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Frida Kahlo Auto-biographical Artwork

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Art Books on Frida Kahlo

To celebrate her, may we suggest some excellent biographical and coffee-table art books on Frida Kahlo:

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and has been sub-divided into four evenings with different themes.

On Saturday evening, This Brunner, the Zurich film connaisseur, will present “Women Without Men” (2009) by Shirin Neshat which won the Golden Lion of the 2009 Venice Filmfestival. The evening will be followed by a Q&A with Shirin Neshat, moderated by the Swiss filmmaker Samir.

(Image: Art Basel 41)

ART BASEL ~ 41 ART FILMS ~ PROGRAM DETAILS

Tuesday, June 1

5, 10 p.m.:

And This Is How The Story Goes…

Total running time approximately 78 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde
Second screening, Wednesday, June 16, 10 a.m.
Telling stories – weird, smart, abstract, straightforward, complicated… it is the neverending fascination for the filmic narrative that connects this diverse corpus of films. In the range of different formats these works unfold the question “What is narration?”
Michaela Meise “Lettre to the Eltern” 2010 / 18′35" (Johann König)
Rä di Martino “August 2008” 2009 / 5′ (Monitor)
Guy Ben-Ner “If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate” 2009 / 16′30" (Konrad Fischer Galerie)
Mario Pfeifer “Untitled (Two Guys)” 2008 / 7′30" (Koch Oberhuber Wolff)
Korpys/Löffler “Stadt von Morgen” 2007 / 16′30" (Meyer Riegger)
Sean Snyder “Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars” 2004/2005 / 13′09" (Galerie Neu)
Sean Snyder “Afghanistan” 2009 / 2′10" (Galerie Neu)

Wednesday, June 16, 10 p.m.:

 Reference Points

Total running time approximately 71 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde
Second screening, Thursday, June 17, 10 a.m.
Relating to different dynamics of the world is one of the crucial interests in new film positions. This program brings together some of the most remarkable works that ask questions about the relation to the medium, about iconic figures, about historical aspects or just about the self.
Clemens von Wedemeyer “Found Footage (the Fourth Wall Project)” 2009 / 31′ (Galerie Jocelyn Wolff)
Ryan Gander “Basquiat” 2008 / 5′30" (gb agency)
Laurent Grasso “Satellite” 2006 / 9′50" (Sean Kelly Gallery)
Jeanne Faust “Reconstructing Damon Albarn in Kinshasa” 2010 / 9′ (Meyer Riegger)
Alexandra Leykauf “uit de bibliotheek van Wolfgang Frommelt” 2009 / 10′40" (Sassa Trülzsch)
Isabell Heimerdinger “Good Friends” 2010 / 4′30" (Mehdi Chouakri)

Thursday, June 17, 10 p.m.:

Focus Japan

Total running time approximately 61 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde in cooperation with Taka Ishii Gallery and Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Second screening, Friday, June 18, 10 a.m.
This program introduces the historical Japanese film avant-garde movement of Jikken Kobo/Experimental Workshop (1951–1958). The program subsequently presents contemporary films by both Japanese and European artists in an attempt to consider the relationship and mutual influence of a lesser-known Japanese post-war aesthetic on a present generation of artists.
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi / Toshio Matsumoto “The Silver Wheel” 1955 / 11′57"
(National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokio)
Kiyoji Otsuji “Kinecalligraph” 1955/86 / 4′26" (Taka Ishii Gallery)
Takashi Ishida “Wall of the Sean” 2007 / 12′ (Taka Ishii Gallery)
Cerith Wyn Evans “Still Life with Phrenology Head” 1979 / 14′
(Taka Ishii Gallery and Galerie Daniel Buchholz)
Ei Arakawa “Peaceboat Revisiting MRTA” 2009 / 3′26" (Taka Ishii Gallery)
Florian Pumhösl “EI335721443JP” 2010 / 15′10" (Galerie Daniel Buchholz)
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Japanese art critic Minoru Shimizu and Art Film curator Marc Glöde.
Friday, June 18, 10 p.m.: Dark, Blurred And Diffused
Total running time approximately 73 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde
Second screening, Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m.
Dark spaces and diffused atmospheres shape the works that this program brings together. From historical works to new approaches, these films lead us into spaces that range from the uncanny and the irritating to the abstract and the archival.
Gerhard Richter “Volker Bradke” 1966 / 14′32" (Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden)
Cerith Wyn Evans “I’ve been fooled by love” 2009 / 8′21" (Galerie Neu)
Tobias Zielony “Big Sexyland” 2008 / 3′10" (Koch Oberhuber Wolff)
Tobias Zielony “The Deboard” 2008 / 7′23" (Koch Oberhuber Wolff)
Gabriele Zimmermann and Helmut Nothelfer “US-Waffenschau in Berlin-West, Flughafen Tempelhof” 1972 / 7′18" (Galerie Thomas Zander)
Michael Wutz “Tales, Lies and Exaggerations” 2010 / 9′ (Aurel Scheibler)
Amy Granat “Untitled (Sabotage)” 2007 / 8′56" (Galerie Eva Presenhuber)
Hans Op de Beek “Extensions” 2009 / 10′58" (Galerie Krinzinger)
Joachim Koester “To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown necessitates an attitude of daring, but not one of recklessness (movements generated from the Magical Passes of Carlos Castaneda)” 2009 / 3′30" (Jan Mot)

