Brussels Biennial 1

19 October 2008 – 4 January 2009

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For the first time in Brussels: a biennial for contemporary art. 7 exhibitions, 70 artists and an off-program with more than one hundred fifty artists exposing their artwork all over the city.

Brussels Biennial 1 opens on 19 October 2008, exactly fifty years after the closing of the 1958 World Fair. An international crowd of artists takes the visitor in tow throughout the history of modernization of Brussels. The participating institutions and artists, as well as practical information you’ll find at the website www.brusselsbiennial.org.

—Participants

Alexandra Bircken, Karla Black, Corbusier, Edith Dekyndt, Simon Denny, Marius Engh, Geoffrey Farmer, Buckminster Fuller, Adam Gillam, David Keating, Annette Kelm, Sister Corita Kent, Olaf Metzel, Danijela Micanovic, Kate Newby, Jurgen Ots, Falke Pisano, Taller popular de serigrafia, Kostis Velonis, Pieter Vermeersch, Jeronimo Voss, Stelios Votsis, Silke Wagner, Florian Waldvogel, Xenakis

—Curators

Nicolaus Schafhausen, Florian Waldvogel

—Partners

Ursula Blickle Stiftung

Brussels Biennial 1 is organized under the conceptual umbrella devised by its artistic director, Barbara Vanderlinden in an attempt to rethink the legacy of modernity in a global context. The individual exhibitions are curated by the contemporay art organizations: B.P.S.22, espace de création contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi (Space for Contemporary Creation of the Visual Arts sector of the Hainaut Province); BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Basis for Contemporary Art), Utrecht; Drik, Images, Communication & Information Technology, Dhaka; Extra City, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art), Antwerp; L’appartement 22, Lieu Indé;pendant pour la Création Contemporaine (The Apartment 22, Experimental Space for Contemporary Art), Rabat; MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerpen; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Witte de With, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam.

Participating curators: Shahidul Alam, Bart De Baere, Charles Esche and Mária Hlavajová, Anselm Franke, Abdellah Karroum, Pierre-Olivier Rollin, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel.