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Biennials, triennials and festivals

Prospect.3 New OrleansVarious venues

UNTIL 25 JANUARYwww.prospectneworleans.org

The 2015 TriennialNew Museum, New York

25 FEBRUARY-24 MAYwww.newmuseum.org

2nd Kochi-Muziris BiennaleVarious venues in Kochi, India,

including Pepper House

UNTIL 29 MARCHkochimuzirisbiennale.org

10th Shanghai BiennaleThe Power Station of Art, Shanghai

UNTIL 31 MARCHwww.shanghaibiennale.org

12th Havana BiennialVarious venues

22 MAY-22 JUNEwww.bienalhabana.cult.cu

7th Turku BiennialAboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum,

Turku, Finland

10 JUNE-30 AUGUSTwww.turkubiennaali.fi

Manchester InternationalFestivalVenues include Whitworth

Art Gallery

2-19 JULYmif.co.uk

Biennial of the AmericasVarious venues, Denver, US

14 JULY-7 SEPTEMBERwww.biennialoftheamericas.org

31st Biennial of Graphic ArtsThe International Centre of Graphic

Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

28 AUGUST-3 DECEMBERwww.mglc-lj.si

6th Moscow BiennaleVarious venues, Moscow

OPENS SEPTEMBERwww.moscowbiennale.ru

10th Mercosul BiennialVarious venues, Porto Alegre, Brazil

SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBERwww.fundacaobienal.art.br

13th Lyon BiennialVarious venues

10 SEPTEMBER-3 JANUARY www.labiennaledelyon.com

Göteborg InternationalBiennial of Contemporary ArtVarious venues, Gothenburg

12 SEPTEMBER-22 NOVEMBERwww.gibca.se

Kobe BiennaleVarious venues, Kobe, Japan

19 SEPTEMBER-23 NOVEMBERwww.kobe-biennale.jp

Scape 8 Public Art BiennialVarious venues, Christchurch, NZ

3 OCTOBER-15 NOVEMBERscapebiennial.org.nz

Curitiba InternationalBiennialVarious venues, Curitiba, Brazil

4 OCTOBER-6 DECEMBERwww.bienaldecuritiba.com.br

8th Asia Pacific TriennialQueensland Art Gallery and Gallery

of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

NOVEMBER-MAY 2016www.qag.qld.gov.au

Performa Venues across New York

1-22 NOVEMBERwww.performa-arts.org

OkwuiEnwezorbrings hisglobalcuratorialexperience tothe VeniceBiennale

Chicago Architecture BiennialVenues across Chicago1 OCTOBER-3 JANUARY 2016www.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.orgSurprisingly, there has not been a biennial dedicated to architecture inthe US—until now. The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial,funded in part by the oil giantBP, comprises city-wideexhibitions and installationsby established and emergingarchitects that “address themajor concerns of our time:the social, environmental,aesthetic, technological, andeconomic issues that shapethe world we live in”, say theorganisers. The Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates isplanning installations andprogramming on the city’sSouth Side. G.H.

Sharjah Biennial 12Arts Area Sharjah, UAE 5 MARCH-5 JUNE www.sharjahart.orgThis year,two-thirds ofthe fiftyparticipatingartists willpresent newworks for theexhibition,entitled “Thepast, thepresent, thepossible”.The organisers say “the premise of the biennial stems from aconversation between the artist Danh Vo and the [biennial] curatorEungie Joo, in early 2013, about the relevance of contemporary art”.The development of education, culture, religion and science in theEmirate will also be under the spotlight. Artists due to participateinclude Mark Bradford, Michael Joo, Julie Mehretu, Hassan Sharif,Damián Ortega, Kim Beom and Adrián Villar Rojas.G.H.

14th IstanbulBiennialVenues across Istanbul5 September-1 Novemberhttp://bienal.iksv.org/enCarolyn Christov-Bakargiev, theformer artistic director ofDocumenta 13, is the curator of“Saltwater: a Theory of ThoughtForms”. She says the exhibitionwill take place in a variety ofunconventional venues,describing it as “a city-wideproject on the Bosphorus thatconsiders different frequenciesand patterns of waves”,stressing that the concept ofwaves “refers to history and

resistance”. The biennial will include works by more than 50oceanographers and neuroscientists as well as artists includingWilliam Kentridge, Aslı Çavusoglu, and Pierre Huyghe. G.H.

The Chicago Cultural Center, hub ofthe Architecture Biennial

Part of the Sharjah Arts Area

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev comesto Istanbul from Documenta

Other highlights

The 56th Venice Biennale Arsenale and Giardini 9 MAY-22 NOVEMBER www.labiennale.org

■ Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor is one of themost experienced and established curators on thebiennial circuit, having organised exhibitions suchas Documenta 11 in Kassel, 2002, the 7th GwangjuBiennale in South Korea, 2008, and the Triennaled’Art Contemporain of Paris at the Palais de Tokyo,2012. Enwezor can now add the 120-year-oldVenice Biennale, the most prestigious andprominent art platform worldwide, to his portfolio.

His framework for the Arsenale and the CentralPavilion in the Giardini, which he has titled “All theWorld’s Futures”, taps in to potent political andsocial topics. “The principal question… is this: howcan artists, thinkers, writers… through images,objects, words, movement, actions, lyrics, andsound bring together publics in acts of looking,listening [and] responding to make sense of thecurrent upheaval?” Enwezor said in a pressstatement. Three intersecting “filters”, or thematic

concepts, underpin the biennale. The first,“Liveness: On epic duration”, will be “adramatisation of the space of the exhibition as acontinuous, unfolding, and unceasing live event”,implying that performance art, now a staple ofbiennials and art fairs, will feature prominently.

Artists will be invited to develop newsculptures, films and performances for the “Gardenof Disorder” thematic strand. The Giardini, with its“ramshackle assemblage of pavilions”, says Enwezor,“will act as a metaphor for exploring the pervasivestructure of disorder in global geopolitics, [the]environment and economics”. Enwezor’s mainpreoccupation—how commodification andcommerce dominate political systems worldwide—is addressed by the third filter, “Capital: A LiveReading”, which will see a live reading of KarlMarx’s revolutionary 1867 text Das Kapital takeplace in the Central Pavilion every day. G.H.

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