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Twitter and Facebook of the Gwangju Biennale : Capturing 100,000 followers The Gwangju Biennale is striving to communicate with citizens via Twitter and Facebook. Constant management succeeded in capturing 20,000 followers in the first six months and as of June 2011, we are only a step away from reaching 100,000 followers around the world. For the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, we plan to provide regular updates of the exhibitions and related events on our website. Furthermore, for the convenience of followers overseas, the information will also be provided in English and Japanese. FACEBOOK : http://www.facebook.com/GwangjuBiennale TWITTER : @Gwangjubiennale
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Biennial Foundation and Gwangju Biennale sign Memorandum of Understanding in Venice Marieke van Hal, director Biennial Foundation and Un-Tae Kang, Mayor of the Metropolitan City of Gwangju & Chairman of Gwangju Biennale Foundation signed on 3 June 2011 at Hotel Monaco in Venice, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of their respective institutions, to cooperate in the organization of the first World Biennial Forum, scheduled to take place in Gwangju at the occasion of the 9th Gwangju Biennale in 2012. The World Biennial Forum will be the first professional forum on actual and practical issues in the field, aiming to provide professionals from the international biennial community, academia, and contemporary art practice with a multilateral convention platform. Shaped especially for biennial organizations and its multi-stakeholders involved, the World Biennial Forum will enable practitioners from all over the world to exchange on common practices, problems, experiences and exper
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The 4th Gwangju Design Biennale September 2, 2011 ? October 23, 201 Press Preview: September 1, 2011 Gwangju, South Korea http://www.gb.or.kr/ The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Co-Artistic Directors Seung H-Sang and Ai weiwei would like to announce the fourth edition of the Gwangju Design Biennale. It is most regrettable that Ai Weiwei, Co-Artistic Director of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, has been detained since April 3rd and his whereabouts are still officially unknown. Ai Weiwei has been working on the Gwangju Design Biennale since June 2010. His involvement and enthusiasm has made the Biennale a rich, dynamic and participatory event. The title theme of this year’s Biennale is DOGADOBISANGDO ? “Design is Design is Not Design.” With works by more than 300 artists, designers, and architects from 40 countries, the six sub-themes of the Biennale?Thematic, Named, Un-Named, Communities, Biennale City, and Urban Follies?constitute a fundamental re-examination of design and present the
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-The 4th Gwangju Design Biennale Design is Design is not Design 圖 可 圖 非 常 圖 Gwangju Biennale Foundation has appointed Seung H-Sang, a Korean architect, and Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist and architectural designer, as co-directors of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale. 8 curators and 2 designers have also been appointed for 6 major sections of the thematic exhibitions. The 4th Gwangju Design Biennale will be held at the Biennale Exhibition Hall and throughout the metropolitan city of Gwangju from September 2nd to October 23th 2011. Seung H-Sang has completed Paju Book City project in Korea, and he has gained international recognitions through projects like Guggenheim Pavilion in Abu Dhabi, Chao-Wei SOHO project in Beijing as well as Korea DMZ Peace-Life Valley, the graveyard of late former President Roh Moo-hyun and Commune by the Great Wall. He served as a commissioner of Korean Pavilion for Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008. He has established and operated the architectural firm, Iroje
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10,000 LIVES: THE EIGHTH GWANGJU BIENNALE OPENS TO THE PUBLIC, ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE INAUGURAL NOON AWARD Hanyong Kim, Untitled, nd. C-print ? Hanyong Kim The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni are pleased to announce that 10,000 Lives, the 8th installment of the Gwangju Biennale, is now open to the public. This edition marks the 30th anniversary of the movement that brought democracy to Korea for which the Biennale was founded. In a press conference held yesterday at the Biennale Hall in Gwangju, South Korea, Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the 8th Gwangju Biennale, and Yongwoo Lee, CEO of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation officially presented the exhibition to several hundred local, national, and international press, and professionals gathered from all over the world. Later that evening an opening ceremony featured remarks by Gioni, Lee, by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation's President Mayor of the City of Gwangju Untae Kang, and the Minister
