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Festival of Contemporary Russian Art opens in Dresden

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Festival of Contemporary Russian Art opens in Dresden


10.01.2020

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Performances, concerts, exhibitions, art projects, film screenings and lectures were included in the program of the Karussell - Contemporary Positions of Russian Art Festival, which will be held for the first time at the European Center for the Arts in Dresden from January 10 to 25, Berlin24 reports.

About 150 artists and scientists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Kazan, Novosibirsk and Rostov-on-Don will present their works in Germany. The large-scale festival will be held at the expense of organizations in Germany and Saxony.

Most of the festival’s events will be shown to the German audience for the first time. The festival will help art lovers from Germany and other European countries get acquainted with the work of the most prominent representatives of Russian contemporary culture.

The festival will be opened by Vladimir Rannev’s opera Prose, which received the Golden Mask award last year. Ksenia Shachneva’s production 147, the play by Timofei Kulyabin Children of the Sun, the performance of the artist Polina Kardymon Koromysli, as well as other performances and concerts, will also be held on the site of the Dresden art center.

Within the framework of the festival, several discussion platforms will open. The program includes the Theater Forum with the participation of representatives of theaters of Russia and Germany and a discussion on Russian-German relations. Scientists from two countries will gather at it.

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