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Join scores of art lovers to celebrate the Biennial Opening Weekend's festivities, SITE's largest fundraising event of the year. As a major event on par with such renowned exhibitions as the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale, it has become an integral event for contemporary art aficionados, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the world.
To date, SITE Santa Fe has successfully held six biennials, each of which has drawn worldwide acclaim and brought important contemporary art from all over the world to Santa Fe. Past biennial curators, including Bruce Ferguson, Francesco Bonami, Rosa Martinez, Dave Hickey, Robert Storr, and Klaus Ottmann, have either arrived as or have subsequently become superstars in the world of contemporary art. Come and enjoy LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN!
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OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 5:30–7:30 PM
Biennial Kaekko Toy Exchange by Hiroshi Fuji at National Dance Institute
1140 Alto Street, For information please call 983-7646
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 3–5 PM AND SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 3–5 PM
Biennial Kaeru Art-Making workshops by Hiroshi Fuji at Fine Arts For Children and Teens
1516 Pacheco Street, For information please call 992-2787
FRIDAY, JUNE 20
Biennial Champagne Preview Reception and Gala Dinner, 6 pm (SOLD OUT)
Biennial Preview Reception Only, 6-7:30 pm (tickets $250)
Biennial Post Party, featuring Dengue Fever, 10 pm (tickets $25)
ABOUT DENGUE FEVER: Dengue Fever is Cambodian songstress Chhom Nimol, Zac Holtzman (guitar/vocals), Ethan Holtzman (Farfisa), Senon Williams (bass), Paul Smith (drums) and David Ralicke (sax). The band's music has been featured in a number of film and television shows including City of Ghosts, Must Love Dogs, Broken Flowers and twice on Showtime's hit series, Weeds. They have released three albums, Dengue Fever, Escape From Dragon House and the recently released Venus On Earth. They are based in Los Angeles, California.
SATURDAY, JUNE 21
Biennial Members Opening, 2-4 pm
Free for members
Lucky Number Seven Summit with Biennial Artists, 5 pm
National Dance Institute, 1140 Alto Street, Santa Fe
Sponsored by Gebert Contemporary and Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art (tickets $10/$5)
BBQ Supper with entertainment by the Joe West Band, 7 pm
Sponsored by Landfall Press, Inc. (tickets $30)
SUNDAY, JUNE 22
Public Opening 12-5 pm
Free Admission
Packages:
Gold package - view details
Silver package - view details
Bronze package - view details
GENERAL ADMISSION BIENNIAL TICKETS
Buy your tickets to the Biennial online and get a 10% discount on the Biennial catalogue.
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Hotel Santa Fe, the preferred Biennial hotel is offering a special rate for Biennial guests for Opening Weekend. Call 505.982.1200 or 800.825.9876 or email Stay@Hotelsantafe.com and mention booking number 1021NW; space is limited. www.hotelsantafe.com
Santa Fe Sage Inn is also offering a special rate for Biennial guests for Opening Weekend. Call 505.982.5952 and ask for the Biennial Rate of $89/night. www.santafesageinn.com
Enterprise, the preferred Biennial rental car service, is offering a special rate for Biennial guests. Call 505.986.1414 or 800.261.7331 and mention The SITE Biennial Discount for Patrons:ACCT Number: SSF2008, PIN Number:SSF. www.enterprise.com
Visit www.santafe.org for other travel and accommodation suggestions.
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 Download the Full Press Release
2008 Biennial Project Description
SITE Announces Global Partners
SITE Announces Artists
Art in America, 11.01.08
Artist Organized Art, 07.01.08
Washington Post, 07.03.08
ARTFORUM, 06.26.08
Toronto Star, 06.22.08
Art Asia Pacific
Santa Fe New Mexican, 05.29.08
Phoenix New Times, 05.29.08
Hiroshi Fuji Invites Community Participation, 5.23.08
Artist Organized Art, Lance Fung Interview, 05.03.08
Flash Art, 05.01.08
Art in America, March, 2008
New York Times, 01.27.08
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1. Martí Anson
2. Studio Azzurro
3. Erick Beltrán
4. Luchezar Boyadjiev
5. Michal Budny
6. Ricarda Denzer
7. Hiroshi Fuji
8. Fabien Giraud
9. Piero Golia
10. Soun Myung Hong
11. Scott Lyall
12. Nick Mangan
13. Eliza Naranjo Morse
14. Nora Naranjo Morse
15. Ahmet Ögüt
16. Mandla Reuter
17. Nadine Robinson
18. Zbigniew Rogalski
19. Wael Shawky
20. Raphaël Siboni
21. Rose B. Simpson
22. Shi Qing
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Centre d’Art Santa Monica (CASM)
Barcelona, Spain, www.centredartsantamonica.net
Housed in a former Renaissance convent in Barcelona, Spain, CASM is a non-collecting institution and public arts venue dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art by local and international artists. CASM endorses collaboration and communication through its distinctive curatorial practice that includes inviting multiple curators and artists to work in partnership together. Their objective is to realize exhibitions that address the production of contemporary art in Barcelona and beyond.
