Topic Archives: Biennials

INDONESIAN ART REVIEWS Indonesian art has proved a real inspiration in these times of cynicism and economic despair says Adeline Ooi after her tour of some of the most important exhibitions of Indonesian art around Southeast Asia this spring. Read on for … Continue reading →

RUSSIAN ART COLLECTOR Varoli reports on Bloomberg that Leonid Mikhelson is sponsoring a display of 30 works by 20th-century Russian master artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, many of which are well known to the public. Billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s company OAO Novatek is … Continue reading →

  ART ABU DHABI The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) announced late last month that the city-state will participate in next year’s 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Art, entitled “Making Worlds,” a first for the oil-rich Gulf … Continue reading →

ART BIENNIAL AFRICA EGYPT The opening ceremony of the 11th Cairo International Biennale took place on 21 December 2008. Past versions of this state-organised biennial have been slammed by critics: The 10th edition of the Cairo International Biennale could have very … Continue reading →

 BIENNIAL ART MIDDLE EAST The United Arab Emirates will be the first Arabian Gulf country to create a national pavilion at the world’s pre-eminent contemporary art exhibition the 2009 Venice Biennale, signaling its emergence as a new cultural hub. Universally recognized … Continue reading →

TRIENNIAL GUANGZHOU CHINA Art highlights, Chinese censorship and a list of Asian artists and curators. Farewell to Post Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China: 6 September to 16 November 2008 Hong Kong based art critic John … Continue reading →

TAIWANESE ART SHANGHAI BIENNIAL In Huang Hsin-Chien’s work, Shanghai, Shall We Dance? located in the public space of the Shanghai Museum of Art, viewers are invited on to a typical Shanghainese dance floor for a spontaneous dance. As the dancers move the images … Continue reading →

RESEARCH RESOURCE Finding it difficult to keep up with the burgeoning global bi/triennial scene? It is not surprising. In the hundred years since the first shows were set up in the 1890′s there were at the most 17 active biennials but … Continue reading →

EVENT BIENNIAL LIVERPOOL Celebrating 10 years of commissioning ambitious and challenging new work by leading international artists, the 5th edition of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition MADE UP runs from 20 September to 30 November 2008. Artists from Asia include: Khalil … Continue reading →