In its 3rd Edition, the Prague based Biennale Matter of Art, organised by tranzit.cz articulates an important reflection meandering between urban and rural spaces. We hear from its two curators: Katalin Erdódi and Aleksei Borisionok about the main ideas and challanges of staging such an exhibition. Tereza Stejskalova (Founding Director) and Frantisek Fekete (Head of Production) give us an introduction to the whole project behind Biennale Matter of Art and its history.
Founding Director Doris Ghetta and Lorenzo Giusti, Curator of Parliament of Marmots, the 9th edition of Biennale Gherdëina, discuss with us about the history of the Biennial located in the unique setting of the Dolomites, with a focus on the peculiarities of developing a biennial in a small mountain community.
Curator Els Wuyts presents her project for Beaufort24 titled “Fabric of Life” with Selva Aparicio and Filip Vervaet, two of the artists who have developed new public works for the triennial taking place on the coast of Belgium.
Alan Quireyns, Project Manager and Sevie Tsampalla, Co-Curator of Triennale Brugge 2024 “Spaces of Possibility“, give an in-depth presentation of the 2024 project, the fourth edition of Triennale Brugge.
Curators Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding walk us through their project for the 8th Yokohama Triennale titled “Wild Grass: Our Lives” referencing the seminal Chinese writer Lu Xun and the eponymous book published in 1927. The presentation is introduced by Yokohama Triennale Deputy Executive Director Aki Hoashi and moderated by Christian Oxenius.
Artistic Director Ibrahim Mahama and curatorial team members Inga Lace and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh discuss their project “From the void came gifts of the cosmos” for the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. The Q&A session following their presentation focuses primarily on their collaboration, reflecting and creating alternatives to current systems of power and away from the western model, and cooperation between institutions.
Matt Packer, CEO and Director of EVA International, discusses with us the 40th edition of EVA International as well as its longer history in occasion of its 40th anniversary. We also had the chance to hear from him how, the past years and the attempt to focus on more continuous projects for EVA International have impacted the biennial.
Solange Farkas, Founding Director of VideoBrasil, discusses with us the 22nd edition of the event “Memory is an editing station” as well as the special project for the 40 years of existence of Videobrasil.
Alia Swastika, Director of Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation, and the curatorial team of Biennale Jogja 17 composed of Adelina Luft, Eka Putra Nggalu, Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandhari, present their curatorial vision for Titen: Embodied Knowledge, Shifting Grounds.
Two of the Founding Directors of Autostrada Biennale, Vatra Abrashi and Leutrim Fishekqiu, narrate the history and approach of Autostrada Biennale and walk us through its 4th Edition which took place between July and September 2023 in Prizren, Prishtina and Mitrovica.
Maria-Thalia Carras, curator of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale’s main exhibition walks us through the complex and rich history of Thessaloniki to give us a sense of how the various communities played a role in shaping “Being as Communion” as the exhibition was titled.
Sooyoung Leam, assistant Curator of ‘soft and weak like water’ presents Gwangju Biennale’s latest edition which imagines our shared planet as a site of resistance, coexistence, solidarity and care by thinking through the transformative and restorative potential of water as a metaphor, a force, and a method. Her presentation, beyond presenting some of the most relevant works presented in the biennale, gives us a good conceptual framework through which to observe them individually and in their dialogue.
