The 7th Gwangju Biennale

Would you go this time ?

A Year in Exhibitions

Duration: September 5 – November 9, 2008
Professional Preview: September 4 and 5, 2008
Artistic Director: Okwui Enwezor
Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim, Ranjit Hoskote
Position Papers Curators: Patrick D. Flores, Jang Un Kim,
Abdellah Karroum, Sung-Hyen Park, Claire Tancons
Venues: Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art,
Uijae Museum of Korean Art, Cinema Gwangju, Daein Traditional Market

Annual Report is developed around three principal components. The first part, On the Road, through a series of travelling exhibitions will serve as a report on cultural manifestations occuring between 2007 and 2008. The second component, Position Papers, is a platform dedicated to a series of five focused, small scale curatorial proposals and experiments in exhibition practice by a diverse group of curators. The third element, Insertions, will take the format of a series of new projects commissioned or invited specifically for the biennale.

Participating Artists

On the Road / Insertions / Position Papers
Adel Abdessemed (Algeria, lives in Paris)
Bani Abidi (Pakistan, lives in Delhi, Karachi, London)
David Adjaye (Ghana/UK, lives in London)
Raymundo Albano (Philippines, 1947-1985)
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla (USA, live in Puerto Rico)
Lara Almarcegui (Spain, lives in Rotterdam)
Francis Alÿs (Belgium, lives in Mexico City)
Area Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul/Tokyo)
Stefano Arienti (Italy, lives in Milan)
Kaoru Arima (Japan, lives in Nagoya)
Mario Benjamin (Haiti, lives in Port-au-Prince)
Sadie Benning (USA, lives in Chicago)
Huma Bhabha (Pakistan/USA, lives in New York)
Ursula Biemann (Switzerland, lives in Zürich)
Bingyi Huang (China/USA, lives in Buffalo and Beijing)
Tania Bruguera & Arte Conducta (Cuba, live in Chicago and Havana)
Mariana Bunimov (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Gerard Byrne (Ireland, lives in Dublin)
Byron Kim (USA, lives in New York)
Chen Shaoxiong (China, lives in Guangzhou)
Chen Qiulin (China, lives in Beijing)
Chung seoyoung (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Bruce Conner (USA, lives in San Francisco)
Thomas Demand (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Atul Dodiya (India, lives in Bombay)
Donghee Koo (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Lili Dujourie (Belgium, lives in Brussels)
Felipe Dulzaides & Roberto Gottardi (Cuba and Italy, live in Havana)
Eunji cho (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Seamus Farrell (Ireland, lives in Paris and Cadiz, Spain)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1945-1982)
Daniel Faust (USA, lives in New York)
Vincent Feria: Françoise Vincent & Eloy Feria (France & Venezuela, live in Caracas)
Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani (Germany, lives in Sapporo, Japan)
Peter Friedl (Austria, lives in Berlin)
Gao Shiqiang (China, Llves in Hangzhou)
Marlon Griffith (Trinidad and Tobago, lives in Port of Spain)
Hu-ju Gu (Korea, lives in Busan)
Tamar Guimaraes (Brazil, lives in Copenhagen and Mälmo)
Shilpa Gupta (India, lives in Bombay)
Hans Haacke (Germany, lives in New York)
Lothar Hempel (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Jan Henle (USA, lives in New York and Puerto Rico)
Chi Young Hwang (South Korea, lives in Gwangju)
Iman Issa (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Haejun Jo and Donghwan Jo (South Korea, live in Seoul)
Isaac Julien (U.K., lives in London)
Taehun Kang (South Korea, lives in Busan)
Hassan Khan (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Sonia Khurana (India, lives in New Delhi)
Kim, Sung Hwan (South Korea, lives in New York)
Seung wook Koh (Korea, lives in Seoul)
Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali, lives in Bamako)
David Lamelas (Argentina, lives in Los Angeles)
Larnet: In Ae Lim & Eun Young Hong (Korea, live in Busan)
Jin Won Lee (aka GAZAEBAL), Musician (Korea, lives in Seoul)
Seulgi Lee (Korea, lives in Paris)
Sherrie Levine (USA, lives in New York)
Christelle Lheureux (France, lives in Paris)
Glenn Ligon (USA, lives in New York)
Jarbas Lopes (Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro)
Reagan Louie (USA, lives in San Francisco)
Ken Lum (Canada, lives in Vancouver)
Mun-ho Ma (Korea, lives in Naju)
MAP Office: Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (France, live in Hong Kong)
Kerry James Marshall (USA, lives in Chicago)
Mona Marzouk (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Gordon Matta Clark (USA, 1943-1978)
Steve McQueen (UK, lives in Amsterdam)
Daniel Medina (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Luis Molina Pantin (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Matthew Monahan (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Movement, Contingency and Community (Group Exhibition)
MY-DA-DA (based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego)
HwaYeon Nam (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Oil 21 (Germany, based in Berlin)
Karyn Olivier (Trinidad and Tobago/USA, lives in New York)
Els Opsomer (Belgium, lives in Brussels)
Jina Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Jooyeon Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Munjong Park (Korea, lives in Damyang)
Kiyoung Peik (Korea, lives in Ansan)
Redza Piyadasa (Malaysia, 1939-2007)
Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand, lives in Bangkok)
Jo Ractliffe (South Africa, lives in Johannesburg)
Mandla Reuter (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Jewyo Rhii (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Walid Sadek (Lebanon, lives in Beirut)
Joachim Schoenfeldt (South Africa, lives in Johannesburg)
Fatou Kande Senghor (Senegal, lives in Dakar)
Ho-yoon Shin (Korea, lives in Gwangju)
Taryn Simon (USA, lives in New York)
Dayanita Singh (India, lives in New Delhi)
Praneet Soi (India, lives in Amsterdam)
Hiroshi Sugito (Japan, lives in Nagoya)
Catherine Sullivan (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Sungyoon Yang (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Jim Supangkat (Indonesia, lives in Bandung)
Koki Tanaka (Japan, lives in Tokyo)
José Toirac (Cuba, lives in Havana)
Caecilia Tripp, Filmmaker (Germany, lives in Paris)
Uijae Huh, Baikryun (South Korea, 1891-1977)
Jacques Villeglé (France, lives in Paris)
Alfred Wenemoser (Austria, lives in Caracas)
Sislej Xhafa (Kosovo, lives in New York)
Lynette Yiadom Boakye (U.K., lives in London)
Bruce Yonemoto (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Kohei Yoshiyuki (Japan, lives in Tokyo)
Zarina (India/USA, lives in New York)
Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan (Argentina, live in Berlin)
John Zurier (USA, lives in Berkeley)

For detailed information on the biennale and participating artists please visit the website: http://www.gb.or.kr

For press information please contact:

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation
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Biennale 2-gil Buk-gu Gwangju, South Korea
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