The first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale

Opening Amsterdam Biënnale 2009 + Mediamatic Travel
Friday 16 october 2009, 20 hrs.
Exhibition open until 13 december 2009

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is the first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale in the world. More than 30 curators from the Mediamatic Travel network present contemporary art from their city.

The exhibition opens on Friday with the pavilions of Kabul, Napels, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Belgrade, Boston, Talinn and Brooklyn. We will have weekly openings of new pavillions untill the end of the exhbition.

The Biennale is a part of Mediamatic Travel, our new travel-office to the contemporary art worldwide. Friday travel.mediamatic.net will go on-line and with Partizan Publik we will present, the Travel Catalogue Destinations 2010.

Opening hours

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is opened from 17 October till 13 December 2009. Open from Monday – Friday from 1 pm – 7 pm and Saturday + Sunday from 1 pm – 6 pm.
Location :Mediamatic BANK, Vijzelstraat 68, Amsterdam

There are many interesting ideas in the proposals to the biennial. And the material for the
city pavilions are listed as:
Bamboo Pavilion
Price: €65
Styrofoam Pavilion
Price: €85
Honeycomb Cardboard Pavilion
Price: €185
Inflatable Pavilion
Price: €170