GÖTEBORG INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 2005

Contemporary art will be in the limelight as Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art takes place for the third time this autumn. The biennial is a large venture on innovative contemporary art that is unique in Sweden. The invited artists are some of the most interesting and leading on the art scene today.

The curator of this year’s biennial is Sara Arrhenius, curator and writer. She was previously director of IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program in Sweden), and since January she is the director of Bonnier Konsthall in Stockholm.

Sara Arrhenius wants to break with the image of biennials as broad enrolments of large groups of artists. Instead she has invited twelve artists who have been given the opportunity to develop new projects or to show a number of works. In order to create a common ground for the work on the exhibition she gathered the artists and catalogue writers for a seminar in Gothenburg already during the spring of 2005. This seminar was the starting point for the exhibition that physically will find it´s form in September in the venues.

The exhibition gathers artists who in various ways, film, installation, performance, audio and painting, investigate and question today’s documentary paradigm. They ask about the ideology and rhetoric active behind the images and narratives that we call reality and what these images want to convey to us. Why has one kind of image become so dominant in our culture and what are the alternatives? Is art able to create other languages, images and realities?

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art was first arranged in 2001. Organiser is Göteborg Konsthall under the auspices City of Göteborg Cultural Affairs in close cooperation with Göteborg Art Museum and Hasselblad Center.

NB! During the biennal Göteborgs Konsthall will have a 50 SEK entrance fee.

For more information see the biennial homepage