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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.


2018 Berlin Mitte

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관리자 2018-08-21 11:59

작가Ulrich Wüst

Berlin Mitte, 1995-1997, 50 Gelatin silver prints, mounted on passepartout, Motif: 18.45 x 27.9 cm each / sheet: 21 x 29.75 cm each, passepartout: 43.1 x 33.5 cm, each, Shot 1995-1997, modern prints from 2018, All ⓒUlrich Wüst, courtesy of Loock Gallery, Berlin

Stadtbilder 1979-1983, 1979-1983 , 50 Gelatin silver prints, mounted on passepartout, motif: 18.5 x 27.8 cm each, sheet: 21 x 29.7 cm each, passepartout: 43.1 x 33.5 cm each, Shot 1979-1983, modern prints from 2018, All ⓒUlrich Wüst, courtesy of Loock Gallery, Berlin

Ulrich WUST
Berlin Mitte

In the context of an exhibition about divided territories, the series “Stadtbilder” (City Images, 1979–83) and “Berlin Mitte” (1995–97), with 50 images respectively, seem especially relevant. “Stadtbilder” shows depopulated scenes across the GDR at the time: from the big city East Berlin to mid-size towns like Rostock or Karl-Marx-Stadt (today, again, Chemnitz), to smaller towns and villages. Architecture here is an austere marker of a kind of socialist tristesse, albeit not in the mode of polemics or propaganda, but coolly registered. “Berlin Mitte”— originally commissioned by curator Kasper Konig as a project to document the changes after Reunification—shows how the central Berlin district of Mitte had architecturally been scarred by the Berlin Wall that enclosed or cut through it.

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