Conceptually, the Tirana Biennale was billed as an exploration of taboos in contemporary society with an effort to test them artistically using an Albanian backdrop. Practically, this international festival of exhibitions appears as a masterpiece of what people can do on a shoestring. Perhaps it is the very absence of massive external cultural financing that this show could be the creative…
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Oliver Kielmayer speaks with Olaf Breuning
Why didn’t you attend the opening of the Biennale in Prague?
I had a production in New York that occupied all my time. For three months I was involved in a new exhibition in the gallery Chisenhale. It was my first important exhibition in London on such a large scale.
What did you show in Chisenhale?
Most people expected multi-media work with sound…
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9th Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo No. 5, September 16 – October 30, 2005
The ninth Istanbul Biennial was shaped by two curators: Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun. The former is an art critic who used to run the Tramway Gallery in Glasgow and currently serves as director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. The latter comes from Turkey but has lived in the United States for a long time; where he was…
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The art scene is a strange, fickle thing. Almost every year a new trend is proclaimed as if wanting to outdo the tempo of the fashion world flux. The one admired is the one who first spots a new trend which has to be exploited as quickly as possible, and which we have to abandon before it becomes assimilated – in order not to become outdated. Those who yesterday were considered Becher’s proteges …
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