Artist: Uwe Schwarzer, Libbie Dina Cohn, Sniadecki J.P, Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Oliver Chanarin, Adam Broomberg, Florin Tudor, Mona Vatamanu, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ko Sakai, Peter Ablinger, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Carlos Amorales, Edgar Arceneaux, Art & Language, Adam Avikainen, Ashish Avikunthak, Martin Beck, Neil Beloufa
Venue: 2F, Power Station of Art, 3F, Power Station of Art, 1F, Power Station of Art
Thematic Exhibition of The 10th Shanghai Biennale
Theme: SOCIAL FACTORY
Venue: Power Station of Art
Chief curator: Anselm Franke
Co-curators: Freya Chou, Cosmin Costinas, Liu Xiao
Curator for the Film program: Hila peleg
Curator for the Music Program: Nicholas Bussmann
Artists: Yan Jun, Liu Ding, Zhao Liang, Zhou Tao, Keywords Lab, Trevor Yeung, Firenze Lai, Gao Shiqiang, Li Xiaofei, Zheng Guogu, He Xiangyu, Huang Ran, Hu Liu, Zhao Yannian, Sun Xun, Liu Chuang, Yun-Fei Ji, Ten Miles Inn/ David Crook & Isabel Crook, The Imagine Park/ Yuan Wenshan, Wang Ziyue, Li Xiuqin, Huang Wenhai, Wang Bing, Huang Ming-chuang, Chen Chieh-jen, Yin-Ju Chen, Musquiqui Chihying, Hou Chun-ming, Yu Cheng-ta, Neïl Beloufa, Narimane Mari, Peter Ablinger, Peter Friedl, Martin Beck, Nadia Myre, Susan Schüppli, Adrian Melis, Aleksandra Domanović, Harun Farocki, K.P. Brehmer, Nicholas Bussmann, Jutta Koether, Loretta Fahrenholz, Tibor Hajas, Shambhavi Kaul, Ashish Avikunthak, CAMP (Shaina Anand & Ashok Sukumaran), Natascha Sadr Haghighian/ Uwe Schwarzer/ Robbie Williams, Péter Dobai, Armin Linke, Ko Sakai & Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Carlos Amorales, Willem de Rooij, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Anton Vidokle, Ming Wong, Erik Steinbrecher, Tang Chang, Stephen Willats, Art & Language, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Suzanne Treister, Edgar Arceneaux, Jen Liu, Louise Lawler, Joseph Cornell, Ken Jacobs, Sharon Lockhart, Daria Martin, Adam Avikainen, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki & Libbie Dina Co
City Pavilions of The 10th Shanghai Biennale
Theme: URBAN=Work & Shop
Curator: Zhu Ye
Venue: Shanghai Xintiandi, K11 Art Mall Shanghai, Minsheng Museum, Jingan Kerry Centre
Shanghai Xintiandi
Theme: Spectacle of the City
Time: December 12, 2014 to March 8, 2015
K11 Art Mall Shanghai
Theme: Mirror of Production
Time: December 19, 2014 to March 8, 2015
Minsheng Museum
Theme: Bionic Future
Time: January 17 to February 28, 2015
Jingan Kerry Centre
Theme: Urban Living Room
Time: January 25 to March 31, 2015
Since its inception, the Shanghai Biennale has not only presented the latest accomplishments in contemporary art to the world on an academic level, but has also established a platform for communication and exchange between contemporary art and the general public. For close to two decades, the Biennale and Shanghai have maintained an active and mutual relationship: after all, the Biennale was founded to showcase the city’s artistic vision, forward thinking and diversity. The 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012 embedded itself within the city through projects such as “City Pavilions”, “Zhongshan Park Project” and the “Academy of Reciprocal Enlightenment”.
Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke is a curator and writer based in Berlin. He is Head of Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In 2012, he curated the Taipei Biennial, Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction. His project Animism was presented in Antwerp, Bern, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Shenzhen, Seoul and Beirut in various collaborations from 2010 to 2014. At the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, he co-curated The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside ( with Diedrich Diederichsen), and After Year Zero. Geographies of Collaboration (both 2013).
