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Bart De Baere talks about the 6th Moscow Biennale
How to Gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of Eurasia – Bart De Baere talks about the 6th Moscow Biennale Interview by Sam Steverlynck The 6th Moscow Biennale was not your average...
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The Venice Biennale and the Art Market, the Venice Biennale as an Art Market: Anatomy of a Complex Relationship 3-5 February 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Wednesday 3rd February 2016 Location: 11 Bedford...
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The world’s hottest and coolest biennials are set to open in early 2017
Amongst increasing interest in environmental conditions and challenges brought about by the climate change, 2017 will see the emergence of two new biennial exhibitions set in extreme weather...
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Biennialgram from the Marrakech Biennale 6
Bonjour! Morning air on the way from our hotel to the “Not New Now” or the sixth Marrakech Biennale was filled with a mixture of hot dust, a motor rollers’ loud noise and a delicate smell of spices....
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What are we building down there? – Interview with Niels Van Tomme, curator of...
Interview by Laura Herman In a valiant effort to reimagine what a biennale can be, the seventh edition of Bucharest’s Biennale for Contemporary Art What are we building down there? comes with a concept...
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Ecology and Catastrophe: Biennialgram from the 32nd São Paulo Biennial
Contentious displays of artists’ ethical and political positions became commonplace in the recent São Paulo Biennial openings. In 2006, Guaraná Power, a work by Danish collective Superflex denouncing...
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11th Gwangju Biennale: A field report, or ‘what do biennials do?’
Amidst atmospheres of uncertainty and infrastructural precarity, the number and scale of biennales has seen an exponential increase over the last 30 years. The Gwangju Biennale – Asia’s largest and...
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Biennialgram from the 1st Yinchuan Biennale “For an Image, Faster than Light”
The First Yinchuan Biennale titled “For an Image, Faster than Light” opened to the public on 10th September 2016 at the Yinchuan MOCA. Situated amongst the expansive green fields and wetlands which...
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Biennialgram from the 11th Shanghai Biennale
Curated by artist’s collective Raqs Media Collective, the 11th Shanghai Biennale takes its starting point as the question “Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories”. A multifarious...
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Biennials: Four Fundamentals, Many Variations
When we look back at the century plus history of recurrent survey exhibitions of contemporary art––those we call biennials, triennials, and (at Kassel, itself expanding) documentas––we can see that...
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Biennialgram from Suzhou Documents
Less than an hour on a bullet train North-West of Shanghai, in one of the most densely populated parts of the planet, lies the birthplace of Wu culture, the ancient city of Suzhou. First inhabited over...
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Timely Provocations: The 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Far from the recognised centres of contemporary art of Mumbai and Delhi, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale has generated a great deal of interest among the art fraternity. Now into its third edition, the...
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The fifth edition of the Singapore Biennale: It could be worse
Sam, the invigilator watching over Han Sai Por’s apocalyptic expanse of charcoal logs at the Singapore Biennale has a similar look on his face to that of Don McCullin’s Shellshocked US Marine. He’s...
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Ebbs and Flows at Sharjah Biennial 13 – Tamawuj
Between 500-1000 CE, ships traveled from what is now China, stopping on the coasts of Vietnam, Sumatra, and India on their way to various ports of call along the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea coast, or...
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Making Place: a report on the first Kathmandu Triennale
Outsiders occupy a unique position to look in, to observe or to critique. Patterns and characteristics that are unrecognisable or even irrelevant to insiders come to the fore; insights gained and...
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Winter in America: The 2017 Whitney Biennial
The initial reception of the current Whitney Biennial was almost exclusively positive. In the days after the press preview, prominent critics agreed that the exhibition—the first since the museum...
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The Art of the Possible: With and Against documenta 14
1. Is documenta now too big to fail? In some sense this is undeniable: given the tremendous amount of financial and cultural capital at stake, it’s almost inevitable that the exhibition will manage to...
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Exodus: the 4th Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art
Artist Anne Murray, talks to Sadek Rahim and Tewfik Ali Chaouche, curators and co-founders of the Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art of Oran, about the past, present and future of the Algerian...
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Getting INto Dak’Art 2018
The 13th edition of the Dak’Art Biennial explores the contingencies of exhibition-as-novel, the curatorial approach taken by its Artistic Director Simon Njami. Known as one of the luminaries of the...
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Banu Cennetoğlu’s Memorial to Dead Migrants vandalized at Liverpool Biennial
In the wake of Brexit and the focus on curbing the migration of the current UK cabinet, the work of the Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu was one of the most pointful pieces produced for the 2018...
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