16 Apr 2014

Biennial Foundation in Riga, Latvia.

Symposium:
The Rise and Fall of Art Biennales.
Riga Art Space
Latvia
16 April, 2014.

This symposium supplements the international exhibition “Re: visited”, one of the events of the official Riga 2014 European Capital of Culture Program, on view at the Riga Art Space until 27 April, 2014.

Both the exhibition and symposium, organised by the LCCA – Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, question the current role of art biennials.

Participants:
Solvita Krese, Marieke van Hal, Ekaterina Degot, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Power Ekroth, Aigars Bikše, Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Ann Lislegaard, and Inga Lāce.

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16 Jan 2014

Introducing the International Biennial Association (IBA)

Biennial Foundation is happy to announce the International Biennial Association, an outcome of its World Biennial Forum No 1.

In October of 2012, the World Biennial Forum No1, “Shifting Gravity,” was held in Gwangju and Seoul, South Korea, gathering over 450 participants across 150 international art biennials, triennials and art-related institutions. Over 60 biennial representatives attended the ‘Biennial Representatives Meeting’ and as an outcome from the discussions, the International Biennial Association was formulated.

The International Biennial Association (IBA) will be a non-for-profit arts association composed of institutions, individuals and associates from the biennial community and arts-related industry created to expand and share activities of curatorial and artistic creation and knowledge production through cooperation and exchange among biennials and institutions, contributing to the development of cultural and artistic production by providing strategies, methodologies and vision through a platform for collaboration and support among a network of art professionals.

President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation Yongwoo Lee was elected interim President for the International Biennial Association. Marieke van Hal, director of the Biennial Foundation, and Bige Örer, director of the Istanbul Biennale, were elected to serve as the two interim Vice Presidents for the first term. The location of the IBA office will be the country of residence of the President, in Gwangju, South Korea.

The inaugural ceremony will take place at the General Assembly later this year. A follow up announcement, outlining dates, location and agenda for the Assembly will be further released along with membership sign-up, which will be available through the website www.biennial-association.org from late March. Biennial Foundation will work closely with the International Biennial Association, and is currently preparing for the World Biennial Forum No2. More information coming soon.

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06 Jun 2013

The Future of Biennials in Local and Global Context. Biennial Foundation at Art Basel’s Salon.

The Future of Biennials in Local and Global Context. Biennial Foundation at Art Basel’s Salon.

Salon: June 14, Friday, 1-2pm. Hall 1 of Art Basel
Title of the talk: The Future of Biennials in Local and Global Context.

Riyas Komu, Artist, Director of Programs, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 and Secretary of Kochi Biennale Foundation, Mumbai/Kochi

Carol Lu Yinghua, Artistic Director, OCAT, Shenzhen/Beijing; Executive Editor, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Chinese Edition

Jessica Morgan, Artistic Director of the Gwangju Biennale 2014; President of the International Jury of the 55th Venice Biennial and The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London

Marieke van Hal, Founding Director of Biennial Foundation and Member, International Advisory Committee, 4th Thessaloniki Biennale, Athens

Moderator: Shengtian Zheng, Trustee, Vancouver Art Gallery; Senior Curator of Asia, for the Vancouver Biennale and Managing Editor, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vancouver

In correlation with the launch of Yishu‘s special issue on World Biennial Forum No 1 at Art Basel.

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