Melbourne International Biennial 1999
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Melbourne International Biennial 1999
"Signs of Life" 14 May - 27 June 1999
The Melbourne International Biennial was a cultural initiative of the City of Melbourne
in partnership with Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne.
Curator: Juliana Engberg / Organisation: Bala Starr
Artists:
& the "Collaborating Countries Projects" included works in National Pavilions by the following artists:
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/melbourne/
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/signs_of_life_melbourne_international_biennial/
"Signs of Life" 14 May - 27 June 1999
The Melbourne International Biennial was a cultural initiative of the City of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
in partnership with Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne.
Curator: Juliana Engberg / Organisation: Bala Starr
Artists:
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Robert Gober Robert Gober is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.-Life and work:... Martin Kersels Martin Kersels is an American contemporary artist born in 1960 in Los Angeles. Who focuses his shows on sculpture, while also incorporating photography and video. He now lives and works in Sierra Madre, CA... Aernout Mik Aernout Mik is a Dutch artist, internationally known for his installations and films.- Biografie :Mik spent his childhood in Groningen and studied there from 1983 to 1988 at the Academie Minerva. He also had lessons from Fie Werkman... |
Mariele Neudecker Mariele Neudecker is a German artist, who lives in the United Kingdom. She often works with landscape sculptures and video installations.Her work was featured in an exhibition at Tate St Ives in 2004.-External links:**http://www.bthumm.de/... David Noonan (artist) David Noonan is an Australian printmaker who lives and works in London. Noonan was born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He received his BFA in 1989 from Ballarat University College and his MFA in 1992 from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.David Noonan is an Australian artist who lives... Catherine Opie Catherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in... Cornelia Parker Cornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA is an English sculptor and installation artist. -Life and career:Parker studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic... Susan Philipsz Susan Philipsz is a Scottish artist who won the 2010 Turner Prize. In her youth, she sang with her sisters in a Catholic church choir in Maryhill. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1989–1993 and then at the University of Ulster in Belfast in 1993-4. She was a... |
Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale.... Ugo Rondinone Ugo Rondinone New-York based, mixed-media artist whose works explore themes of fantasy and desire. Many of his pieces coax the viewer into a meditative state like the blurred, brightly-colored, concentric rings of his target-shaped paintings; or his strictly black and white landscapes of gnarled... Ricky Swallow Ricky Swallow is an Australian sculptor , who lives and works in Los Angeles. He creates detailed pieces and installations in a variety of media, often utilising objects of everyday life as well as the body . He first came to prominence in Australia when he won the Contempora 5 Prize in Melbourne... Kenji Yanobe Japanese artist Kenji Yanobe is famous for his upbeat yet nightmarish artwork. His sculpture simulates consumer products designed for survival after a nuclear holocaust.-Artwork:... Miwa Yanagi is a Japanese photographic artist.-Life and works:Miwa Yanagi was born in 1967 Kobe City, Japan. She completed her postgraduate course work at the Kyoto City University of Arts . Miwa Yanagi is known mainly as a photographer and video artist. Miwa Yanagi creates an elaborate, thoroughly thought... |
& the "Collaborating Countries Projects" included works in National Pavilions by the following artists:
- Austrian Pavilion: Anne Schneider, Elke KrystufekElke KrystufekElke Krystufek is an Austrian self portraitist working in a variety of media including: painting, sculpture, video and performance art.-Life:Krystufek studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Vienna in the early 1990s...
, Franz WestFranz WestFranz West is an Austrian artist.-Work:His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades...
(curator: Andraes Reiter Raabe) - Belgian Pavilion: Dirk BraeckmanDirk BraeckmanDirk Braeckman is a Belgian photographer who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.Dirk Braeckman has had numerous group exhibitions and several solo shows in Europe, including ones at at Ghent’s SMAK and the De Pont Foundation in Tilburg...
, Jan Van ImschootJan Van ImschootJan Van Imschoot is a Belgian contemporary artist whose works are collected by various international museums.He is represented by major galleries including Brussels, Switzerland and Los Angeles....
, Sven 't Jolle (curator: Jan HoetJan HoetJan, Knight Hoet is the founder of SMAK in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:Jan curated Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992...
) - Canadian Pavilion: Geoffrey FarmerGeoffrey FarmerGeoffrey Farmer is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. Farmer studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and the San Francisco Art Institute...
, Myfanwy Macleod, Ron TeradaRon TeradaRon Terada is a Vancouver-based artist working in various media, including painting, photography, video, sound, books, and graphic design.- Life and Work :Terada received his Fine Arts diploma in 1991 from in Vancouver, British Columbia...
, (curator: Kitty Scott) - Chinese Pavilion: Wang Jianwei, Li Yongbin (curator: Huang Du)
- Danish Pavilion: Henriette Heise, Jakob JakobsenJakob JakobsenDr. phil. Jakob Jakobsen, , was a Faroese linguist as well as a scholar of literature. He was the first Faroese person to earn a doctoral degree...
(curator: Dorthe Abildgaard & Marianne Krogh Jensen) - French Pavilion: Valérie Jouve (co-ordinator: by Jean-Pierre DumontJean-Pierre DumontJean-Pierre "J. P." Dumont is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for SC Bern in the National League A.-Amateur career:Dumont played four seasons for Val-d'Or Foreurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...
) - Italian Pavilion: Paola di Bello, Mauricio Lupini, Roberto Marossi, Marcello Maloberti, Gabriele di Matteo, Alessandra Spranzi, Bert Theis, Enzo Umbaca (curators: Jen Budney & Roberto PintoRoberto PintoRoberto Pinto is a Portuguese-German footballer. He currently plays for SV Sandhausen.-Football career:He was released by Hertha BSC in summer 2004...
) - Japanese Pavilion: Leiko IkemuraLeiko Ikemurais a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980...
(curator: Itaru Hirano) - Norwegian Pavilion: Knut ÅsdamKnut ÅsdamKnut Åsdam is a Norwegian artist who currently lives and works in Oslo. For more than fifteen years he has actively contributed to the international art scene with exhibitions, publications and broadcasts...
, UKS (curators: Bo Krister Wallström & Jørn Mortensen) - Philippine Pavilion: Gerardo Tan (curator: Professor Patrick FloresPatrick FloresPatrick Fernández Flores , is a Roman Catholic cleric and was Archbishop of San Antonio from 1979 until 2004. Flores was the first Mexican American to become a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:...
) - Swiss Pavilion: Sidney Stucki (curator: Pierre-André Lienhard)
Subjects
"..., I believe the Melbourne International Biennial - Signs of Life - exhibits a very human set of projects, as should be the case as we leave the twentieth century and begin to engage with the next millennial frontier." Juliana EngbergExternal links
http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/non-cms/globe/issue10/dptxt.htmlhttp://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/melbourne/
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/signs_of_life_melbourne_international_biennial/