ART FILMS, ART BASEL HIGHLIGHT

Saturday, June 19, 8 p.m.:

Women Without Men

Video clip (not suitable for children)

Running time 99 minutes, curated by This Brunner
Second screening, Sunday, June 20, 10 a.m.

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran’s 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Acclaimed video artist Shirin Neshat makes her directorial debut with this incisive and sumptuously filmed reflection on the pivotal moment in history that directly led to the Islamic revolution and the Iran we know today.

Shirin Neshat “Women Without Men” 2009 / 99′ (Coproduction Office)
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Shirin Neshat, moderated by the Swiss filmmaker Samir.

Part allegory, part historical drama, Women Without Men chronicles the lives of five women living in Tehran during the British- and American-backed coup of the democratically elected government in 1953. Among them are Munis, a woman struggling against the restrictions of her fundamentalist brother; Farrokhlaqa, an upper-class wife frustrated with her passionless marriage to a general; Zarin, a young sex trade worker who becomes overwhelmed by her conditions; Mahdokht, who is struggling with the loss of her virginity; and Faezeh, a women obsessed with marrying her friend Munis’ brother. Though the women’s daily lives are depicted with a grainy realism, the film eventually gives way to saturated colours and fantastical panoramas as each of the protagonists finds her way to an enchanted garden without men.

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Transat Institute offers the MFA Creative Practice, an international masters program for working artists with summer residencies in Berlin, winter residencies in New York and one-on-one advisement during two academic years – wherever students work and live.

The new MFA Creative Practice is a student-centered postgraduate art program which fosters independent thinking, risk-taking and the creation of an informed and sustainable art praxis. The Institute is also a platform for faculty to expand their teaching praxis by making space for creativity and experimentation.

Beyond its educational objectives, Trans-Art Institute is engaged in building an international community in support of students, alumni, faculty and their artistic and academic goals.

The institute offers its former students a virtual and material basis for artistic practice, the exchange of ideas, opportunities and critiques, supporting individual and collective growth beyond the duration of the program.

Despite its small size, Trans-Art Institute has become a place where the diverse and often incongruous experiences, philosophies and epistemologies of the post-colonial world can be in contact with each other.

Students are free to pursue work in any art-related genre and to create their own course of study, working independently and with the support of self-chosen studio and research advisors. Short periods of intensive residency permit students to continue with their professional work and keep a balanced personal life while participating in the program. The majority of Trans-Art students are emerging and mid-career artists and teachers at tertiary institutions. Trans-Art Institute’s residencies are a place for cultural exchange. Current students will converge for the summer residency from areas as diverse as Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Austria, Egypt, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the UK and the US.

Faculty for the coming summer includes:

Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal who has exhibited his art world wide and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal’s 2007 dynamic installation Domestic Tension placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. Newsweek called the project "breathtaking" and the Chicago Tribune called the month-long piece "one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time," and named Bilal its 2007 Artist of the Year. In fall 2008 City Lights published "Shoot an Iraqi: Life, Art and Resistance Under the Gun," about Bilal’s life and the Domestic Tension project.

Carolyn Guertin, Director of the eCreate Lab and Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also a Mentor in the de Montfort University’s Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media in the U.K. and Senior McLuhan Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She was a presenter at the Hybridities Symposium at Ars Electronica in 2005. She earned her doctorate in digital narrative at the University of Alberta in 2003, and does theoretical work on cyber-feminism, interface technologies and born-digital arts.

