“Our bodies are sofas on which we sit, and the sofas are in the us”. The meetings with contemporary art in the Heart “Zaria” are just as easy and natural for a cup of delicious coffee, a session of the game “Mafia”, together with friends and new acquaintances. In the warm light spacious factory loft, you can work in the area of free wi-fi or browse through the latest new books, sit at the table for big companies or in the cosy double sun lounger. From 1 August, 7 days a week, anytime from noon until late in the evening in the center of the “Zaria “you can look at art, listen to and read about him, to touch, to discuss, to learn and to participate in its creation.
Center “Zaria” is a non – profit institution created to promote the best achievements of modern culture of Russia and the world in Vladivostok, support local young artists. The center aims to become an independent platform for the development of local creative ideas in the process of effective dialogue with the world’s leading professionals in the field of contemporary art, design, architecture, cinema, literature, theatre, music and new media.
The projects of the Center of contemporary art “Zaria” are held under the flag of experimental techniques for interaction between artists and audience performances, open creative workshops, interactive installations, sessions, art therapy, projects, work – in – progress, is aimed at the development of active perception on the part of the audience and stimulating the younger generation of authors to search and choose your own style and format of the work in the context of current world trends.
“Zaria” invites to cooperation of representatives from various fields of contemporary art at the age of 35 years – every month we present a new exhibition from the cycle “Names”, and by the end of year one of the 12 artists will receive a grant to create a new work for the permanent collection of the “Zaria”.
One of the key elements of the exhibition programme of the Center is a mobile art compact format – we’ll bring the city microart (miniature work, traveling bags by famous artists towards the hard – to – reach audience), as well as large – scale installations, site-specific, which the authors reproduce again from materials available at each stop.
In the framework of the educational programme visitors Center “Zaria” will have lectures on the history and theory of contemporary art, design clothing and accessories, literature, theatre, music and other creative industries; film screenings artistic and documentary films in the original language with subtitles; touring shows fresh hits thematic film festivals, as well as annual project an Artist Focus Series – review of the main samples of world art, initiated by the Centre “Zaria” together with Artprojx Cinema.