Gwangju Biennale

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How the artist’s family photo albums trace her ancestral history

BY Allie Biswas |

Created as a memorial to suffering, this year’s iteration sees a shift in both the exhibition and the city toward a new historiography

BY Park Jaeyong |

With Remember A River, the artist reveals the complexity of wetlands amid urban settings at Gwangju Bienniale

BY Christine Han |

In the Tokyo-based artist's works, everyday objects are animated by electric motors and chance elements

BY Andrew Maerkle |

The artist shares her Zen-like approach to using Korean hanji paper

BY Lisa Yin Zhang |

The artist's photographic series documents remnants of Gwangju’s colonial legacies in buildings

BY Hayoung Chung |

From the rise of sculpture to the return of landmark art events, three frieze editors discuss the year in art



 

The Tate Modern curator speaks to Marko Gluhaich about the stories she’s bringing to the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and the 2023 Gwangju Biennale

BY Marko Gluhaich AND Sook-Kyung Lee |

Curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, this year’s edition explores transnational kinships and inherited healing practices to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gwangju May Uprising

BY Hayoung Chung |

This year’s edition acts as a house of mirrors reflecting the promises of globalization and the ‘intensification and erosion of nationalism’

BY Amy Sherlock |

Many assume that the greatest challenges facing Cuban artists come from within Cuba – often they don't

In further news: Laura Owens’s 356 Mission space closes; John Baldessari guest-stars in The Simpsons

In further news: initiative for museum staff diversity; Gwangju Biennale's 2018 curators; Jens Hoffmann clarifies Front Triennial departure

Documenta curatorial team respond to financial mismanagement report; Gwangju Biennale announces 2018 theme

Agnes Gund awards USD$500,000 to New York’s Parrish Art Museum; Istanbul’s Rampa gallery closes; Gwangju Biennale announces new president



A quick response detailing the highlights from this year’s biennale, ‘The Eighth Climate (What does art do?)’

BY Harry Thorne |

The penultimate installment of our five part series: the frieze editors select the most significant shows from the past 25 years

With 'Burning Down the House', Jessica Morgan proves her though and testing nature

BY Paul Teasdale |

Architecture, whimsy and the Gwangju Biennale

BY Joseph Grima |

‘10,000 Lives’ was a fascinating examination of the role of photography in contemporary culture

BY Christy Lange |