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:

Eija-Liisa Ahtila Francis Alÿs Art Orienté objet Terri Bird Monica Bonvicini Louise Bourgeois Stephen Bush Maurizio Cattelan Brenda L Croft Yael Davids Destiny Deacon PlamenDejanov & Swetlana Heger Amanda Dunsmore Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset

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

Tastuo Miyajima Callum Morton Deimantas Narkevicius Fanni Niemi-Junkola Mariele Neudecker David Noonan Susan Norrie OLO Anne Ooms Catherine Opie Miguel Palma Cornelia Parker João Penalva Susan Philipsz

Patricia Piccinini Hans Hamid Rasmussen Nikolaj Recke Torbjørn Rødland Ugo Rondinone Vivienne Shark LeWitt Dan Shipsides Smith/Steward Ricky Swallow Francisco Tropa Gitte Villesen Kenji Yanobe Miwa Yanagi Li Yongbin

& 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/