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The Russian exhibitions will be accompanied by the non-thematic, biennial Discoveries of the Meeting Place exhibit of works by 10 artists selected by multiple curators from the 2010 portfolio review, The Meeting Place.
"Russia's long and important history in photography is known primarily through the famous avant-garde period of Russian constructivism of the 1920s and early 30s, with names such as Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky. But very little is known about the avant-garde photography that continued after World War II in the shadow of socialist realism," says Wendy Watriss, FotoFest Co-founder and Senior Curator. "This largely unknown work is the link to the strong creative photography that emerged almost immediately under Perestroika in the 1980s and 90s and continues to this day. Today, contemporary Russian photography is very strong but few of its artists are known internationally."
The FotoFest 2012 Biennial will showcase contemporary photo-related art and video in Russia as well as important examples of post WWII photographic art from the late 1950s to 1990s.
FotoFest Co-founders and Creative Directors Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin will collaborate with the internationally known, independent Russian curators Evgeny Berezner and Irina Tchmyreva , and their media partner, Natalia Tarasova, in curating the Russian exhibitions for the FotoFest 2012 Biennial.
Evgeny Berezner is Deputy Director General in charge of photography and multi-media projects of the ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. He has curated more than 250 shows of contemporary and classical Russian photography as well as exhibits by non-Russian artists. His writing on Russian photography has been widely published. He is a co-editor from Russia of the international photography magazine, IMAGO.
Irina Tchmyreva , Ph.D is a senior researcher of photography at the Department of Russian Art of the 20th Century in the State Research Institute of Art History of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. She has written widely on Russian photography. She is a member of the editorial boards of European Photography magazine in Germany, Fotografía Kwartalnik in Poland and IMAGO in the Slovak Republic. She was the invited guest editor for the Russian issue of Ojo de Pez publication. She has co-curated many exhibits of Russian photography with Evgeny Berezner, and she is the art director of the international festival of photography, PhotoVisa, in southern Russia.
FotoFest has an active history of collaboration and exchange with Russian artists, curators and art institutions. In 1992, FotoFest organized an exhibition of the leading avant-garde Soviet magazine publication, USSR in Construction, with the original magazines from private collections. The striking and bitingly critical works by contemporary Russian photographers of the late 1980s and 1990s were featured by FotoFest in Soviet Manifest o.
For the FotoFest 2002 Biennial, Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin worked with Evgeny Berezner and Irina Tchmyreva to organize and present the first comprehensive exhibition of Russian Pictorialism since the 1930s. In 2002-2003, they worked together to take four FotoFest-curated exhibitions and the exhibit Here Is New York, 9-11 to three Russian citiesMoscow, Samara and Togliatti. The FotoFest exhibits included a selection of international works curated by FotoFest from its first Biennial in 1986 through its 2002 Biennial; a selection of works from the Discoveries of the Meeting Place, FotoFest's international portfolio review; and two exhibitions by three nationally known artists working in Houston MANUAL - Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom; and George Krause. In the FotoFest 2004-2006 Biennials, FotoFest featured nine contemporary Russian photographers in exhibitions curated by FotoFest.
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