The Trustees of Liverpool Biennial have announced the appointment of Fatos Üstek as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial. She will take up her position in May 2019. Fatos Üstek …
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5th Biennale Internationale de Casablanca: Call for applications
The Biennale Internationale de Casablanca welcomes applications from professional artists to take part in its 5th edition that will take place from 24 September to 1 November 2020. The Biennale …
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Manifesta announces artistic team announced for the 2020 edition
Following the August 2018 appointment by Manifesta 13 of Dutch architect Winy Maas and urban practice MVRDV to conduct the pre-biennial research study for the city of Marseille, a new …
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Raqs Media Collective Appointed as Artistic Director for Yokohama Triennale 2020
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Raqs Media Collective as the Artistic Director of Yokohama Triennale 2020. The selection process, which began with a shortlist …
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Curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale announced
The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the appointment of collaborating curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio for its upcoming 11th edition. …
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Banu Cennetoğlu’s Memorial to Dead Migrants vandalized at Liverpool Biennial
In the wake of Brexit and the focus on curbing the migration of the current UK cabinet, the work of the Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu was one of the most pointful pieces …
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Ralph Rugoff unveils his vision for the 58th International Art Exhibition in Venice
The President of La Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta, and the curator of the 58th International Art Exhibition, Ralph Rugoff, met the press today at Ca’ Giustinian to launch the Biennale Arte 2019, which will take place from May 11th to November 24th 2018 (Preview May 8th, 9th and 10th) at the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as around other venues in Venice.
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Nicolas Bourriaud to Curate the 16th Istanbul Biennial
The 16th Istanbul Biennial will take place between 14 September and 10 November 2019. It will be curated by French curator, art scholar and writer Nicolas Bourriaud. Bourriaud, one of …
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Karachi Biennale 2019 Open Call for Curator
The Karachi Biennale Trust (KBT) invites applications from experienced curators interested in curating the second iteration of Karachi Biennale in 2019. Karachi Biennale is Pakistan’s largest international art event that focuses …
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After completion of the Pilot project Oslo to launch new art biennial in 2019
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, City of Oslo announces the launch of the City’s first art biennial in public space—a field characterized by complexity, contingency and shifting realities. The inaugural …
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Ghetto Biennale / Geto Byenal 2009-2015
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 Art of the Possible: With and Against documenta 14
by Andrew Stefan Weiner
The obvious reason that some critics have cast Szymczyk and his team as morally superior “social justice warriors” is that it is much easier to fling stereotypes than it is to work through the complex implications of the fundamental message that this documenta means to communicate. At the core of this sprawling, wildly ambitious, sometimes incoherent, but certainly worthwhile exhibition lies a deceptively simple proposition: that art can and should serve the cause of justice, but not always in the ways we might expect.
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