[spectre] BUCHAREST BIENNALE APPOINTED ANNE BARLOW AS CURATOR FOR 2012 EDITION

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BUCHAREST BIENNALE APPOINTS ANNE BARLOW AS CURATOR FOR 2012 EDITION

August 3rd, 2010 - The 5th BUCHAREST BIENNALE (Bucharest
International Biennial for Contemporary Art), generated by PAVILION -
journal for politics & culture - is set for 25 May - 22 July 2012,
under the curatorship of Anne Barlow (UK/USA). 

 







Anne Barlow, the Curator of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, will
hold a press conference on the 21st of September 2010, at Art in
General (79 Walker Street), New York, USA, at 6.00 PM.

 

Bucharest Biennale is interested in the link between creative
practice and social development, and correspondences between local and
global contexts.

Now in its fifth year, the Biennale is building
a strong partnership between Bucharest—in itself, a symbol of how
the political can be reflected in every aspect of life—and Western
Europe. The Biennale connects to a universal problem that transcends
specific geographical or historical contexts, that of “resistance”
in daily life. The Biennale is a structure that is able to transform
the city itself into a site of ongoing activity, as well a field of
action.



Fundamentally, European culture has been the result of exchange,
sometimes peaceful, other times violent, that has taken place between
neighbouring societies and different social groups within a given
state. These horizontal and vertical forms of cultural exchange
occurred in many different manners: through imitation, assimilation,
dissimulation, appropriation, through either mutual understanding or
hegemonic dominance.

The Biennale aims to operate in a way that
demonstrates sensitivity and competence in dealing with the "others"
as the "alter" from different cultural backgrounds.
With BB4 being
covered by more than 120 publications and seen by 58,000 visitors, the
Biennale is now regarded as one of the most vital biennials in
Europe.

 By appointing a European-American curator Bucharest
Biennale will provide a link the between two cultures in a different
way.



Anne Barlow (born in Glasgow, Scotland), the appointed Curator of
BB5, is Executive Director of Art in General, New York. After
receiving an M. A. in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, Barlow acted as Curator of the Scottish Arts Council
Collection of contemporary art (1989-1994) and Curator of Contemporary
Art and Design at Glasgow Museums (1994-1999), where she managed a
temporary exhibitions program, contemporary art and design collection,
artists’ residencies, and new commissions. From 1999-2006, she was
Curator of Education and Media Programs at the New Museum, New York,
where she oversaw the scope of the museum’s educational and public
programs; initiated and developed Museum as Hub, a global network
initiative that connected the museum with international contemporary
art partners in Cairo, Eindhoven, Mexico City and Seoul; organized
inter-disciplinary roundtables with leaders in the fields of the
visual arts, architecture, and design; and curated numerous
exhibitions and performances. Independently, she also collaborated on
the exhibition Copy It, Steal It, Share it at Borusan Art Gallery,
Istanbul (2003), and guest-curated film and media projects for
Threshold Artspace, Perth, Scotland (2007). Barlow has published for
organizations including Liverpool University Press/Tate Gallery
Liverpool; the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom; the Edith
Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg; the New Museum, New York; and Art
in General. She was also a lecturer/ guest critic for organizations
including the Royal College of Art, London; Centre for Contemporary
Art, Warsaw; MUMOK, Vienna; New York University; The Cooper Union for
the Advancement of Science and Art, New York; and Tate Modern,
London.



The Assistant Curator to Anne Barlow will be Romanian Simina Neagu
(b. 1988). Since 2009 Neagu has been working as Assistant Director at
Pavilion UniCredit center for contemporary art and culture, and the
Pavilion journal for politics and culture and Bucharest Biennale. She
studied art history, curating ,and art criticism at University of
Bucharest and University of Arts, London. She collaborated with
institutions such as the Romanian National Museum of Art, the Centre
for Visual Introspection and Swedish Travelling Exhibitions. She is a
regular contributor to the online platform sfere.ro, and is currently
writing her thesis on Eastern European neo-avantgarde and preparing
"Caution! Institutional Space!" exhibition.



The co-directors of Bucharest Biennale are Răzvan Ion & Eugen
Rădescu.

 

Răzvan Ion (b. 1970) is a theoretician, curator, cultural manager
and political activist. He is the co-editor (with Eugen Radescu), of
PAVILION - journal for politics and culture, co-director of BUCHAREST
BIENNALE and in 2008 he was appointed director of PAVILION UNICREDIT-
center for contemporary art & culture. He has lectured at venues
including the University of California, Berkeley; Headlands Center for
the Arts, San Francisco, California; Political Science Faculty, Cluj;
Art Academy, Timisoara; La Casa Encedida, Madrid; and the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.. Ion writes for different magazines and
newspapers, and recently curated "Exploring the Return of Repression"
at Pavilion, Bucharest and rum46, Aarhus. He is now working on the
book project "Exploring the Return of Repression" and his new
curatorial project “Smash the Church! Smash the State!” dealing
with anarchist and collective activism and social-political movements
in art. His next curated exhibition, "Disruptive Monsters: From
Representing to Constructing Situations, will be in 2011. From 2010 he
will have classes in the University of Bucharest, Romania. Ion lives
and works in Bucharest. 



Eugen Rădescu (b. 1978) is a politologist (specializing in moral
relativism and political ethics), cultural manager, curator and
theoretician. He is a professor at the Political Science Faculty in
Bucharest and Cluj, Romania, and writes for various magazines and
newspapers. Among other exhibitions, Rădescu curated Bucharest
Biennale 1 with the theme "Identity Factories" and "How Innocent Is
That?" at Pavilion Bucharest. He is co-editor of PAVILION - journal
for politics and culture and co-director of BUCHAREST BIENNALE (with
Răzvan Ion) and the chairman of the organizational board of PAVILION
and BUCHAREST BIENNALE. He has lectured at venues including Art
Academy, Timisoara; La Casa Encedida, Madrid; the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon; and Apex Art, New York. He recently returned from
a residency at Apex Art, New York, and published the book "How
Innocent is That?" with Revolver Publishing, Berlin. He is also a
proffessor at Political Science Faculty in Cluj, Romania. Rădescu
lives and works in Bucharest and is currently working on a new book on
moral relativism. 


The BB5 press conference is possible with the support of the
Romanian Cultural Institute, New York and Art in General, New
York.



Bucharest Biennale is generated by Pavilion - journal for politics
and culture.


The new website of Bucharest Biennale 5 is under construction and
will be up in September 2010.

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