And Nicolás Estévez, an interdisciplinary artist working mostly in performance art and public interventions. His projects have been exhibited extensively in the US as well as internationally at venues such as Madrid Abierto/ARCO, Havana Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of the Arts, P.S.1/MoMA. In 2007 Estévez was awarded an alumni commission to present a town-wide project as part of The MacDowell Colony Centennial. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, NYArts magazine, The Boston Globe, Art Nexus, Flash Art, Cuban Arts, and in major publications in Mexico, Spain and the Dominican Republic.

All faculty bios are at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/members
The full summer program is online at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Summer

Practice-based PhD
A path to a studio-based PhD is in progress and practice-based doctoral programs are currently available through University of Plymouth. For more information or to subscribe to upcoming news about a Trans-Art Institute PhD program please contact: cella@transartinstitute.org

Summer Residency 2010: July 25 – August 13, 2010 in Berlin
Winter Residency 2011: January 6 – 9, 2011 in Brooklyn, NY
Application deadline with rolling admissions: June 1, 2010

Online application: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Pages/NewForms/ApplicationForm1.php
For more information please contact Selina Heaton: info@transartinstitute.org

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The show is called ‘ANDY WARHOL. CARS’, and holds works by Warhol, Fleury, Longo and Szarek.

The Albertina expains:

“CARS presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury, and Vincent Szarek. Common to all of the works is their examination of the history, the types, or the design of the Mercedes-Benz car.

The core of the exhibit are the thirty-five silkscreen paintings of Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) series CARS, which employ eight selected types of Mercedes to document the history of the automobile. This important late series by Warhol remained unfinished and after around twenty years is being shown again complete.

Joining this series are drawings and airbrushed paintings by Robert Longo (*1953). Videos by Sylvie Fleury (*1961) blend the myth of the legendary Mercedes-Benz automobile with some of the most contemporary ideas from the art and fashion worlds. Vincent Szarek (*1973) uses design elements from the Mercedes-Benz SLR as the starting point for his group of sculptures, which were digitally developed as a modern form of drawing, rendered with 3D programs. “

I confess that I discovered by accident that pop artist Andy Warhol made a collection of Christmas artworks, depicting a Christmas sled with presents, Christmas Wreaths, a Christmas Tree, Christmas ornaments, as well as Christmas card designs.

He made most of these in the time that he was still a commercial graphic artist, in the late ’50s. And while they can be seen as an extension of that graphic work for retailers, equally, they can be seen as ‘Happy American Christmas’- imagery, depicting on the illusion of Christmas created through shop fronts and gift cards.

Either way, the actual images themselves are very pleasing, and we use them here as our opportunity to wish all our loyal readers Happy Holidays & an Artsy New Year!

Warhol’s early Christmas Art/h2>

Boot, c.1955 Andy Warhol	Christmas Card Design , c.1956-1962 Andy Warhol
Fairy and Christmas Ornaments, c.1953-1955 Andy Warhol	Christmas Wreath, c.1958 Andy Warhol
Christmas Card Design, c.1958 Andy Warhol	Christmas Tree, c.1958 Andy Warhol
Christmas Wreath, c.1955-… Andy Warhol	Nativity, c.1957 Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s Christmas art ~ late in his career

Then, much later in his career, he revisited the Christmas theme, and made some Poinsettas designs.

Poinsettas, c.1982 (Red on green) Andy Warhol

Poinsettias, c.1983 (White on red) Andy Warhol

Other Contemporary Famous Artists on Christmas

Last year, graffiti artist Banksy went to Bethlehem and decorated the security barrier near town with a series of stencilled artworks. The year before this he did ‘Santa’s Ghetto’ back in the UK, with related artworks (a santa with a sign ‘event cancelled’).

Other contemporary artists who commented on Christmas specifically have included Henri Matisse, with his artwork ‘Christmas Eve’, which was a design for a church window. While a good part of the oeuvre of his contemporary, Marc Chagall, was religious, I could not find anyone on Christmas in particular.

Personally, I can not imagine that Jeff Koons has not yet made a huge inflatable Christmas Santa or snowman (or I overlooked it), but at least he made a limited edition Rudolf the reindeer toy, complete with red nose.

Throughout time, artists have depicted religious Christmas scenes. For example, Albert Bierstadt, Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt van Rijn, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, and many other old masters all painted the nativity scene.

