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The Bucharest Biennale is interested in the link
between creative practice and social development, and correspondences between
local and global contexts.
Now in its fifth year, the Biennale is building a
strong partnership between Bucharest—in itself, a symbol of how the political
can be reflected in every aspect of life—and Western Europe. The Biennale
connects to a universal problem that transcends specific geographical or
historical contexts, that of "resistance" in daily life. The
Biennale is a structure that is able to transform the city itself into a site
of ongoing activity, as well a field of action.
Fundamentally, European culture has been the result of exchange, sometimes
peaceful, other times violent, that has taken place
between neighbouring societies and different social groups within a given
state. These horizontal and vertical forms of cultural exchange occurred in
many different manners: through imitation, assimilation, dissimulation, appropriation,
through either mutual understanding or hegemonic dominance.
The Biennale
aims to operate in a way that demonstrates sensitivity and competence in
dealing with the "others" as the "alter" from different
cultural backgrounds.
With BB4 being covered by more than 120 publications
and seen by 58,000 visitors, the Biennale is now regarded as one of the most
vital biennials in Europe.
By appointing a European-American curator
Bucharest Biennale will provide a link the between two cultures in a
different way.
Anne Barlow (born in Glasgow, Scotland), the appointed Curator of BB5, is
Executive Director of Art in General, New York. After receiving an M. A. in
the History of Art at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, Barlow acted as
Curator of the Scottish Arts Council Collection of contemporary art
(1989-1994) and Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Glasgow Museums
(1994-1999), where she managed a temporary exhibitions program, contemporary
art and design collection, artists' residencies, and new commissions. From
1999-2006, she was Curator of Education and Media Programs at the New Museum,
New York, where she oversaw the scope of the museum's educational and public
programs; initiated and developed Museum as Hub, a global network initiative
that connected the museum with international contemporary art partners in
Cairo, Eindhoven, Mexico City and Seoul; organized inter-disciplinary
roundtables with leaders in the fields of the visual arts, architecture, and
design; and curated numerous exhibitions and performances. Independently, she
also collaborated on the exhibition Copy It, Steal It,
Share it at Borusan Art Gallery,
Istanbul (2003), and guest-curated film and
media projects for Threshold Artspace, Perth,
Scotland
(2007). Barlow has published for organizations including Liverpool University
Press/Tate Gallery Liverpool; the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom;
the Edith Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg; the New Museum, New York; and
Art in General. She was also a lecturer/ guest critic for organizations
including the Royal College of Art, London; Centre for Contemporary Art,
Warsaw; MUMOK, Vienna; New York University; The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, New York; and Tate Modern, London.
The Assistant Curator to Anne Barlow will be Romanian Simina Neagu (b. 1988).
Since 2009 Neagu has been working as Assistant Director at Pavilion UniCredit
center for contemporary art and culture, and the Pavilion journal for
politics and culture and Bucharest Biennale. She studied art history,
curating, and art criticism at University
of Bucharest and University of Arts,
London. She
collaborated with institutions such as the Romanian National Museum of Art,
the Centre for Visual Introspection and Swedish Travelling Exhibitions. She
is a regular contributor to the online platform sfere.ro, and is currently
writing her thesis on Eastern European neo-avantgarde and preparing
"Caution! Institutional Space!" exhibition.
The co-directors of Bucharest Biennale are Răzvan Ion & Eugen Rădescu.
Răzvan Ion (b. 1970) is a theoretician, curator, cultural manager and
political activist. He is the co-editor (with Eugen Radescu), of PAVILION -
journal for politics and culture, co-director of BUCHAREST BIENNALE and in
2008 he was appointed director of PAVILION UNICREDIT- center for contemporary
art & culture. He has lectured at venues including the University of California,
Berkeley; Headlands
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California;
Political Science Faculty, Cluj; Art
Academy, Timisoara;
La Casa Encedida,
Madrid; and the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon.. Ion writes for different magazines and newspapers, and
recently curated "Exploring the Return of Repression" at Pavilion, Bucharest and rum46, Aarhus.
He is now working on the book project "Exploring the Return of
Repression" and his new curatorial project "Smash the Church! Smash
the State!" dealing with anarchist and collective activism and
social-political movements in art. His next curated exhibition,
"Disruptive Monsters: From Representing to Constructing Situations, will be in 2011. From 2010 he will have
classes in the University of Bucharest, Romania. Ion lives and works in Bucharest.
Eugen Rădescu (b. 1978) is a politologist (specializing in moral relativism
and political ethics), cultural manager, curator and theoretician. He is a
professor at the Political Science Faculty in Bucharest
and Cluj, Romania, and writes for various
magazines and newspapers. Among other exhibitions, Rădescu curated Bucharest
Biennale 1 with the theme "Identity Factories" and "How
Innocent Is That?" at Pavilion Bucharest. He is co-editor of PAVILION -
journal for politics and culture and co-director of BUCHAREST BIENNALE (with
Răzvan Ion) and the chairman of the organizational board of PAVILION and
BUCHAREST BIENNALE. He has lectured at venues including Art
Academy, Timisoara;
La Casa Encedida,
Madrid; the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; and Apex Art, New York. He recently returned from a
residency at Apex Art, New
York, and published the book "How Innocent is That?"
with Revolver Publishing, Berlin.
He is also a professor at Political Science Faculty in Cluj, Romania.
Rădescu lives and works in Bucharest
and is currently working on a new book on moral relativism.
The BB5 press conference in New York City is possible with the support of the
Romanian Cultural Institute, New York and Art in General, New York.
Bucharest Biennale is generated by Pavilion - journal for politics and
culture.
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