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The 1st Antarctic Biennale International Art Project 2017
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I INVITE YOU TO BOARD MY SHIP AND SET OUT ON AN ADVENTURE TO THE NEW SHORES OF ART! I AM ORGANIZING A TOPSY-TURVY BIENNALE AN UPSIDE-DOWN BIENNALE, A HEAD-OVER-HEELS BIENNALE, A MOBILE BIENNALE, IN THE ANTARCTIC CLOSE TO THE SOUTH POLE
Alexander Ponomarev ะกommissioner The 1st Antarctic Biennale
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CONCEPT According to the Antarctic Treaty (1959) and related international agreements it is intended exclusively for creative activities and scientific research in the interests of all of humanity. Antarctica is the continent that can encourage people to think about the future of humanity and culture and give an opportunity to create new ways of approaching and seeing life on our planet. This white continent resembles a pure sheet of paper, on which artists from different countries might draft new visions for life in the 21st Century.
The Antarctic Biennale has been granted UNESCO's patronage to map out future scenarios for the planet On January 24, 2017, the biennale got UNESCO's patronage in recognition of the project’s engagement with promotion of cultural and scientific exchange.
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BIENNALE PRINCIPLES SUPRANATIONALITY Developing Antarctica’s potential as a cultural space belonging to no specific nation – international voices, imagining the future of global community INTERDISCIPLINARITY The Antarctic Biennale as a visionary collective effort to find new approaches to solve the problems the humanity is facing using the achievements of numerous academic disciplines
INTERCULTURAL EXPLORATION Re-imagining the function of culture in the 21st Century
MOBILIS IN MOBILI! A biennale in process. One that creates a new ‘mobilis in mobili’ art concept, following the motto of Captain Nemo.
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BIENNALE GOALS
ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- To search for new forms of art which exist in interconnection with science, technology and environment - To extend boundaries and a role of art in the society
- To create a supranational platform dedicated to the common future of humankind - To find ways to unite humanity and consolidate international cooperation (Global warming of human relationship)
ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
-  Enhance society awareness of key environmental problems - Foster the development of eco-friendly technologies - Shift public conscience from resource consumption to environmental friendliness and resource conservation, and rethink the development of new spaces
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COMMISSIONER ALEXANDER PONOMAREV Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France; Member of the Russian Academy of Art; Global Thinker (named by Foreign Policy magazine). Over 30 years, he has organized more than 100 artistic projects, exhibitions, and events. His projects have taken place in some of the world’s most remote oceans, the Arctic, the Antarctic and the Sahara desert. Ponomarev’s artworks are in the permanent collections of the Louvre Museum (France), the New National Museum of Monaco, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Georges Pompidou (France), Zimmerli Museum (USA), the National Museum of Singapore, the Louise T Blouin Foundation (Great Britain), the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Grand Duke (Luxembourg), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Russia), the State Russian Museum (Russia), etc.
ALEXANDER PONOMAREV Vindtruvian man Arctic Circle 2014
ALEXANDER PONOMAREV A Voice in the Wilderness, 2014, The 5th Marrakech Biennale of Contemporary Art
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The Chair of the Board of Trustees ANNA SOMERS COCKS Founder & CEO of the Art Newspaper Group ALFRED PACQUEMENT Eminent art historian, ex-director of The Pompidou Centre ANDREY CHEGLAKOV Collector, philanthropist, scientist, entrepreneur. President of AVC Charity foundation BORIS BOBROVNIKOV President of CROC company DANIEL SIGAUD Entrepreneur, philanthropist, collector
DMITRY ZOGRAF Entrepreneur, philanthropist, scientist EKATERINA ANISIMOVA Philanthropist, social activist EKATERINA & VLADIMIR SEMENIKHIN art collectors, Honorary Consuls of Russia and Kazakhstan in Monaco, founders of Ekaterina Cultural Foundation FEDOR KONYUKHOV Survivalist, traveler, writer and artist FRAM KITAGAWA General Director of Echigo-Tsumari and Setouchi Triennale
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
INNA BAZHENOVA Collector & Patron of the Arts. Owner of The Art Newspaper EUGENE KASPERSKY Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab LEONID STRUNIN Patron of Arts, Philanthropist, Art collector, Owner of the Auction house Phillips LEONID FRIEDLAND Patron of Arts, Philanthropist, Art collector, Owner of the Auction house Phillips MARINA ABRAMOVIC Performance artist, founder of Marina Abramović Institute
MARINA LOSHAK Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts NICOLAS ILJINE Advisor to the General Director of the State Hermitage Museum, culture consultant ROMAN TROTSENKO Entrepreneur, philanthropist, collector SAM KELLER Director of the Foundation Beyeler VANESSA BRANSON Collector & Patron of the Arts. Founding President of the Marrakech Biennale
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ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD ALEXANDER PONOMAREV Commissioner of the 1st Antarctic Biennale
HANI RASHID Architect, co-founder of Asymptote Architecture, USA
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Art curator, critic, historian of art. Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries, UK
NADIM SAMMAN Curator, historian of art, co-director of Import Projects, Germany  SAM KELLER Director of the Foundation Beyeler, Switzerland
SHEIKHA HOOR AL-QASIMI Practicing artist, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
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ARTISTS PARTICIPANTS
Hani Rashid (USA/Canada)
Matthew Ritchie (UK)
Alexis Anastasiou (Brazil)
Andrey Kuzkin (Russia)
Tomas Saraceno (Argentina)
Joaquin Fargas (Argentina)
Zhang Enli (China)
Abdullah Al Saadi (UAE)
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Art
ARTISTS PARTICIPANTS
Gustav Dusing Yto Barrada (Morocco)
(Germany)
Paul Rosero Contreras (Ecuador)
Lara Favaletto (Italy)
