Melbourne International Biennial 1999

Melbourne International Biennial 1999

Melbourne International Biennial 1999 "Signs of Life" 14 May - 27 June 1999

The Melbourne International Biennial was a cultural initiative of the City of Melbourne in partnership with Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne.

Curator: Juliana Engberg / Organisation: Bala Starr

Artists:

  • Ângela Ferreira
  • John Frankland
  • Robert Gligorov
  • Robert Gober
  • Graham Gussin
  • Teresa Hubbart & Alexander Birchler
  • Meta Isaeus-Berlin
  • Lyndal Jones
  • Peter Kennedy
  • Martin Kersels
  • Job Koelewijn
  • Andrea Lange
  • Chad McCail
  • Aernout Mik


& the "Collaborating Countries Projects" included works in National Pavilions by the following artists:

  • Austrian Pavilion: Anne Schneider, Elke Krystufek, Franz West (curator: Andraes Reiter Raabe)
  • Belgian Pavilion: Dirk Braeckman, Jan Van Imschoot, Sven 't Jolle (curator: Jan Hoet)
  • Canadian Pavilion: Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy Macleod, Ron Terada, (curator: Kitty Scott)
  • Chinese Pavilion: Wang Jianwei, Li Yongbin (curator: Huang Du)
  • Danish Pavilion: Henriette Heise, Jakob Jakobsen (curator: Dorthe Abildgaard & Marianne Krogh Jensen)
  • French Pavilion: Valérie Jouve (co-ordinator: by Jean-Pierre Dumont)
  • Italian Pavilion: Paola di Bello, Mauricio Lupini, Roberto Marossi, Marcello Maloberti, Gabriele di Matteo, Alessandra Spranzi, Bert Theis, Enzo Umbaca (curators: Jen Budney & Roberto Pinto)
  • Japanese Pavilion: Leiko Ikemura (curator: Itaru Hirano)
  • Norwegian Pavilion: Knut Åsdam, UKS (curators: Bo Krister Wallström & Jørn Mortensen)
  • Philippine Pavilion: Gerardo Tan (curator: Professor Patrick Flores)
  • Swiss Pavilion: Sidney Stucki (curator: Pierre-André Lienhard)

Subjects

"..., I believe the Melbourne International Biennial - Signs of Life - exhibits a very human set of projects, as should be the case as we leave the twentieth century and begin to engage with the next millennial frontier." Juliana Engberg

References

Catalogue: "Signs of Life" Published by the City of Melbourne ISBN 0 646 37330 7

External links

http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/non-cms/globe/issue10/dptxt.html http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/melbourne/ http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/signs_of_life_melbourne_international_biennial/