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In the frames of the year «France-Russia 2010» the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts presents the following projects:

Festival unites several generations of musicians and artists, introducing a present-day range of trends and technologies of the Kaliningrad electronic music scene: from dance to sound art, from lo-fi to media-installations.

Photos from KALININGRAD SOUND ART CAMP project are available.

KALININGRAD SOUND ART CAMP — RESIDENCE — PHOTO
KALININGRAD SOUND ART CAMP — PRESENTATION — PHOTO 

Project organisators: German cultural centre Goethe-Institut, National Centre for Contemporary Arts
Project curator: Irina Chesnokova  (KB NCCA) 

26 September – 25 October, 2009 in the frames of special programme of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art a final Russian-German exhibition of the project  «Art on Site» will take place. TheKaliningrad branch of NCCA presents Beauty and the Beast project of the art duo EMPFANGSHALLE (Corbinian Böhm and Michael Gruber) from Munich, Germany.

Report can be seen here — http://ncca-kaliningrad.ru/projects-eng/2009/beauty-and-the-beast-project/

Kalmar Konstmuseum (Sweden) in collaboration with Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts present Living in a Modern Society exhibition.

The opening of the exhibition will be held on November 13, 2009 in the Kaliningrad State Art Gallery.

International residence for sound artists
July 18-27, 2009
Kaliningrad region 

Participants: Danil Akimov  (Russia), Tautvydas Bajarkevicius  (Lithuania), Oleg Blyablyas  (Russia), Jana Winderen  (Norway), Dmitry Demidov  (Russia), Sergey Ivanov  (Russia), Tobias Kirstein  (Denmark), Andrey Kolomiytsev  (Russia), Robert Piotrowicz  (Poland), Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson  (Iceland), Maia Urstad  (Norway), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (Sweden), Vadim Chaliy  (Russia), Maksims Sentelevs  (Latvia).

Report can be seen here — http://ncca-kaliningrad.ru/projects-eng/2009/kaliningrad-sound-art-camp/

On April 24, 2009 there was a presentation of the Photofobia-2 project within the framework of the Baltic Biennale of Photography Photomania-2009 at the Kaliningrad Art Gallery.

Photofobia-2 is a program of films created on the basis of photographs. Artists working with various digital media  (animation, 3D, video, etc) were invited to take part in the project. Each participant was to fulfill the 2 main terms: provide one image for the other artist to create a film on its basis, and create a film on the basis of one image received from the other participant of the project.

Report can be seen here — http://ncca-kaliningrad.ru/projects-eng/2009/presentation-of-the-project-photophobia-2/

On April 24 at 4 p.m. there will be a presentation of solo exhibition «Baltyisk» by Anastasya Khoroshilova within the framework of the Baltic Biennale of Photography Photomania-2009 at the Kaliningrad Art Gallery. The audience got an opportunity to see the 14 photos made by the author during her visit to Baltyisk in 2005. Anastasia tried to approach the unique atmosphere of this city, that mixture of history, the army and everyday life and to explain it in visual terms.

Report can be seen here — http://ncca-kaliningrad.ru/projects-eng/2009/solo-photo-exhibition-baltyisk-by-anastasya-khoroshilova/

On April 14, 2009 at 6.30 p.m. a meeting with an artist from Berlin Shahram Entekhabi was held in the lecture hall of the Art Gallery in the framework of the education program of the Kaliningrad Branch of NCCA.

Report can be seen here — http://ncca-kaliningrad.ru/projects-eng/2009/meeting-with-the-artist-shahram-entekhabi/

On June 17, 2009 in the conference hall of the A.P.Tchekhov library a meeting with the director of the Laura Palmer Foundation Joanna Warsza  (Warsaw, Poland) was held in the framework of the educational program of the Kaliningrad Branch of NCCA.

Report can be seen here — http://ncca-kaliningrad.ru/projects-eng/2009/meeting-with-the-curator-joanna-warsza-warsaw-poland/