From 2006 to 2010 he was Artistic Director of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen, where he organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Peter Friedl, Joachim Koester, Valerie Mannaerts and others, co-curated Sergei Eisenstein: The Mexican Drawings, and curated group exhibitions such as Mimétisme, and Drawing Documents. He was a curator of Manifesta 7, The Soul, or Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, in Trento, Italy. Until 2006, Franke was curator at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, where he organized exhibitions such as Territories (with Eyal Weizman and others, later shown in Malmö, Stockholm, Rotterdam and Tel Aviv, 2003/2004) and No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night (with Ines Schaber, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Judith Hopf, 2006/2007). Anselm Franke has edited numerous publications and regularly contributes articles to magazines such as e-flux journal and Parkett.
Freya Chou
Freya Chou plays various versions of herself in art projects, she is a curator, a producer, a collaborator, a narrator, a writer and a publisher.
She started as a freelance curator, coordinated exhibitions at Taipei Fine Arts Museum from 2004 – 2008, including the 5th and 6th Taipei Biennial. She is assistant curator of 2010 Taipei Biennale and as one of the members in the curatorial team of 2014 Shanghai Biennale. She is also a founder of YiBen Book – an independent publishing house, committed to artist’s book. She also contributes for art periodicals including Artist Magazine (Taiwan), ARTCO Magazine (Taiwan) and LEAP (China).
She currently lives and works in Taipei.
Cosmin Costinas
Cosmin Costinas (b. 1982, Satu Mare, Romania) is the Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong (since 2011). He was the Curator of BAK, Utrecht (2008-2011); co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010), and Editor of documenta 12 Magazines, Kassel/Vienna (2005–2007). At Para Site, Costinas co-curated among others: Ten Million Rooms of Yearning, Sex in Hong Kong (2014); the conference Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The new performance turn, its histories and its institutions (2014); A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story (2013, toured throughout 2014 and 2015 in Taipei, Seoul, San Francisco); Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters (2012, toured throughout 2013 and 2014 in Istanbul, Singapore, New York).
Liu Xiao
Liu Xiao is research in Institute of Contemporary Art and Social Thought, School of Intermedia Art, and MA of China Academy of Art. She used worked in Department of Research, Guangdong Museum of Art. In the past years, Liu has been involved in important international exhibitions of academic standing, contemporary art and architecture biennales. Her focal points and practice are curatorial study, social thoughts writing, and long-term independent research project “National Road”. As curator, she curated West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art (Shanghai); in 2011, she launched Reading at Night series exhibition, traveled between Hangzhou and London, and completed the displaying on the magazine Vision; As assistant curator, curated Farewell to Post-colonialism: The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial (2008), Rehearsal: the 8th Shanghai Biennial (2010), and Reactivation: The 9th Shanghai Biennial. Her main editing work includes Farewell to Post-colonialism: The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial (2008) and relevant Readers 1, 2 and 3 (2008-2012), Rehearsal: the 8th Shanghai Biennial (2010), Ho Chi Minh Trail (2010), Architecture Creates Cities. Cities create Architecture: 2011 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (2011), Reactivation: the 9th Shanghai Biennial (2012), etc.
Hila peleg
Hila Peleg (b. 1976 in Tel Aviv) is a curator and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied Photography and Video at the University of Westminster, London, and Art History at Goldsmiths College, London. She has curated solo shows, large-scale group exhibitions, and various interdisciplinary cultural events in public institutions across Europe, such as KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Extra City Kunsthal (Antwerp), Iniva – Institute of International Visual Arts (London), and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). Peleg was co-curator of Manifesta 7 European Biennial of Contemporary Art (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, 2008). Her film A Crime Against Art (2007) was screened in film festivals worldwide, including Berlinale, Hot Docs, Toronto, and CPH:DOX, and presented at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the New Museum, and ZKM. Her new film, Sign Space, will be released in 2015. Peleg is the founder and artistic director of the Berlin Documentary Forum. Initiated at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2010, this biannual event is devoted to the production and presentation of contemporary and historical documentary practices in an interdisciplinary context. Peleg is curator for film program at the 10th Shanghai Art Biennale (2014).
Nicholas Bussmann
Nicholas Bussmann mixes traditional composition with club music production techniques and concept art.
He performs under various monikers and band names. Besides his artistic work he curates regularly a love song competition, named
Grand Prix d’Amour in Berlin and occasionally for other venues: Maerzmusik/Berliner Festspiele, Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Berlin,
Transmediale/Berlin. He toured in Europe, Japan, North and Middle America and published numerous Vinyls & CDs.
Nicholas Bussmann lives in Berlin.
Zhu Ye
Zhu Ye, Zhu Ye (b. 1973, Wuxi, China) is an independent artist and curator, as well as an urban researcher working in Urban and Architecture Research Center of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts as the deputy director, and in School of Architecture and Art Design as associate professor.
From 2005 to 2009, Zhu had edited 36 strategies for & beyond festivals, City Sculpture, Street Ecology, China City³, Tongji Circle, The Ten Years Municipality of Chongqing, Cultural Heritage, Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Crisis Management and China Housing, focusing on analyzing the driving force and the broad social system involved under the appearance of China Urbanization. Meanwhile, he established NOFFICE in December 2005, to carry out the urban feasibility research as a team. Zhu commenced his career as a curator in 2007. Since then he had planned a serial of exhibitions closely related to social reality, such as “Urban_ New Spectacle” and “The Street Belongs to All of Us!”, and a serial of academic forums. Currently, he is the executive curator of another undergoing exhibition in the open space of the city, “Zhuhai Urban Space Station of Public Art”.
Screening Time of Film Program of The 10th Shanghai Biennale Thematic Exhibition
Venue: Power Station of Art
F1 Cinema
Qiao (Crust), dir. Huang Wenhai, 2010 | 13′, China
Screening times: 11:00, 15:00
Leviathan, dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012 | 87′, USA/UK/France
Screening times: 11:15, 15:15
The Man with No Name, dir. Wang Bing, 2009 | 98′, China
Screening times: 13:00, 17:00
F2 Cinema
Rati Chakravyuh, dir. Ashish Avikunthak, 2013 | 106′, India / Germany
Screening times: 11:00, 17:00
People’s Park, dir. Libbie D. Cohn and J.P. Sniadecki, 2012 | 78′, USA / China
Screening times: 13:00
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, dir. CAMP, 2013 | 83′, India /UAE
Screening times: 15:00
F3 Cinema
Bloody Beans, dir. Narimane Mari, 2014 | 84′, Algeria / France
Screening times: 11:00
Storytellers, dir. Ko Sakai and Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2013 | 120′, Japan
Screening times: 13:00
Voices from the Waves, dir. Ko Sakai and Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2013 | 212′, Japan
Screening times: 15:00
Show time of the work The News Blues of 10th Shanghai Biennale Thematic Exhibition
The News Blues is the work of Nicholas Bussmann, the 10th Shanghai Biennale curator for the Music Program and artist. The News Blues Will be performed at Power Station of Art always 14:30 and 17:30 on the following dates. There will be breaks for the singers to rest every 45 minutes.
2014
Nov: 23/25/26/27/28/29/30
Dec: 2/3/4/5/6/7/9/10/11/12/13/14
2015
Jan: 2/3/4/6/7/8/9/10/11
Feb: 17/18/19/20/21/22/26/27/28
Mar: 1/24/25/26/27/28/29
Performer
Lijun WANG, Lijuan WANG, Samantha CHEN, Dove GE, Hui YE, Joy SUN, Laura, Max WU, Sarah ZHOU, Jinlan SHAO, Li YANG, Lynn JIN, Xianyun YU, Haydn XU, Florrie Juan HUANG, Jenny LEUNG, Jinxia CHENG
The News Blues
Conceptual opera The News Blues will be performed at the Power Station of Art almost daily throughout the duration of the Biennale by a group of Shanghai-based singers representing a variety of backgrounds and training. With the morning newspapers as their prompt, the performers will engage in a musical dialogue, effectively singing the news. The News Blues is conceived as a social and artistic experiment. At the core of the performance is the interaction between the singers, which reflects changing social dynamics and internal moods as well the changing climate in world affairs. On a broader level, it also connects the entire exhibition through the presence of live voices, as well as links the Biennale to external events, filtered though the channels of official journalism.