August 24 | Dimitri Rybolovlev in hot water

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The never-ending saga continues with more updates from the Rybolovlev-Bouvier scandal! In other news, the Moscow Biennial has announced the program for its upcoming edition, whilst the MoMA PS1 has strengthened its curatorial team.

The Bouvier Affair: Dimitri Rybolovlev too close to the Monaco police?

In february 2015, Yves Bouvier travelled to Monaco to meet with Dimitri Rybolovlev, who was helping him constitute a major art collection. On that same day, however, the world’s largest art transporter was arrested by the Monaco police.

We have since learnt that Yves Bouvier fell into a trap orchestrated by the Russian billionaire, who was working the Monaco police. Rybolovlev’s scheme could cost him a custodial sentence of a year at the very least. More via Bilan.

 

 

Seventh Moscow Biennial reveals its program

The seventh Moscow Biennial, taking place between September 19 and January 18, 2018, will welcome 52 artists to its main section.

Curated by Yuko Hasegawa with the theme “Clouds ⇄ Forests”, the biennial will explore the possibility of “a new eco-system formed through a circulation of ‘Cloud Tribes,’ who were born on the Internet cloud space, and ‘Forest Tribes’ who are born on cultural origins.” Among the artists who will show at the Tretyakov Gallery are Matthew Barney, Pierre Huyghe, Farah Atassi, Olafur Eliasson, Cécile B. Evans, Laure Prouvost and Björk. More information via Art News.

 

Pierre Huyghe (Sans titre) Masque humain [(Untitled) Human Mask], 2014

 

 

A new curator for MoMA PS1

 

Ruba Katrib, who has been serving as curator of Long Island’s SculptureCenter since September 2012, is to join the curatorial team of MoMA PS1 on October 15. Chief curator Peter Eleey has described Katrib’s practice as one that “seeks connections between the conditions of life and the thicket of ideas and conversations that shape contemporary art, with a generosity that encourages audiences to share in her thinking.” More via Artforum.