Bucharest Biennale

Image Credit Bogdan Matei, Still Image, CGI, Two double combo menus video installation, 2020.jpg
Image Credit: Bogdan Matei, Still Image, CGI, Two double combo menus video installation, 2020
  • Dates: May 26 - July 3
  • Title: Everybody deserves to challenge pop culture
  • Preview day: May 26
  • Director: lector Eugen Rădescu
  • Curator: Jarvis. The first biennale ever curated by AI

About the Bucharest Biennale

The BUCHAREST BIENNALE continues to build a strong partnership between Bucharest — a geocultural space where the political is reflected in all aspects of life—and the rest of the World. In transcending specific geographical, historical, or political frameworks, it connects to a broader complexity, namely the one of “resistance” within the quotidian realm.

As a biannual cultural event, BB’s temporary structure allows a deconstruction of the systems supporting and underlying what has been called the “experience economy”. The Bucharest Biennale goes beyond merely orchestrating memorable “events” that aim for prescribed notions of customizable transformation, which are characteristic of this economic model and importantly reflected in the global biennial format as well. Instead, the Biennale offers a platform to analyse, and potentially redirect, current social, political and economic imaginaries. It intends to make visible the power structures supporting such spheres of control, addressing the ways in which they are organized and coordinated, as well as implemented across broad segments of society. The Biennale is an attempt to turn these scripted “experiences” upside down, to re-think and re-imagine processes of domination, while positioning the cityof Bucharest as a field of cultural action and exchange.

With its innovative model refined throughout the previous six editions, the Bucharest Biennale is now regarded as one of the most vital biennials in Europe, holding a widely respected position within the international art scene.

You can find more information about the biennale on the webiste:

www.bucharestbiennale.org