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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 />

44 [[<br />

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

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