Bose Krishnamachari, Kerala-based artist and co-founder of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has invited some 80 artists to participate in the inaugural edition of the Yinchuan Biennale, due to launch later this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, a new institution designed by we architects anonymous inside wetlands park in the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, northwest China. Inspired by the success of its Kochi model, the new Chinese biennale aims to create a new art landscape and culture in a city ‘where people are clueless about contemporary art’.
Its first edition, under the title For an Image, Faster than Light, will take China as a departure point to postulate different themes, ‘including spiritual and social consciousness, an examination of political narratives and critical global engagement and an acknowledgment of a collective responsibility therein’, Krishnamachari said to The Hindu. International and Chinese artists including Abigail Reynolds, Lala Rukh, Newsha Tavakolian, Santiago Sierra, as well as Song Dong and Liu Wei will create site-specific works, while a residency programme linked to the biennial will run at MOCA Yinchuan’s international artists’ village.
For an Image, Faster than Light will run from 9 September – 18 December 2016, at MOCA Yinchuan.
2 June 2016.
