OBOE Journal On Biennials and Other Exhibitions launches its first issue with a focus on the Venice Biennale. Born in 1895, the Venice exhibition, although the criticism for its limitations, is still one of the most significant and defining events of the contemporary art calendar.
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EVA’s Book Launch – Better Words: A Field Guide To Contemporary Art and Culture
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PAM 2018 Book Launch ‘A City Curating Reader’
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2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics examines the intersection of electoral politics and nonprofit art institutions in the United States at a pivotal historical moment. In a massive volume that …
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The Ghetto Biennale is a cross-cultural arts festival held in two adjacent informal neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, called Lakou Cheri and Ghetto Leanne. It is hosted by …
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The Global Work of Art Book Launch
Wednesday 4 October 2017, 6 – 8 pm
Biennial Foundation Advisory Board Member, Professor Caroline A. Jones presents her latest book The Global Work of Art: World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience, newly published by The University of Chicago Press. Introduction by Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation. Followed by drinks reception.
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The Biennial Factor: Impacting the Context
Friday 31 March 2017, 1pm
Talk featuring: Douglas Fogle, Independent Curator and Writer, Los Angeles; Rafal Niemojewski, Director, Biennial Foundation, New York; Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Partner, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam; moderated by Stefano Baia Curioni, Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, Milan.
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Edited by Daiva Citvarienė
The tension between the locality of the region and the globality of the art world remains a key aspect of contemporary art biennials. In order to once again reflect on the phenomenon of global culture, this publication dedicated to the 10th Kaunas Biennial presents articles and interviews from Lithuanian and international art historians, curators and culture managers analysing the paradox of locality vs. globality in the history of the phenomenon of biennials.
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Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Natasha Ginwala, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Tina Modotti, Neni Panourgiá, Pope.L, Gene Ray, Glauber Rocha, Cecilia Vicuña and others explore forms and histories of language and lexicon, as well as political ecology and environmental violence, all come from the dark entanglement of capitalism and colonialism.
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Edited by Robert E. D’Souza, Sunil Manghani
This book is more than a source for ‘India’s first biennale’. It is a thoughtful, revisionist consideration of the received accounts of ‘biennale culture’, as it has been articulated in The Biennale Reader, and by writers such as Hans Belting, Jacques Rancière, and Nicholas Mirzoeff.
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Thursday, 20 October 2016
7:30-9:00 pm
Free and open to the public
CP Projects Space at the MA Curatorial Practice program, the School of Visual Arts is pleased to present The Biennials Explosion: An Argument, a Conversation, a Downpour of Questions, featuring three of the leading experts in the field: Terry Smith, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Pittsburgh; Carolee Thea, author of On Curating and On Curating 2; and Rafal Niemojewski, director of the Biennial Foundation.
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Out of Time: preliminary materials for Skulptur Projekte 2017
Out of Time is the second in a series of three publications which accompanies the preparations of Skulptur Projekte 2017. With contributions by: Alexander Alberro, Renée Green, Beatrice von Bismarck, Ulrike Gerhardt, Akiko Bernhöft, Hannah Black, and Justin Matherly.
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