Hermitage to host Manifesta biennial

The tenth edition of Manifesta, the nomadic European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will be hosted by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, it has been announced today.

The biennial, which changes its location every edition, was launched…
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India’s first international biennial opens

Kerala is historically known for its spices, but the southernmost Indian state is now host to the country’s first art biennial (until 13 March). The Kochi-Muziris Biennale opened in the coastal city of Kochi on 12 December. The artists Bose…
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Shanghai Biennial breaks the speed limit

On 1 October, China’s National Day, holidaying farmers and families walking along Shanghai’s packed Nanjing East Road stumbled across interactive art installations that had taken over the shop fronts. Featuring 29 international cities, the…
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Azerbaijan to get contemporary art space—and maybe a biennial

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will get a display space for international and local contemporary art within two years and could host a visual arts biennale within three.

Aida Mahmudova, 30, an arts patron who is a niece of the first lady, is…
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Inhotim art park opens new pavilion in time for São Paulo biennial

The Inhotim Institute, the vast art park founded by the mining billionaire Bernardo Paz in a remote part of southeast Brazil, is due to launch a pavilion Thursday (6 September) dedicated to the works of the established Brazilian artist Tunga….
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Kiev biennial gives hope to Ukraine’s artists

What is the point of Kiev’s international biennial? When this latest addition to the bloated international art circuit was announced earlier this year, it felt like an extreme example of “soft power”, with the Ukrainian government exploiting its…
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São Paulo biennial to explore the “illusion of connectivity”

With the enigmatic title “The Imminence of Poetics”, the 30th Bienal de São Paulo is due to open on 7 September and run until 9 December at Oscar Niemeyer’s Ciccillo Matarazzo Hall, a 30,000 sq. m space in the city’s Parque do Ibirapuera. At a press…
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Hammer Museum launches $100,000 biennial art prize

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is launching a $ 100,000 art prize in conjunction with its “Made in LA 2012” biennial, which opens 2 June and showcases emerging and overlooked artists working in the city. The Mohn Prize, as it will be known, is…
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Yayoi Kusama to create work for first Kiev Biennial

The Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, who has a major retrospective at Tate Modern in London (until 5 June), is creating a new work for the first Kiev Biennale (24 May-31 July). Kusama is one of 100 contemporary artists to take part in the biennial,…
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Curators announced for first Istanbul Design Biennial

Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima will curate the first Istanbul Design Biennial, which is scheduled to take place from 13 October to 12 December 2012. The theme for the biennial’s first year is “Imperfection”, and Arolat and Grima will…
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