Gwangju Biennale
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The Gwangju Biennale, which started in September 1995 in the city of Gwangju
in the South Jeolla province of South Korea
, was Asia's first contemporary art biennale. The purpose of Gwangju Biennale is globalization of art and it respect diversity rather than uniformity. More than 500 artists and performers from 60 countries, and a modest contingent of foreign curators and critics descended on this provincial capital, whose 1.3 million citizens had virtually no prior exposure to international contemporary art.
Until the Biennale, Gwangju's claim to fame lay in its having been the scene of the Gwangju democratic uprising of students protesting his military regime (see Gwangju Massacre
). Since then the city has symbolised the country's pro-democracy resistance, a movement with special poignancy in light of the political situation that divides the peninsula. The mayor hopes the Biennale will serve "to clarify misconceptions regarding the history of Gwangju...a city of light that uses art to brighten the dark reality of Korean separation."
The theme "Beyond the Borders" combined all kind of things that have the characters of distinction and indifference such as ideology, nations, religions, races, cultures, arts, and 'post' festival, that is, 'post' rhetoric. Especially many innovative young artists participated.
The exhibition was composed of six sections by regions.
The exhibition was composed of five parts : Speed, Space, Hybrid, Power and Becoming.
, Hou Hanru
and SUNG Wan Kyung, the theme of the fourth Gwangju Biennale, P_A_U_S_E, focused primarily on a moment of critical reflection and dynamic change on the global art scene. Secondary focuses were on the cultural and artistic growth of the host city Gwangju, on alternative art, and on communication among artist groups.
and co-curated by Kerry Brougher and Sukwon Chang, acted as a cultural forum experimenting with the elevation of the spectator from passive observer to active participant by working collaboratively to produce works of art with the biennale's selected artists. 'A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water' is a vital natural phenomenon and ecological interpretation of order describing the cycle of creation and extinction. Dust suggests noise and cries, covers the objects of our conspicuous consumption that are remains of our industrial society. A drop of water suggests the medium of creation, animates the inanimate thus allowing the cycle of life. Dust, together with water, heals the negative elements of the contemporary society, thus revitalizing the new cultural & aesthetics values in the present world.
Artists included: Allora & Calzadilla
(Cuba) - El Anatsui
(Ghana) - Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (Philippines) - BUAN People (Korea) - Walterico Caldas (Brazil) - Pablo Cardoso (Ecuador) - Jota Castro (Peru) - Russell Crotty
(US) - Jimmie Durham
(US) - Asa Elzen (Sweden) - Environmental Artists (Korea) - Bruna Esposito (Italy) - Mounir Fatmi (Morocco) - Nayia Frangouli (Greece) - Kendell Geers
(South Africa) - Joong-ki Geum (Korea) - Lyudmila Gorlova (Russia) - Richard Hamilton
(UK) - Pierre Huyghe
(France) - Koji Iijima (Japan) - Emily Jacir
(Palestine) - Joon-ho Jeon (Korea) - Magdalena Jetelova (Czech Republic) - Soo-cheon Jheon (Korea) - Brian Jungen
(Canada) - Eduardo Kac
(Brazil) - Anish Kapoor
(India) - Byoung-jong Kim (Korea) - Jin-ran Kim (Korea) - Seung-young Kim (Korea) - Kyoung-ho Lee (Korea) - Zilla Leutenegger (Switzerland) - Marco Maggi
(Urguay) - Malam (Cameroon) - Teresa Margolles (Mexico) - Eva Marisaldi (Italy) - Ilka Meyer (Germany) - Tatsuo Miyajima (Japan) - Zwelethu Mthethwa
(South Africa) - Antoni Muntadas
(Spain) - Wangechi Mutu
(Kenya) - Ibrahim Nasrallah
(Jordan) - Francis Ng
(Singapore) - Ahmet Oktem (Turkey) - Lucy Orta
(France) - Muyiwa Osifuye (Nigeria) - Michael Parekowhai
(New Zealand) - Bul-ddong Park (Korea) - Daniel Pflumm (Switzerland) - Marjetica Potrc
(Slovenia) - Marc Quinn
(UK) - Annie Ratti (Italy) - Kelly Richardson
(Canada) - Thomas Ruff
(Germany) - Edward Ruscha
(US) - SAA (Site and Artists) (Korea) - Jim Sanborn (US) - Tisna Sanjaya (Indonesia) - Raquel Schwartz (Bolivia) - Leonid Sokov
(Russia) - Jennifer Steinkamp (US) - Sun Xiaofeng (China) - Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
(China) - Nguyen Minh Thanh (Vietnam) - The Kingpins
(Australia) - Momoyo Torimitsu (Japan) - Yue Min Jun (China)
The Artistic Director was Kim Hong-hee, Wu Hung was Chief Curator of The First Chapter and Kim Sang-yun was the Chief Programmer of The Third Sector.
. Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim and Ranjit Hoskote
. The programme is divided into three main strands. "On the Road" is a collection of travelling exhibitions that have been produced elsewhere in 2006/2007; "Position Papers" involves curators talking about art; and "Insertions" are works and events specially commissioned for the biennale.
Artists will include: Bani Abidi, Bingyi Huang, David Adjaye
, Tania Bruguera
& Arte Conducta, Allora & Calzadilla
, Mariana Bunimov, Lara Almarcegui, Gerard Byrne, Area Park, Byron Kim
, Stefano Arienti, Chen Shaoxiong, Kaoru Arima, Chen Qiulin, Sadie Benning
, Bruce Conner
, Huma Bhabha
, Thomas Demand
, Ursula Biemann, Atul Dodiya
, Donghee Koo, Hans Haacke
, Lili Dujourie, Haejun Jo, Felipe Dulzaides & Robert Gottardi, Lothar Hempel
, Eunji Cho, Jan Henle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
, HwaYeon Nam, Daniel Faust, Chi Young Hwang, Daniel Faust, Iman Issa, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Peter Friedl; Choi IY; Jewyo Rhii, Gao Shiqiang, Jina Park, Tamar Guimaraes, Jooyeon Park, Shilpa Gupta, Isaac Julien
, Hassan Khan, Sonia Khurana, Daniel Medina, Abdoulaye Konate, Luis Molina Pantin, David Lamelas, Matthew Monahan
, Sherrie Levine
, Movement, Contingency and Community, Glenn Ligon
, MY-DA-DA, Reagan Louie, Ken Lum
, Oil 21, Kerry James Marshall
, Els Opsomer, Mona Marzouk, Jo Ractliffe, The Masked Portrait, Walid Sadek, Gordon Matta Clark, Mandla Reuter, Joachim Schoenfeldt, Fatou Kande Senghor, Jose Toirac, SeoYoung Chung, Taryn Simon
, Uijae (Uijae Baek Lyen Heo), Dayanita Singh
, Jacques Villegle
, Praneet Soi, Alfred Wenemoser, Hiroshi Sugito, Lynette Yiadom Boakye
, Catherine Sullivan
, Bruce Yonemoto
, Sunghwan Kim, Kohei Yoshiyuki
, Sungyoon Yang, Zarina Hashmi, Taehun Kang, Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan, Koki Tanaka and John Zurier
Titled 10,000 Lives, the Biennale will develop as a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. With works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts are brought together to compose an idiosyncratic catalogue of figures and icons, faces and masks, idols and dolls.
Encompassing a diverse range of media, with a particular emphasis on portraiture, the exhibition will engage our obsession with images, and our need to create substitutes, effigies, avatars and stands-in for ourselves and our loved ones.
The exhibition title is borrowed from Maninbo (10,000 Lives), a thirty-volume epic poem conceived by Korean author Ko Un
while imprisoned in 1980 for his participation in the South Korean democratic movement. Held in solitary confinement, as ameans to preserve his sanity, Ko envisioned a poem which described every single person he had met throughout his life, including historical figures and fictional characters encountered in literature. Upon his release he began writing the 3,800 poems that compose Maninbo (10,000 Lives), a magnum opus that reads as a personal encyclopedia of humanity.
Unfolding as a family album, the Eighth Gwangju Biennale will look at images as sites of affection and means of survival. The exhibition will also examine how images are fabricated, circulated, stolen and exchanged: it will interrogate their power, while trying to capture their many lives.
