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15.05.2013

Biennial Foundation is happy to announce the publication and launch of the book “Shifting Gravity” on the 30th of May at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

Biennial Foundation is happy to announce the publication and launch of the book “Shifting Gravity” on the 30th of May at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

Edited by:
Hou Hanru
Ute Meta Bauer

Following:
World Biennial Forum No1, Gwangju, October 2012
www.worldbienniaforum.org

Published by:
Gwangju Biennale Foundation
Hatje Cantz Verlag

Launch:
55th Venice Biennale
May 30, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, Crozzola Hall

Distributed by:
www.hatjecantz.de

The thriving of art biennials over the past three decades across the globe—and most notably in Asia—provokes a shift away from the traditional centers of contemporary art. The rise of biennials signifies a new cultural phenomenon that changes the way we understand the relationship between artistic creation, institutions, localities, and social relations. Through biennials, contemporary art from all over the world is presented to a traveling group of art professionals, but more importantly to a wide audience of an unprecedented scale. Initiated by the Biennial Foundation and hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation in South Korea, the inaugural World Biennial Forum investigated this multiplicity of new centers and gravities along with the heterogeneous practices in art biennials today.

Edited by Ute Meta Bauer and Hou Hanru, co-directors of the World Biennial Forum Nº 1—Shifting Gravity, this publication collects the presentations and discussions developed during the forum.
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04.02.2013

Biennial Foundation speaks with Liverpool Biennial’s Program Director Paul Domela on the specificities of this biennial, the largest international contemporary art festival in the UK.

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BTV is Biennial Foundation‘s ongoing series of interviews with directors of contemporary art biennials. The series gives insight to the origins, mission and developments of biennials and sheds light on specific features.

Biennial Foundation speaks with the Liverpool Biennial’s Program Director Paul Domela on the various specificities and characteristics of the Liverpool Biennial, as well as on his views and knowledge on the biennial as an exhibition platform in general.

Paul Domela is an Advisory Committee Member of Biennial Foundation.
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01.05.2013

Positive outcome of Biennial Foundation’s letter of support for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India.

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012. Image: Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Kochi-Muziris Biennale has ensured renewed State support.
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21.01.2013

In an open letter undersigned by biennial institutions and related practitioners, Biennial Foundation asks the Kerala Government and the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi to renew financial support for the first biennial of contemporary art in India.

The letter has circulated among all participants of the World Biennial Forum No1 that took place in Gwangju, South Korea in October 2012, and which was attended by over seventy international biennale institutions and representatives.

The initiative can be seen as one of the first outcomes of the World Biennial Forum, where it was jointly agreed to create a stronger professional alliance and a support system amongst biennial colleagues around the world.
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24.04.2013

Biennial Foundation supports the fundraising process of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is collaborating on a Roundtable Discussion in Sarajevo.

Biennial Foundation is happy to announce the second edition of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground in Bosnia and Herzegovina curated by Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi.

The Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground is run by a team committed to promoting solidarity, peace and reconciliation in the war torn area. The aim of this biennial is to re-establish broken ties within the region.

Acknowledging the significance of this biennial, Biennial Foundation has modestly contributed to the fundraising process for the second edition, and is collaborating on a Roundtable Discussion as part of the Public Program during the opening days.

2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground

Dates: April 26 – September 26, 2013

Opening: April 26th, 2013, 11am – 4pm
Tito’s Nuclear Bunker, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Public Program: April 23 – 27, 2013
Venue: Adil Zulfikarpasic Bosniak Institute Foundation, Sarajevo

The first phase of the Public Program is designed to engage the local art community with the participating biennial artists, including: Banu Cennetoğlu, Conor McGrady, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Paul Devens, Laibach, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Dalibor Martinis, Renata Poljak, Simona Dumitriu, Stealth.unlimited, and Yane Calovski.

The second phase presents a Roundtable Discussion, which focusses on issues of the role of biennials as institutional models, the responsibilities of curators, the educational input of biennials, and the precarious role of labor in art. With: Iara Boubnova, Ute Meta Bauer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Pelin Tan, and Anton Vidokle, moderated by the curators of the biennial: Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi along with Marieke van Hal of Biennial Foundation, who will make an introduction.

Roundtable Discussion: 4 PM, April 27, 2013. Venue: Adil Zulfikarpasic Bosniak Institute Foundation, Sarajevo. Language: Bosnian and English. Entrance: Open to the public and free of charge.

11.12.2012

Biennial Foundation and Kochi-Muziris Biennale present ‘Site Imaginaries’, a two-day symposium on the occasion of the inauguration of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first biennial of contemporary art.

Biennial Foundation and Kochi-Muziris Biennale present Site Imaginaries, a two-day symposium on the occasion of the inauguration of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s first biennale of contemporary art.

Dates: 15th & 16th December, 2012

Venue: Outset Carnoustie Pavilion, Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India

Language: English

Symposium Topics:

The Biennale in the Indian Context –
Perceptions of Change and Realities of Exposition.
Knocking Down Roadblock.
Biennale as Imaginary: An Artist Prepares.
New Beginnings.
Biennale as a cultural exercise.
Artist as social commentator: generating discourse.

Participants:

Aman Mojadidi, Amar Kanwar, Ariel Hassan, Ashok Sukumaran (Camp), Clifford Charles, Shahidul Alam, Gayatri Sinha, Geeta Kapur, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Jonas Staal, Joseph Semah, Marieke van Hal, Nalini Malani, Nancy Adajania, Paul Domela, Ranjit Hoskote, Riyas Komu, Robert Montgomery, Sarat Maharaj, Tasneem Mehta, Vivan Sundaram, Vivek Vilasini.

Site Imaginaries:

The Kochi Muziris Biennale actively engages the rich domain of cosmopolitanism and modernity that is rooted in the lived and living experience of this old trading port, which, for more than six centuries, has been a crucible of numerous communal identities.

It is necessary to explore and retrieve memories in the current global context to posit alternatives to political and cultural discourses, and build a platform for dialogue for a new aesthetics and politics rooted in the Indian experience.

From a global perspective we also need to examine the artist as manifest in expanding geographies, and a redefinition of the regions of art. The two-day international symposium to coincide with the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale will discuss these issues pertinent to the biennale.
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