This catalogue was published in conjunction with the inaugural Brussels Biennial for contemporary art from October 2008 to January 2009, conceptualized by the founding Artistic Director Barbara Vanderlinden. It is the result of a collaboration that crosses traditional boundaries between biennials, exhibitions, institutions, curators and artists. It aims to radically move away from the process in which artworks are produced, presented, disseminated and contextualized. In view of the crucial role of old and emerging institutions, this biennial strives to present contemporary art in an exhibition developed and curated by a network of visual art organizations. The participating institutions have contributed seven chapters to this book with varied editorial approaches.

Includes artists' and contributors' biographies, as well as information on the participating institutions: Apartment 22, Experimental Space for Contemporary Art, Rabat, Morocco; BAK, Basis for Contemporary Art, Utrecht, the Netherlands; B.P.S.22, Space for Contemporary Creation of the Visual Arts Sector of Hainaut Province, Charleroi, Belgium; Drik, Picture Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Extra City, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Note: Only participating artists of Asian descent or those residing in Asia are listed below.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany)

editor

Barbara VANDERLINDEN

Location code

EX.BEL.BRB.2008

Language

English

Keyword

perennial exhibition, modernity, diaspora, group exhibition

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

334

ISBN / ISSN

9783865605559

No of copies

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Re-used Modernity - Barbara VANDERLINDEN

Hollocore © AMO - Rem KOOLHAAS, Renier DE GRAAF

Fuck Architects: The Recent Work of mounir fatmi - Pierre-Olivier ROLLIN

Once is Nothing: Thoughts on an Exhibition on an Exhibition - Charles ESCHE, Maria HLAVAJOVA

Showing off the Bride - Shahidul ALAM

Letter to Leopold - Anselm FRANKE

The World Around You - Abdellah KARROUM, Anne SZEFER KARLSEN, Albert HETA

Horizon & Underground: A Project on the Conditions Under Which 'Making the World a Better Place' Has a Positive Sense - Bart DE BAERE

Juliaan Schillemans, Plans for the Organization of the World: a Global Complex of Cities - Jos VANDENBREEDEN

Pantopia in Utopia: The World City of Paul Otlet - Wouter VAN ACKER

Orban Space: A Conversation on the Work and Practice of Architect and Urbanist Luc Deleu - Barbara VANDERLINDEN, Wouter DAVIDTS, Hans DE WOLF

Show Me, Don't Tell Me - Nicolaus SCHAFHAUSEN, Florian WALDVOGEL

Abstracted Law, Abstracted Art: Clearing the Way for Global Ideology? - Fernand KEULENEER

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Various venues, Brussels, Belgium	2008

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Brussels Biennial vzw

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