Gwangju Biennale 2012
from September 07 to November 11 2012

Gwangju Biennale Hall
Gwangju-si Buk-gu Yongbong-dong San 149-2 (Biennalle 2-gil 211)
Gwangju

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‘ROUNDTABLE’ is the theme of the 9th Gwangju Biennale chosen by the team of six co-artistic directors appointed to organize the upcoming biennale.

This ‘ROUNDTABLE’ theme will let the Biennale explore the possibility of democratic and non-hierarchical exchange concerning global cultural production, through various forms of collective endeavour, research into historic entanglements among societies, and the exploration of diverse contexts of belonging.

The artistic direction of the 9th Gwangju Biennale is headed by a team of six international curators from Korea, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, and Qatar. Nancy Adajania is a Bombay-based cultural theorist and independent curator; she is also research scholar-in-residence at BAK, Utrecht. Wassan Al-Khudhairi is the Director and Chief curator at Mathaf : Arab Museum of Art, Doha, Qatar. Mami Kataoka is a curator and writer and the Chief Curator of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Sunjung Kim is a Seoul-based curator and professor at the Korea National University of Arts. Carol Yinghua Lu is an art critic and curator who lives and works in Beijing. She is a contributing editor for Frieze. Alia Swastika is a curator, project manager, and writer based in Jakarta ; she curated Jogja Biennale XI (2011).

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www.gb.or.kr

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