Geoffrey Farmer
For the first time in Brussels: a biennial for contemporary art. 7 exhibitions, 70 artists and an off-program with more than one hundred fifty artists exposing their artwork all over the city.
Brussels Biennial 1 opens on 19 October 2008, exactly fifty years after the closing of the 1958 World Fair. An international crowd of artists takes the visitor in tow throughout the history of modernization of Brussels. The participating institutions and artists, as well as practical information you'll find at the website www.brusselsbiennial.org.
Brussels Biennial 1 is organized under the conceptual umbrella devised by its artistic director, Barbara Vanderlinden in an attempt to rethink the legacy of modernity in a global context. The individual exhibitions are curated by the contemporay art organizations: B.P.S.22, espace de creation contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi (Space for Contemporary Creation of the Visual Arts sector of the Hainaut Province); BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Basis for Contemporary Art), Utrecht; Drik, Images, Communication & Information Technology, Dhaka; Extra City, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art), Antwerp; L'appartement 22, Lieu Inde;pendant pour la Creation Contemporaine (The Apartment 22, Experimental Space for Contemporary Art), Rabat; MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerpen; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Witte de With, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam.
Participating curators: Shahidul Alam, Bart De Baere, Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova, Anselm Franke, Abdellah Karroum, Pierre-Olivier Rollin, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel.
Show me, don't tell me is curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel.
Artists:
Bircken, Alexandra (DE)
Black, Karla (GB)
Corbusier (CH)
Denny, Simon (NZ)
Dkyndt, Edith (BE)
Engh, Marius (NO)
Farmer, Geoffrey (CA)
Fuller, Buckminster (US)
Gillam, Adam (GB)
Keating, David (AUS)
Kelm, Annette (DE)
Kent, Sister Corita (US)
Metzel, Olaf (D)
Micanovic, Danijela (BO)
Newby, Kate (NZ)
Ots, Jurgen (BE)
Pisano, Falke (NL)
Taller popular de serigrafia (AR)
Velonis, Kostis (GR)
Vermeersch, Pieter (BE)
Voss, Jeronimo (DE)
Votsis, Stelios (CY)
Wagner, Silke (DE)
Xenakis (GR)
Kate Newby
Artists general list:
Shahidul Alam (Bangladesch)
Victor Alimpiev & Zhunin Marian (Russia)
Tarek Al-Ghoussein & Chris Kienke (United Arabic Emirates/United States)
Pawel Althamer (Poland)
AMO - Rem Koolhaas & Renier De Graaf (the Netherlands)
Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen (Venezuela/Belgium)
Art & Language (United Kingdom)
Hamdi Attia (Egypt)
Jochen Becker / metroZones (Germany)
Alexandra Bircken (Germany)
Karla Black (Scotland)
Richard Buckminster Fuller (United States)
Peggy Buth (Germany)
Edgar Cleijne (the Netherlands)
Vaast Colson (Belgium)
Contact Press Images (United States)
Cherika Convents & Roger Steylaerts (Belgium)
Patrick Corillon (Belgium)
Josef Dabernig (Austria)
Edith Dekyndt (Belgium)
Luc Deleu & T.O.P. Office (Belgium)
Simon Denny (New Zealand)
Nico Dockx Yves Vanpevenaege
Marius Engh (Norway)
Ninar Esber (Lebanon)
Seamus Farrell (Irland/France)
Geoffrey Farmer (Canada)
Mounir Fatmi (France/Morocco)
Daniel Faust (United States)
Gajaani (Sri Lanka)
Pablo Garber (Argentina)
HC Gilje (Norway)
Adam Gillam (United Kingdom)
Pedro Gómez Egaña (Columbia)
Nick Gooyvaerts (Belgium)
Flaka Haliti (Kosovo)
David Holloway (United States)
Sonja Hohenbild (Germany)
Francesco Jodice (Italy)
Valérie Jouve (France)
IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Mirian Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek & Borut Vogelnik (Slovenia)
David Keating (Australia)
Annette Kelm (Germany)
Peter Kruger (Belgium)
La Cantine Populaire - Elodie Carré & Pascal Sémur (France)
Luisa Lambri (Italy)
Le Corbusier (France)
Yuri Leiderman (Austria)
Renzo Martens (the Netherlands)
Goto Masaru (Thailand)
Gordon Matta-Clark (United States)
Christine Meisner (Germany)
Olaf Metzel (Germany)
Danijela Micanovic (Russia)
Jerome Ming (Singapore)
Andrei Monastyrski (Russia)
Pavel Mrkus (Czech Republic)
Andreas Müller & Jesko Fezer (Germany)
Fatmir Mustafa (Kosovo)
Swapan Nayak (India)
Kate Newby (New Zealand)
Neo Ntsoma (South Africa)
Roman Opalka (France)
Els Opsomer (Belgium)
Paul Otlet (Belgium)
Jurgen Ots (Belgium)
Ulrike Ottinger (Germany)
Fahrettin Orenli (Turkey)
Marko Peljhan (Slovenia)
Falke Pisano (the Netherlands)
Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte (Italy)
Potential Estate (Belgium)
Florian Pumhösl (Austria)
Gert Robijns (Belgium)
Ines Schaber & Stefan Pente (Germany)
Juliaan Schillemans (Belgium)
Dierk Schmidt (Germany)
Florian Schneider (Germany)
Stefan Schneider (Germany)
Susan Schüppli (United Kingdom)
Batoul Shimi (Morocco)
Sister Corita (United States)
Simon Starling (United Kingdom)
Mladen Stilinovic (Croatia)
Taller popular de serigrafΓa (Argentina)
Nahum Tevet (Israel)
Hans Theys (Belgium)
Koen Theys (Belgium)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx (Belgium)
Nicolas Uriburu (Argentina)
Kostis Velonis (Greece)
Pieter Vermeersch (Belgium)
Jeronimo Voss (Germany)
Stelios Votsis (Cyprus)
Silke Wagner (Germany)
Alexandra Bircken
Adam Gillam
Brussels Biennial 1
Date: October 19, 2008 - January 14, 2009
Location: Former Post Sorting Center, station Bruxelles Midi, Brussels, and other locations
