Looking for a Place
In 1999, Rosa Martínez extended the earlier biennials’ meditations on place by bringing 29 artists from 23 countries together in Looking for a Place. Understanding her role as editor/agitator, Martínez wanted a “fluid alternative to the inviolable solidity of museums,” where white cubes display beautiful objects. Her artists both punctured SITE SANTA FE’s walls and reached beyond them into public, commercial, and sacred spaces like the old dancehall at Galisteo, the Los Alamos airport, and a municipal parking garage. Nobody objected to Diller + Scofidio’s multimedia installation in Room 120 of the Budget Inn, but even after permissions were granted, two installations—the cemetery for a Hispanic Catholic parish church and a lake on a nearby Indian Pueblo—were dismantled in the opening days, speeding up the Biennial’s ephemeral quality.
Exhibited Artists:
Helena Almeida
Ghada Amer
Janine Antoni
Monica Bonvicini
Louise Bourgeois
Tania Bruguera
Cai Guo-Qiang
Lygia Clark
Diller + Scofidio
Dr. Galentin Gatev
Greenpeace
Yolanda Guitiérrez
Mona Hatoum
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Carsten Höller
Simone Aaberg Kærn
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Nikos Navridis
Shirin Neshat
Rivane Neuenschwander
Gabriel Orozco
Pipilotti Rist
Francisco Ruiz de Infante
Bülent Şangar
Arsen Savadov
Georgy Senchenko
Charlene Teters
Sergio Vega
Miwa Yanagi
Curator:
Rosa Martínez
Helena Almeida
Helena Almeida was born in Lisbon, where she lived and worked until 2018. She graduated in Painting from Lisbon’s Fine Art School in 1955. In 1964 she...LEARN MOREGhada Amer
Ghada Amer is an internationally recognized artist with a vast range of works that include not only painting, but also bronze sculptures, clay ceramic...LEARN MOREJanine Antoni
Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island Sch...LEARN MOREMonica Bonvicini
Monica Bonvicini emerged as a visual artist and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-1990s. Her multifaceted practice investigates the relati...LEARN MORELouise Bourgeois
Born in France in 1911, and working in America from 1938 until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important and infl...LEARN MORETania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera is an artist and activist whose performances and installations examine political power structures and their effect on society's most vu...LEARN MORECai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian in December 1957. In the early 1980s, he was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. From ...LEARN MORELygia Clark
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Shirin Neshat
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Orozco's work blurs the boundaries of art with everyday realities and often balances complex geometry with organic materials and elements of chance. G...LEARN MOREPipilotti Rist
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Prominent Ukrainian artist, one of the founders of the Ukrainian transavantgarde. From 1982 until 1996, he worked with Arsen Savadov. In 1987 their co...LEARN MORECharlene Teters
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Rosa Martínez is a curator, writer, and art collections consultant based in Barcelona, where she obtained her degree in Art History in 1977.LEARN MORE