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  Park Yang-woo appointed President of Gwangju Biennale Foundation

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  Park Yang-woo returns to Gwangju Biennale Foundation as President once again “Everyone here is a part of Gwangju Biennale. I plan to improve workplace culture and conditions by bringing people together and resolving challenges lying ahead.” On August 26, a brief inauguration ceremony was held at Jemunheon* to mark the commencement of a new leadership by President Park Yang-woo. “It seems like only yesterday when I came to Gwangju six and a half years ago with a sense of duty. Gwangju is like home to me,” he remarked. While addressing the room, President Park stated that biennales around the world have encountered never-before-seen challenges since the COVID-19 pandemic. They find themselves at a juncture where they must reclaim the intrinsic vision and values of biennales. He added, “having witnessed the crisis of biennales, the Gwangju Biennale intends to become a lever for the advancement of world art history and furthermore its cultural history, and a unique global brand which sets

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  13th Gwangju Biennale opens

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  The 13th Gwangju Biennale Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning opens Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: 13th Gwangju Biennale April 1–May 9, 2021 Gwangju Biennale 111 Biennale-ro, Buk-gu 61104 Gwangju South Korea T 82 62 608 4114 biennale@gwangjubiennale.org Website: www.13thgwangjubiennale.org Journal: www.13thgwangjubiennale.org/minds-rising Gwangju Biennale Foundation website: www.gwangjubiennale.org Facebook/ Instagram/ YouTube Virtual tours of the Biennale exhibition will be held on Thursday 1 April. To join, click: 10 am Berlin/ 5pm Seoul / 4pm Hong Kong / 1.30pm Delhi 5pm Berlin/ 4 pm London / 11am New York / 8am Los Angeles The 13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, opens on 1 April 2021 with 69 participating artists and 40 new commissions, in Gwangju, South Korea. Founded in 1995 in memory of the civil uprising and the 1980 Gwangju Democratisation Movement, the Gwangju Biennale is Asia’s oldest and most prestigious biennale of contemporary art. Directed by Defne Ayas and Nata

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  Gwangju Biennale Foundation announces details of GB Commission and Pavilion Projects

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  The Gwangju Biennale Foundation announces details of the GB Commission and Pavilion Projects The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is proud to announce details of the GB Commission (Gwangju Biennale Commissions) and Pavilion Projects, two international programmes which were launched in 2018 to explore the history of the Biennale from new perspectives and facilitate international exchange. The GB Commission, which seeks to explore the history, architectural artifacts, traditions, memories and civil spirit of the city of Gwangju and the origin of the Gwangju Biennale, will see seven international artists - Ho Tzu Nyen, Minouk Lim, Chiharu Shiota, Bae Young-hwan, Sung Hwan Kim, Lee Bul, and Tarek Atoui - create monumental, site-specific new work, exploring the historic sites throughout the city of Gwangju in which their work will be displayed; as well as the restaging of two previous GB Commission installations, by Kader Attia and Mike Nelson. The Pavilion Project will welcome arts organization

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  13th Gwangju Biennale postponed to April 1

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  13th Gwangju Biennale postponed to April 1 The decision to shift the exhibition dates, now scheduled for April 1 to May 9, was made at the 173rd meeting of the Board of Trustees in order to “make the safety of our society our top priority” Due to the continued spread of COVID-19, the opening of the 13th Gwangju Biennale — scheduled for February 26 — will be postponed once more to April 1, 2021. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation announced today that the decision to postpone the 13th Gwangju Biennale — to a 39-day run from April 1 to May 9 — was made during an emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees held on the morning of February 1. In the 173rd meeting of the Board of Trustees, the decision to change the exhibition dates was made in light of current circumstances and crises unfolding in the Gwangju region due to recent outbreaks of COVID-19, and the board’s agreement that the health and safety of the public is the organization’s top priority. The board explained that during this globa

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  13th Gwangju Biennale Announces Participants and Further Details

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  13th Gwangju Biennale Announces Participants and Further Details Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: 13th Gwangju Biennale February 26–May 9, 2021 Opening Date: February 26 Public Programmes: Ongoing Website: 13thgwangjubiennale.org Journal: 13thgwangjubiennale.org/minds-rising “Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists.” – Arundhati Roy The Artistic Directors of the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, today announce further details of their plans for the forthcoming edition of the Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning. Having launched the editorial platform of the Biennale, “Minds Rising”, and the online public programme with the forum GB Talks |Rising to the Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futures, Ayas and Ginwala are now

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  The Gwangju Biennale Foundation announces the postponement of the 13th Gwangju Biennale to 2021

