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Athen,

1st ATHENS BIENNIAL

Destroy Athens

September 10 – November 18, 2007
Professional preview: 9 September 2007

Curators: Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio, Augustine Zenakos
Director: Marieke van Hal

Main venue: Technopolis

Destroy Athens aims to attack stereotyping. It is an attempt to challenge the ways in which identities and behaviours are determined through stereotypical descriptions. The exhibition is inviting artists to employ the heretical treatment of the universal and timeless symbol of Athens as a pretext or as a metaphor for an assertion of self-determination.

Contact:
T: +30 210 5232222
E: contact@athensbiennial.org
www.athensbiennial.org


Istanbul

10th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL

Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War

September 8 – November 4, 2007
Professional preview: September 6 – 7, 2007

Curator: Hou Hanru

Venues: Antrepo No:3, AKM – Ataturk Cultural Centre, IMC – Istanbul Textile Traders’ Market, santralistanbul

The 10th International Istanbul Biennial will not be a thematic exhibition in the traditional manner; rather, it will emphasise artistic production based on collective intelligence and the living process of negotiating with physical sites. The biennial will focus on urban issues and architectural reality as a means of exposing different cultural contexts and artistic visions regarding the complex and diverse forms of modernity.

Contact:
T: +90 (212) 334 07 57
E: ist.biennial@iksv.org
www.iksv.org/bienal

For Press and Accreditations:
Ustungel Inanc (Mr.)
E: uinanc@iksv.org


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Lyon

9th LYON BIENNIAL

00s, The history of a decade that has not yet been named

September 19, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Professional preview: September 17 – 18, 2007

Curators: Stéphanie Moisdon & Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artistic Director: Thierry Raspail

Venues: La Sucrière, Institute of Contemporary art of Villeurbanne, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon, Fondation Bullukian

The project for the 9th Lyon Biennial is a history book written by a number of people. The history of a decade yet to be named; of a present that is endlessly arriving…

The project is structured like a grand game, in which some 60 “players” from around the world are invited to invite an essential artist of this decade. The ultimate purpose of this game, in which invitation is the rule, is to produce together an original landscape, and to create living matter from the archaeology of now.

Contact: Nicolas Garait
T: +33 4 72 07 41 41
E: pros@biennale-de-lyon.org
www.biennale-de-lyon.org

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