EMERGENCY BIENNALE in CHECHNYA / World Tourstop 12: Tbilisi, Georgia

EMERGENCY BIENNALE in CHECHNYA / World Tourstop 12: Tbilisi, Georgia
at ARTISTERIUM’ 092nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum

8 Sioni Str. Karvasla with: Adel Abdessemed, A Constructed World, Dennis Adams, Hüseyin Alptekin, Maria-Thereza Alves, Francis Alÿs, Aija Apse, Maja Bajevic, Ruth Barabash, Rebecca Belmore, Lindsay Benedict, Dalida Maria Benfield, Aija Bley, Sylvie Blocher, Blue Noses, Mark Boswell & Anton Kozlov, Marc Boucherot, Véronique Boudier, Hernain Bravo, Kristians Brekte, Mathieu Briand, Hank Bull, Hans Heiner Buhr, Santiago Caicedo, Cao Fei, Banu Cennetoğlu, Raimond Chaves, Chen Shaoxiong, Paolo Chiasera, Magali Claude, José Luis Cortés S., Hubert Czerepok, Marta Deskur, Jimmie Durham, Al Fadhil, Seamus Farrell, Daniel Faust, Carlos Franklin, Fu Jie, Adriana García Galán, Ghazel, Roya Ghiasy, Kaspars Goba, Babak Golkar, Mārtiņš Grauds, Yves Grenet, Gu Dexin, Andris Grinbergs, Daniel Guzmán, Jens Haaning, Han Myung-Ok, Antonia Hirsch, IN[ ]EX, Alfredo Jaar, Uldis Jancis, Edgars Jurjāns, Elīna Kalniņa, Rose Khor, Kolkoz, Koo Jeong-A, Roman Korovin, Katarzyna Kozyra, Linards Kulless & Una Meiberga, Neeme Külm, Gabriel Kuri, Surasi Kusolwong, Tony Labat, Marco Laimre, Sally Lee, Zbigniew Libera, Raimonds Līcītis, HH Lim, Armin Linke, Ken Lum, Juan Pablo Macias, Marko Mäetamm, Ives Maes, Gilda Mantilla, Metapong, Julio César Morales, Maurizio Nannucci, Oda Projesi, Ahmet Öğüt, Jüri Ojaver, Lucy Orta, Damián Ortega, Gionata Gesi Ozmo, Adrian Paci, Alexandre Périgot, Joanna Rajkowska, Emmanuelle Rapin, David Renaud, Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen, Römer & Römer, Julian Rosefeldt, Gatis Rozenfelds, Mo Salemy, Jayce Salloum, Krišs Salmanis, Juan Esteban Sandoval, Santomatteo, Sarkis, Zineb Sedira, Shen Yuan, Nedko Solakov, Allan de Souza, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Steven Tong, Sergio de la Torre, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Niko Tsetskhladze, Enzo Umbaca, Urban Subjects, Anton Vidokle, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, Wang Du, Florence Wang, Hans Winkler, Jenifer Wofford, Sislej Xhafa, Yan Lei, Yang Fudong, Yang Jie Chang, Iliko Zautashvili, Zheng Guogu, Zhu Jia, Aiva Zurina. / With the special participation of Alighiero Boetti (Francis Alÿs project)

> The 12th edition in Tbilisi is co-curated and coordinated by Magda Guruli and produced by Artisterium and Centre Culturel français Alexandre Dumas, French Embassy in Tbilisi.

Magda Guruli invites new artists: Hans Heiner Buhr, Niko Tsetskhladze, Iliko Zautashvili

Drawing attention to the plight of Chechnya, and more broadly to human and social emergencies in a context of ambivalent globalization, while also questioning the phenomenon and proliferation of international biennials, the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya opened on 23 February 2005 both in Grozny, Chechnya (different locations in the city) and simultaneously in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo.More than sixty international artists, established and emerging, provided one artwork and its duplicate – created to fit into suitcases – clandestinely sent to Chechnya and shipped to different cities in the world for mirror exhibitions.

After Paris, the touring part of the exhibit moved on to Brussels (Matrix Art Project), Bolzano (EURAC/Museion), Milan (Isola Art Center), Riga (Riga City Exhibition Hall), Tallinn (Tallinn Art Hall), Vancouver (Centre A), Puebla in Mexico (laboratory format), Istanbul (10th Istanbul Biennial), San Francisco (World Social Forum, CCA) and Bialystok in Poland (Arsenal Gallery), and now to Tbilisi, Georgia in Caucasus.In each location new artists are invited, conferences organized, and additional suitcases readied to be sent to Chechnya. Today, more than 130 artists participate in the project. The touring exhibit will stop in Grozny where the artworks will join their twins and the collection will become the foundation for a museum. The Emergency Biennale is a non-profit project founded and curated by Evelyne Jouanno (Paris – San Francisco) who operates in collaboration with international communities of artists, curators, art institutions and human rights organizations.