Gwangju
Gwangju is the sixth largest city in South Korea. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister...
in the South Jeolla province of South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, was Asia's first contemporary art biennale. The purpose of Gwangju Biennale is globalization of art and it respect diversity rather than uniformity. More than 500 artists and performers from 60 countries, and a modest contingent of foreign curators and critics descended on this provincial capital, whose 1.3 million citizens had virtually no prior exposure to international contemporary art.
Until the Biennale, Gwangju's claim to fame lay in its having been the scene of the Gwangju democratic uprising of students protesting his military regime (see Gwangju Massacre
Gwangju massacre
The Gwangju Democratization Movement refers to a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju, South Korea from May 18 to May 27, 1980. During this period, citizens rose up against Chun Doo-hwan's military dictatorship and took control of the city...
). Since then the city has symbolised the country's pro-democracy resistance, a movement with special poignancy in light of the political situation that divides the peninsula. The mayor hopes the Biennale will serve "to clarify misconceptions regarding the history of Gwangju...a city of light that uses art to brighten the dark reality of Korean separation."
History
- 1st 1995.09.20-11.20 Beyond the Borders
- 2nd 1997.09.01-11.27 Unmapping the Earth
- 3rd 2000.03.29-06.07 Man and Space
- 4th 2002.03.29-06.29 P_A_U_S_E
- 5th 2004.09.10-11.13 A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water
- 6th 2006.09.08-11.11 Fever Variations
- 7th 2008.09.05-11.09 On the Road / Position Papers / Insertions
- 8th 2010.09.03-11.07 10000LIVES
1st Beyond the Borders (1995.09.20 to 11.20)
At first Biennale 660 artists from 58 countries participated and 817 artcrafts were exhibited.The theme "Beyond the Borders" combined all kind of things that have the characters of distinction and indifference such as ideology, nations, religions, races, cultures, arts, and 'post' festival, that is, 'post' rhetoric. Especially many innovative young artists participated.
The exhibition was composed of six sections by regions.
- West Europe and East Europe
- North America
- South America
- Asia
- The Middle East and Africa
- Korea and Oceania
2nd Unmapping the Earth (1997.09.01 to 11.27)
The main idea of the second Gwangju Biennale was similar to the first biennale's theme and it was developed to overcome National Borders and the prejudice of center-periphery. The theme, "Unmapping the Earth", is from the Korean concept "Yeobaik" which means literally "empty space" - a fundamental motif of Korean art.The exhibition was composed of five parts : Speed, Space, Hybrid, Power and Becoming.
3rd Man and Space (2000.03.29 to 06.07)
The theme was "to put mankind in its civilization development at the center of the exhibition and to inquire about the human conditions in the past, present, and future." The main exhibit sections were divided by regions.4th P_A_U_S_E (2002.03.29 to 06.29)
Curated by Charles EscheCharles Esche
Charles Esche is a curator and writer. Since 2004, he has been Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall Journal and Afterall Books with Mark Lewis. Afterall is a contemporary art publication which was first launched in 1998 and is based at...
, Hou Hanru
Hou Hanru
Hou Hanru is a Chinese art curator and critic who lives in United States since 2006.He received degrees from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and moved from China in 1990. He lived 16 years in France before moving to America in 1990...
and SUNG Wan Kyung, the theme of the fourth Gwangju Biennale, P_A_U_S_E, focused primarily on a moment of critical reflection and dynamic change on the global art scene. Secondary focuses were on the cultural and artistic growth of the host city Gwangju, on alternative art, and on communication among artist groups.
5th A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water (2004.09.10 to 11.13)
The Gwangju Biennale 2004, curated by Yongwoo LeeYongwoo Lee
Yongwoo Lee is an art historian, educator, critic and curator based in Seoul and New York. He is over-all director of Gwangju Biennale Foundation since 2008.- Biography :...
and co-curated by Kerry Brougher and Sukwon Chang, acted as a cultural forum experimenting with the elevation of the spectator from passive observer to active participant by working collaboratively to produce works of art with the biennale's selected artists. 'A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water' is a vital natural phenomenon and ecological interpretation of order describing the cycle of creation and extinction. Dust suggests noise and cries, covers the objects of our conspicuous consumption that are remains of our industrial society. A drop of water suggests the medium of creation, animates the inanimate thus allowing the cycle of life. Dust, together with water, heals the negative elements of the contemporary society, thus revitalizing the new cultural & aesthetics values in the present world.
