The Biennale, under the general title “Old Intersections-Make it New” will take place from September 18, 2013 until January 31, 2014.
The Director of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is Katerina Koskina, President of the Board of Trustees of the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Historian and Curator, who developed the Mediterranean focus of the 2011-2015 Thessaloniki Biennials.
As in the previous years, this year’s organization will be also hosted in museums, exhibition spaces and monuments and will be realized with the collaboration of the “5 Museums’ Movement in Thessaloniki” (Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Teloglion Foundation of Art AUTH).
The City of Thessaloniki along with a number of other cultural and educational agencies and institutions will be also involved.
“Everywhere but Now” is the title given to the Central Exhibition by Αdelina von Fürstenberg the Chief Curator of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Independent Curator and Film Producer, President of the NGO ART for The World.
Over 50 artists from 25 countries - from Brazil and Cuba to Iran and India, as well as many Mediterranean countries, including 14 artists from Greece - will present their works, using all media such as paintings, sculptures, photography, video installations, films and performances.
With: Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, John Armleder, Maja Bajević, Bill Balaskas, Lenora de Barros, Beforelight, Jacques Berthet, Nigol Bezjian, Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, David Casini, Sheba Chhachhi, Claire Fontaine, Jordi Colomer, Marta Dell’Angelo, Desertmed Collective, Haris Epaminonda, Inci Eviner, Ymane Fakhir, Parastou Forouhar, Apostolos Georgiou, Khaled Jarrar, Hüseyin Karabey, Gülsün Karamustafa, Iseult Labote, Ange Leccia, Los Carpinteros, DeAnna Maganias, Marcello Maloberti, Miltos Manetas, Mark Mangion, Liliana Moro, Adrian Paci, Rosana Palazyan, Jafar Panahi, Maria Papadimitriou, Dan & Lia Perjovschi, Paris Petridis, Ivan Petrović, Khalil Rabah, Philip Rantzer, Zineb Sedira, Veronica Smirnoff, Priscilla Tea, Panos Tsagaris, Maria Tsagkari, Gal Weinstein, Peter Wüthrich, Raed Yassin, Yiorgis Yerolymbos, Vasilis Zografos.
EXHIBITIONS ORGANISED BY "5 MUSEUMS' MOVEMENT IN THESSALONIKI":
- "The Costakis Collection and Russsian Avant Garde. 100 years after collector's birth" / until January 31, 2014
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Moni Lazariston
- "Tradition-Reversal" / September 05, 2013 to December 24, 2014}
Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Warehouse B1 (port area)
- “Vasso Katraki: In Black and White” / September 01 to December 31, 2013
Teloglion Foundation of Art – AUTh, Agiou Demetriou 159A
- "The Mediterranean Experience: The Mediterranean as a spatial paradigm for circulation of ideas and meaning" / September 18 to December 31, 2013
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Egnatia 154
- “Mediterranean palimpsests: three enigmas of decay and incorruption” / September 18, 2013 to January 31, 2014
Archaeological Museum, 6 Manoli Andronikou Street
- "The veneration of Saint Mamas in the Mediterranean: a traveller, border defender Saint" / October 19, 2013 to January 19 2014
Museum of Byzantine Culture, 2 Stratou Avenue
OTHERS EVENTS OF THE MAIN PROGRAM:
- 3rd Thessaloniki Performance Festival / October 15-19, 2013
The festival’s program will include live performances which will highlight the diverse elements that constitute the art of performance.
- Young Artists’ Workshop of the 4th Thessaloniki biennale of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the ACTION FIELD KODRA, (Municipality of Kalamaria) / October 14-25, 2013
As a workshop, reasonably it is one of the most flexible programs, since the participants are called to work after the beginning of the Biennale and to configure their works throughout the process of the whole organization.
- Symposium
The theme of this year’s Biennale symposium will be linked again to the general title of the Biennale and subsequently to the Mediterranean area. At the same time, the symposium will be focused on the function of the archives and their practices in the contemporary art field.
- Tribute to the experimental and visual arts cinema in collaboration with the 54th Thessaloniki Film Festival / November 1-10, 2013
