Detail: The 2010 Busan Biennale will take place from September 11 to November 20 with 135 works from 75 artists at several locations in Busan, including the Busan Museum of Art, the Busan Yacht Center and Gwangalli Beach.
The art festival will make a new attempt of integrating three existing exhibitions (Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sea Art Festival and Busan Sculpture Project) into one in order to ensure faithful reflection of the overall theme and consistency in exhibition planning. The number of artists invited to exhibitions will be reduced from 200-300 to 75 with 135 works to focus more on the quality of works.
Five curatorial advisors will assist AZUMAYA Takashi in planning exhibitions and selecting artists: Manu D. PARK, adjunct professor of Chosun University who served as the exhibition director for the Contemporary Art Exhibition of the 2006 Busan Biennale, Binghui HUANGFU, independent curator who worked as the deputy director of the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, James PUTNAM, independent curator who worked as the curator of the Freud Museum in the U.K., Peter DOROSHENKO, director of the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine, and Friedrich MESCHEDE, chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain. KIM Eung-Ki, full-time artist, will serve as a local exhibition director who is in charge of discovering and selecting local artists, which is a major objective of a biennale, and KIM Seong-Youn, representative of Alternative Art Space Bandee, will assist the local director as a guest curator. Along with the main exhibition directed by AZUMAYA Takashi, the 2010 Busan Biennale will be composed of special exhibitions such as "Asia Now" and "Directly," joint exhibitions such as "Gallery Festival" and "Exhibitions Linked with Alternative Spaces" and diverse programs for education and viewer participation.