Famous contemporary artists appear not as overtly spiritually inclined as their forefathers. Instead, many contemporary artists have depicted the much more neutral topic of ‘Winter’ at some stage or another.

So, to create a record of time, a future blog article on the celebration of light in winter by contemporary artists is forthcoming in January. It will feature great works by such artists as photographic genius Ansel Adams and other famous artists. Stay tuned!

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From December 3 through 6, 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, will be home to the 8th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show. More than 250 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part. Chosen by renowned galleries of the Art Basel Miami Beach Selection Committee, the galleries will show works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Special sectors are devoted to very recent artworks, curated exhibits, performance, and art in public spaces.

This year, the layout of Art Basel Miami Beach will be extensively redesigned, including larger spaces for many galleries, and an innovative floorplan to maximize the visitor experience inside the Miami Beach Convention Center. The Art Positions sector, focused on special projects by young artists and galleries, formerly situated at Collins Park, will now be sited in the center of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Galleries, the main section of the show, will again feature the Art Kabinett program, which spotlights curated presentations in the selected gallery’s booth, while Art Nova will present new works by more than 170 artists.

The totally new Oceanfront exhibition environment will be created by an artist commissioned by Creative Time, the legendary New York-based public art organization, and host a daily program including the Art Basel Conversations, Art Perform, Art Video and Art Film. Presented in the public spaces between and around the Oceanfront and the Miami Beach Convention Center, this year’s Art Projects will connect the two main areas of the show.

Occurring annually since its launch in 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 will run from December 3 through December 6, 2009, with a VIP opening on December 2. Galleries selected from 33 countries will be showcasing paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photography, editions, and videos. The show’s list of participants makes Art Basel Miami Beach the most prestigious art show of the Americas, featuring highly established galleries and the most dynamic newcomers. (Full list of art exhibitors : www.artbasel.com/sections). Prices range from a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, to several million for museum-quality masterpieces.

On the eve of the opening, prominent guests from around the world will attend the exclusive Vernissage. Many major US museums are organizing trips to Florida, and numerous groups of art collectors from Latin America and Europe have already announced their visits. During the show’s five-day run, more than 40,000 art lovers are expected to visit the international art show.

The redesign of Art Basel Miami Beach

At the center of the Miami Beach Convention Center visitors will discover a cube housing the Art Salon talks program, Art magazines, Art Institutions and two restaurants. This cube will be surrounded by the
Art Positions booths, while Art Nova will extend along a concentrated row at the south end of the halls. This new layout will improve visitor navigation and orientation within the halls, allowing more room for amenities such as restaurants and resting places, further enhancing Art Basel Miami Beach’s ability to be the best platform for its galleries. Furthermore, the Art Collectors Lounge will be significantly redesigned and enlarged, now including a restaurant with seated dining, plus lounges by our main sponsor, UBS, and the associate sponsors Cartier, NetJets and AXA Art.

Art Galleries sector

The Selection Committee – comprised of 12 renowned international gallerists – has picked more than 180 galleries for this year’s show. About half of the exhibitors come from outside the United States, with strong participation from Europe and Latin America, plus 11 galleries from Asia and two from Africa.

Art Kabinett sector

Art Kabinett gives the 25 galleries participating in the Art Galleries sector an opportunity to present small curated exhibitions, in a separately delineated space within the gallery’s booth. The exhibition concepts for Art Kabinett are diverse, including thematic group exhibitions, art-historical solo shows and showcases for rising stars.

Art Nova sector

In this year’s Art Nova sector, more than 60 emerging and established galleries from 24 countries are presenting new works, by a maximum of three artists. Recent pieces by more than 170 artists will be on display, providing visitors an opportunity for discovering pieces fresh from studios around the globe – and making the sector an ideal place to spot the newest tendencies in artistic production.

Art Positions sector

Formerly located at Collins Park, Art Positions will now be situated in the center of the exhibition halls surrounding the central cube. The sector presents 23 young galleries from 9 different countries, showcasing cutting-edge projects by single artists or conceptual group shows.

The Oceanfront

The Oceanfront area, formerly home to Art Positions, has been created as a platform for
Art Basel Miami Beach’s supplemental cultural activities. Situated directly on the beach, in the city where Latin America meets North America, the Oceanfront marks the point where the artworld interfaces with the broader public. We are delighted to have Creative Time, the legendary New York City-based public art organization, as a partner in the launching of this new dimension of Art Basel Miami Beach. Creative Time curator Meredith Johnson will commission an artist to design the central element of this space, and commission an artist DJ to provide music for this site of public interaction.

