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Subject: Bucharest Biennale appoints Anne Barlow as curator for 2012 edition
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Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010, 11:23 AM
September 12, 2010
Bucharest Biennale
The 5th BUCHAREST BIENNALE (Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary
Art), generated by PAVILION—journal for politics & culture—is set for 25 May –
22 July 2012, under the curatorship of Anne Barlow (UK/USA).
Anne Barlow, the Curator of
BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, will hold a press conference on the 21st of September
2010, at Art in General (79 Walker Street), New York, USA, at 6.00 PM.
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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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