reviews 20.10.11 Domeniek Ruyters
The curators of the Istanbul Biennial have tried something different this year, and yet at the same time quite common: one exhibition at one location.
reviews 07.06.10 Kerstin Winking & Jelle Bouwhuis
Dakar
Dak'Art 2010, Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain
07/05/10 - 07/06/10
That there is a relation between political powers and exhibition spaces is old news. However, Dak’Art 2010, the biennial of contemporary African art which has taken place in Dakar, Senegal since 1992, once again audaciously exploited this relationship to an uncomfortable degree.
The famous photography biennial of Bamako has grown into the most authoritative photography event for photography on the African continent. Bamako is becoming increasingly important in terms of how contemporary African photography is judged.
10/08/09 Christel Vesters
Language, with all its complexities and various manifestations, is the research domain of the Serbian-born artist Katarina Zdjelar, inhabitant of the Serbian pavilion at the current Venice Biennale.
10/08/09 Pelin Tan
Two common questions could come up when curating the Turkish pavilion in the Venice Biennale, one being how to create manoeuvres in order to escape from ‘national pavilion representation’ and the other, how to create a specific visual engagement about social, economical and political issues within the ‘glamorous’ city marketing of the biennal.
South Korean pavilion: Haegue Yang
10/08/09 Binna Choi
A national pavilion at the world’s oldest art biennale can be a logical place for an artist whose ‘career’ has been vigorously progressing – an artist like Haegue Yang, born and raised in South Korea and now active in Europe for about a decade.
13/07/09 Henk Slager
Daniel Birnbaum, rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt, curator of Portikus Contemproary Art Centre and sought-after curator for biennial exhibitions around the world, is artistic director for the central exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennial, entitled Making Worlds. Henk Slager travelled to Frankfurt to speak with Birnbaum on the background to this summer’s most important exhibition.
13/07/09 Luk Lambrecht
Luk Lambrecht discusses the presentation of Jef Geys at the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Dutch pavilion: Fiona Tan
13/07/09 Erik van Tuijn
Fiona Tan’s international career took off when Okwui Enwezor presented her at Documenta 11 as an artist capable of handling identity and background in a form that is both political and poetic. This summer, her exhibition at the Dutch pavilion in Venice, entitled Disorient, may well prove Enwezor right.
features 31.07.08 METROPOLIS M
Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy
Manifesta
19/07/08 - 02/11/08
Manifesta 7 has kicked off. Nathalie Zonnenberg, Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen and Krist Gruijthuijsen documented the ambiance during the opening days.