The Bucharest Biennale is a contemporary art festival held every two years in Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. The first Biennale was held in 2005, with the following one held in May-June 2006. From 2006 onwards, the festival will be held every two years. The Biennale is organised by PAVILION, journal for politics and culture, and is sponsored by various private partners and cultural institutions. The Biennale was founded by Razvan Ion

Razvan Ion

Razvan Ion is a theoretician, curator, cultural manager and political activist. He is the co-editor , of - journal for politics and culture, co-director of Bucharest Biennale and in 2008 he was appointed as director of - center for contemporary art & culture...

 and Eugen Radescu

Eugen Radescu

Eugen Radescu is a politologist , cultural manager, curator and theoretician. He writes for various magazines and newspapers. He curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale 1 with the theme "Identity Factories" and "How Innocent Is That?" at Bucharest...

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2006

The 2006 festival was curated by the Hungarian critic and curator Zsolt Petranyi, and was held at numerous venues throughout Bucharest, including the National Museum of Geology, the National Museum of Literature (Romania), the National Centre for Dance, the Botanical Gardens

Botanical Garden of Bucharest

The Bucharest Botanical Garden , now named after its founder, Dimitrie Brândză, is located in the Cotroceni neighbourhood of Bucharest, Romania. It has a surface of 17.5 hectares , and has more than 10,000 species of plants....

, South Shop and the Herăstrău Skate Park. 18 artists, both Romanian and international, participated in the 2006 edition.

2008

The 2008 Biennale was held between 23 May and 21 June, and it was be curated by Jan-Erik Lundström

Jan-Erik Lundström

Jan-Erik Lundström is a Swedish curator and the co-curator of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale.- Biography :Lundström is a lecturer, curator, organizer, and writer...

 and Johan Sjöström from Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. Its theme was "Being Here: Mapping the Contemporary".

2010

The 2010 edition will be held between 21 May and 25 July 2010, thus expanding its duration for one month. The theme of the biennale will be "Handlung. On Producing Possibilities." and is curated by the German curator Felix Vogel.

External links

Bucharest Biennale official site
Pavilion Unicredit