The Danish Art Council's Committee for International Visual Art supports Danish artists' participation in international biennials. Here you can find a listing of major biennials with danish participation supported by the Comittee.
Documenta12
The documenta is one of the world's most respected exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide. The documenta is held every five years at Kassel, a town in North Hessen, Germany, where it is being held for the 12th time in 2007.
Documenta12 has three leitmotifs. It is no accident that they take the form of questions. After all, we create an exhibition in order to find something out. Here and there, these motifs may correspond, overlap, or disintegrate – like a musical score. The questions are:" Is modernity our antiquity?", "What is bare life?" and "What is to be done?"
Taking place: Kassel, Germany
Participating: Katya Sander
Dates: June 16 - September 23 2007
Info: www.documenta12.de / www.katyasander.net
4th Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art
The 4th Ars Baltica with the title "Don't Worry - Be Curius!" opened in Kiel.The triennial presents photographs, videos, and installations by 20 artists from the countries bordering the Baltic Sea, works that address the problems and fears resulting from upheavals in present-day society.
Taking place: Kiel, Germany / Talinn, Estonia / Pori, Finland
Participating: Colonel and Khaled Ramadan, J&K, Tanja Nellemann Poulsen
Dates: March 31 - May 28 2007, Kiel / August 10 - September 30 2007, Talinn / October 12 - January 20 2008, Pori
Info: www.arsbalticatriennial.org
2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art
The Biennial's main project is put together by an experienced team of six international curators: Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Lara Boubnova, Rosa Martinez and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Together, they have invited 41 young artists to present their work in Moscow — those who, for them, define the face of art at the beginning of 21st-century.
Taking place: Moscow, Russia
Participating: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Joachim Koester, Superflex
Dates: March 1 - April 1 2007
Info: www.moscowbiennale.ru/en
27th Bienal de São Paulo
Starting in 2006, the venerable old São Paulo Art Biennial is changing its profile. Before, the São Paulo Biennial, like the Venice Biennial, had a two-tier structure: national presentations by various countries and a curated main show with one or more themes. For the 27th São Paulo Biennial in 2006, however, the national presentations have been eliminated. Instead, the entire biennial will be one big show, whose curators will invite all the artists. Under the headline of “Blocks without Frontiers,” the 2006 biennial was put together by a team of curators led by Lisette Lagnado and including Cristina Freire, Rosa Martinez, Adriano Pedrosa and José Roca.
Taking place: Saõ Paulo, Brazil
Participating: Ann Lislegaard, Superflex
Dates: October 7 - December 17 2006
Info: http://bienalsaopaulo.globo.com/
4th Liverpool Biennial
For ten weeks every two years, several hundred of the world's most exciting visual artists show their work in over 40 locations across Liverpool city centre, from major gallery spaces to unexpected temporary locations. The fourth biennial called "International 06" had urban myths and the bittersweet success of regeneration as strong focal points.
Taking place: Liverpool, U.K.
Participating: Jeppe Hein
Dates: September 16 - November 26 2006
Info: www.biennial.com
6th Gwangju Biennale
The 6 th Gwangju Biennial 2006 intended to illuminate and re-interpret international contemporary art from the standpoint of Asia . With ‘Asia' as its theme, the title "Fever Variations" reflected the multiple ways Asia affects the world with its cultural abundance, vibrant energy, and enthusiasm for change.
Taking place: Gwangju, Korea
Participating: Lise Autogena, Jakob Jakobsen & Henriette Heise (Copenhagen Free University), Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Dates: September 8 - November 11 2006
Info: www.gwangju-biennale.org
Busan Biennial
The Contemporary Art Exhibition at the 2006 Busan Biennial was devoted to the introduction of experimental, specific context-appropriate, and ground-breaking artwork. To make clear its positioning toward the main streams, the exhibition focused on a wide range of contemporary narrative structure-based artworks, which have tended to be marginalized by the formalist approach of Western modernism.
In line with the conceptual framework, the exhibition was affirming the equality of art projects, placing all exhibition spots in a parallel relationship, under the common title of rubric, 'CAFE'(Contemporary Art For Everyone). The 'CAFE' brought together a variety of media such as installation, painting, photography, sculpture, object, design, architecture, sound installation and moving image.
Taking place: Busan, Korea
Participating: Lillibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, FOS, Jesper Just, Jakob Kolding, Joachim Koester, BankMalbekRau
Dates: September 16 - November 26 2006
Info: www.busanbiennale.org