Free of any admission charge, the Oceanfront offers visitors many opportunities. In the mornings, they can attend the discussion panels of the Art Basel Conversations series, featuring prominent figures from every artworld domain. And every night during Art Basel Miami Beach, it will feature a special art event. The series of events will be inaugurated by the annual Art Loves Music concert on the beach, followed by the Art Perform program curated by Jens Hoffmann of the Wattis Institute; the Art Video program curated by Creative Time and the Art Film evening curated by This Brunner. Rounding out the experience, the Oceanfront Cafe will offer visitors the possibility to have light meals and refreshing drinks.

Art Projects

Art Projects, this year curated for the first time by Patrick Charpenel of Guadalajara, Mexico, features projects by internationally renowned artists, selected from proposals by the galleries of
Art Basel Miami Beach and installed in the outdoor public spaces of Miami Beach, within close proximity to Oceanfront area and the Miami Beach Convention Center. These works engage directly with the spectator, interrupting the daily routine of passersby in poetic, and surprising ways.

Art Perform

Based at the Oceanfront, Art Perform now features an intensified program of longer performances by rising international artists. As in former years, this program will be conceived by curator Jens Hoffmann, director of the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco. It will take place on Thursday and Saturday at 9 pm during the show.

Art Video

Art Video is a video program curated by Creative Time including discussions with artists and curators active in the field. The program will take place on Thursday and Saturday from 7 – 8.30 pm during the show.

Art Film

Art Film is an evening devoted to a single film with strong artworld connections, curated by Zurich film connaisseur This Brunner, followed by a panel with a selection of participants. Art Film takes place on Friday at 8.30 pm.

Art Basel Conversations

Now located at the Oceanfront, Art Basel Conversations offers audiences access to first-hand information on important aspects of the international artworld. This year’s topics include “Museum Directors: Change in Generation”, “Art Collections in Latin America” and “The Future of the Museum: The Portable Museum”. Distinguished artists, art collectors, museum directors, curators, critics, gallerists, publishers, and others active in the cultural sphere take part. There is also time allotted after each Art Basel Conversation for the audience to engage with the panel in a more informal fashion.

Art Salon

Situated in the central area of the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Salon is a platform for discussion by artworld figures presenting their projects, with an emphasis on the most current themes in contemporary art. Informal in format but international in scope, it also features book launches, artist talks, roundtable discussions, and lectures.

Museums and Private Collections

Once again, Miami’s leading private collections – among them the Margulies Collection, the Rubell Family Collection, CIFO the private collection of Ella Cisneros, the de la Cruz Collection, the Mora Collection, the Scholl Collection, and the Robins Collection amongst others – will be opening their homes and warehouses to guests of the international art show. The museums of South Florida, too, will be staging important exhibitions to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach, including exhibitions presenting Guillermo Kuitca at the Miami Art Museum, “Art from the Jumex Collection” at the Bass Museum, William Kentridge at the Norton Museum, George Segal at the Margulies Collection, and Raymond Pettibon and Sylvie Fleury at World Class Boxing.

Sponsors and Partners

Art Basel Miami Beach enjoys the support of many partners, with UBS holding the premier position as our Main Sponsor. At the Associate Sponsor level, Cartier, NetJets and AXA Art Insurance continue their significant partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach.

Design Miami

This year marks the fifth edition of Design Miami, from December 1 to 5, with the world’s most prominent design galleries presenting contemporary and historic work. Design Miami’s award-winning Temporary Structure returns with an innovative, new façade designed by architects Aranda\Lasch. Located in the vibrant Miami Design District, the structure will transform a coconut palm lot into a cutting-edge exhibition space for limited-edition design .

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This Fall the art world in Scandinavia will gather in response to existing plans in Bergen to establish a biennial in the city in 2011.  The three-day conference will constitute one of the most extensive discussion about biennials to date.It will take place in Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.

BERGEN KUNSTHALL

BERGEN BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
17. SEPTEMBER – 20. SEPTEMBER 2009
Rasmus Meyers alle 5
5015 Bergen
Norway

The Bergen Biennial Conference will bring together an international group of curators, critics, artists, and thinkers so as to benefit from their discussions of their findings, and create the occasion to reflect collectively about the practice and potential of biennials as institutions. The conference aims to identify and explore existing ‘biennial knowledge’ from different regions of the world and will be made up of lectures as well as seminar style workshops with young and leading professionals in the field. It will be complemented with an extensive publication, The Biennial Reader, including existing seminal texts on biennials from around the world as well as newly commissioned texts.

