The College Art Association (CAA) announces a Call for Papers for the 108th Annual Conference to be held in Chicago, 12-15 February 2020. From medieval art to the legacies of contemporary figures like Okwui Enwezor and Carolee Schneemann, the 2020 Annual Conference offers an enormous range of topics to explore. The confirmed sessions include ‘Biennialization and its counternarratives’ chaired by Biennial Foundation Director, Rafal Niemojewski.
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Crossing Boundaries: Making World Art History, Session 3
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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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Crossing Boundaries: Making World Art History conference
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We have some exciting news that we would like to share with you!
Effective June 2015, Rafal Niemojewski succeeds Marieke van Hal as Director of Biennial Foundation.
Rafal Niemojewski is an experienced cultural producer based in New York. He earned his doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London on the proliferation of the contemporary biennial. He has an innate understanding of the field; its practice, theory and discourse. Rafal Niemojewski began working with Biennial Foundation in 2009 and joined the organization as Deputy Director in 2014.
With this new appointment there is also a strategic change of direction for Biennial Foundation.
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Join us in Venice!
Biennial Foundation is pleased to announce the book launch of:
Making Biennials in Contemporary Times
As biennials have sought renewal of their formats, so their theorists and curators have sought to renew their histories, looking to other times and other places as inspiration for reimagining biennials past and present. (Anthony Gardner and Charles Green).
Friday, 8 May, 2015. 14:00h.
Giardini Castello, the Brazilian Pavilion, Venice
Editors: Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, and Benjamin Seroussi.
Authors: Moacir dos Anjos, Ana Paula Cohen, Fabio Cypriano, Övül Durmusoglu, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marina Fokidis, Anthony Gardner, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Charles Green, Cayo Honorato, Manuela Moscoso, Fernando Oliva, Peter Osborne, Daniel Rangel, Lucy Steeds, Anne Szefer Karlsen, David Teh.
Publishers: Biennial Foundation, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, ICCo – Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea.
The book is made in digital format and will be available free of charge online after the launch.
Image: Installation view of Juraci Dórea’s Projeto Terra (1981-1988), the Brazilian Pavilion at the 43rd Biennale di Venezia, 1988).
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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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To remind: Free Tania Bruguera.
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The World Biennial Forum No 2: online
The World Biennial Forum No 2 can now be viewed online. The Forum took place from November 26 – 30, 2014, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Taking the idea of the Global South as a starting point, the World Biennial Forum No 2 looked at how this geography shapes the current condition of world biennials.
Watch the recordings of the lectures and talks of the World Biennial Forum No 2.
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The Twenty-First Century Belongs to the Global South. Interview with Biennial Foundation’s Director in Contemporary And.
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Biennial Foundation at the CAA Conference in New York.
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Biennial Foundation at The Art Society in Brussels.
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