Coventry Biennial 2019 Programme Announcement

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Coventry Biennial 2019
The Twin
October 4 – November 24, 2019
https://www.coventrybiennial.com

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

The highly anticipated second Coventry Biennial will unfold across Coventry from the 4th October to the 24th November 2019 and the organisers of the Coventry Biennial invite people to learn, look, make, talk, think and walk with them.

The Biennial’s title this year is The Twin and it comprises a series of exhibitions, events and activities about relationships.

They are an international city; Coventry and Volgograd, Russia, were the first modern twin cities in the world and this year marks the 75th anniversary of that historic bond of friendship.

Coventry now has 26 twins around the world and is known as a city that welcomes migrants and refugees. When walking the city’s streets Punjabi, Urdu and Polish can frequently be heard alongside accents from across the West Midlands, nearby Warwickshire and Ireland.

The artists and groups exhibiting in The Twin all explore themes, ideas and processes which resonate through this international city including translation, collaboration and togetherness while also exploring some of the difficulties presented by globalisation, political inequality and conflict.

The Twin is made up of a core programme alongside a series of sister projects, which are produced in close collaboration with local, national and international partners.

Ryan Hughes, Artistic Director of Coventry Biennial explains:

“Coventry has been an international, welcoming and activist city for decades. We are thrilled to be working with artists, our twin cities and a wide variety of partners on our core programme and sister projects to explore what it means to be together in 2019.”

Embedded in Coventry Biennial 2019 are opportunities to speak to or eat with the artists, to learn a new skill, to warm yourself by a fire, to dance through the night or to ease yourself into the day with a yoga session.

It is this spirit of care and friendship which marks this as the UK’s social biennial.

COVENTRY BIENNIAL CORE PROGRAMME

The core programme of The Twin will unfold through a series of exhibitions, activities and events across the city in medieval and modernist buildings as well as in artist studios, galleries and museums.

They will be exhibiting new and existing artworks by individual artists, duos and groups from Coventry, across the UK and from many of our international twin cities as well as other international locations.

They are delighted to be exhibiting the artists listed below and will be announcing a small number of additional practitioners over the coming weeks and months.

Isobel Adderley & Jazz Moreton, Tully Arnot, Art & Language, Badlands Unlimited, Jonny Bark, Aram Bartholl, Jordan Baseman, James Birkin, Simon & Tom Bloor, James Bridle, Lorsen Camps, David Cheeseman, James Clarkson, Anna Columbine, Maud Cotter, Paul Crook, Matthew Darbyshire, Joseph DeLappe, Lisa Denyer, Jacqueline Donachie, Caitriona Dunnett, EVOL, Anne Forgan, Dylan Fox, Darryl Georgiou & Rebekah Tolley, Zuza Golinska, Noémie Goudal, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mona Hatoum, Corey Hayman, Nicky Hirst, Clare Holdstock, Fred Hubble, Andrew Jackson, Juneau Projects, Navi Kaur, Smirna Kulenović, Liz Lake, Ollie Ma, Ioana Marinescu, Tony McClure, Lorna Mills, Anna Molska, MTAA, Alexandra Muller, Edie Jo Murray, Uriel Orlow, OUTLINE & Smirna Kulenović, Paper Rad, Bharti Parmar, Parmar & Piper, Partisan Social Club, Mathew Parkin, Matthew Picton, Duncan Poulton, Adele Mary Reed, Lis Rhodes, Rafaël Rozendaal, Ana Rutter, Richard Scott, Shirana Shahbazi, Larissa Shaw, Thomson & Craighead, Leonid Toprover, Chidera Ugada, Mhairi Vari, Nilupa Yasmin