06 May 2015

Biennial Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the book ‘Making Biennials in Contemporary Times’ on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the Brazilian Pavilion in Venice.

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Biennial Foundation is pleased to announce the book launch of:

Making Biennials in Contemporary Times

As biennials have sought renewal of their formats, so their theorists and curators have sought to renew their histories, looking to other times and other places as inspiration for reimagining biennials past and present. (Anthony Gardner and Charles Green).

Friday, 8 May, 2015. 14:00h.

Giardini Castello, the Brazilian Pavilion, Venice

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

Authors: Moacir dos Anjos, Ana Paula Cohen, Fabio Cypriano, Övül Durmusoglu, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marina Fokidis, Anthony Gardner, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Charles Green, Cayo Honorato, Manuela Moscoso, Fernando Oliva, Peter Osborne, Daniel Rangel, Lucy Steeds, Anne Szefer Karlsen, David Teh.

Publishers: Biennial Foundation, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, ICCo – Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea.

The book is made in digital format and will be available free of charge online after the launch.

Image: Installation view of Juraci Dórea’s Projeto Terra (1981-1988), the Brazilian Pavilion at the 43rd Biennale di Venezia, 1988).

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03 Mar 2015

World Biennial Forum No 2 – Recordings of the lectures and talks available for the wider audience.

The World Biennial Forum No 2: online

The World Biennial Forum No 2 can now be viewed online. The Forum took place from November 26 – 30, 2014, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Taking the idea of the Global South as a starting point, the World Biennial Forum No 2 looked at how this geography shapes the current condition of world biennials.

Watch the recordings of the lectures and talks of the World Biennial Forum No 2.

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20 Nov 2014

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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29 Aug 2014

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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21 Jun 2014

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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