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artists & participants
Lida Abdul,
Sona Abgarian,
Vahram Aghasyan,
Eija-Liisa Ahtila,
Vyacheslav Ahunov,
Vyacheslav Akhunov,
Pilar Albarracin,
Allora & Calzadilla,
Helena Almeida,
Ghada Amer,
Vasco Araujo,
Ahmed Askalany,
Micol Assael,
Said Atabekov,
Valery Ayzenberg,
Mykola Babak,
Marius Babias,
Miriam Bäckström,
Francis Bacon,
Zdenka Badovinac,
Young-Whan Bae,
Yiso BAHC,
Edward Balassanian,
Miroslaw Balka,
Israil Basov,
Samuel Beckett,
Laura Belem,
Fouad Bellamine,
Rebecca Belmore,
Guy Ben-Ner,
Manfredi Beninati,
Mohamed Bennati Moa,
Beom Kim,
Semiha Berksoy,
Chiara Bertola,
Patrick Bloomer,
Andrea Blum,
John Bock,
Jean Boghossian,
Monica Bonvicini,
Montien Boonma,
Maxim Boronilov,
Louise Bourgeois,
Leigh Bowery,
Rachel Bradley,
Stephen Brandes,
Candice Breitz,
Ervins Broks,
Tania Bruguera,
Christoph Büchel,
Carlos Bunga,
Pasko Burdelez,
Cai Guo-Qiang,
Cat Tuong Nguyen,
Loris Cecchini,
Hussein Chalayan,
Ian Charlesworth,
Chelpa Ferro,
Chen Chieh-Jen,
Choi Jeong Hwa,
Pierre Coinde,
Paolo Colombo,
Donna Conlon,
Jose Damasceno,
Charlotte Day,
Bart De Baere,
Paolo de Grandis,
Jeroen de Rijke,
de Rijke / de Rooij,
Willem de Rooij,
Donna De Salvo,
Tacita Dean,
Stephen Dean,
Maxence Denis,
Fan Dian,
Gonzalo Diaz,
Polibio Diaz,
Muratbek Djoumaliev,
Atul Dodiya,
Willie Doherty,
Stan Douglas,
Lacy Duarte,
Anita Dube,
Zlatan Dumanic,
Marlene Dumas,
Jimmie Durham,
Honore d´O,
Juan Manuel Echavarria,
Sherif El Azma,
Olafur Eliasson,
Entang Wiharso,
Annika Eriksson,
Leandro Erlich,
Escape Group,
Bruna Esposito,
et al.,
Julia Fabenyi,
Factotum,
Matias Faldbakken,
Nagui Farid Tadros,
Lara Favaretto,
Bita Fayyazi,
Stano Filko,
Peter Finnemore,
Vadim Fishkin,
Alen Floricic,
Laura Ford,
Henri Foucault,
Gabriela Fridriksdottir,
Bernard Frize,
Regina Jose Galindo,
Carlos Garaicoa,
Cristina Garcia Rodero,
Mark Garry,
Gilbert & George,
Gimhongsok,
Sarah Glennie,
Monica Gonzalez,
Luis Gonzalez Palma,
Douglas Gordon,
Dan Graham,
Paul Granjon,
Guerrilla Girls,
Subodh Gupta,
Philip Guston,
George Hadjimichalis,
Diana Hakobian,
Salah Hammad,
Seamus Harahan,
Mona Hatoum,
Jaakko Heikkilä,
Diango Hernandez,
Maria Teresa Hincapie,
Michael Hogg,
Max Hollein,
Carsten Höller,
Jenny Holzer,
Laura Horelli,
Noor Ibrahim,
Silvia Iorio,
Miyako Ishiuchi,
Runa Islam,
Emily Jacir,
Ham Jin,
Sandra Johnston,
Donald Judd,
Ranbir Kaleka,
Anish Kapoor,
Gulnara Kasmalieva,
Marya Kazoun,
William Kentridge,
Patrick Keogh,
Tigran Khachatrian,
Rustam Khalfin,
Leonid Khobotov,
Balazs Kicsiny,
Kimsooja,
Daniel Knorr,
Eva Koch,
Joachim Koester,
Kaisu Koivisto,
Rem Koolhaas,
Barbara Kruger,
Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh,
Zofia Kulik,
Oleg Kulik,
I-Chen Kuo,
Peter Land,
John Latham,
Ann Lislegaard,
Anton Litvin,
Maider Lopez,
Los Carpinteros,
Joao Louro,
James Luna,
Jorge Macchi,
Orge Macchi,
Oswaldo Macia,
Beral Madra,
Nalini Malani,
Bogdan Mamonov,
Jan Mancuska,
Liga Marcinkevica,
Luz Maria Bedoya,
Yani Mariani Sastranegara,
Agnes Martin,
Chus Martinez,
Roman Maskalev,
Sergey Maslov,
Antoni Maznevski,
Ronan McCrea,
Mary McIntyre,
William McKeown,
Cildo Meireles,
Jonas Mekas,
Yerbossyn Meldibekov,
Almagul Menlibaeva,
Almagul Menlibayeva,
Annette Messager,
Viktor Misiano,
Viacheslav Mizin,
Amedeo Modigliani,
Mandana Moghaddam,
Sungshic Moon,
Katrina Moorhead,
Mariko Mori,
Liza Morozova,
Gianni Motti,
Zwelethu Mthethwa,
Andreas Münch,
Oscar Munoz,
Juan Munoz,
Antoni Muntadas,
Darren Murray,
Krisna Murti,
Galina Myznikova,
Nakion,
Shahryar Nashat,
Bruce Nauman,
Nikos Navridis,
Marco Nereo Rotelli,
Rivane Neuenschwander,
