page_title: Istanbul Biennial
section_title: Past Biennals
hierarchical_section_title: Istanbul Biennial / Past Biennals
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Installation from Istanbul 2005 Biennale. Photo by Bertil Videt
context_page_description: The Istanbul Biennial is a contemporary art exhibition that has held been every two years in Istanbul, Turkey, since 1987. The Biennial has been organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts since its inception. The Biennial aims to create a meeting point in Istanbul in the field of visual arts between artists from diverse cultures and the audience. The IKSV has enabled the formation of an international cultural network between local and international art circles, artists, curators and art critics by bringing together new trends in contemporary art every two years.
context_section_description: 1987 "Contemporary Art in Traditional Spaces" General Coordinator: Beral Madra
  1989 "Contemporary Art in Traditional Spaces" General Coordinator: Beral Madra
  1992 "Production of Cultural Difference" Director: Vasif Kortun
  1995 "Orient-ation - The Image of Art in a Paradoxical World" Curator: René Block
  1997 "On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties" Curator: Rosa Martinez
  1999 "The Passion and the Wave" Curator: Paolo Colombo
  2001 "Egofugal - Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence" Curator: Yuko Hasegawa
  2003 "Poetic Justice" Curator: Dan Cameron
  2005 "İstanbul" Curators: Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun
  2007 "Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War" Curator: Hou Hanru
  2009 "What Keeps Mankind Alive?". Curators: WHW / What, How & for Whom
  2011 "Untitled" Curators: Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffmann
  2013 "Mom, am I barbarian?" Curator: Fulya Erdemci
  2015 “SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms” Drafter: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
  2017 "A Good Neighbour". Curators: Elmgreen & Dragset
caption: Installation from Istanbul 2005 Biennial
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