Cartagena de Indias to Host its First International Biennial of Contemporary Art

The first International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Cartagena de Indias (BIACI) will come to pass between February 7 and April 7, 2014.

Berta Sichel, who worked for the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil, will curate this exhibit that has called on artists from Colombia and overseas to present their artworks before August 31, 2013.

Foreign artists will also be entitled to attend as long as they have legally lived for at least five years in Colombia and whose works are dated from 2011 onward.

Colombian sculptor Miguel Gonzalez, who’s been a consultant for the biennials of Venice, Sao Paolo, Havana and Valparaíso, among others, will be a member of the Colombian Selection Committee. Other members are curators Gabriela Rangel, from Venezuela, who has worked for artists Carlos Cruz-Diez and Gordon Matta Clark, among others, and Stephanie Rosenthal, who curated Paul McCarthy’s Lala Land Parody exhibit at the Whitechapel Gallery back in 2005.

Selected artworks will be in display at the Cartagena Museum of Modern Art and their creators will be invited to the opening ceremony.

BIACI 2014 seeks to strengthen Cartagena’s cultural scene through a number of academic events and exhibitions in a bid to rekindle the works of contemporary artists from the country and elsewhere, the organizers have said. The biennial’s executive board is made up of Carlos Julio Ardila Gaviria, Belisario Betancur Cuartas, Patricia Escallón de Ardila and Daniel Haime Gutt, among others.

For information on requirements and guidelines, please visit www.bianci.org

Source: El Heraldo