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba,
Olaf Nicolai,
Alexander Nikolaev,
Isabel Nolan,
Linda Norden,
Ann-Sofi Noring,
Hein-Kuhn Oh,
Achille Bonito Oliva,
Boris Ondreicka,
Gabriel Orozco,
Aisling O´Beirn,
Gary O´Dwyer,
Tom O´sullivan,
Adrian Paci,
Michael Panayiotis,
Cecilia Paredes,
Luis Paredes,
Kiwon Park,
Peng Yu,
Perejaume,
Sarah Pierce,
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,
Joan Hernandez Pijuan,
Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Marek Pokorny,
Santiago Pol,
Alex Pollard,
Marco Poloni,
Apinan Poshyananda,
Sergey Provorov,
Antoine Prum,
George Pusenkoff,
Wang Qiheng,
Mark Raidpere,
Igor Rakcevic,
Raqs Media Collective,
Carolina Raquel Antich,
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook,
Martins Ratniks,
Caio Reisewitz,
Jewyo Rhii,
Robin Rhode,
Peter Richards,
Richard Riley,
Pipilotti Rist,
Damien Roach,
Dieter Roelstraete,
Ieva Rubeze,
Edgardo Rudnitzky,
Thomas Ruff,
Ed Ruscha,
Riiko Sakkinen,
Salon de Fleurus,
Bülent Sangar,
Tomo Savic Gecan,
Hans Schabus,
Thomas Scheibitz,
Gregor Schneider,
Thomas Schütte,
Berni Searle,
Tino Sehgal,
Park Sejin,
Alexander Shaburov,
Nataraj Sharma,
Valery Shkarubo,
Santiago Sierra,
Shahzia Sikander,
Boris Sincek,
Kiki Smith,
Valeska Soares,
Konstantia Sofokleous,
Tamara Sokolov,
Sora Kim,
Urs Staub,
Robert Storr,
Sun Yuan,
Nakhee Sung,
Ricky Swallow,
Harald Szeemann,
Kidlat Tahimik,
Fathiya Tahiri,
Antoni Tapies,
Joanne Tatham,
Pascale Marthine Tayou,
The Blue Noses,
the centre of attention,
The Future,
Sergey Tichina,
Yulia Tikhonova,
Wolfgang Tillmans,
Jaime David Tischler,
Jaime-David Tischler,
Igor Tishin,
Jelena Tomasevic,
Sue Tompkins,
Goran Trbuljak,
Vladimir Tsesler,
Lim Tzay Chuen,
Juan Uslé,
Roi Vaara,
Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen,
Paloma Varga Weisz,
Joana Vasconcelos,
Ruslan Vashkevich,
Sergio Vega,
Francesco Vezzoli,
Gitte Villesen,
Sergey Voichenko,
Viktor Vorobyev,
Yelena Vorobyeva,
Elena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev,
Natalija Vujosevic,
Rahim Walizada,
Walker & Walker,
Mark Wallinger,
Scott Watson,
Liu Wei (1972),
Matthias Weischer,
Rachel Whiteread,
Ingrid Wildi,
Cathy Wilkes,
Bedwyr Williams,
Alistair Wilson,
Sislej Xhafa,
Xu Zhen,
Jun Yang,
Yeondoo Jung,
Chan Yuk-Keung,
Yung Ho Chang,
Andrei Zadorine,
Natalya Zaloznaya,
Artur Zmijewski
curators
Sonja Abadzieva , Irma Arestizabal , Nadia Argyropoulou , Stefan Banz , Jason E. Bowman , Inge Braeckman , Gregory Burke , Isabel Carlos , Natasha Conland , Chicca Conti Olivetti , Sergio Edelsztein , Lie Evans , Julie Evans , Peter Fitz , Enzo Fornaro , Eduardo Gil , Brendan Griggs , Alicia Haber , Laufey Helgadottir , Julian Heynen , Alfons Hug , Said Ismael Noori , Lolita Jablonskiene , Ilse Joliet , David Kareyan , Michiko Kasahara , Sunjun Kim , Gordon Knox , Sanne Kofod Olsen , Katerina Koskina , Luckana Kunavichayanont , Sutee Kunavichayanont , Jann L. M. Bailey , Olga Lopukhova , Sabrina M.y. Fung , Bartomeu Mari , Dwi Marianto , Larissa Michnevic , Agnieszka Morawinska , Hugh Mulholland , Joanna Mytkowska , Asa Nacking , Peter Nagy , Suzanne Page , Beatrice Parent , Boris Patrick Kremer , Monica Pignatti Morano , Carlos Pou , Svetlana Racanovic , Adriana Rosenberg , Abdel Salam Eid , Liubov Saprykina , Natalia Sarangovic , Hanno Soans , Eugene Tan , Andi Tepelena , David Thorp , Cecilia Tirelli , Slaven Tolj , Oleksiy Tytarenko , Humberto Valdivieso , Panya Vijinthanasarn
directors
english
International Art Exhibition: Three names for a three-year project
