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.
Jeuno JE KIM & Ewa EINHORN
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Jeuno JE KIM Born 1975 in South Korea
Ewa EINHORN Born 1977 Klodzko, Poland
Live in Malmö, Sweden
Jeuno JE KIM & Ewa EINHORN, Krabstadt Buttons, 2020, Computer game, durations variable
Jeuno JE KIM is a visual artist and writer working with animation, sound, performance, video and text, and Ewa EINHORN is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary film. They have been working together since 2009 on topics related to the construction of Norden, and more specifically the relations between political rhetoric, assumptions of national territory, and nations as brands. Their joint feminist animation project Krabstadt is a series of short films featuring simply drawn characters, black humor, and a smattering of rude language, that satirize current topics such as immigration, integration, unemployment, and sex, whilst shedding light on some of the political and historical contexts that remain obscured by the squeaky clean image of Northern Europe.
KIM and EINHORN employ the allegorical language of animated films to delve into and ask pointed questions about issues such as Northern European societies’ contradictory attitudes toward (im)migrants, the inadequate and often harsh conditions and environments that are granted to immigrants even as they are deployed into the labor market, and the selfish, hypocritical core at the basis of these countries’ civil societies. Further, their work sheds light on the many forms of (in)visible power that regulate and manipulate our identities today on the national and social levels, and encourages us to see the historical, cultural, political contexts that undergird the present with clearer, more critical eyes.