Artists included: Allora & Calzadilla
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
(Cuba) - El Anatsui
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...
(Ghana) - Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (Philippines) - BUAN People (Korea) - Walterico Caldas (Brazil) - Pablo Cardoso (Ecuador) - Jota Castro (Peru) - Russell Crotty
Russell Crotty
Russell Crotty is a Northern California based artist whose work has been shown internationally and across the United States. His work incorporates astrological, nautical, and surfing themes...
(US) - Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham is an American-born sculptor, essayist and poet, currently living in Europe.-Life and work:Durham was born in Washington, Arkansas and became active in theatre, performance and literature related to the US civil rights movement in the 1960s. His first solo exhibition as a visual...
(US) - Asa Elzen (Sweden) - Environmental Artists (Korea) - Bruna Esposito (Italy) - Mounir Fatmi (Morocco) - Nayia Frangouli (Greece) - Kendell Geers
Kendell Geers
Kendell Geers is an artist, performance artist, musician and film-maker. Geers was born in Johannesburg in 1968.Geers' commonly given birthdate of May 1968 is fictional. Freire Barnes, "", Artist Pension Trust, 4 October 2007. Accessed 15 February 2011. In Venice in 1993, Geers rose to...
(South Africa) - Joong-ki Geum (Korea) - Lyudmila Gorlova (Russia) - Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton (artist)
Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
(UK) - Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
(France) - Koji Iijima (Japan) - Emily Jacir
Emily Jacir
Emily Jacir is a Palestinian artist. Born in Bethlehem, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She divides her time between New York and Ramallah....
(Palestine) - Joon-ho Jeon (Korea) - Magdalena Jetelova (Czech Republic) - Soo-cheon Jheon (Korea) - Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry...
(Canada) - Eduardo Kac
Eduardo Kac
Eduardo Kac is an American contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio-art. Kac was born in 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He lives and works in Chicago....
(Brazil) - Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
(India) - Byoung-jong Kim (Korea) - Jin-ran Kim (Korea) - Seung-young Kim (Korea) - Kyoung-ho Lee (Korea) - Zilla Leutenegger (Switzerland) - Marco Maggi
Marco Maggi
Marco Maggi is a New York and Uruguay based artist whose work incorporates common materials such as aluminum foil, graphite, and fabrics to create mixed media, often sculptural pieces.- Public Collections :...
(Urguay) - Malam (Cameroon) - Teresa Margolles (Mexico) - Eva Marisaldi (Italy) - Ilka Meyer (Germany) - Tatsuo Miyajima (Japan) - Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa is a South African painter and photographer.Mthethwa, a native of Durban, received his diplomas at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received...
(South Africa) - Antoni Muntadas
Antoni Muntadas
Antoni Muntadas is a multidisciplinary, media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. Since 1971, he lives and works in New York. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,1977–1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with...
(Spain) - Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Early life:Originally from the Kenyan Kikuyu tribe, she was educated in Nairobi at Loreto Convent Msongari and later studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales...
(Kenya) - Ibrahim Nasrallah
Ibrahim Nasrallah
Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, professor, painter and photographer.He studied in the UN agency for Palestine Refugees schools and at the UNRWA Teacher Training College in Amman. He taught in Saudi Arabia for 2 years in the Qunfudha region and worked as a journalist...
(Jordan) - Francis Ng
Francis Ng
-Career:Like so many of Hong Kong's actors, Ng has his roots in television. He graduated from TVB's training classes in 1985. He acted in minor roles working gradually upwards in the television hierarchy, but his looks did not fit in the conventional leading man role...
(Singapore) - Ahmet Oktem (Turkey) - Lucy Orta
Lucy Orta
Lucy Orta is a British contemporary visual artist living and working between London and Paris where she resides since 1991. She was born in 1966 in Sutton Coldfield, Great Britain....
(France) - Muyiwa Osifuye (Nigeria) - Michael Parekowhai
Michael Parekowhai
Michael Parekowhai is a New Zealand sculptor, of Nga Ariki, Ngati Whakarongo and European descent. He makes a broad range of work, across a range of media that intersects sculpture and photography...
