La Biennale De Montréal 2016
20 Oct 2016 - 15 Jan 2017
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Thread, 2012
Photo: Robert Glowacki
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London
Thread, 2012
Photo: Robert Glowacki
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London
Luc Tuymans
Doha III, 2016
Doha III, 2016
Nicole Eisenman
Long Distance, 2015
Long Distance, 2015
Anne Imhof
Angst, 2016
Performance. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski
Angst, 2016
Performance. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski
Elaine Cameron-Weir
Snake (Detail), 2016
Snake (Detail), 2016
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Still From Une Voix Me Rappelle Toujours, 2016
Video. Courtesy of the artist
Still From Une Voix Me Rappelle Toujours, 2016
Video. Courtesy of the artist
La Biennale De Montréal 2016
Left to right: Philippe Pirotte, Aseman Sabet, Kitty Scott and Corey McCorkle
Photo: John Malek.
Left to right: Philippe Pirotte, Aseman Sabet, Kitty Scott and Corey McCorkle
Photo: John Malek.
LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL 2016
The Grand Balcony
20 October 2016 - 15 January 2017
Summary
Le Grand Balcon [The Grand Balcony], the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, explores an unusual question: is hedonism possible today? The project posits the urgency of forming a materialistic, sensualistic approach to the world that mobilizes the capacities of both brain and body to their fullest. It sets out the challenge of developing an ethical hedonism and a joyous utilitarianism.
Noteworthy
The project drawn up by curator Philippe Pirotte comprises new and/or recent works by about fifty Québec, Canadian and international artists who are rethinking hedonism. It features painting, sculpture, installation, performance and other forms of experimentation. Le Grand Balcon is presented by La Biennale de Montréal and co-produced with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
The three members of curator Philippe Pirotte’s advisory team are Corey McCorkle, Aseman Sabet and Kitty Scott.
Corey McCorkle is an artist living and working in New York.
Aseman Sabet is an independent curator, arts writer and doctoral candidate in Art History at the Université de Montréal.
Kitty Scott is the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, and co-curator of the 2018 Liverpool Biennial.
Artists presented at the MAC
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
Éric Baudelaire
Thomas Bayrle
Nadia Belerique
Valérie Blass
Michael Blum
Shannon Bool
Elaine Cameron-Weir
Chris Curreri
Moyra Davey
Nicole Eisenman
Geoffrey Farmer
Isa Genzken
Liao Guohe
Lena Henke
Anne Imhof
Luis Jacob
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer
Janice Kerbel
Hassan Khan
David Lamelas
Zac Langdon-Pole
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Luzie Meyer
Shahryar Nashat
Cady Noland
Celia Perrin Sidarous
Marina Rosenfeld
Ben Schumacher
Walter Scott
Luke Willis Thompson
David Gheron Tretiakoff
Luc Tuymans
PME-Art / Jacob Wren (only at the Nocturne, Friday, November 4)
Haegue Yang
Guest Curator Biography
Philippe Pirotte (born in 1972 in Belgium) is an art historian, curator, critic and Director of Frankfurt’s Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts and of Portikus, leading centres for contemporary art in Germany and beyond. Pirotte was one of the co-founders of the contemporary art centre objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. From 2005 to 2011, he was Director of the internationally renowned Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, where he organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Owen Land, Oscar Tuazon, Jutta Koether, Allan Kaprow and Corey McCorkle. From 2004 to 2013, Pirotte held the position of Senior Advisor at the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam. In 2012, he became Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He also served as Advising Program Director for the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing and is an advisor for the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris/San Francisco).
The Grand Balcony
20 October 2016 - 15 January 2017
Summary
Le Grand Balcon [The Grand Balcony], the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, explores an unusual question: is hedonism possible today? The project posits the urgency of forming a materialistic, sensualistic approach to the world that mobilizes the capacities of both brain and body to their fullest. It sets out the challenge of developing an ethical hedonism and a joyous utilitarianism.
Noteworthy
The project drawn up by curator Philippe Pirotte comprises new and/or recent works by about fifty Québec, Canadian and international artists who are rethinking hedonism. It features painting, sculpture, installation, performance and other forms of experimentation. Le Grand Balcon is presented by La Biennale de Montréal and co-produced with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
The three members of curator Philippe Pirotte’s advisory team are Corey McCorkle, Aseman Sabet and Kitty Scott.
Corey McCorkle is an artist living and working in New York.
Aseman Sabet is an independent curator, arts writer and doctoral candidate in Art History at the Université de Montréal.
Kitty Scott is the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, and co-curator of the 2018 Liverpool Biennial.
Artists presented at the MAC
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
Éric Baudelaire
Thomas Bayrle
Nadia Belerique
Valérie Blass
Michael Blum
Shannon Bool
Elaine Cameron-Weir
Chris Curreri
Moyra Davey
Nicole Eisenman
Geoffrey Farmer
Isa Genzken
Liao Guohe
Lena Henke
Anne Imhof
Luis Jacob
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer
Janice Kerbel
Hassan Khan
David Lamelas
Zac Langdon-Pole
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Luzie Meyer
Shahryar Nashat
Cady Noland
Celia Perrin Sidarous
Marina Rosenfeld
Ben Schumacher
Walter Scott
Luke Willis Thompson
David Gheron Tretiakoff
Luc Tuymans
PME-Art / Jacob Wren (only at the Nocturne, Friday, November 4)
Haegue Yang
Guest Curator Biography
Philippe Pirotte (born in 1972 in Belgium) is an art historian, curator, critic and Director of Frankfurt’s Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts and of Portikus, leading centres for contemporary art in Germany and beyond. Pirotte was one of the co-founders of the contemporary art centre objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. From 2005 to 2011, he was Director of the internationally renowned Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, where he organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Owen Land, Oscar Tuazon, Jutta Koether, Allan Kaprow and Corey McCorkle. From 2004 to 2013, Pirotte held the position of Senior Advisor at the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam. In 2012, he became Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He also served as Advising Program Director for the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing and is an advisor for the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris/San Francisco).