EUROPEAN BIENNIAL NETWORK

Biennial Exchange and Residency Programme

The European Biennial Network is pleased to announce that the conference titled “Mapping the European Biennial Network” will be held in Athens, on Sunday 1st June 2008.

The conference is open to the public and will take place in the amphitheatre of the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music.

The conference will include presentations by:

• Chus Martinez (Director, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, and Chief Curator, MACBA)
  
  
• Lars Bang Larsen (independent curator and writer)
  
  
• Helge Mooshammer (Research Fellow, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, and Visiting Tutor, Visual Culture Department, Goldsmiths College, London)
  
  
• Peter Mörtenböck (Professor of Visual Culture, Vienna University of Technology, and Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths College, London)
  
  
• Maike Cruse (Communication & Press, berlin biennial)
  
  
• Renate Wagner (Coordination office, berlin biennial)
  
  
• Maya Ersan (Exhibition Management, Istanbul Biennial)
  
  
• Antony Pickthall (Head of Marketing & Communications, Liverpool Biennial)
  
  
• Frederique Gautier (Artistic Coordination, Lyon Biennial)
  
  
• Despoina Sevasti (International Projects Coordination, Athens Biennial)

The participants will take part in a closed workshop on the previous day, the conclusions of which will be presented at the conference. This is the first public presentation of the European Biennial Network, as its activity up to now had been focused on preparations and working group meetings between the partners.