Brussels Biennial 1
Widely acknowledged as the international centre of the European Community, Brussels inaugurates its first contemporary art biennial in 2008. The Brussels Biennial responds to the ever-increasing impact of Brussels and its potential to provide a specific context for the presentation of contemporary art. Characterized by its intuitive insight into the art scene of the highly urbanized region between the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, the biennial takes place from October 2008 through January 2009. With contributions from more than 40 international artists, the biennial incorporates exhibitions by experimental art institutions in Brussels. It represents a first step in a larger project designed as a trans-national endeavour that will unfold in two steps until 2010.
The Mirror Stage - selection results
NeMe has received 634 individual video submissions from 312 video makers collectively amounting to over 120 hours continuous viewing. This meant that the time we needed to preview all the works was much longer than we initially anticipated.
11th International Architecture Exhibition
The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
NeMe reBlog
We started a new experimental service in our site where we hope to provide curated information from sites we visit.
28th Bienal de São Paulo
In 1951, in the introduction to his essay of the catalogue for the inaugural Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, the artistic director, Lourival Gomes Machado, wrote:
By definition, the Bienal should fulfill two major tasks: it should place Brazilian modern art, not in simple confrontation, but in living contact with the art of the world, and at the same time the Bienal should strive to position São Paulo as a world artistic center. (page 14).
The optimistic tone, the rhetoric filled with hope, the engagement with the age of reconstruction after the traumatic events of the Second World War, sound today like a prophecy, the setting out of an utopia, which after fifty-eight years has been realized: São Paulo has become an international artistic center, a cosmopolitan city, a reference in the globalized art scene, Brazil in turn has become a point of attraction for artists, curators, gallery owners, and international collectors. Brazilian artists occupy important positions within the history and discourse of post-war modernity and in the production of contemporary visuality. The objectives of 1951 have been accomplished.
3rd International Biennial Of Seville
In the global context of the information and communication society, the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3) will make a new map of Global Art, World Art, addressing the specific aspect of media, environment and technology. Under the title YOUniverse, the Biennial of Seville will show how contemporary art worldwide has changed through the influence of media, technology, science and architecture by fostering one main goal: the participation of the public and a new equation between man and his environment.
2008 Taipei Biennial
The 6th Taipei Biennial, like our lives, is uncertain, fragmented and fragile. The project does not have a single theme, but a constellation of correlated themes, most of which address the chaotic states of things in this time of globalization. The exhibition engages with the city of Taipei in various ways.
53rd Venice Biennale announces director
The Board of Directors of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, held a meeting on 7th April 2008 in which it nominated Daniel Birnbaum as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility as curator of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, to be held in 2009.
Shanghai Biennale 7
Our era sees an unprecedented scale of urban growth, especially in the developing world. In this process, cities grow in number, urban populations increase in size, and the proportion of the population living in urban areas rises. Urbanization is often the result of socio-economic development as an agricultural society transitions to a modern one. The theme of the 2010 Shanghai World Exposition, “Better city, better life”,? testifies to the importance of the reform and urban development agenda to China’s rise in the twenty-first century.
MANIFESTA news April 2008
MANIFESTA 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is curated by Adam Budak, Anselm Franke / Hila Peleg and Raqs Media Collective. Manifesta 7 takes place in the Italian region of Trentino Alto Adige / Südtirol and opens for the public on 19 July, 2008.
IMCA