The Nanjing Biennale is a contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 exhibition held every two years in the city of Nanjing

Nanjing

' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

, in Jiangsu

Jiangsu

' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...

 province in China

China

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. In October 2010 it will open for the first time as an international event, co-hosted by Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum and Endless Contemporary Art Space. The curatorial team of the 2010 edition consists of Zhu Tong, museum director and curator at Nanjing 4Cube Museum of Contemporary Art

Nanjing 4Cube Museum of Contemporary Art

4Cube Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum in Nanjing, in Jiangsu province in China. It is a non-profit private multi-functional institution dedicated to the exhibition, preservation, research and education of contemporary art and architecture....

, Won-il Rhee

Won-il Rhee

Won-il Rhee was a Korean digital art curator. He was born and died in Seoul.Rhee was the artistic director in 2002 and 2006 of the Media City Seoul Biennale. He was the leading curator of the Total Museum of Art and co-ordinator of the Korean Pavilion for the 1995 Venice Biennale...

 (recently deceased) and Eleonora Battiston. The theme of this biennial is “And_Writers”. The biennial will open on October 28th at Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum

Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum

Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum is a museum in Nanjing, in Jiangsu province in China.It was founded in 1936, during the Nanjing decade, as China’s first state level museum. In 1960, it was formally renamed as the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum....

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