From September 19 to October 5 in Ivanovo with the information support of BURO. The festival of contemporary art “The First Avant-garde Factory” will be held for the sixth time. The main events will take place in the central locations of the city: in the art space of the Ivanovo railway station, the Museum and Exhibition Center, the Museum of Industry and Art, the Philharmonic, the Center of Culture and Recreation, etc.
Some of the events will take place in public spaces: the atriums of the Silver City shopping centre and the Textile Profi textile centre, as well as in the Sovremennik city café. A special event is also planned in Palekh at the “Object.Object” gallery. The headliners of the musical programme will be “Date”, the Molot ensemble, pianist Igor Yakovenko and MASM (Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble).
A special place is occupied by the project “First Matter” – an educational art laboratory for students of the School of Photography and Multimedia named after A. Rodchenko, as well as artists and photographers from the city of Ivanovo. The result of the art laboratory will be a collective exhibition at the Museum of Industry and Art.
The festival is supported by the Government of the Ivanovo Region and the Regional Centre for the Development of Tourism and Hospitality. The central exhibition projects of the festival are Ivan Gorshkov’s project “Heart” in the art space of the Ivanovo railway station and the international art project “India. The Rhythm That Shapes Life” in the Museum and Exhibition Centre.
Let us recall that last year, within the framework of the contemporary art festival “The First Avant-garde Factory” in Ivanovo, the exhibition “Sympathetic Interactions” was held at the Museum and Exhibition Centre.