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30/9/2004

La alegria de mis suenos

Monasterio de la Cartuja, Sevilla

From October 1st to December 5th, the 1st Edition of the Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art (BIACS) will be held at the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuevas. Under the title "La alegría de mis suenos" (The joy of my dreams), taken out from the lyrics by the native "cantaor" from Cádiz Camarón de la Isla, the director of the Exhibition, the prestigious Swiss curator Prof. Harald Szeeman, will offer a wide exhibition emerging from the liveliest and current artistic creation.

BIACS is promoted and supported by a private organization, the International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville, a private body, integrated by 28 members from sevillian companies; businessmencom and intellectuals, that will lead the project in the present and coming editions.

Harald Szeemann, responsible for the Documenta of Kassel in the seventies and director of the Visual Arts Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia in 1999 and 2001, knows very well the Monasterio de La Cartuja considering it as one of the best spaces in the world to organize a Biennial. His artistic project is conceived to exploit the unique nature of The Monastery and the city of Seville: "My criteria is poetry in the space, hoping that viewers feel the Biennial as an adventure for the spirit and the heart. Every exhibition is a challenge to find the right answer to nowadays sought for artistic creativity. It is not a question of showing what is best at the moment, but to discover what will be the path, in the nearest future, for this unpredictable affair which is the arts".

For this first edition, Szeemann will present young artists of a critical and even subversive spirit. Artists of great "creative strength" like Erzen Shkololli and Xhafa (Serbia-Montenegro), Maja Bajevic (Bosnia), Mark Verlan (Moldavia), Biljana Djurdjevic (Serbia); Olaf Nicolai, Neo Rauch and Tobias Rehberger from Germany. Young talented such as Sthephen Dean (France), Euan MacDonald (England), Andreas Savva (Greece) Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba and Chiharu Chiota (Japan); Xiaohu Zhou (China); Shazia Sikander (Pakistan); Gülsün Karamustafa, Sener Özmen & Erka Özgen (Turkey). Artists who will produce in situ like Olaf Nicolai (Alemania), João Pedro Vale (Portugal), Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain), Chiharu Shiota (Japan), Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portugal), Ulrich Rückriem (Germany) and Sislej Xhafa (Serbia-Montenegro).

The BIACS would like to highlight the steel sculpture by Richard Serra "The Union of the Torus and the Sphere"; the skating rink by Michael Majerus "If you are dead, so it is" and "the derailment" by Juan Munoz.

BIACS will also include "the Cultural Biennial" under the banner "Hospitality and Tollerance", it will offer a great cultural variety in the following areas: cinema; scenic arts; music; literature and architecture. A programme that have counted on specialists from the international agenda, thus, for the architecture symposium have already confirmed attendance Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Jaque Herzog, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Rafael Moneo and the Sevillians Rafael Ortiz y Antonio Cruz.

List of artists and works proposed by Harlad Szeemann:

Abad, Antoni
Albarracín , Pilar
Alptekin, Hüseyin Barhi
Bajević , Maja
Bashi, Tatsurou
Beqiri , Sokol
Büchel, Christoph
Cabrita Reis , Pedro
Canogar , Daniel
Cattelan, Maurizio
Chillida, Eduardo
Dean, Stephen
Devlin, Lucinda
Djurdević , Biljana
Dragoljub Todosijević, Rasa
Emin , Tracey
García Rodero, Cristina
Gerda Steiner, & , Jörg Lenzlinger
Gil, Victoria
Gil, Alonso
González, Curro
Guzmán, Federico
Herold, Georg
Herrero, Federico
Karamustafa, Gülsün
Kosuth, Joseph
Larsson, Annika
López Cuenca, Rogelio
MacDonald, Euan
Majerus, Michael
Marisaldi, Eva
Messager, Annette
Monge , Priscilla
Muñoz, Juan
Neto, Ernesto
Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Jun
Nicolai, Olaf
Nilsson, Lars
Ocampo , Manuel
Paci, Adrian
Rauch, Neo
Rehberger, Tobias
Rückriem, Ulrich
Sánchez Castillo, Fernando
Sarenco
Savva, Andreas
Sernen Özmen, & Erkan Özgen
Serra , Richard
Shiota, Chiharu
Shkololli, Erzen
Sierra , Santiago
Sikander , Shahzia
Spitzer, Serge
Tichý , Miroslav
Vale, João Pedro
Vári, Minnete
Velasco, Javier
Verlan, Mark
Vieitez, Virxilio
Wallin, Magnus
Wurm , Erwin
Xhafa, Sislej

International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville
Avda. de los Descubrimientos, s/n. Pabellón de España, Isla de la Cartuja. 41092 – Seville (Spain)
General Manager: Juana de Aizpuru.
International Press: María Palma
Ph.: +34 954 46 09 59/ Fax. + 34 954 46 75 14

Venue: Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de Las Cuevas
Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2. 41071 Siviglia-Spagna

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