11th Gwangju Biennale
2. 9. – 6. 11. 2016
Korea

Fellows

The GB11 Biennale Fellows consist of roughly one hundred small- and medium-scale art organizations across the world whose work makes important contributions to the art of today, yet remains under the radar. Biennale Fellows will continue doing the important work they normally do, without GB11 being involved in their activities.
These organizations often function as the research and development department of the art world, generating new ideas, supporting artists to allow them to experiment and cultivate their practices, shaping new curatorial and educational methods, and fostering active relationships to their field as well as to their physical, social, and political environments. Yet the significance of their works for a wider art and social ecology has not been acknowledged enough.

To All the Contributing Factors

The Forum entitled To All the Contributing Factoris, consists of three days of activities dedicated to questions of value, continuity, and scale through the lens of the art organizational practices of the so-called Biennale Fellows, around 100 small and mid-size “differential” art organizations from various parts of the world, and imagining acts in common. Representatives from about 80 of the Fellows will participate in the Forum.



The Forum will take place at several locations, including the Gwangju Biennale Hall, 518 Archives, Gwangju International Center, Mite-Ugro, and May Mother's House.

Curated by Binna Choi and Maria Lind.
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Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid

self-presentation:

CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo) is a contemporary art museum belonging to the community of Madrid and dedicated to cultural experimentation. Providing opportunities for intellectual leisure and continuously stimulating curiosity, CA2M has a mandate to affirm the present or, to put it another way, to question it. The past of the art center as well of its collections is like an archive in construction, always open to new meanings coming from a critical present which will help to cast light on a future that, more than confronting or fighting against the challenges it faces, co-opts them as possibilities for cultural cohabitation. The current demand for polyphony and the construction of a multiplicity of possible sociocultural narratives calls for boundless institutional imagination and also for a continuous reinvention of space for its potential audiences. The center’s educational activities are viewed as a process of ongoing investigation: its main goal is to replace the regime of mechanical explanation with another, more open one that will enable people to build their own knowledge, accepting mistakes as failed attempts that deserve to be shared, and to be seen as steps forward to other hitherto unknown questions and toward other ways of confronting reality.

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