Whitney Biennial

Whitney Biennial is a bi -annual exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The first exhibition began in 1932 and was first performed annually. It is a leading event in the art world and renowned for their directional influence.

History

Since 2000, the Bucksbaum Award is awarded to an artist in the exhibition.

2002 Whitney Biennial exhibition consisted of an official with one of the digital network dedicated to art art department, curated by Christiane Paul, and a WhitneyBiennial.com website. The net art shown as Christiane Paul summarized it:

Based on the internet art has developed into a broad media and new artistic practices defined: Narrative and time- based works, net activism / hacktivism, telerobotics and redefinition of browser conventions. The selection of the Biennale aims to give an impression of the diversity of net art and created over the years indicate topics: data visualization and linking, database aesthetics, paradigms of computer games, Networked Communities, agent technologies, Nomadic devices.

2006, the exhibition by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne was curated, 2008, the curators Henriette and Shamim M. Momin Huldisch. It took place at the Park Avenue Armory.

2010, the Biennale in the bottom three floors of the museum, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion - Murayari.

The three months ended May 27, 2012 opened 76th Biennial was curated by the person otherwise responsible for Whitney of Photography Elisabeth Sussman art historian with writer and former art gallery owner Jay Sanders. The focus this time on performance and ever on the performing arts of dance, music and theater. On a whole floor is ongoing "action" instead of all open times of the day, the others are the traditional forms reserved. Posted to the 51 participating artists and groups include the indie rock band Red Krayola and the filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The filmmaker Werner Herzog presents a video installation, are in the twenty fantastic landscapes of the Dutch painter and etcher Hercules Seghers at the center.

" " The artists are the old categories minimalism, post-minimalism, conceptual art weary. , You want to break boundaries and look into the byways of art history for interesting figures in which they acknowledge their ancestors. " "