Juliana Cerqueira
Sho Hasegawa
Leite (Brazil)
(Japan)
Julian Charriere (France/
Julius von Bismarck
Switzerland)
(Germany) The full list of artists will be announced in February 2017
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TOMAS SARACENO (ARGENTINA)
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MATTHEW RITCHIE (UK)
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HANI RASHID (CANADA/USA)
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JOAQUIN FARGAS (ARGENTINA)
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LARA FAVARETTO (ITALY)
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ALEXIS ANASTASIOU (BRAZIL)
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GUSTAV DUSING (GERMANY)
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INTERDISCIPLINARY PARTICIPANTS
Wakana Kono (Japan)
Barbara Imhof (Austria)
Art historian
Researcher of ecosystems
Sergey Pisarev (Russia) Oceanologist, glaciologist
Jean de Pomereu (France)
Alexander Sekatskii (Russia)
Writer, photographer,
Writer, philosopher
researcher The full list will be announced in February 2017
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EXPEDITION 16 – 27 March 2017
The Antarctic Biennale is an international sociocultural phenomenon that incorporates artistic, scientific and philosophical methodologies, creates a supra-national platform for interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. The Antarctic Biennale departs from standard exhibition models. It is a creative journey, expanding the parameters of what art can be today. The Antarctic Biennale expedition aboard the research vessel begins in March 2017 and will last for twelve days. It involves around a hundred people from all over the world: artists, architects, researchers, and philosophers. The biennale’s onboard program includes artistic and scientific discussions, performances, poetic and philosophical readings, and screenings. All installations created during the expedition will be dismantled and loaded back on ship. Their lives will continue in the world’s most significant museums and art-centres.
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ANTARCTIC PAVILION
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ANTARCTIC PAVILION In 2017, during 57th Biennale d’Arte in Venice in the Antarctic Pavilion will be presented the group exhibition of the Antarctic Biennale international Open Call finalists. Among artists: Bridget Steed (United Kingdom), Andreas Lutz (Germany), Stephanie Roland (Belgium), Kim Sheppard (Canada), Banrei (United States), Stefan Laxness (Iceland), Jasmin Blasco (France), Winston Chmielinski (United States), Tom Blake (Australia), Matilde Solbiati (Italy), Louise Oates (United Kingdom), Meadhbh O'Connor (Ireland), Valentine Siboni, (France), Sybren Renema (Netherlands), Ariel Spadari (Brazil)
ILLUSTRATIONS – TOM BLAKE (AUSTRALIA) И WINSTON CHMIELINSKI (USA)
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PROGRAM 2016 February 26 Moscow (Russia), ARTIBUS Foundation - the Antarctic Biennale presentation April 18, 2016 New York (USA), The Explorers Club – the Antarctic Biennale Council May, 7, 2016 New Harmony (USA), Working Man Institute - the Antarctic Biennale presentation May 28 , 2016 Venice (Italy), Antarctic Pavillion – the opening of Studio Hani Rashid exhibition ANTARCTICA: RE-CYCLICAL a frontier in flux June 21, 2016, Barcelona (Spain), The Maritim Museum – Antarctic Biennale presentation
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PROGRAM 2016 August 18-21, 2016, Newport (USA) – Antarctic Biennale presentation and gala-dinner August 22, 2016 – start of international Open Call for young artists Antarctic Biennale_Calls September 11, 2016, Moscow (Russia) – public-talk at CosMoscow international art fair October, 2016, New York (USA), the National Arts Club – Antarctic Biennale supported by the United Nations and the Donner Canadian Foundation October 13, 2016, Moscow (Russia), Museum or Russian Impressionism – Antarctic Biennale presentation
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PROGRAM 2016-2017 October 2016, Japan – The commissioner of the biennale Alexander Ponomarev participates in Setouchi Triennale and presents Antarctic Biennale there November 21-24, Moscow – the Antarctic Biennale Vision Building session, November, 30, Miami – the launch party with Venu Magazine December, 1, Miami - Open Call winners announcement during Art Basel Miami supported by BMW March 2017, Ushuaia (Argentina) – press-conference, start of the expedition April 2017, Paris (France) – press-conference communicating results of the expedition May 2017, Venice (Italy) – Antarctic Biennale exhibition – finalists and first highlights from the expedition July, 1st, 2017, Newport (USA) – Antarctic Biennale conference
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ANTARCTIC BIENNALE VISION CLUB. SESSION #1 Date: May 27 Place: The Antarctic Pavilion, Venice Format: Panel discussion – Antarctica: re-cyclical a frontier in flux Audience: international guests from architecture, art, research and business sphere, journalists, representatives of the Italian government agencies, Venice Biennale structure, University of Applied Arts Vienna, etc.
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ANTARCTIC BIENNALE VISION CLUB. SESSION #2 Date: May 12 Place: Association for Strategic Initiatives, Moscow Format: Vision Buildin Session - Shared territories of Civilization Audience: researches specialized in Antarctica, futurologists, oceanologists, climatologists, sociologists, scholars from technology and cultural field, representatives of business and start-up community, etc. Â
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ANTARCTIC BIENNALE VISION CLUB. SESSION #3 Date: November 21 Place: International multimedia center Russia Today Format: Vision Building Session – The future of shared spaces and the role of Antarctica Audience: researches specialized in Antarctica, futurologists, oceanologists, climatologists, sociologists, journalists from geography and cultural field, etc.
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PARTNERS General Partner
Partners
Institutional Partners
Media Partners on board
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PRESS POOL An exclusive pool of international journalists and editors from all over the world provides excellent media coverage
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WORLDWIDE MEDIA COVERAGE
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