(New Zealand) - Bul-ddong Park (Korea) - Daniel Pflumm (Switzerland) - Marjetica Potrc
Marjetica Potrc
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her interdisciplinary practice includes on-site projects, research, architectural case studies, and series of drawings...
(Slovenia) - Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...
(UK) - Annie Ratti (Italy) - Kelly Richardson
Kelly Richardson
Kelly Richardson is an artist whose media-based practice focuses on the idea of mixed realities; part 'real', part fantasy.-Early life and education:...
(Canada) - Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Life:...
(Germany) - Edward Ruscha
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
(US) - SAA (Site and Artists) (Korea) - Jim Sanborn (US) - Tisna Sanjaya (Indonesia) - Raquel Schwartz (Bolivia) - Leonid Sokov
Leonid Sokov
Leonid Sokov is a Russian artist and sculptor. He lives and works in New York City.-Life and work:Sokov was born in Mikhalevo in the Tver region, Russia in 1941 and graduated from the Stroganov Institute now called the Moscow School of Art and Industry, in 1969. He emigrated to the United States...
(Russia) - Jennifer Steinkamp (US) - Sun Xiaofeng (China) - Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are artists living and working collaboratively in Beijing. Sun was born in Beijing and Peng in Heilongjiang...
(China) - Nguyen Minh Thanh (Vietnam) - The Kingpins
The Kingpins
The Kingpins featuring Lorraine Muller - The Queen of Ska was a ska band from Montréal, Canada, signed to the Stomp Records label. The last Kingpins tour took place in 2004, after which the members of the band reformed under the name Lo and the Magnetics founded by Muller in order to reflect the...
(Australia) - Momoyo Torimitsu (Japan) - Yue Min Jun (China)
6th Fever Variations (2006.09.08 to 11.11)
The word Fever denotes passion and enthusiasm, and in particular the energy for change in Asia and the way in which Asia's power, dynamism and cultural abundance is being disseminated across the world.The Artistic Director was Kim Hong-hee, Wu Hung was Chief Curator of The First Chapter and Kim Sang-yun was the Chief Programmer of The Third Sector.
7th On the Road / Position Papers / Insertions (2008.09.05 to 11.09)
Artistic Director: Okwui EnwezorOkwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
. Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim and Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator.-Early life and education:...
. The programme is divided into three main strands. "On the Road" is a collection of travelling exhibitions that have been produced elsewhere in 2006/2007; "Position Papers" involves curators talking about art; and "Insertions" are works and events specially commissioned for the biennale.
Artists will include: Bani Abidi, Bingyi Huang, David Adjaye
David Adjaye
David Adjaye OBE is a British architect.-Early life:David Adjaye was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat who has lived in Tanzania, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon before moving to Britain at the age of nine, he led a privileged life and was privately educated...
, Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera is a Cuban installation and performance artist, trained at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bruguera's work pivots around issues of power and control....
& Arte Conducta, Allora & Calzadilla
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
, Mariana Bunimov, Lara Almarcegui, Gerard Byrne, Area Park, Byron Kim
Byron Kim
Byron Kim is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In the early 1990s he produced minimalist paintings exploring racial identity. He also graduated from Yale University.-Works:...
, Stefano Arienti, Chen Shaoxiong, Kaoru Arima, Chen Qiulin, Sadie Benning
Sadie Benning
Sadie Benning is a video maker, visual artist, and musician.She first made her name in the early 1990s as a teenage video maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Raised by her mother in inner-city Milwaukee, Benning left school at age 16, primarily due to the homophobia she experienced...
, Bruce Conner
Bruce Conner
Bruce Conner was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines.-Early life:...
, Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha is a sculptor based in New York. Her sculptures are composed from basic construction media and found objects.Bhabha studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University ....
, Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand, in full Thomas Cyrill Demand, is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg.-Education:...
, Ursula Biemann, Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya
Atul Dodiya is an Indian artist.Atul began exhibiting and selling his work in the early 1980s following his graduation from Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree...
, Donghee Koo, Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...
