The Shanghai Inter-City Pavilions’ Project focuses on the interesting connections and energy exchanges between people and cultures which, in nowadays globalized world, are more likely to be identified within local communities rather than in national contexts.

By News Editor 26 Sep 2012

The Shanghai Inter-City Pavilions’ Project takes place in the the frame of 9th Shanghai Biennale “Reactivation”.

Shanghai in its quest to become an international city, considered by many a ‘foreign” city in China, can find its own identity through the confrontation with other places, harbors and friends, that had portrayed the contemporary status of art not in a generic way, but in the punctual and relevant projects presented in each pavilion.

So, despite this general and global tendency of amalgamation and simplification, the City Pavilions’ Project stands as a memento of independence of the extraordinary local. The individuality as an irreplaceable fragment of a bigger pictures that, with no pretentions of representing the whole, gives a glimpse of it, suggesting one of the many possible interpretations as a verse of a much more complicated poem.

The cities presented are in alphabetical order and followed by the curatorial team/organization:

Amsterdam Henk Slager
Antwerp Phillipe Pirotte
AucklandVincent Ward
Bandung Agung Jennong / Charles Esche / Defne Ayas / Davide Quadrio
Barcelona Julia Morandeira
Berlin Peter Anders
Bogota Juan Andres Gaitan
Brooklyn Cleopatra’s
Daejeon Kim Jiyon
Dakar Koyo Kouoh
Detroit Rebecca Mazzei
Diankou Qiu Zhefeng
Dusseldorf Beate Reifenscheid, Qi Yang
Istanbul Defne Ayas / Davide Quadrio
Lille Metropole Pierre Giner
Lima Jose Carlos Mariategui, Jorge Villacorta
Los Angeles Lauri Firstenberg
Mexico City, Magali Arriola, Daniela Perez, Moscow Nikolai Molok
Mumbai Diana Campbell/ Susan Hapgood
Palermo Laura Barreca / Davide Quadrio
Pittsburgh Chelsea Haines
Rhone-Alpes (Lyon) Thierry Raspail
San Francisco Chris Fitzpatrick
Sao Paulo Adriano Pedrosa
Sendai Shimizu Tamotsu / Kai Kenji
Sydney Aaron Seto / Toby Chapman / Sharon Chen as Curatorial project manager of the Sydney City Pavilion
Tehran Nina Moaddel / Benham Kamrani
Ulan Bator Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem
Vancouver Daina Augait

Supervised by: the 9th Shanghai Biennale chief curator Qiu Zhijie and co-curators Boris Groys, Jens Hoffman and Johnson Chang Tsong-zung
Organized by: The Organizing Committee of Shanghai Biennale; managed by Davide Quadrio, Francesca Girelli and Huang Mi. In collaboration with Shanghai Huangpu district government.

Time: 2nd October 2012 to 31st December 2012