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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.


2016 Ethnic and Race braided long hairs and coiled and entwined. Oh how it made and made , ate, ate in shade, slumbered and soiled her reflection to see this faked- nations make me small sweet cakes.

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작가Rina BANERJEE
Rina BANERJEE, <Ethnic and Race braided long hairs and coiled and entwined. Oh how  it made and made , ate, ate in shade,  slumbered and soiled her reflection to see this faked- nations  make me small sweet cakes.>, linen, glass, shell, acrylic paint, resin, silk wedding sari, horn,jute,beads glass, trim steel armature., 166.5x80x78cm, 2014  ⓒ  Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Singapore / Tokyo 

Rina BANERJEE, <Mangroves of Alien and Native froze and foamed, rose and rose, opened and closed and one in all grew calm who knew>, steel, plastic, nylon , light bulbs, shells, wire, cotton thread, feather, 133.5x69.5x80.3cm, 2014  ⓒ  Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Singapore / Tokyo 

Rina BANERJEE, <Gargantuan Crawler>, Ink and acrylic on paper, 57x38cm, 2014  ⓒ  Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Singapore / Tokyo 


Rina BANERJEE
Ethnic and Race braided long hairs and coiled and entwined. Oh how  it made and made , ate, ate in shade,  slumbered and soiled her reflection to see this faked- nations  make me small sweet cakes.

The work of Rina Banerjee features scattered people, bodies that populate and pollinate land, sea, and air. The artist mainly engages in handicraft such as binding, wiring, stitching and attaching. She immerses herself in connecting parts or materials that have become fragmented and non-compatible because they didn’t really speak to each other. She continues to venture into aesthetic exploration in order to rediscover new and diverse beauty by connecting impulsively selected bits of things she collected from before.
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