, Lili Dujourie, Haejun Jo, Felipe Dulzaides & Robert Gottardi, Lothar Hempel
Lothar Hempel
Lothar Hempel is a German artist based in Berlin. He attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1992.-Artistic practice:...
, Eunji Cho, Jan Henle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...
, HwaYeon Nam, Daniel Faust, Chi Young Hwang, Daniel Faust, Iman Issa, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Peter Friedl; Choi IY; Jewyo Rhii, Gao Shiqiang, Jina Park, Tamar Guimaraes, Jooyeon Park, Shilpa Gupta, Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.-Biography:Julien graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985, where he studied painting and fine art film...
, Hassan Khan, Sonia Khurana, Daniel Medina, Abdoulaye Konate, Luis Molina Pantin, David Lamelas, Matthew Monahan
Matthew Monahan
Matthew Monahan is a United States artist based in Los Angeles. He is represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York, and Fons Welters in Amsterdam...
, Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
, Movement, Contingency and Community, Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. He engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life.-Early life and career:...
, MY-DA-DA, Reagan Louie, Ken Lum
Ken Lum
Ken Lum is a Canadian artist of Chinese heritage who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art is conceptually oriented, and generally concerned with issues of identity in relation to the categories of...
, Oil 21, Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
, Els Opsomer, Mona Marzouk, Jo Ractliffe, The Masked Portrait, Walid Sadek, Gordon Matta Clark, Mandla Reuter, Joachim Schoenfeldt, Fatou Kande Senghor, Jose Toirac, SeoYoung Chung, Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon is an American photographer. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. She was born in New York.Her photography and writing have been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, CNN, BBC, Frontline, and NPR...
, Uijae (Uijae Baek Lyen Heo), Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh is an Indian photographer, lives and works in New Delhi and now also is partly based in Goa, who is known for her portraits of India's urban middle and upper class families...
, Jacques Villegle
Jacques Villeglé
Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters...
, Praneet Soi, Alfred Wenemoser, Hiroshi Sugito, Lynette Yiadom Boakye
Lynette Yiadom Boakye
Lynette Yiadom Boakye is an artist of Ghanaian descent based in London.Boakye attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools....
, Catherine Sullivan
Catherine Sullivan
Catherine Sullivan is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines video and performance.She was educated at the California Institute of Arts and the Art Center College of Design...
, Bruce Yonemoto
Bruce Yonemoto
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, Sunghwan Kim, Kohei Yoshiyuki
Kohei Yoshiyuki
__notoc__ is a Japanese photographer who attracted much attention in 1979 with his exhibition "Kōen" at the Komai Gallery, Tokyo. The black-and-white photographs were presented in a book published in 1980 that is "nominally a soft-core voyeur's manual", with photographs of people in sexual...
, Sungyoon Yang, Zarina Hashmi, Taehun Kang, Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan, Koki Tanaka and John Zurier
8th 10000LIVES (2010.09.03 to 11.07)
Artistic Director: Massimiliano Gioni- September 3, 2010 - November 7, 2010Titled 10,000 Lives, the Biennale will develop as a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. With works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts are brought together to compose an idiosyncratic catalogue of figures and icons, faces and masks, idols and dolls.
Encompassing a diverse range of media, with a particular emphasis on portraiture, the exhibition will engage our obsession with images, and our need to create substitutes, effigies, avatars and stands-in for ourselves and our loved ones.
The exhibition title is borrowed from Maninbo (10,000 Lives), a thirty-volume epic poem conceived by Korean author Ko Un
Ko Un
Ko Un is a South Korean poet. His works have been translated and published in more than 15 countries and he has been imprisoned many times...
while imprisoned in 1980 for his participation in the South Korean democratic movement. Held in solitary confinement, as ameans to preserve his sanity, Ko envisioned a poem which described every single person he had met throughout his life, including historical figures and fictional characters encountered in literature. Upon his release he began writing the 3,800 poems that compose Maninbo (10,000 Lives), a magnum opus that reads as a personal encyclopedia of humanity.
Unfolding as a family album, the Eighth Gwangju Biennale will look at images as sites of affection and means of survival. The exhibition will also examine how images are fabricated, circulated, stolen and exchanged: it will interrogate their power, while trying to capture their many lives.