Partner curator: Ferran Barenblit
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
Mito, Japan, www.arttowermito.or.jp
Founded in 1990 by the city of Mito, Art Tower Mito is an innovative art center designed by Arata Isozaki that combines and subsumes the functions of a contemporary art gallery, concert hall and theater. Through international and domestic exchanges, ATM endeavors to create a new artistic culture for, but not limited to, the people of Mito, and also to enhance Japan's artistic culture. Contemporary Art Center is the division of contemporary art at ATM, committed to delivering established arts from within and outside of Japan, while also challenging a given framework of contemporary art per se. Contemporary Art Center has been introducing and fostering the talents of domestic emerging artists through an on-going project criterion.
Partner Curators: Tsukasa Mori and Yuu Takehisa
El Museo Experimental El Eco
Mexico City, Mexico
Located in the San Rafael district in downtown Mexico City, El Eco was conceived by German designer Matias Goeritz, who sought to create a vital, organic space dedicated to showcasing contemporary art in all its many forms. An ardent supporter of experimentation in art and architecture, Goeritz opened his kunsthalle in 1953 to wide acclaim. Goeritz’s radical space encouraged active viewer participation rather than passive contemplation. Although El Eco closed in 1954, the museum was recently resurrected with the help of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Today, El Eco is a non-profit, non-collecting institution that remains dedicated to Goeritz’s original mission: to provide an active, accessible space for the free exchange of ideas.
Partner curator: Guillermo Santamarina
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
Milan, Italy, www.mazzotti.it
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta is a private, not for profit institution, that organizes and promotes contemporary and modern art exhibitions, conventions, concerts and cultural events. It has been active at international level since 1988 and has had its own exhibition space in central Milan since 1994. Founded by Gabriele Mazzotta, who has been an art publisher and collector for more than 40 years, the Fondazione has been highly decorated in Italy and abroad.
Partner curator: Martina Mazzotta
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Turin, Italy, www.fondsrr.org
Located in Torino, Italy, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is an independent, non-profit institution that promotes cultural activities in the visual arts, theater, cinema, and literature produced in Italy today. Through its innovative curatorial practices, the Fondazione creates dialogues with artists, museums, and galleries from around the world that explore the conditions of contemporary culture. The Fondazione also supports emerging young artists by providing them with an exhibition space with international visibility.
Partner Curator: Patrizia Sandretto, President
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Frankfurt, Germany, www.fkv.de
Originally founded in 1829 by a group of artists, historians, and local dignitaries in Frankfurt, Germany, the Frankfurter Kunstverein is a non-collecting, non-profit institution that aims to create a critical dialogue about contemporary art with audiences through its visual arts exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, symposia, and artist residency program. FKV supports local and international artists, helping them to realize new art works and projects. The organization is committed to revealing the significant role that artists play in society: as producers, thinkers, mediators and the ones who still dare to experiment.
Partner curator: Chus Martinez
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, www.gertrude.org.au
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces was founded in 1983 in Melbourne, Australia as a non-profit contemporary art complex of gallery spaces and studio facilities. The organization provides professional support to artists in the early stages of their careers by providing them with exhibition space, studio residencies, and cultural exchange programs, in addition to a variety of public programs that address the relationship between contemporary art practices and current critical debate.
Partner curator: Alexie Glass
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (IAIA)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, www.iaia.edu
In 1991, an Act of Congress transferred to the Institute of American Indian Arts a Federal building listed in the National Register of Historic Places, constructed in the Pueblo Revival style and located off the historic Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It became the permanent home for the IAIA Museum.
The museum’s exhibition schedule and events provide a mutually respectful meeting place between the Native and non-Native worlds and is a showcase for important Indigenous contemporary art. As home to the National Collection of Contemporary Native American Art, the IAIA Museum strives to offer the public, a complex view of contemporary Native art that reflects the diverse cross-cultural influences and explores its complicated historical development. Through its educational programming the museum engages the conventional discourse of “Contemporary vs. Traditional” or the “Two Worlds” concepts which tend to sterilize and oversimplify studies in Native American fine art. The museum continues to be a place of quality training and experience for the Institute of American Indian Arts students seeking careers in the arts, museum studies and the humanities.
Partner curator: Joseph Sanchez
Institute of Contemporary Art—Sofia
Sofia, Bulgaria, www.ica.cult.bg
The formation of ICA-Sofia grew out of a collaborative effort between friends who shared a vision to open up the Bulgarian contemporary art scene to local and international audiences. ICA-Sofia is a private, non-profit, non-collecting institution that opened in Sofia in 1995. Central to its mission is a dedication to the study, understanding, promotion and practice of the visual arts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and to the renewed development of open dialogues about contemporary art between diverse cultures.
