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  LEE BUL AWARDED NOON ART PRIZE

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  Sorry for suffering?You think I'm a puppy on a picnic?, 1990. 12-day performance, Kimpo Airport, Narita Airport, downtown Tokyo, Dokiwaza Theater, Tokyo. Courtesy: Studio Lee Bul. The results of the 2014 NOON Art Prize were announced at the opening ceremony of the 10th Gwangju Biennale on Septemer 4. Lee Bul won in the top Established Artist category and Cecilia Bengolea & Francois Chaignaud were awarded in the Emerging Artist section. Tetsuya Ishida won the Posthumous Award, which was added to the event this year in commemoration of the biennale’s 10th edition. The NOON Art Prize, selected from each biennale edition’s list of participating artists, seeks to recognize those who reflect the values of the Gwangju spirit on which the biennale was established. In addition, this year’s winners were selected for their engagement with the theme, Burning Down the House, and experimental vision. The Established prize is judged on the artist’s contribution to the development of the contemporary

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  Jessica Morgan Appointed Director of the Dia Art Foundation

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  Jessica Morgan gives a press tour of the 10th Gwangju Biennale, Burning Down the House. Jessica Morgan, Artistic Director of the 10th Gwangju Biennale, has been appointed director of the Dia Art Foundation, the board of trustees announced September 11. She will assume her position in January 2015. The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, at the Tate Modern in London since 2010, Morgan will oversee all aspects of the foundation’s endeavors, including the Western land projects, site-specific commissions, and collections and programs at Dia:Beacon. "The Board of Trustees has unanimously and enthusiastically voted to appoint Jessica Morgan as Dia's fifth Director," said Nathalie de Gunzburg, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Dia Art Foundation and member of the search committee. "When we met with Morgan and spent time sharing ideas and exploring her vision for Dia, we knew that her commitment to artists, coupled with her rigorous curatorial approach and exhibition history-both dee

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  Kobe Biennale Visits Gwangju

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  ? A meeting between representatives of the Kobe and Gwangju Biennales in the Japanese city last year. Representatives from the Kobe Biennale arrived in Gwangju Tuesday, September 16, to visit the 10th Gwangju Biennale. The visit, an extension of the two biennale’s partnership agreement signed in 2012, signifies a new level of cooperation between the southern Korean city and Hyogo Prefecture’s capital. Yoshida Hiromi, the general producer of the Kobe Biennale, was accompanied by 12 other representatives and members of the Japanese press. After viewing Burning Down the House, the party attended the opening ceremony of a special exhibition at the Gwangju Folk Museum that celebrates the work of traditional Japanese calligraphy and pottery. The intimate show includes 39 pieces of calligraphy and 15 pieces of pottery, adorned with flower arrangements in the tradition of ikebana. The visit follows an exchange in Japan last November, when representatives from both biennales met with officials

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  10th Gwangju Biennale Opens

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  The 10th Gwangju Biennale opened yesterday with a ceremony attended by the head of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kim Jongdeok; major of Gwangju Yoon Jang-hyun; chairman of the Gwangju City Council, Cho Young-Pyo; and roughly 2,000 art professionals, journalists, and locals. “The Gwangju Biennale, which was first established 20 years ago, has grown to become one of the world’s most distinguished biennales,” said the mayor. “We will do our best to help develop it further, as one of our country’s most representative assets. Movie star Jung Woo-Sung served as honorary ambassador to the biennale this year and also attended the opening ceremony. In addition, the winner of the 2014 NOON Art Prize was announced at the opening. The award, named after the art journal of the same name, was established to honor the values of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising alongside the biennale. Lee Bul won the Established Artist award and $10,000, and choreographers Cecilia Bengolea & Francois Cha

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  Joakim Joins 10th Gwangju Biennale Artist List

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  JOAKIM JOINS 10th GWANGJU BIENNALE ARTIST LIST French electronic musician Joakim joins the international list of artists participating in the 10th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 4 to November 9, 2014, bringing the total number to 103. He will contribute three cover versions of the Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House, which served as inspiration for this year’s eponymously titled biennale. Joakim’s covers will be introduced at three main focal points of this year’s milestone 10th edition. Visitors will hear the songs at the entrance and exit of the hosting Biennale Hall, and on the third-floor bridge that connects Galleries 2 and 3. Artist director Jessica Morgan says about Joakim’s addition: “It was important to bring the actual song 'Burning Down the House' into the exhibition space, but in order to make it speak to the current time we asked the French DJ and musician Joakim to remake the track. Joakim is a very well-known figure in contemporary music and had expressed his

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  Opening Schedule for the 10th Gwangju Biennale

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  10th Gwangju Biennale 05 September - 09 November 2014 Artistic Director: Jessica Morgan On-going performances during opening days, September 4th and 5th: Allora & Calzadilla, Temperament and the Wolf, 2014 Ei Arakawa & Inza Lim, The Unheroed Theatre (Character Studies with Gwangdae, Shinmyoung, Tobaki, the Fictitious Aseupalteu), 2014 Heman Chong, Simultaneous (Gwangju), 2014 Okin Collective, Operation-For the Beloved and Song, 2014 Roman Ondak, Clockwork, 2014 September 4th Program scheduled for professionals and press September 5th Public opening 09:00 Exhibition Opens 11:00 - 13:00 Cecilia Bengolea & Francois Chaignaud, Sylphides, 2009 14:30 - 15:30 OPEN BAR Library of Spirits-II facilitated by Banu Cenneto\u011F;lu and Donghee Kim 15:00 - 15:10 Young In Hong, 5100 : , 2014 (Gallery 3) 16:00 - 17:00 Geumhyung Jeong, CPR Practice, 2013 September 6 - November 9* Okin Collective, Operation-For the Beloved and Song, 2014 will take place across the gallery sites twice a day, unannounced.

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  20th Anniversary Special Project Opens

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  August 11, 2014 | Gwangju Biennale Foundation "Look Together" performance by Non Grata The special project for the 20th anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale, Sweet Dew - Since 1980, opened August 8, kicking off three months of city-wide performances, roundtable talks, international lectures and a major exhibition at the Gwangju Museum of Art. The title was taken from a style of Joseon Dynasty-era Buddhist painting, known for its themes of suffering and healing. The project will initiate dialogue ahead of the open of the 10th Gwangju Biennale next month, reevaluating the city’s past and present, and will continue through November 9. A symposium featuring Kasper König (artistic director of Sculpture Projects M\FC;nster and Manifesta 2014), Hou Hanru (director of MAXXI in Rome), and Okwui Enwezor (artistic director of Venice Biennale 2015) via Skype on opening day was hosted by the project’s associate curator Maurizio Bortolotti and attended by more than 150 people. Entitled “The Groundbre

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  Burning Down the House 10th Gwangju Biennale

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  5 September - 9 November 2014 Okin Collective, Operation-For Something Black and Hot (still), 2012. Video. President of Gwangju Biennale Foundation Yongwoo Lee and Artistic Director of the 2014 Gwangju Biennale are pleased to announce the list of participating artists. The 10th Gwangju Biennale will bring together 105 artists from 36 countries and will include 35 new commissions, each selected for their relevance to the theme of the Biennale, Burning Down the House. Speaking of the selected artists, Artistic Director Jessica Morgan stated: “The artists in the Biennale have embraced the radical spirit of ‘burning down’ the status quo while also celebrating the hedonism of sound and movement evoked by the title. Drawing on their free and open approach, I have worked with the Biennale team to make an exhibition that physically embodies this commotion. Burning Down the House shows that the strength of artistic innovation, invocation and opposition is alive and well.” Demonstrating the dyna

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  THE 10TH GWANGJU BIENNALE: ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

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  THE 10TH GWANGJU BIENNALE: ARTISTS ANNOUNCED The 10th Gwangju Biennale will bring together over 100 artists from more than 35 countries and will include over 30 new commissions, each selected for their relevance to the theme of the Biennale, Burning Down the House. Speaking of the selected artists, Artistic Director Jessica Morgan stated: “The artists in the Biennale have embraced the radical spirit of ‘burning down’ the status quo while also celebrating the hedonism of sound and movement evoked by the title. Drawing on their free and open approach I have worked with the Biennale team to make an exhibition that physically embodies this commotion. Burning Down the House shows that the strength of artistic innovation, invocation and opposition is alive and well.” Demonstrating the dynamic, political and material production of the artists, the Biennale exhibition will be a carefully choreographed but at times explosive exploration of sound, movement, image and form. Throughout the entire

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  World’s Top 20 Biennials, Triennials, and Miscellennials

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  World’s Top 20 Biennials, Triennials, and Miscellennials artnet News,Monday, May 19, 2014 Just as the art world calendar has filled up with fairs, so the number of biennials, triennials, quadrennials, and quinquennials spanning the globe has proliferated over the past two decades. The explosion of ?biennials has reached such a pace that there’s an entire organization, the Greco-Dutch group the Biennial Foundation, devoted to cataloging all of them. The global biennial circuit was even the subject of a recent conference, “Biennials: Prospect and Perspectives,” at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. Topics of discussion included “Biennials and Public Space,” “Chances and Limitations of Biennials in the Context of Marketing and Policies,” and “Biennials as Motor for Social Change.” Biennials, in other words, are a big deal and big business, with many cities launching high-profile recurring exhibitions in a bid to attract tourists, commerce, and cultural capital. But which o