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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 Avanda & Nhlanhla Moremi's wedding

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작가Zanele MUHOLI
Zanele MUHOLI, <Avanda & Nhlanhla Moremi's wedding>, C-prin t, Set of 10 prin ts, 2013 ⓒ Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg.

Zanele MUHOLI, <Duduzile Zozo’s Funeral>, C-pri nt, Set of 11 prin ts, 2013 ⓒ Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg.

Zanele MUHOLI, <Of Love & Loss, Mixed media>, 2014 ⓒ Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg.

Zanele MUHOLI
Avanda & Nhlanhla Moremi's wedding

While many countries in Africa enacted homophobic legislations and expressed bigotry toward Western homosexuals, Republic of South Africa set itself apart from them by enacting a legislation that recognizes same-sex marriages. Still, LGBT African Americans (sexual minority including Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender, Intersexual) are suffering from hate crimes. Black lesbians who are particularly vulnerable among them oftentimes become the victim of cold-blooded murder or suffer ‘rape under the pretext of treatment’ by people around them or their so-called ‘friends’. In 2013, Muholi recorded events which seem to connect happiness and sorrow, a wedding ceremony and a funeral of people in black LGBT community in Republic of South Africa. The photograph installation of ZaneleMuholi shows how a sad event and a happy event can share similarities. This work emphasizes the need of space for an individual’s expression of identity.
 
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