Partner curator: Iara Boubnova
Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France, www.palaisdetokyo.com
Housed in the former International Exposition of Arts and Techniques building and located on the Quai de Tokyo in Paris, the Palais de Tokyo opened to the public in 2002. The Palais de Tokyo is a non-profit, contemporary art venue devoted to exhibiting a broad range of work by international artists that explore the complexities of our time. Palais is also committed to fostering the careers of local, emerging talents by providing young artists with an exhibition space that has international visibility.
Partner curator: Marc-Olivier Wahler
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
Istanbul, Turkey, www.platformgaranti.blogspot.com
Founded in September 2001, and located in Istanbul, Turkey, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit, non-collecting organization that serves as a central meeting point in the city for cultural exchange between contemporary artists, curators and critics. Platform is comprised of a series of buildings that house an artist archive, research and lecture spaces, the Istanbul Residency Program (open to international contemporary visual artists, critics and curators of contemporary art) and a public gallery committed to exhibiting contemporary art from Turkey and abroad.
Partner curator: Vasif Kortun
Stowarzyszenie Integracji Kultury (Association of Cultural Integration)
Warsaw, Poland, www.raster.art.pl
The Association of Cultural Integration is an independently-run art space in Warsaw, Poland. Founded in 2001, the non-profit Association shares a personal and professional relationship with Raster Gallery. The organization exhibits emerging artists from Poland and abroad. Primarily focused on showing artists born after 1970, the Association of Cultural Integration is committed to fostering the careers of young artists working in a variety of fields ranging from the visual arts to music. ACI’s multidisciplinary projects involve working with the local community in Warsaw by organizing lectures, concerts, dance performances and hosting a variety of large festivals.
Partner curators: Lukasz Gorczyca and Michal Kaczynski
SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, www.sitesantafe.org
Founded in 1995, SITE Santa Fe is a private not-for-profit, non-collecting contemporary arts organization committed to enriching the cultural life of Santa Fe and beyond by providing an ongoing venue for exhibitions of artists who merit international recognition along with complementary education and multidisciplinary public programs. Its International Biennial is a crucial part of this mission.
Partner curator: Laura Heon
Ssamzie Space
Seoul, South Korea, www.ssamziespace.com
Located in downtown Seoul, South Korea, SSamzie Space opened in 2000 as a non-profit, multi-disciplinary cultural organization devoted to supporting Korea’s emerging artists and their ideas. SSazmie Space is unique to Korea; it is one of the few organizations in the country that provides financial support, art studios, overseas exhibitions and exhibition programs to visual artists, musicians, curators, and writers. SSamzie Space is recognized quickly becoming an integral part of the Hong-Dae University area’s art community as well as the contemporary art scene of Seoul.
Partner curator: Hyunjin Shin
The Power Plant
Toronto, Canada, www.thepowerplant.org
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre opened in 1987 and has since established a reputation as Canada's leading non-collecting contemporary art gallery. Since opening, the gallery has supported the development of international and Canadian contemporary art through a dynamic mix of exhibitions, commissions, public programs, publications, and events. The gallery's exhibitions feature the most exciting art being made today while its publications are renowned around the world.
Partner curator: Gregory Burke
The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art
Cairo, Egypt, www.thetownhousegallery.com
Located in downtown Cairo, Egypt, The Townhouse Gallery formed in 1998 with the goal of developing a contemporary arts space that would serve artists in the Middle East. The Townhouse Gallery is a non-collecting organization devoted to providing contemporary artists working in the visual and performing arts with a space to exhibit their work. Since its inception, The Townhouse Gallery has also established community development initiatives and a variety of educational programs devoted to enriching the cultural life of Cairo, the Middle East region, and beyond.
Partner curator: William Wells
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing, China, www.ullens-center.org
Opening in November 2007, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art is situated in a Bauhaus-style factory building in the Dashanzi Art District in Beijing. Aiming to be China's most comprehensive institute for the contemporary arts, the Ullens Center will engage audiences in critical debates about contemporary art practices through its visual and performing arts exhibition programs. The Ullens Center is committed to exploring China’s contemporary visual culture by creating dialogues with local and international artists. The Ullens Center works in conjunction with the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, a vigorous supporter of Chinese artistic practice that boasts of one of the largest collections of Chinese contemporary art in the world.
Partner Curator: Colin Chinnery
Vienna Secession
Vienna, Austria, www.secession.at
Founded in 1897 by the Association of Visual Artists, and housed in Joseph Maria Olbrich’s iconic art nouveau building, the Vienna Secession is one of the oldest and most important venues for the exhibition of contemporary art today. In contrast to traditional museum curatorial practices, where a curator is responsible for conceptualizing and realizing the exhibit, the exhibition program of the Vienna Secession is decided by the members of the Association of Visual Artists on a democratic basis and selected entirely according to artistic criteria. The Secession is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art by Austrian and international artists that creates critical dialogues about the present conditions of cultural production and the current developments within contemporary art-making practices.
Partner Curator: Barbara Holub
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