NUR is an annual international media art festival held in Kazan. Since 2021, it has brought together over 300 media artists, musicians and performers from 31 countries who have created works in 35 locations across the city, including UNESCO monuments.
The fourth edition of the NUR was held for the first time in spring, from 24 to 26 May. The program was unprecedented in terms of the number of locations involved: installations, exhibitions, mapping shows and educational events took place in 17 points of the city simultaneously. The music program of the festival was formed as an independent project — the night of electronic music TON, which took place on two specially created stages in the former space of the OBI store in MEGA.
The third edition of the NUR festival ran from September 7 to September 10. The launch of the rich program was preceded by a large-scale opening show on the territory of the Savin City quarter with participation of guest musicians: Erika Lundmoen, Nikola Melnikov and the LS Orchestra. The world premiere of the B#ffffffffff installation, created especially for the building under construction in the Savin Premier residential complex, took place within the framework of the event. Another feature of the — updating the format of the music program: for the first time it took place not in a club space, but in the reimagined underbelly of the current soccer stadium.
The second NUR took place exactly one year after the first one. The festival concept and general program content remained the same, but the team started to experiment with formats and used more «closed» locations. The special features of the second NUR were a mapping show and opening of the first offline NFT-shop in Russia with works of 10 local artists.
The first NUR festival took place on September 10-12, 2021 2021. The three-day program included installations, an exhibition of digital and video art, a display of digital art on the city's largest media facade, a party on two stages, audiovisual performances, a plastic performance, the premiere of the documentary «Prometheus. Poem of Kazan Fire» and lectures by industry experts.
