Shanghai Biennale

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The Shanghai Biennale is the highest-profile contemporary art event in Shanghai and the most established art biennale in China.

Aside from its main museum show, it also includes talks, lectures and installations in various venues throughout the city.[1]

History

The Biennale began in 1996. It has been held every two years since then at the Shanghai Art Museum usually beginning in September. There is a different theme every edition: "Open Space" (1996), "Inheritance and Exploration" (1998), "Spirit of Shanghai" (2000), "Urban Creation" (2002), "Techniques of the Visible" (2004), "Hyper Design" (2006), "Translocalmotion" (2008) and "Rehearsal" (2010).[2]

The 2000 Edition

This was the first edition to include new media, and international artists and curators. It was also the first to gain global critical attention. The curatorial team was headed by Hou Hanru.[3]

The 2010 Edition

The 2010 Biennale opened in October and will run until January 2011. It includes about 50 artists, about a third of whom are from China. The theme was "Rehearsal" and the show included an unprecedented amount of performance art. It was also divided into “acts,” as if it were a play. As in past years, it was heavy on conceptual art.

All three curators were from China. They included Fan Di’an, director of the National Art Museum of China, and Gao Shiming, a professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.[4]

One of the highlights was a giant merry-go-round outside the museum's front doors, which was part of Wang Mai's "Oil Monsters" series.[5] Another highlight was "Project Textportrait" by the digital artists Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (Germany) and Laura Maria May (United Kingdom).

The 2012 Edition

2 October 2012 to 31 March 2013

THEMATIC EXHIBITION

Curators: Qiu Zhijie (chief curator), Boris Groys (co-curator), Jens Hoffmann (co-curator), Johnson Chang (co-curator)

Artists: Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico), Loris Cecchini (Italy), Luisa Lambri (Italy), Adrian Villar Rojas (Argentina), Brad Troemel (USA), Cao Changdi Workstation (China), Harrell Fletcher (USA), Hu Jieming (China), Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, (Russia/USA), Jeffery Shaw (Hong Kong, China/Australia), Jiang Zhi (China), Linda Chiu-Han Lai (Hong Kong, China), Lucy + Jorge Orta UK), Mario Garcia Torres (Mexico), Nira Pereg (Israel), Roman Signer (Switzerland), Roy Ascott (UK), Shi Qing (China), Simon Fujiwara (UK/Japan), Vadim Fishkin (Russia/Slovenia), Wang Yuyang (China), Weill Yeh (Taiwan, China), Yao Jui-Chung +LSD (Taiwan, China)

Themed exhibition in four parts, namely “Resources”, “Revisit”, “Reform” and “Republic”, focusing on artists that can motivate the public, revisit or rewrite history, convert and transform energy and organize dialogues and communications respectively.

CITY PAVILIONS

curator: Henk Slager

curator: Phillipe Pirotte

artists: Gordon Matta-Clark, Jef Cornelis, Guy Mees, Club Moral (Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven & Danny Devos), Steve Van den Bosch, Annaïk Pitteloud, Otobong Nkanga, Francis Alÿs, Luc Deleu

curator: Vincent Ward

artist: Vincent Ward

curators: Agung Jennong / Charles Esche / Defne Ayas / Davide Quadrio

artists: Syagini Ratna Wulan, Yason Banal, Wiyoga Muhardanto, Arin Rungjang, Iswanto Hartono, Raqs Media Collective, Mounira AL-Solh, Mahmoud Khaled, Didem Ozbek, Asim Waqif, Surasi Kusolwond, Wang Wei, Hafiz

curator: Julia Morandeira

curator: Peter Anders

artists: Raumlaborberlin (group)

