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16/10/2008

Brussels Biennial 1

Different venues, Bruxelles

Widely acknowledged as the international centre of the unified European Community, Brussels inaugurates its first contemporary art biennial in 2008. The Brussels Biennial responds to the ever-increasing critical impact of Brussels and its potential to provide a specific context for the presentation of contemporary art. Characterized by its intuitive insight into the art scene of the highly urbanized region between the Netherlands, Belgium, France and parts of Germany, the biennial takes place from October 2008 through January 2009. With contributions from more than 40 international artists, the biennial incorporates exhibitions by experimental art institutions located in two deserted buildings along the North-South railway axis in Brussels. The biennial represents a first step in a larger project designed as a trans-national endeavour that will unfold in two steps until 2010.

The first edition of the Brussels Biennial includes a wide range of institutions and projects regrouped under the conceptual umbrella devised by its Artistic Director, Barbara Vanderlinden. It is the result of a collaboration that crosses traditional boundaries between biennials, exhibitions, institutions, curators and artists. It aims to radically move away from the process in which artworks are produced, presented, disseminated and contextualized. In view of the crucial role of old and emerging institutions, this biennial will strive to present contemporary art in an exhibition developed and curated by a network of visual art organizations.

The timing of this new biennial was carefully thought of. It emerges as an answer to the growing reputation of Brussels as a destination for contemporary artists, curators and collectors. Indeed, the city has been home to a thriving international art community for several decades. Its unique combination of high standard of living, growing scene of galleries, powerful tradition of art collecting and legacy of art history ranging from Flemish medievalism to 1960s conceptualism attracts artists to Brussels –in many cases keeping them here. Recent significant innovations, including the new contemporary art centre WIELS and the Biennial, means that the city is now ready to enter a new era. The first edition opens on 19 October 2008. Henceforth, the city centre of Brussels will undergo a transformation. Every two years, it will change into a melting pot for contemporary art exhibitions, debates and workshops with international artists, curators and politicians.

Thematically, the exhibition is linked to the complex ideas emerging from the different modern complexities in a global context and its implications on individuals and societies from around the world. The project will start from the active involvement of artists within this new global modern reality.

Participating institutions will not be shown unrelated to one another, but will be structured according to various aesthetic and thematically build relations to one another, resulting in a productive exchange between the various contemporary art positions, artworks and audiences.

As a result, the biennial will incorporate a patchwork of institutions and an open geography into its sequence of space. These local and transnational activities can be perceived as a chain of travelling cultural worlds and idioms, a network of incommensurable experiments in a global culture. Using the notion of a space of encounters, the biennial wants to lay down a soft, porous line between context and practice, form and medium, artist and system, institution and locality.

The Brussels Biennial 1 event will include the participation of the Bangladeshi Drik, Images, Communication & Information Technology from Dhaka; the Belgian B.P.S.22, espace de création contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut from Charleroi (Pierre-Olivier Rollin); Extra City, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst from Antwerp (Anselm Franke); and MuHKA (Bart De Baere), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen from Antwerp; the Dutch BAK, basis voor actuele kunst from Utrecht (Mária Hlavajová); Van Abbemuseum from Eindhoven (Charles Esche); and Witte de With, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst from Rotterdam (Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel) and finally, Moroccan L’appartement 22 from Rabat (Abdellah Karroum).

The lecture programme of the first Brussels Biennial is put together by Belgian sociologist Pascal Gielen and carried out in collaboration with the BAM, the Ghent Instituut voor beeldende, audiovisuele en mediakunst (Institute for Visual, Audiovisual and Media Art); Fontys, Hogeschool voor Kunsten (Fontys University of Fine and Performing Arts), Tilburg (the Netherlands); and the Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren (Flemish-Dutch Centre, deBuren), Brussels.

Alongside the main project of the Brussels Biennale 2008, there will be a series of special projects across Brussels in different institutions of contemporary art. These events e.g. at the Centre for Fine Art will tie the programme of the Brussels Biennial to the city itself.

Additionally, the Biennial will take account of the activities in the city to exhibitions initiated between 19 October 2008 and 4 January 2009.

Organization: Brussels Biennial vzw (non-profit organization)

Office:
Ravensteinstraat 23 | 1000 Brussels | Belgium
T +32 2 507 83 45

Artistic Director, Barbara Vanderlinden

Artist:

