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12th International Istanbul Biennial
ROSANGELA RENNO
Imemorial, 1994
40 orthochromatic film prints, 10 color prints, aluminium, iron frames, bolts
Each iron frame 60 x 40 x 2 cm
Courtesy Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça / Santander Cultural Recife, São Paulo, Brazil
Photography: Flávio Lamenha

12th International Istanbul Biennial

Festival: 17 Sep – 13 Nov 2011

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts


34433 Istanbul

+90 212-3340763


bienal.iksv.org/en

12th International Istanbul Biennial
AKRAM ZAATARI
El Madani-Studio Practices Couples, 2007
Modern silver print from 35-mm negatives
29 x 19 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon

The 12th Istanbul Biennial explores the rich relationship between art and politics, focusing on artworks that are both formally innovative and politically outspoken. It takes as its point of departure the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996). Gonzalez-Torres was deeply attuned to both the personal and the political, and also rigorously attentive to the formal aspects of artistic production, integrating high modernist, minimal, and conceptual references with themes of everyday life. The biennial is composed of five group exhibitions and more than 50 solo presentations, all housed in a single venue, Antrepo 3 and 5. Each of the group shows—Untitled (Abstraction), “Untitled” (Ross), “Untitled” (Passport), Untitled (History), and “Untitled” (Death by Gun)—departs from a specific work by Gonzalez-Torres. These five works are reproduced in the Companion publication and function as thematic anchors for the biennial. Each group show features a large number of works occupying a single room, and is distinguished by its gray walls from the solo presentations. The solo presentations are linked to one or several subjects of the group exhibitions, and push the themes decidedly further. Visitors are encouraged to become active readers, not just silent recipients, of the artworks presented here. To paraphrase Gonzalez-Torres, the 12th Istanbul Biennial is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and space. In the spirit of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who genuinely wanted to make this world a better place and believed that his art could be a catalyst for change, we welcome you to the 12th Istanbul Biennial.

12th International Istanbul Biennial
ROSANGELA RENNO
From Imemorial, 1994
Portraits detail
Courtesy Coleção Marcantonio Vilaça / Santander Cultural Recife, São Paulo, Brazil
Photography: courtesy the artist
12th International Istanbul Biennial
MARTHA ROSLER
Balloons from the series: House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (1966-1972)
Photomontage
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne/Berlin, Germany and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA
Photography: courtesy the artist
12th International Istanbul Biennial
CATHERINE OPIE
Pilar, 2004
Chromogenic print
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Courtesy: courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Photography Artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA