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Now available online: 13th Istanbul Biennial Guide ‘Mom Am I a Barbarian?’, featuring the curator’s text, exhibition plans, artist texts and images.

The notion of the public domain as a political forum is the focal point of the 13th Istanbul Biennial. A highly contested concept serves as a matrix to generate ideas and develop practices that question contemporary forms of democracy, challenge current models of spatio-economic politics, problematize the given concepts of civilization and barbarity as standardized positions and languages and, above all, unfold the role of contemporary art as an agent that both makes and unmakes what is considered public.
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The Artist as Curator is a new serial publication project that concerns a profoundly influential but still understudied phenomenon, a history that has yet to be written.

15th Jakarta Biennale Program available online on ISSUU.

55 biennale internazionale arte Venezia 2013 – See the works of all artists published in ARTEXT online on ISSUU.

The richly illustrated book is the first to document all of the German contributions to the thirty biennials that have taken place in São Paulo up to now, and examines them in the context of post-war history and cultural politics.

Interested in submitting a review to the Journal of Curatorial Studies? Here are a few relevant books and catalogues. The editors are open to suggestions about other recent publications, as well as reviews of exhibitions and conferences.

Now available online: 13th Istanbul Biennial Guide ‘Mom Am I a Barbarian?’, featuring the curator’s text, exhibition plans, artist texts and images.

“A-BIENNALE (Behold the intangible)” is an art biennial in a form of the book, a reflection on current expanding and inflationary model of the biennials and big exhibitions in general.

The Exhibition Histories series investigates exhibitions that have shaped the way contemporary art is experienced, made and discussed.

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating.

With the title of “Globalism,” this year’s September issue of Texte zur Kunst proposes a critique of the discourse on “Global Art” as it has emerged in the wake of economic globalization.

OnCurating presents Issue 19: On Artistic and Curatorial Authorship, edited by Michael Birchall.