7th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL: ON THE RUN
21 September - 17 November 2001
ISTANBUL BIENNIAL
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The 7th International Istanbul Biennial organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts will take place between 21 September 17 November 2001. The 7th Biennial will be curated by Yuko Hasegawa under the title EGOFUGAL: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence.
The 7th International Istanbul Biennial will raise the question of How can we liberate ourselves from our egos while maintaining self-esteem? Egofugality is not selflessness, or self-sacrifice, or compromise. Yuko Hasegawa perceives Egofugality, as a worldview in the three “c” visions, which are collective consciousness, collective intelligence and co-existence verified by strong egofugal subjects. The three c elements will eventually replace the three m elements man, money and materialism that played key roles in the progress of 20th century civilisation and which simultaneously spawned considerable problems and sickness. The 7th International Istanbul Biennial will emerge by involving the audiences consciousness through works, which propose the aforementioned potentials.
The 7th International Istanbul Biennial will host 63 artists including 9 collaborative groups.
The artists who are invited to participate in the Biennial are:
Tomma Abts (United Kingdom)
Francis Alÿs (Mexico)
Cem Arik (Turkey)
Maja Bajevic (Bosnia)
Evgen Bavcar (France)
Simone Berti (Italy)
Rachel Berwick (U.S.A.)
Mathieu Briand (France)
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coasts)
Lee Bul (Korea)
Chris Burden (U.S.A.)
CAMBALACHE COLLECTIVE (Spain)
Hussein Chalayan (United Kingdom)
Lygia Clark (Brasil)
Chris Cunningham (United Kingdom)
Stan Douglas (Canada)
Du Weng-Sig (Taiwan)
Leandro Erlich (Argentina)
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (Denmark)
EXONEMO (Japan)
Jan Fabre (Belgium)
Yang Fudong (China)
Anya Gallacio (United Kingdom)
Alberto Garutti (Italy)
Leyla Gediz (Turkey)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (France)
Isa Genzken (Germany)
Rodney Graham (Canada)
Kazuhiko Hachiya (Japan)
Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Germany)
Lu Hao (China)
Joyce Hinterding (Australia)
Pierre Huyghe (France)
Kim Young Jin (Korea)
On Kawara (Japan)
Omer Ali Kazma (Turkey)
Guillermo Kuitca (Argentina)
Ernesto Leal (Cuba)
Henrietta Lehtonen (Finland)
Michael Lin (Taiwan)
Ma Liuming (Japan)
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Canada)
Fabian Marcaccio (U.S.A.)
Okisato Nagata (Japan)
Carsten Nicolai (Germany)
David Noonan & Simon Trevaks (Australia)
Motohiko Odani (Japan)
Gabriel Orozco (Mexico)
Kemal Onsoy (Turkey)
Philippe Parreno (France)
Fernando Romero (Mexico)
SANAA (Japan)
Yutaka Sone (Japan)
Fuat Sahinler & Murat Sahinler & Ahmet Soysal (Turkey)
Mukadder Simsek (Turkey)
Mika Taanila & Matti Suuronen (Finland)
Ana Maria Tavares (Brasil)
Rirkrit Tiravanija (U.S.A.)
James Turrell (U.S.A.)
Magnus Wallin (Sweden)
Joe Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Jane and Louise Wilson (United Kingdom)
Sislej Xhafa (Italy)
This year Istanbul Biennial will take place in the Imperial Mint, Hagia Eirene Museum, Yerebatan Cistern which are situated in the heart of the old city and in the Beylerbeyi Palace which is on the Asian side of Istanbul. Many satellite venues will be integrated in different districts throughout the city. Some of the participating artists like Alberto Garutti, James Turrell, Sisley Xhafa and Gabriel Orozco are proposing special projects engaging the city of Istanbul.
The press opening of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial will take place on 21 September 2001 at the Imperial Mint at 11:00am and will be followed by a series of panel discussions, lectures, performances, workshops and other special events.
For further information and accreditation to the opening activities, please contact
Mr. Ustungel Inanc
Int’l Press Coordinator
Istanbul Foundation for Culture & Arts
Istiklal Cad. No: 146 Beyoglu
80070 Istanbul – Turkey
Tel: 90 212 292 0926
Fax: 90 212 249 5575
e-mail: uinanc@istfest.org