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10,000 Lives: The Eighth Gwangju Biennale Opens September 3, 2010 September 3 - November 7, 2010 Press and Professional Preview September 2, 2010 Biennale Hall, Gwangju City Museum, Folk Museum Gwangju, South Korea www.10000lives.org http://www.10000lives.org / http://www.gb.or.kr/ http://www.gb.or.kr/ OPENING EVENTS Press conference 2 pm | Opening Ceremony 7 pm | Preview Hours 10 am - 7 pm The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni are pleased to present 10,000 Lives, the 8th installment of the Gwangju Biennale. Featuring works by 134 artists from 31 different countries, along with a diverse collection of cultural artifacts that range from traditional Korean funerary dolls to an archive of 3,000 photographs of people with teddy bears, the exhibition is a sprawling, multifaceted investigation of the ties that bind people to images and images to people. More of a temporary museum than a traditional contemporary art biennale, the works included in 10,000 Liv
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Gwangju Biennale2010 BEIJING PRESS CONFERENCE Jun 10 (Thu) 11:30 ? 14:00 UCCA Auditorium Language English with Chinese Translation Korean with Chinese Translation Ticketing Free entry The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and The Metropolitan City of Gwangju request the pleasure of your company to the press conference in Beijing announcing the artists and exhibition details of 10,000 LIVES : The 8th Gwangju Biennale. We would like to take an honour of accompanying with you to our Beijing Press Conference. Kwangtae Park, Mayor of Gwangju City, Yongwoo Lee, CEO of Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of Gwangju Biennale 2010 will be present. Press Conference Guests： Kwangtae Park (Mayor of Gwangju City) Yongwoo Lee, (CEO of Gwangju Biennale Foundation) Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic director of Gwangju Biennale 2010) Press Conference Schedule（TBC）： 11:30-13:00 Press Conference Luncheon / UCCA Caf? & Bakery 13:00-14:00 Press Conference / UCCA Auditorium Gwangju Bienn
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10,000 Lives: The Eight Gwangju Biennale Announces Artists and Exhibits September 3, 2010 - November 7, 2010 Press preview September 2, 2010 Gwangju, South Korea www.10000lives.org www.gb.or.kr The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Director Massimiliano Gioni are proud to announce an initial list of artists and exhibition details for 10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennale. Constructed as a large thematic exhibition, the Biennale will develop a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. Held in Gwangju’s venerable Biennale Hall and neighboring City Museum, and Folk Museum, with works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts from more than 25 countries are brought together to examine our obsession with images. “Each day billions of images are produced and consumed,” explains director Mas
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The Eighth Gwangju Biennale September 3, 2010 - November 7, 2010 Press preview September 2, 2010 Gwangju, South Korea http://www.gb.or.kr/ Eighth Gwangju Biennale Announces Title and Dates The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Director Massimiliano Gioni are pleased to announce the eighth edition of the Gwangju Biennale, opening September 3, 2010. Titled 10,000 Lives, the Biennale will develop as a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. With works by more than100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts are brought together to compose a idiosyncratic catalogue of figures and icons, faces and masks, idols and dolls. Encompassing a diverse range of media, with a particular emphasis on portraiture, the exhibition will engage our obsession with images, and our need to create substitutes, effigies, avat
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Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course August 24 to September 20, 2009 Sponsored by The Gwangju Biennale Foundation, The Metropolitan City of Gwangju Chaired by Yongwoo Lee Directed by Byungsoo Eun (Artistic Director, 2009 Gwangju Design Biennale) Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, 2010 Gwangju Biennale) Visiting Professor: Barbara Vanderlinden -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Gwangju Biennale Foundation sponsors the first edition of International Curator Course in Gwangju from August 24 to September 20, in collaboration with worldwide colleges running curatorial studies. The Course will offer the opportunity to 25 young curators from all over the world to work with an internationally renowned visiting professor and curators, dealing with many challenging issues of theoretical and practical aspects of curatorial research, and reviewing the contemporary art as a broadened terrain of culture. Structure The Course consists of
