The first festival was implemented in 2004, then called Artcontcept.

The following festivals were held in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010. In 2008 the festival was renamed Artzond.

Festival ARTZOND is a real independent Fest, as for all the time of the event, we could not get any financial supporting from the authorities, although we applied for grants to the Department of Culture in Saint-Petersburg (2008 and 2010). The costs of holding the festival always were minimal, and it was support of some people who are not indifferent to the process of formation of the environment of conceptual art in Russia, and also contributions of participants (authors) of festival.

We decided to revive this project, as we believe that the process of formation of conceptual art is still a relevant.Remains an "open" question - What is actually and what must be a "conceptual", nor only under the terms but in a fact ??

A rhetorical question, and there are many opinions and positions on this matter, known approvals by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys, the masters in this field. But the world is moving and time did not stop. And we want to show and understand how the process is moving steadily forward, and is it moving at all, and whether updates (upgrades) theory and practice.