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MEET AT CULTURE INCENTIVE MAGAZINE<br />
The 10th International ‹stanbul Biennial,<br />
organised by the ‹stanbul Foundation for<br />
Culture and Arts, will be open in the city<br />
from September 8 - November 4, 2007,<br />
under the curatorship of Mr. Hou Hanru,<br />
currently Director of Exhibitions and Public<br />
Programs at San Francisco Art Institute.<br />
The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, titled “Not Only Possible, But Also<br />
Necessary - Optimism in the age of global war”, will not be a thematic<br />
exhibition in the traditional manner; rather, it will emphasise artistic production<br />
based on collective intelligence and the living process of negotiating<br />
with physical sites. The biennial will focus on urban issues and architectural<br />
reality as a means of exposing different cultural contexts and<br />
artistic visions regarding the complex and diverse forms of modernity.<br />
The 10th International ‹stanbul Biennial, organised by the ‹stanbul<br />
Foundation for Culture and Arts, will be open in the city from September<br />
8 - November 4, 2007, under the curatorship of Hou Hanru, currently<br />
Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at San Francisco Art<br />
Institute. The 10th International ‹stanbul Biennial will not be a thematic<br />
exhibition in the traditional manner; rather, it will emphasise artistic production<br />
based on collective intelligence and the living process of negotiating<br />
with physical sites. The biennial will focus on urban issues and<br />
architectural reality as a<br />
means of exposing different<br />
cultural contexts and artistic<br />
visions regarding the complex<br />
and diverse forms of<br />
modernity. Therefore,<br />
instead of imposing any defi-<br />
THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE<br />
10th INTERNATIONAL ‹STANBUL BIENNIAL<br />
10th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL (September 8 - November 4, 2007)<br />
Not Only Possible, But<br />
Also Necessary: Optimism<br />
In The Age Of Global War<br />
nite concept on the event via fixed exhibition format, we decide to open up<br />
the Biennial as a platform of imagination, dialogue and production. The<br />
issues that the Biennial is focused on will be explored and realised both<br />
materially and physically at Biennial sites, specifically selected for their<br />
historic and functional characteristics, through a continuous process of<br />
dialogues among international artists, local public and specific contexts.<br />
Hardly appeared in tourist maps of ‹stanbul, these sites are culturally and<br />
politically symbolic of the question of modernity: “situ-actions”, generating<br />
situations as a force of urban transformation. The artists to participate<br />
in the 10th International ‹stanbul Biennial will be determined by<br />
Hou Hanru, the curator of the exhibition. Hou Hanru continues to carry<br />
out research both in Turkey and abroad with this objective. The assessment<br />
of submitted portfolios and visits to exhibitions will play a significant<br />
role in the final selection process. If you wish your work to be documented<br />
in our artists' archive and present your work to Hou Hanru, the curator<br />
of the 10th International ‹stanbul Biennial, please send an introductory<br />
portfolio with samples of your work to the address below.<br />
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APRIL’07<br />
The ‹stanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has been organising the<br />
International ‹stanbul Biennial since 1987. The Biennial aims to create a<br />
meeting point in ‹stanbul in the field of visual arts between artists from<br />
diverse cultures and the audience. The nine biennials ‹KSV has organised<br />
up to now have enabled the formation of an international cultural network<br />
between local and international art circles, artists, curators and art critics<br />
by bringing together new trends in contemporary art every two years.<br />
Considered as one of the most prestigious biennials alongside Venice,<br />
Sao Paolo and Sydney, the International ‹stanbul Biennial prefers an exhibition<br />
model which enables a dialogue between artists and the audience<br />
through the work of the artists instead of a national representation<br />
model. The curator, appointed by an international advisory board, develops<br />
a conceptual framework according to which a variety of artists and<br />
projects are invited to the exhibition. The most comprehensive international<br />
art exhibition organised both in Turkey and throughout the geographical<br />
sphere we are in, the ‹stanbul Biennial plays an important role<br />
in the promotion of contemporary artists not only from Turkey but from a<br />
number of different countries in the international arena. The opportunity<br />
to follow developments and discussions in the art world, and therefore a<br />
complimentary educational program is provided both for students and<br />
viewers of art through the exhibitions and simultaneously translated<br />
panel discussions, conferences and workshops organised within the<br />
scope of the exhibitions. After the first two biennials realised under the<br />
general coordination of Beral Madra in 1987 and 1989, ‹KSV decided to<br />
adapt a single curator system following the ‹stanbul Biennial directed by<br />
Vas›f Kortun in 1992. The Biennial was organised under the curatorship of<br />
René Block in 1995, Rosa Martínez in 1997, Paolo Colombo in 1999, Yuko<br />
Hasegawa in 2001, Dan Cameron in 2003 and Charles Esche and Vas›f<br />
Kortun in 2005, and will be realised by the San Francisco-based Chinese<br />
curator Hou Hanru in 2007.<br />
‹stanbul Kültür Sanat Vakf›<br />
Uluslararas› ‹stanbul Bienali<br />
Istiklal Cad. No. 146 Beyoglu<br />
Istanbul - Turkey<br />
ist.biennial@iksv.org<br />
List of artists will be finalised<br />
by the end of summer 2007