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  The Gwangju Biennale Foundation announces the postponement of the 13th Gwangju Biennale to 2021 As a result of the global struggle with COVID-19, Sunjung Kim, President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, has today announced that the 13th Gwangju Biennale, originally scheduled to take place from September 4 to November 29, 2020, has been postponed and will now be held from February 26 to May 9, 2021. With the postponement of the Biennale, a decision taken in close consultation with Artistic Directors Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, the Foundation joins the global community in its efforts to overcome and recover from the COVID-19 outbreak. The decision prioritizes the safety of the artists and other participants, while also addressing concerns regarding the production of new site-specific commissions particular to the Gwangju Biennale, as well as issues surrounding the transportation of artworks and international travel. President Kim said: “Having adjusted the schedule from September 2

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  Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: Gwangju Biennale 2020

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  Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning The 13th Gwangju Biennale Artistic Directors: Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala September 4–November 29, 2020 Opening Date: September 4, 2020 Upcoming Public Program: January 7, 2020 Following the first collective site visit with a select group of participating artists and the first successful public event with talks and performances in Gwangju in October 2019, the Artistic Directors of the 2020 Gwangju Biennale Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, together with their team, continue to open dialogues that usually remain internal to the Biennale’s production. Inviting artists and local interlocutors to exchange their research, the second public program takes place at Perpetual Spring Pavilion in MMCA Seoul on January 7, 2020, 4–6pm. This program builds on the previous collective research trip, with site visits to 5.18 Archives, Gwangju Theater, Shamanism Museum, and Baekyangsa Temple, among other venues that help the artists to anchor their research questions in Kor

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  Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: Gwangju Biennale 2020

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  Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning The 13th Gwangju Biennale Artistic Directors: Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala September 4, 2020–November 29, 2020 Public Program: October 1–2, 2019 Opening Date: September 4, 2020 Sketch for Gwangju Biennale 2020, Graphic Identity, WORKS, Seoul First Announced Artists: Pacita Abad, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Cecilia Bengolea, Yin-Ju Chen, Hyuntaek Cho, Vaginal Davis, Patricia Domínguez, Cian Dayrit, John Gerrard, Sonia Gomes, Trajal Harrell, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Gözde Ilkin, Sangdon Kim, Sylbee Kim, Liliane Lijn, Candice Lin, Emo de Medeiros, Ana María Millán, Kira Nova, Fernando Palma Rodríguez, Outi Pieski, Angelo Plessas, Gala Porras-Kim, Judy Radul, Sahej Rahal, Jacolby Satterwhite, Alexandra Sukhareva, Sissel Tolaas, Cecilia Vicuña, Shen Xin, and more to come. It has been said that we are experiencing an intelligence explosion that is broadly understood as the emergence of superintelligence. And yet, questions abound: where precisely can organic intellige

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  13th Gwangju Biennale in 2020 exhibition period extended

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  13th Gwangju Biennale in 2020 exhibition period extended Exhibition set for September 4th - November 29, extended for 21 additional days from its previous 66 day run The exhibition period of the 13th Gwangju Biennale to be held in 2020 has been extended from 66 days to 87 days. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation stated, the “extension of the exhibition period for the 13th Gwangju Biennale in 2020” was deliberated and approved at the 164th board meeting. In response, the 13th Gwangju Biennale next year will be held from September 4 to November 29. Previous editions of the Biennale ran for 66 days from the first Friday of September to the first Sunday of November. The 13th Gwangju Biennale in 2020 will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the May 18th Democratic Uprising which is the foundation of the Biennale. The timeliness prompted the organizers to adjust the exhibition period to reflect the spirit of Gwangju, expand opportunities for artistic empathy during the exhibition, and provide

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  Preparations for the Pavilion Project of the 13th Gwangju Biennale in 2020 commence

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  Preparations for the Pavilion Project of the 13th Gwangju Biennale in 2020 commence Talks with prestigious institutions in Taiwan, Netherlands, Belgium and others in progress The Gwangju Biennale Foundation begins preparations for the Gwangju Biennale Pavilion Project in 2020. On the morning of May 15 at the Polish Embassy located in Jongro-gu, Seoul, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation President Sunjung Kim signed a memorandum of understanding with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (AMI) Director Krzysztof Olendzki regarding Poland’s participation in the Gwangju Biennale Pavilion Project in 2020. Named after Poland’s renowned national poet, the AMI is a state cultural institution established under the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to promote Polish culture abroad. Through their partnership with the Gwangju Biennale, the AMI plans to introduce Polish art institutions and artists to Korea and to produce works and programs that will facilitate engagement with the citizens of Gwangju