As scholars and curators have recently acknowledged, the history of exhibitions is both one of the most vital and, paradoxically, ignored narratives of our cultural history. And given the increasing role of biennials and other perennial exhibitions of contemporary art in contemporary culture, it seems all the more necessary to critically examine them today. The impetus to do so now comes in response to the Bergen City Council’s plans to establish a biennial for contemporary art in Bergen, for which the Bergen Kunsthall has taken up the task of organizing an international conference and think tank to study and discuss the status of the biennial as an exhibition model, and also to launch a debate concerning the plans for a biennial in Bergen.

Conference program conceived by: Solveig Øvstebø, Marieke van Hal and Elena Filipovic.
Conference founded by the City of Bergen, by Departments of Cultural Affairs, Business Development and Sports.
Supported by Hordaland County and Arts Council Norway.

PROGRAM

Thursday September 17

Official Opening

Opening of the conference and the Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo of the Fundacáo Bienal de Sáo Paolo at Bergen Kunsthall.

On the occasion of the conference, the entirety of the archive on international biennials that was conceived as part of the 28th São Paolo Biennial and constituting the most comprehensive documentation source on biennials anywhere, will be present and available for consultation in the Bergen Kunsthall. An invaluable resource, this first ever presentation of such an extensive archive on biennials in Europe underscores the ambitions of the conference to incite new critical thinking and writing on recurrent large-scale art exhibitions.

 

Friday September 18

History

Laying the foundations for subsequent discussions, this day focuses on the history and origins of biennials and other perennial international exhibitions, from early World’s Fairs and the Venice Biennale, as well as such others as the São Paolo, Havana Biennials and Documenta to the 1990’s biennial boom that saw the rise of the Manifesta, Berlin, Istanbul, Gwangju, Mercosul, and Dak’Art Biennials, among many others. Discussions will closely consider the historical events, socio-economic, geopolitical and artistic contexts that made these recurrent exhibitions possible or even necessary and urgent.

Lectures by: Caroline A. Jones, Olu Oguibe and Charlotte Bydler.
Moderator: Sabine B. Vogel
Reviewer: Vittoria Martini
Dialogues with, among others: Sarat Maharaj, Carlos Basualdo and Gerardo Mosquera
Reviewers: Vinicius Spricigo and Marit Paasche

 

 

Saturday September 19

Practice

Focusing on practice, this day elaborates on the different types of biennials, looking at their functioning, developments and evolution over time. It will be the occasion to reflect collectively about the biennial as a historically new type of art institution, reading the variety of benefits and limitations of such large-scale art events against the grain of their resulting exhibitions.

Lectures by: John Clark, Maria Hlavajova and Paul O´Neill
Moderator: Ute Meta Bauer
Reviewer: Ina Blom
Workshops with, among others: Gridthiya Gaweewong, Ann Demeester, Mahita El Bacha Urieta, Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, Jonas Ekeberg, Llilian Llanes, Elmgreen & Dragset and Donna De Salvo.
Moderators: Elena Filipovic and Marieke van Hal
Reviewers: Tommy Olsson and Monika Szewczyk

 

Sunday September 20

Future

Is the perennial exhibition still relevant today? Taking up the query that some biennials are themselves asking of late about the potentials and limits of the format, the final conference day focuses on the future. Reflecting on the responsibility and the role of the curator, the consequences of these changing exhibition structures for artists, curators and the public will be discussed. The debates of the previous days will come together and the possibilities for new curatorial paradigms as well as the idea for a biennial in Bergen will be assessed.

Lectures by: Ivo Mesquita, Sara Arrhenius, Ranjit Hoskote and Rafal Niemojewski
Moderator: Jan Verwoert
Reviewer: Nikos Papastergiadis

 

 

Further Info re. Bergen Biennial Conference

http://www.bbc2009.no/default.asp?k=13

 

 

BERGEN BIENNIAL CONFERENCE / BERGEN KUNSTHALL/ Bergens Kunstforening
Rasmus Meyers allé 5-5015Bergen

W: www.bbc2009.no   / www.kunsthall.no
E: bbc2009@kunsthall.no / bergen@kunsthall.no

 

 

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