  • Bogota

curator: Juan Andres Gaitan

artists: Alberto Baraya, Milena Bonilla, Carolina Caycedo, Nicolás París, Gabriel Sierra

curator: Cleopatra’s

artists: Carrick Bell, David Berezin, bffa3ae, Blanko and Noiry (Frank Haines, Chris Kachulis and Reuben Lorch-Miller), Christie Brown, Jay Buim, Ashleigh Carraway and Luke Boggia, Nathan Saltmarsh Caswell, Mary Helena Clark and Latham Zearfoss, Ned Colclough, Chido Johnson and Dylan Spaysky, Ryan Foerster, Rochelle Goldberg, Bee Harris and Clara Dykstra, Dmitri Hertz, Jacques Louis Vidal, and Brian Faucette, Katie Hickman, Joel Holmberg, Riley Hooker, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Sanya Kantarovsky, Kyle Knodell, Lindsay Lawson, Maggie Lee, Jesse Malmed, Carly Mark, Tommy Martinez and Jerstin Crosby, Rachel Mason, Zeljko McMullen, Andy Meerow and Reid Ramirez, Merkx and Gwynne, Brett Milspaw, New Humans (Howie Chen and Mika Tajima), Boru O’Brien O’Connell, Grear Patterson, Annie Pearlman, Rachel Rampleman, Chris Rice, Ben Russell, Jon Santos, Saki Sato, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Seung-Min Lee and Caitlin McKee, Tristan Shepherd, Josh Slater, A.L. Steiner + Chicks on Speed (Melissa Logan, Alex Murray-Leslie, Kathi Glas, Anat Ben-David), Scarlett Stephenson-Connolly, Jennifer Sullivan, Andrew Sutherland, Brad Taormina and Vaughn Taormina, Stewart Uoo, Olivia Wyatt

curator: Kim Jiyon

artists: Jo Hye Jin, Choi Taeyoon, Kang Hyun wook

curator: Koyo Kouoh

artist: Amadou Kan Si

curator: Rebecca Mazzei

artists: The Hinterlands, Zeb Smith, Haleem “Stringz” Rasul, Frank Pahl, Liza Bielby

  • Diankou

curator: Qiu Zhefeng

Chen Dandan, Fan Qing, Fang Lei, Gong Lin, Huang Baoxia, Ji Dong, Liu Zhenyuan, Lü Chengliang, Ni Yirong, Qian Dongsheng, Qiu Zhefeng, Tu Jiaqi, Wang Qi, Wei Shenlin, Xiao Liang

curators: Beate Reifenscheid, Qi Yang

artists: Thomas Stricker, Johannes auf der Lake, Qi Yang

curators: Defne Ayas / Davide Quadrio

artists: Semiha Berksoy, Elif Uras, Annika Eriksson

curator: Pierre Giner

artist: Pierre Giner

curators: Jose Carlos Mariategui, Jorge Villacorta

artist: Jose Carlos Martinat

curator: Lauri Firstenberg

curators: Magali Arriola, Daniela Perez

curator: Nikolai Molok

curators: Diana Campbell/ Susan Hapgood

curators: Laura Barreca / Davide Quadrio

artists: Massimo Bartolini, Pina Bausch, Vanessa Beecroft, Manfredi Beninati, Formafantasma, Stefania Galegati Shines, Guo Hongwei, Lee Kit, Laboratorio Saccardi, Francesco Simeti

curator: Chelsea Haines

curator: Thierry Raspail

curator: Chris Fitzpatrick

  • Sao Paulo

curator: Adriano Pedrosa

curators: Shimizu Tamotsu / Kai Kenji

curators: Aaron Seeto / Toby Chapman / Sharon Chen (as Curatorial project manager of the Sydney City Pavilion)

artists: Bababa International, Brook Andrew, Shaun Gladwell, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi, Shen Shaomin

curators: Nina Moaddel / Benham Kamrani

curator: Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem

curator: Daina Augait

artist: Brian Jungen

References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldtravelguide.net/shanghai/shanghai-biennale
  2. ↑ http://en.shanghaibiennale.org:81/2010/index.php
  3. ↑ Chen, Xhingyu. "Reassessing the Shanghai Biennale". The International Herald Tribune Special Report. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
  4. ↑ Lau, Joyce Hor-Chung (2010-11-10). "Eighth Shanghai Biennale Offers Wide Range of Art Concepts". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
  5. ↑ "Eight Reasons to Visit the Eighth Shanghai Biennale". CNN Go. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 

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