In 2005, there will be two directors in charge of the Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition: for the first time, these will both be women, Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez from Spain. Also in 2005, but in the autumn, the Biennale will promote an international symposium on contemporary art, to be curated by Robert Storr from the United States.
This decision, shared by the Board of Directors, was taken by the Biennale's President, Davide Croff, who wished with these nominations to encourage the Venice Biennale's project for renewal in the Visual Arts sector in total coherence and continuity with its tradition dating back from over a century.
President Croff's intentions are that the Biennale should now become an active interlocutor, a point of reference that is involved and responsive, and not merely a container for the activities in the Visual Arts Sector. The Directors - granted full cultural autonomy - will draw up their exhibition projects in line with the general thematic and cultural objectives the Biennale has proposed them, and which it has shared and defined with them over these past few months.
The Biennale's new initiative will have a scope of three years. In 2005, the exhibition will explore the state of contemporary art from two points of view: a look at the relationship between the present and the most significant past; a second look on the relationship between the present and the most innovative trends.
The two sections will be proposed in two separate spaces and will each be curated by one of the two Directors. Maria de Corral will be responsible for the exhibition offering a retrospective approach, to be held in the Italian Pavilion. Rosa Martinez will produce the exhibition dedicated to a greater extent to the latest forms, to be held in the Arsenale di Venezia. Both will certainly make bold and trend-setting selections with an eye to creating exhibitions that the Biennale wishes to be strongly characterised. With his symposium in the autumn, Robert Storr will co-ordinate a project of analysis and study of the state of contemporary art (its codes, languages, new and old paradigms) inviting the greatest figures in the world of contemporary art to Venice for a meeting between artists, theoreticians, critics and experts.
The 2005 symposium will constitute the introduction and starting point for the 2007 International Art Exhibition, to be directed by Storr himself.
The project, which over the course of the three years will develop an integrated series of initiatives involving Italian and international cities and institutions, is the result of a joint collaboration that the president and directors of the Biennale have defined in recent months with the Directors selected today.
Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez are two of the most committed and appreciated experts at international level. One trained in Madrid, the other in Barcelona, and they also represent two different generations whose professional careers have interwoven: both have been curators of the Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale, in 1988 and 2003 respectively. They are two personalities marked by a shared cultural matrix, which is necessary to facilitate the coherence between the two sections for which they will be responsible. Robert Storr, an artist and critic of world-wide fame, has been curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has already participated at the Biennale di Venezia.
Drawing upon their experience and reciprocal acquaintance, the three Directors will enable the realisation of the three-year project in a manner marked by close collaboration and full agreement.