DAVID ELLIOTT NAMED CURATOR OF KIEV BIENNALE

British curator, writer, and lecturer David Elliott has been appointed curator of the inaugural International Biennale of Contemporary Art, in Kiev. The biennale will be held in the Mystetskyi Arsenal, an eighteenth-century garrison. Elliott has been the director of the Museum of Modern Art from 1976 to 1996, director of the Moderna Musset from 1996 to 2001, founding director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo from 2001 to 2006, and the first director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in 2007.

Elliott stated, “In my opinion, the international art community’s perception of Ukraine as some kind of a post-Soviet hinterland has changed. It is therefore a great challenge for me to organize the first Ukrainian Biennale, [which] not only opens the unique space of Mystetskyi Arsenal to the world, but also offers a new vision of the country, its art, and its place in the world.”