Artistic Director Ibrahim Mahama and curatorial team members Inga Lace and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh discuss their project “From the void came gifts of the cosmos” for the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. The Q&A session following their presentation focuses primarily on their collaboration, reflecting and creating alternatives to current systems of power and away from the western model, and cooperation between institutions.
Matt Packer, CEO and Director of EVA International, discusses with us the 40th edition of EVA International as well as its longer history in occasion of its 40th anniversary. We also had the chance to hear from him how, the past years and the attempt to focus on more continuous projects for EVA International have impacted the biennial.
Solange Farkas, Founding Director of VideoBrasil, discusses with us the 22nd edition of the event “Memory is an editing station” as well as the special project for the 40 years of existence of Videobrasil.
Alia Swastika, Director of Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation, and the curatorial team of Biennale Jogja 17 composed of Adelina Luft, Eka Putra Nggalu, Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandhari, present their curatorial vision for Titen: Embodied Knowledge, Shifting Grounds.
Two of the Founding Directors of Autostrada Biennale, Vatra Abrashi and Leutrim Fishekqiu, narrate the history and approach of Autostrada Biennale and walk us through its 4th Edition which took place between July and September 2023 in Prizren, Prishtina and Mitrovica.
Maria-Thalia Carras, curator of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale’s main exhibition walks us through the complex and rich history of Thessaloniki to give us a sense of how the various communities played a role in shaping “Being as Communion” as the exhibition was titled.
Sooyoung Leam, assistant Curator of ‘soft and weak like water’ presents Gwangju Biennale’s latest edition which imagines our shared planet as a site of resistance, coexistence, solidarity and care by thinking through the transformative and restorative potential of water as a metaphor, a force, and a method. Her presentation, beyond presenting some of the most relevant works presented in the biennale, gives us a good conceptual framework through which to observe them individually and in their dialogue.
Lassana Igo Diarra, Director of Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennale of Photography, and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Curatorial Team Member of the 12th Rencontres de Bamako) discuss the project of the 12th and 13th Rencontres de Bamako, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and titled Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono.
In the occasion of the 15th Sharjah Biennial “Thinking Historically in the present”, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of IBA President Hoor Al Qasimi‘s presidence of Sharjah Art Foundation and the Biennial, IBA Stage has taken place in front of a live audience for the first time. Invited to the discussion were: artist and educator Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, also presenting a newly commissioned work at Sharjah Biennial 15, and Octavio Zaya, curator and art critic who was one of the participants of Sharjah Biennial 15 working group.
IBA in discussion with Bige Örer, Director of Istanbul Biennial.
IBA in discussion with Isabelle Bertolotti, Artistic Director of Lyon Biennale, and Sam Bardaouil, Curator of the 16th Lyon Biennale “Manifesto of Fragility”.
In collaboration with Manifesta, the program of the 9th General Assembly included a 2-day public conference on the theme of education, biennials and the uncertainty brought about by the current global situation.
The third panel focused more specifically on educational and outreach strategies developed by biennials and how these can create long-lasting social impacts on their territories.
Speakers:
Sami Mustafa, (Founder of Romawood)
Atteqa Malik (Karachi Biennale)
Vatra Abrashi (Director of Autostrada Biennale)
Moderator: Jordi Ferreiro (Manifesta)
