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Busan Biennale

The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.

The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.

This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.

Busan Biennale 2018 Artistic Director

Cristina Ricupero

Cristina Ricupero Independent Curator, Art Critic

Selected Exhibitions(Curated)

  • 2016 《Nuit Blanche Monaco》, Monaco(with Jörg Heiser)
  • 2014 《New Ways of Doing Nothing》, Austria
  • 2014 《The Crime was almost perfect》, Netherlands, Italy
  • 2012 《Cosmic Laughter – time wave zero then what?》, Germany
  • 2011 《Secret Societies》, Germany, France

Career

  • 2016 Curatorial adviser for SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016
  • 2006 European section Commissioner for the Gwangju Biennale 2006
  • 2000–2005 Curator at NIFCA (the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) in Helsinki
  • 2000–2004 Associate Director of Exhibitions at the ICA in London

Busan Biennale 2018 Curator

Jörg Heiser

Jörg Heiser 1968 / Germany
Art Critic, Curator

Selected Exhibitions(Curated)

  • 2016 《Nuit Blanche Monaco》, Monaco(with Cristina Ricupero)
  • 2013-2014 《Hybrid Naples》, Italy
  • 2011-2010 《Trailer Park》, Italy

Career

  • 2016- Prof.,University of the Arts, Berlin
  • 2016- Institute for Art in Context Director
  • 1997-2017 Editor of Art Magazine Frieze

Busan Biennale 2018 Guest Curator

Gahee Park

Gahee Park 1985
Curator

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2017 The Art of Dissonance, Seoul Museum of Art
    Hanaco, Yunyunchoi, Choi Yun solo exhibition, Art Sonje Center
  • 2016 SeMA Exhibition Archive 1988-2016 :
    Reading Writing Speaking, Seoul Museum of Art
  • 2014 Malfunction Library, Seoul Museum of Art

Career

  • 2013-2017 Curator at Seoul Museum of Art
  • 2017 Jury for the 17th SongEun Art Award
  • 2015 Co-translated Self-Organised (Open Editions, London, 2013)
    media bus, Seoul
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