The Bienal de São Paulo was created in 1951, following the model of the Biennale di Venezia, with the aim of putting local artists into dynamic contact with the international …
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Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate – Book Launch
To mark the publication of his new book, Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate, author Rafal Niemojewski is joined by art historian Jacky Klein to discuss contemporary biennials.
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From Official to Unscrupulous: The Havana Biennial and #00Bienal de La Habana
by Amy Bruce
A larger history of biennials risks establishing an edition in relation to a narrative of historical progress that could negate a particular institutional and local biennial history. The concern of this paper is the consideration of how contemporary biennial editions impact institutional biennial historiographies, given that biennials are an exhibition format that are continually negotiating with the present.
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Biennials: Four Fundamentals, Many Variations
by Terry Smith
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 they slowly established a set of distinctive protocols, that were formalized during the 1980s, then rapidly replicated throughout the world, while at the same time steadily increasing in size and scope.
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Papers from the conference – Biennials: Prospect and Perspectives, at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 27.02.—01.03.2014
Papers from the conference Biennials: Prospect and Perspectives
We are very happy to announce that the transcript of the conference Biennials: Prospect and Perspectives (International Conference at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 27.02.—01.03.2014) has been published and can be downloaded
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Out Now and Available Online: Making Biennials in Contemporary Times – Essays from the World Biennial Forum No 2.
Making Biennials in Contemporary Times – Essays from the World Biennial Forum No 2 Editors: Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, and Benjamin Seroussi. …
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