Shahidul Alam (Bangladesch)
Victor Alimpiev & Zhunin Marian (Russia)
Tarek Al-Ghoussein & Chris Kienke (United Arabic Emirates/United States)
Pawel Althamer (Poland)
AMO - Rem Koolhaas & Renier De Graaf (the Netherlands)
Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen (Venezuela/Belgium)
Art & Language (United Kingdom)
Hamdi Attia (Egypt)
Jochen Becker / metroZones (Germany)
Alexandra Bircken (Germany)
Karla Black (Scotland)
Richard Buckminster Fuller (United States)
Peggy Buth (Germany)
Edgar Cleijne (the Netherlands)
Vaast Colson (Belgium)
Contact Press Images (United States)
Cherika Convents & Roger Steylaerts (Belgium)
Patrick Corillon (Belgium)
Josef Dabernig (Austria)
Edith Dekyndt (Belgium)
Luc Deleu & T.O.P. Office (Belgium)
Simon Denny (New Zealand)
Nico Dockx Yves Vanpevenaege
Marius Engh (Norway)
Ninar Esber (Lebanon)
Seamus Farrell (Irland/France)
Geoffrey Farmer (Canada)
Mounir Fatmi (France/Morocco)
Daniel Faust (United States)
Gajaani (Sri Lanka)
Pablo Garber (Argentina)
HC Gilje (Norway)
Adam Gillam (United Kingdom)
Pedro Gómez Egaña (Columbia)
Nick Gooyvaerts (Belgium)
Flaka Haliti (Kosovo)
David Holloway (United States)
Sonja Hohenbild (Germany)
Francesco Jodice (Italy)
Valérie Jouve (France)
IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Mirian Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek & Borut Vogelnik (Slovenia)
David Keating (Australia)
Annette Kelm (Germany)
Peter Kruger (Belgium)
La Cantine Populaire - Elodie Carré & Pascal Sémur (France)
Luisa Lambri (Italy)
Le Corbusier (France)
Yuri Leiderman (Austria)
Renzo Martens (the Netherlands)
Goto Masaru (Thailand)
Gordon Matta-Clark (United States)
Christine Meisner (Germany)
Olaf Metzel (Germany)
Danijela Micanovic (Russia)
Jerome Ming (Singapore)
Andrei Monastyrski (Russia)
Pavel Mrkus (Czech Republic)
Andreas Müller & Jesko Fezer (Germany)
Fatmir Mustafa (Kosovo)
Swapan Nayak (India)
Kate Newby (New Zealand)
Neo Ntsoma (South Africa)
Roman Opalka (France)
Els Opsomer (Belgium)
Paul Otlet (Belgium)
Jurgen Ots (Belgium)
Ulrike Ottinger (Germany)
Fahrettin Orenli (Turkey)
Marko Peljhan (Slovenia)
Falke Pisano (the Netherlands)
Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte (Italy)
Potential Estate (Belgium)
Florian Pumhösl (Austria)
Gert Robijns (Belgium)
Ines Schaber & Stefan Pente (Germany)
Juliaan Schillemans (Belgium)
Dierk Schmidt (Germany)
Florian Schneider (Germany)
Stefan Schneider (Germany)
Susan Schüppli (United Kingdom)
Batoul Shimi (Morocco)
Sister Corita (United States)
Simon Starling (United Kingdom)
Mladen Stilinovic (Croatia)
Taller popular de serigrafía (Argentina)
Nahum Tevet (Israel)
Hans Theys (Belgium)
Koen Theys (Belgium)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx (Belgium)
Nicolas Uriburu (Argentina)
Kostis Velonis (Greece)
Pieter Vermeersch (Belgium)
Jeronimo Voss (Germany)
Stelios Votsis (Cyprus)
Silke Wagner (Germany)

Opening Weekend Info
17 October: Press Preview (on invitation only)
18 October: Professional Preview (on invitation only)
19 October: Public Opening

Locations:

Post Sorting Center
Avenue Fonsnylaan 48, 1160 Brussels
Train: Brussel-Zuid | Bruxelles-Midi
Metro: 2, Zuidstation Gare Midi
Tram: 3/4/33/51/31/32/81/82/83 Zuidstation | Gare Midi
Bus: 27/49/50/78, Zuidstation | Gare Midi

Anneessens (pre metro)
Avenue Maurice Lemonnierlaan - Place Anneessensplein, 1000 Brussels
Train: Brussel-Zuid | Bruxelles-Midi
Tram: 3/4/31/32/33, Anneessens

Station Bruxelles-Centrale
Carrefour de l Europe | Europakruispunt 2, 1000 Brussels
Train: Brussel-Centraal | Bruxelles-Centrale
Metro: 1A/1B, Brussel Centraal | Bruxelles Central
Bus: 29/38/63/65/66/71/BM, Brussel Centraal | Bruxelles Centrale

National Bank of Belgium
Boulevard de Berlaimontlaan 14, 1000 Brussels
Special Opening Hours: Ma - Zon - 09:00 - 18:00
Train: Brussel-Centraal | Bruxelles-Centrale
Metro: 1A/1B, Brussel Centraal | Bruxelles Centrale
Bus: 29/38/63/65/66/71/BM, Brussel Centraal | Bruxelles Centrale

Opening Hours
Tues - Sun: 10:00 - 18:00
Thu: 10:00 - 21:00
Closed on Mondays

National Bank of Belgium:
Mon - Sun
09:00 - 18:00

Admission
1-day €10,00 €7,00*
2-day €12,00 €8,00*
Pass ** €16,00 €12,00*
Groups*** €8,00 €7,00*

Children -12 free entry

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