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.
Neïl BELOUFA
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Born 1985 in Paris, France
Lives in Paris
Neïl BELOUFA, Global Agreement, 2018, Mixed media
Courtesy Kamel Mennour
The work of Neïl BELOUFA plays on art mechanisms of production, circulation, and reception. Whether showingartlike clothes on a catwalk with the models replaced by collectors, or building a research exhibition on the ambiguous place of art in the era of global capitalism, Neïl BELOUFA rejects all binary discourses in which one needs to choose sides. Things are complex and nuanced, and the artist is trying to question power structures starting from a critique of his own position.
As he states, “my work is about reflecting on the representation of the world, and how by accepting to be part of it, you can create small possibilities from the inside. I take an existing system and push it towards the absurd until it reveals how it functions for the spectator to relate with it differently.”For the Busan Biennale 2020, whichtakes place after the COVID-19 crisis and the collapse of the art market, the artist conceived of a project to enable his studio to continue running with his collaborators being paid. He suggested the production of an exhibition online in the form of a game that allows him to think about new ways to produce art for a wider audience rather than spending time and money on logistics and transport. His ambition is to consider the internet as an artistic media rather than just a communication tool.