In the series of Biennial Foundation Talks: “Who Funds the Arts and Why we Should Care”, a professional meeting conceived and convened by Biennial Foundation at the upcoming ARCOmadrid, 2015.

Who Funds the Arts and Why we Should Care.

A professional meeting conceived and convened by Biennial Foundation at the upcoming ARCOmadrid, taking place from 25 February – 1 March, 2015.

Date: Saturday 28 February 2015.
Time: 4 pm.

The recent editions of some of the major contemporary art biennials were marked by serious dilemmas and conflicts leading to breaking, or at least weakening, the relations between their various stakeholders: publics, artists, curators, organizers, commissioners and/or sponsors. These events urge us to reconsider how we think about biennials.

This discussion aims to provide an opportunity for international colleagues to talk about the difficulties and realities in the making of biennials internationally. It will focus especially on issues of funding, questioning what effects financial resources have on supposedly independent curatorial and artistic narratives of major cultural events.

Participants:

Olga Hatzidaki – Moderator – Curator Biennial Foundation, Athens.

Rachel Spence – Art Critic Financial Times – Author of ‘Who funds the arts and why we should care’.

Khalil Rabah – artist, founder of the Riwaq Biennale in Palestine – Challenging what a biennial can be.

Galit Eilat – co-curator of the 31st Bienal de São Paulo – How to …….. fund biennials? Assessing the 31st Bienal.

Maria Papadimitriou – artist, representing Greece at the 56th Venice Biennale – towards the Greek pavilion.

Koyo Kouoh– curator, director Raw Material Company, Dakar – on funding African biennials and art events, the relation to the West.

Alevtina Kakhidze – artist from Ukraine – the politics of participation, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg.

Annette Kulenkampff – CEO documenta – on learning from Athens.

Marieke van Hal – Moderator – Director Biennial Foundation, Berlin.

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How to ..

How to enter 2015?

The 31st São Paolo Bienal book to browse and download.

The perfect e-present to share with you at the beginning of the new year.

Enjoy the reading!
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The World Biennial Forum No 2 will look at the biennial from the point of view of the southern hemisphere. It will concentrate above all on recent biennials, and in what has come to be termed the ‘Global South’, occasionally taking a broader perspective to investigate how we have arrived here.

World Biennial Forum No 2

How to Make Biennials in Contemporary Times

26-30 November, 2014
Auditório Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil

Directed by: Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, and Benjamin Seroussi.

Hosted by the 31st Bienal de São Paulo

WBF No 2 includes the voices of curators and researchers who are looking at the
changes within the landscape and ecology of the biennial at the present time.

Guest of Honor: Ivo Mesquita

Keynote Speech: Peter Osborne

Speakers: Martin Grossmann, Lucy Steeds, Anthony Gardner, Fernando Oliva, Moacir dos Anjos, Reem Fadda, Marina Fokidis, Fabio Cypriano, Ana Paula Cohen, Ivo Mesquita, Anne Szefer Karlsen, David Teh, Manuela Moscoso, Ana Magalhães, Övül Durmusoglu, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and Cayo Honorato.

Respondents: Koyo Kouoh, Azar Mahmoudian, Combiz Mousavi Aghdam, Patrick Mudekereza, Yvette Mutumba, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Eva Scharrer, Alya Sebti, and Suzana Sousa.

Opening: November, 26
Discussions & workshops: November 27, 28
Visit to 31st Bienal: November 29
Visit to other venues in SP: November 30

Free entrance
Registration via the website
www.worldbiennialforum.org
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ARTE!Brasileiros becomes media partner for World Biennial Forum No 2.

World Biennial Forum No 2 announces media partnership with ARTE!Brasileiros

ARTE!Brasileiros is a bimonthly bi-lingual magazine on Brazilian and international art. It is also known for the International Seminar ARTE!Brasileiros, gathering experts from Brazil and abroad to discuss actual topics in the field of contemporary art. The International Seminar ARTE!Brasileiros is co-organized with Latitude: Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad.
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The World Biennial Forum No 2 ‘How to Make Biennials in Contemporary Times’ will look at biennial from the point of view of the southern hemisphere.

World Biennial Forum 2
How to make Biennials in Contemporary Times

São Paulo, Brazil
November 26 – 30, 2014

Venue: Auditório Ibirapuera

The Forum will run alongside the 31st Bienal de São Paulo curated by Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente, Oren Sagiv, Benjamin Seroussi and Luiza Proença who will also function as the Forum’s Artistic Directors.

Organized by:
Biennial Foundation
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
ICCo – Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea

2014 has heralded what seems to be a reawakening of potential in international art biennials. From Istanbul to Sydney and Saint Petersburg, an exhibition form that was threatening to slide into neoliberal conformism has again become the site of conflict and controversy.

While the dilemmas of each biennial has its own origins, these developments will, in general, bring a renewed engagement with the symbolic value of biennials and the ways they can be contested in public. It is in this spirit of questioning and provoking the concept of the biennial, that the Forum has been assembled.

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Why Biennial? Why Associate? Biennial Foundation welcomes you to join the Conference and First General Assembly of the International Biennial Association (IBA) in Berlin.

International Biennial Association (IBA) – Conference.

Biennial Foundation is pleased to announce the Conference and First General Assembly of the International Biennial Association (IBA), which will be held in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) on the 10th – 13th of July, 2014 during the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

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