The Cuenca Biennial Announces the List of Artists and the Theme of Its 16 Edition

Courtesy of Bienal de Cuenca

16th Cuenca Biennial
Quizá mañana
December 8, 2023 – March 8, 2024
https://fundacion.bienaldecuenca.org

The Fundación Municipal Bienal de Cuenca directed by Katya Cazar, is in the process of producing the 16 Biennial edition in charge of the prestigious Argentinean Curator Ferran Barenblit, who has revealed that it will be conceptually titled: “Quizá mañana”

The Curator has also made public the 31 selected projects, 6 of which are Ecuadorian.

• Adelita Husni-Bey (Italy)
• Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela)
• Amalia Pica ( Argentina)
• Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba)
• Christian Jankowski (Germany)
• Clemencia Echeverri (Colombia)
• Colectivo Cherani (México)
• Democracy Pavillion (Europe)
• Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain)
• Forensic Architecture (United Kingdom)
• Fredi Casco (Paraguay)
• Gabriela Rivadeneira Crespo (Ecuador)
• Gary Vera (Ecuador)
• Iván Argote (Colombia)
• Jill Magid (USA.)
• Juan Campoverde (Ecuador)
• Leo Moyano (Ecuador)
• Magdalena Jitrik (Argentina)
• Mapa Teatro ( Colombia)
• Marcelo Expósito (Spain)
• Maria Rosa Jijón (Ecuador)
• Marilá Dardot (Brasil)
• Max De Esteban (Spain)
• Naufus Ramirez – Figueroa (Guatemala)
• Osman Khan (USA.)
• Patricio Palomeque (Ecuador)
• Pilvi Takala (Finland)
• Sandra Gamarra (Perú)
• Teresa Margolles ( México)
• Vincent Messen (Belgium)
• Voluspa Jarpa (Chile)

The Biennial’s Director, Katya Cazar, has indicated that this post-pandemic edition will follow the guidelines established in the previous one: prioritizing local production, reuse of materials and optimization of resources in general.

“Quizá mañana” will be a biennial reflecting on democracy and the conflicts of the present, with a special emphasis on Latin America, however, in Barenblit’s curatorial concept he warns:

“Art works in the space of the indeterminate, the imprecise, the incorrect. Through continuous questions, it renounces any will of indisputable truth. It requires complicities, passions and courage. It is situated between what is said and what is not said, in the idea that when something is said, it is possible that the exact opposite is meant. That is what gives it its excessive potential, the thought that anything can happen, maybe tomorrow”.

Ferran Barenblit, a renowned curator and museum director, has an extensive career. He has led three prestigious art institutions in the last twenty years; the Centro de Arte Santa Monica (Barcelona), the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (Móstoles) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona. He currently lives in Ann Arbor, USA, where he is a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.