Manifesta, the itinerant European biennial of contemporary art, announced that it will hold its 2016 edition in Zürich.
Organizers explained what attracted them to Switzerland’s largest city in a news release:
“Zurich has a very long history of artistic and intellectual liberalism. It was historically an incubator for revolutionary political and artistic movements. During periods Read More
One could almost trace the career of Holly Block through biennials. So the selection of a program she oversaw for the 2013 Venice Biennale, which opens next June, is not much of a surprise.
In 1994, she led a group of intrepid museum directors, curators, critics and artists down to Cuba during the embargo to attend the Fifth Havana Biennial. In 2003, she and James Farber co-commissioned the Cairo Biennial, with the support of the State Department. In 2010, under her direction, the Bronx Museum was charged with administering a $1 million cultural diplomacy initiative called SmARTPower. Then in 2011, Ms. Block brought the biennial flair to the backyard of the Bronx Museum when the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program (an artist residency program founded in 1980, and one of the museum’s trophies) staged its own for the first time. Read More
In an effort to build anticipation for Sharjah Biennial 11, which opens next March in that emirate, the Sharjah Art Foundation has been slowly releasing the names of the artists whose work will appear in the exhibition. Today we have another batch: Francis Alÿs, Tiffany Chung, Runa Islam, Lucia Koch, Nasir Nasrallah, Ernesto Neto, Otobong Nkanga, Gabriel Orozco and Ayman Ramadan. Read More
The Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates has announced some of the line-up for Sharjah Biennial 11, which will take place March 13–May 13, 2013. Read More
Former New Museum curator Dan Cameron, who founded the Prospect biennial in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, was hired as chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, in Newport Beach, Calif., last year. The Daily Pilot, which is published in Costa Mesa, Calif., reports that he has been busy re-imagining the museum’s signature exhibition, the California Biennial, which it has run since 1984. Read More
The next edition of Prospect 3, the lovable but frequently troubled biennial exhibition initiated by Dan Cameron in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, will take place in the fall of 2014, not in 2013, as originally planned, The Times-Picayune reports.
Prospect’s consulting director, Jane Farver, said that the postponement was designed to ensure that the exhibition does not coincide with the major international shows planned for Venice, Istanbul and Pittsburgh (the Carnegie International) in 2013. Read More
For a moment there it almost seemed like biennials and triennials were on the wane, with Tate canceling its 2012 triennial and a few months passing since we heard about the launch of a new one of those massive exhibitions. Read More
With the biennial and triennial season nearing (the Whitney opens March 1, the New Museum Feb. 15), the Queens Museum of Art has released the artist list for its biannual International exhibition, which is set for a Feb. 4 opening. Read More
