According to the report in Art Newspaper, Esra Sarıgedik Öktem, curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, resigned from her post in protest of the recent actions …
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From a historical point of view, it was wonderful to see so much joy, in a place that has seen so much suffering, still torn by great ethnic conflicts between Albanians and Serbs. The former supported by NATO, the latter by Russia. But is Autostrada Biennale a Marxist Utopia? – asks Sinziana Ravini
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The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce and warmly welcome the curator of the 13th edition, Zasha Colah. Zasha Colah is a curator and writer. Her exhibitions …
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Following the launch of a research residency program in 2021, the steirischer herbst Research Residency Fellowship 2023 continues to make the festival’s archival resources accessible as part of its mission to place its history in dialogue with contemporary artistic and academic practice. The fellowship supports and encourages innovative scholarly, creative, and interdisciplinary inquiries into steirischer herbst’s practice and history.
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The Diriyah Biennale Foundation (DBF) is delighted to announce the appointment of acclaimed curator Ute Meta Bauer, as Artistic Director of the second edition of the Foundation’s Contemporary Art Biennale …
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The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the open call for the artistic director of the upcoming edition of the Busan Biennale in 2024. Busan Biennale has presented …
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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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Larnaca Biennale is excited to announce its thematic framework and officially opens an Open Call for artists,  that will run until the 31st of May 2023. Under the Home Away from Home theme conceived by …
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The Board of La Biennale di Venezia met today on Thursday, December 15th and, upon the recommendation of President Roberto Cicutto, appointed Adriano Pedrosa as Director of the Visual Arts …
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The New Canon, panel discussion

Many cultures and identities of the Middle East remain unexplored to the rest of the world. How can institutions, both incumbent and newly founded, rewrite the story of modernism by taking the individual on a journey through global art from the mid 20th century to contemporary times, charting the evolution of modernism into a cutting-edge global movement? How are institutions creating a new art history narrative centered on the Global South with a focus on connections between the Middle East and Asia?
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The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (ETAT) is pleased to launch an open call for proposals for its ninth edition to be held in 2024. The chosen artworks are expected to highlight the unique history and culture of Echigo-Tsumari region and feature distinctive and abundant nature that has the power to raise awareness of Echigo-Tsumari internationally. Application deadline: December 24, 2022.
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by Henrietta Landells

In this bubbling forth of a kind of collective unconscious, Venice seemed renewed to me as a potent setting for the Biennale ritual gathering. Both the new commissions (alchemy on demand?) and the rediscovery of already-existing webs of knowledge and practice perhaps more easily take on a kind of ‘global’ existential resonance, when re-contextualised and re-purposed here. At the least, they suggest new alternative futures remain available, via these alternative pasts-within-the-present.
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