Kyiv Contemporary Art Fair Gathered 200,000 Art-Lovers From all Over the World

KIEV, Ukraine, November 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Attracting nearly
200,000 visitors from all over the world, the Art-Kyiv Contemporary Art Fair
is recognized as one of the biggest in Eastern Europe. The festival took
place on November 9 – 14 and was hosted in the historical building of Art
Arsenal, one of the largest exhibition areas in the world.

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This year the Art-Kyiv Contemporary Art Fair featured a variety of
collections presented by the contemporary art galleries from Berlin, Paris,
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine. The festival was
also marked by a number of special projects performed by renowned world
artists, such as Rochus Aust (Germany), the author of the visual shows and
electronic poetry; German art duo Molitor & Kuzmin; the stars of street art -
Zevs (France), Incubus Project and Spy (Russia), the leaders of the Ukrainian
young art scene Zanna Kadyrova, Hamlet Zinkovskyi, Anatoly Belov, Vladimir
Kuznetsov, Zinaida Likhachova, Nikita Kadan, and Group of Objects; street art
activities Homer, Vova Vorotniov etc.

During the International Roundtable Discussion “Museum in the
Contemporary Context”, held at the festival’s opening, the newest practical
groundwork was introduced by the representatives of the world’s leading
museums, notably Dr. Valerie Hillings, Curator of Guggenheim Museum, New
York; Dr. Peter Noever, Director of the Museum of Aplied Arts, Vienna; Dr.

An exclusive film about street art “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, by the
world famous British underground graffiti artist Banksy, was presented within
the framework of the street-art and media-art project . Another guest of the
festival, the legendary “sprayer from Zurich” Harald Naegeli, demonstrated
jointly with the group Rochus Aust music performances during the opening of
the festival.

Natalia Zabolotna, the General Director of Art Arsenal, stressed the
importance of the Art-Kyiv Contemporary Art Fair for Ukraine, saying: “We
need to promote our native art at the world cultural arena and with time to
be at the top of it.” The zest of the fair this year was the unique
atmosphere of the historical building of the Art Arsenal complex, one of the
most attractive cultural sites in Ukraine with prospects to become a
large-scale museum and exhibition center in Europe.

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