.

The main goal of ‘Expanding Space: Out of the Centre’ is to broaden the focus of existing local activities towards more open and social participative practices as well as exploring their potential and meaning within the local context. V–A–C will run seven programmes over several months, which will see musicians, theatre directors, filmmakers and performers work together with residents of the different Moscow districts.

Website of the project (Russian only)

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2009–2021

2009–2019: 10 years V–A–C

V–A–C Foundation was established in Moscow in 2009 by Leonid Mikhelson and Teresa Iarocci Mavica, who has been Director of the Foundation since its inception. V–A–C produces new culture together with artists and audiences alike. It is a platform for open discussion aimed at redefining the contemporary landscape. Working with local communities, V–A–C promotes its exhibition, publishing, performative and learning programmes beyond all disciplinary boundaries and thus constantly resets the coordinates for dialogue within a new global geography. This methodology is applied in all V–A–C initiatives, taking place in its Venetian space, through international, cross-institutional partnerships and in its future home for arts and culture in Moscow, GES-2.

Contact

V–A–C Foundation

Gogolevsky Boulevard 11
floor 8, Moscow 119019 Russia
+7 (495) 980-97-60
v-a-c@v-a-c.org

V–A–C Zattere

Dorsoduro 1401
30123 Venice, Italy

  • Vaporetto Stops: San Basilio or Zattere
  • Currently closed (in accordance with Covid-19 safety regulations)

+39 041 0996840
v-a-c@v-a-c.org


Press / Development:

International

Helen Weaver
V–A–C Director of Communications
and Development
+44 (0)7772 159219
helen.weaver@v-a-c.org

Press Material and Images:
Anna Viani
anna.viani@v-a-c.org

Russia

Egor Khlystov
egor.khlystov@v-a-c.org

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