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24/8/2007

Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

5 locations, Goteborg

RETHINKING DISSENT
on the limitations of politics and the possibilities of resistance

Röda Sten, the Röhsska Museum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Old Post Office and the gallery Kaustik

Artists:

Lida Abdul
Adel Abidin
AES + F
Jane Alexander
Catti Brandelius
Tania Bruguera in collaboration with Yalí Romagoza & Ezequiel Suárez
Democracia
Jenny Grönvall
Maria Heimer Åkerlund
Thomas Hirschhorn
Mats Hjelm
Pål Hollender
Jenny Holzer
Lamia Joreige
Marianne Lindberg De Geer in collaboration with Jan Alvermark
Otto Karvonen
Armando Lulaj
Mandana Moghaddam
Melik Ohanian
Mario Rizzi
Joanna Rytel
Anri Sala
Fia-Stina Sandlund
Santiago Sierra
Sislej Xhafa
Hendrik Zeitler
Johan Zetterquist
Ola Åstrand

Curators: Joa Ljungberg & Edi Muka

The Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art opens August 25, in the presence of the participating artists. Founded in year 2001 it now presents its fourth edition and offers an exiting start on the autumn’s cultural season. Twenty eight artists and artist groups from different parts of the world participate in the exhibition which will spread to five different venues around the city of Göteborg.

During the opening at Röda Sten you have the possibility to meet the artists, see performances and experience a pulsating event. All venues will be open the whole day. For more information about the program, please visit the website of the biennial.

The 4th edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art wish to encourage reflection on the condition of the political and the meaning of dissent in a time characterised by the dominance of a globalized market. A time in which our lives and our understanding of the world are strongly affected by a continuous state of war, often presented to us as a clash between traditionalist Islamic fundamentalism and modern liberal democracy.

The exhibition takes us on a journey where different aspects of our global condition are highlighted and analysed. The artists will help us to give form to important questions and encourage us to think beyond our doorstep, reflect on our time and what happens in the world around us.

SATELLITES

The biennial’s Satellites offer an exciting complement to the main exhibition. Locally based artists, curators and galleries have been offered to produce their own exhibitions and events in dialogue with the biennial, by using a common theoretical platform as a point of departure.

In Dependence shows works by the German artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl, at 300m3 Art Space, August 25 – October 21

Reworking Dissent is a workshop and exhibition with professors art students from Valand Academy of Art, University College of Photography, Bergamo Carrara Academy of Art and Tirana Academy of Art, that will be shown at Galleri Rotor, August 25 – September 16.

NO BLACK IS NOT BRIGHT WHITE at Galleri Box and Galleri 54 presents five emerging Scottish artists in an exhibition curated by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, August 25 – September 23.

Listening Sites: Tracking Stories shows site-specific works made by the artists Andrea Wollensak and Brett Terry, at Konstepidemin, Pavilion 10, August 25 – November 25

Contemporary video art from Argentina is a screening of works by six Argentinean artists that will take place at Atalante on November 14.

Flexibility of a Syringe is the umbrella name for a series of exhibitions which will be presented in the mobile gallery Lådan/the mobile box. The exhibitions will be shown at different times and venues during the biennial.

OPENING
Saturday, August 25 at 14:00

PRESS INFORMATION
Maria Rademark maria.rademark@rodasten.com +46 (0) 31-12 07 76

CONTACT & INFORMATION
Röda Sten 1, SE-414 51 Göteborg, Sweden +46 (0) 31-12 07 76

Röda Sten cultural association is the main organising party for the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2007.

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