The Istanbul Biennial is an exhilarating art event designed to meet the increasing expectations of international art circles, while providing meaningful opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue and opening new avenues of contemporary art.
Istanbul Biennial is the largest presenter of performing and visual arts in Turkey. Its efforts have been instrumental to the growth of new artistic and cultural outlets in Turkey and have also provided a unique platform for international collaborations, both of which are necessary to greater global understanding.
The notion of the public domain as a political forum will be the focal point of the 13th Istanbul Biennial. This highly contested concept will serve as a matrix to generate ideas and forms on other controversial subjects such as: civilization and barbarism; democracy; spatio-economic justice; and the role of contemporary art. Being an integral part of the exhibition, a public programme will be held to bring artistic production and knowledge production together prior to the exhibition.
AC/E supports the participation of the Spanish artists Maider Lopez and Santiago Sierra & Jorge Galindo.
The aim of Maider Lopez project is to gather people from all different backgrounds and showing their ability to transform urban space through their own use of the environment. This way, people’s initiative, participation and gathering build up architecture by the use of public space.
Santiago Sierra is mainly known for his even provoking performances and Galindo for his fierce, yet chaotic “unreal paintings” called by the artist himself. Despite their different approaches, the two are in their commitment to thematise social and political problems. Collaborating for the first time, the artists have constructed a combination of performance, video, painting and photography, titled Los Encargados. The video work will exhibited in the 13th Istanbul Biennial together with a new work of Santiago Sierra.
Istanbul Biennial is the largest presenter of performing and visual arts in Turkey. Its efforts have been instrumental to the growth of new artistic and cultural outlets in Turkey and have also provided a unique platform for international collaborations, both of which are necessary to greater global understanding.
The notion of the public domain as a political forum will be the focal point of the 13th Istanbul Biennial. This highly contested concept will serve as a matrix to generate ideas and forms on other controversial subjects such as: civilization and barbarism; democracy; spatio-economic justice; and the role of contemporary art. Being an integral part of the exhibition, a public programme will be held to bring artistic production and knowledge production together prior to the exhibition.
AC/E supports the participation of the Spanish artists Maider Lopez and Santiago Sierra & Jorge Galindo.
The aim of Maider Lopez project is to gather people from all different backgrounds and showing their ability to transform urban space through their own use of the environment. This way, people’s initiative, participation and gathering build up architecture by the use of public space.
Santiago Sierra is mainly known for his even provoking performances and Galindo for his fierce, yet chaotic “unreal paintings” called by the artist himself. Despite their different approaches, the two are in their commitment to thematise social and political problems. Collaborating for the first time, the artists have constructed a combination of performance, video, painting and photography, titled Los Encargados. The video work will exhibited in the 13th Istanbul Biennial together with a new work of Santiago Sierra.
