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| International Print Biennale | |
|---|---|
| Name | International Print Biennale |
| Established | 20th century |
| Frequency | Biennial |
| Location | Various |
| Genre | Printmaking, Graphic Arts |
International Print Biennale is a recurring global exhibition and festival dedicated to printmaking that convenes artists, curators, critics, collectors, institutions, and publishers. It functions as a nexus linking historical print traditions and contemporary practices across cities, museums, foundations, academies, and galleries. Major iterations attract participation from institutions such as the Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art (New York), British Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Print Council of America while engaging artists associated with Royal College of Art, Yale School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, and Royal Academy of Arts.
The Biennale emphasizes print media including etching, lithography, woodcut, screenprint, monotype, photogravure, intaglio, digital print, and multiples represented by entities such as Galerie Maeght, Gagosian Gallery, White Cube, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth. It convenes curators from Tate Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and National Gallery of Victoria and invites participation from artist-run spaces like Printmakers Council, International Print Center New York, Stampa, and Edinburgh Printmakers. Partnerships often include academic publishers such as Phaidon Press, Thames & Hudson, and Routledge and philanthropic supporters like Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Biennale draws lineage from early print exhibitions and salons associated with institutions such as Royal Academy of Arts, Salon d'Automne, Exposition Universelle (1889), and movements represented by figures linked to Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Käthe Kollwitz, Francisco Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century antecedents include events at École des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, MoMA, Galerie Daniel Templon, and The British Council. The Biennale has intersected with exhibitions curated by Harold Rosenberg, Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind Krauss, Nicholas Serota, and Sir Norman Rosenthal and has been influenced by collections at Victoria and Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and National Gallery of Art.
Governance typically involves boards and advisory committees drawn from institutions like British Council, UNESCO, ICOM, International Association of Art Critics, Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow), and university art departments including Courtauld Institute of Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Yale University. Directors often have career trajectories referencing roles at Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, The Menil Collection, Museo Reina Sofía, Neue Galerie, and Serpentine Galleries. Legal and financial frameworks reflect engagement with foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, and cultural ministries including Ministry of Culture (France), Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Smithsonian Institution.
Curatorial programmes range from historical retrospectives spotlighting artists like Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Georges Braque, Edvard Munch, and Helen Frankenthaler to thematic projects addressing urbanism, ecology, and technology with contributors from Zadie Smith-led panels, collaborations with MIT Media Lab, and commissions by studios linked to Tamarind Institute, Cricoteka, and UCLA Hammer Museum. Satellite programming includes workshops with master printers trained at Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Royal College of Art, and The Glasgow School of Art, screenings partnered with British Film Institute, lectures hosted by Aperture Foundation, and book launches with Sternberg Press. Major commissions have been acquired by National Portrait Gallery (London), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Hirshhorn Museum, and Kunsthaus Zürich.
The Biennale showcases an international roster including established and emerging figures linked to movements and practices associated with Fluxus, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, and Pop Art. Notable practitioners represented in past editions include artists whose careers intersect with Ed Ruscha, Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, Gerhard Richter, Yayoi Kusama, Doris Salcedo, Olafur Eliasson, Kara Walker, Tracey Emin, Rashid Johnson, Chitra Ganesh, Kiki Smith, Richard Hamilton, and Julie Mehretu. Curators have included names associated with Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector, Fondazione Prada, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Okwui Enwezor, Theaster Gates, and Chus Martínez.
Hosted across museums, biennial pavilions, and cultural centers tied to places like Venice Biennale, Documenta, Biennale of Sydney, São Paulo Art Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Athens Biennale, Kassel, Berlinische Galerie, Palazzo Grassi, Royal Academy, Southbank Centre, and municipal venues in London, New York City, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Toronto, Vancouver, Ljubljana, Warsaw, and Prague.
Critical response engages publications and platforms such as Artforum, ArtReview, Frieze, The Burlington Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Le Monde. Acquisitions following editions have enriched collections at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Getty Museum. The Biennale has influenced curricular development at Royal College of Art, Yale School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, and University of the Arts London while informing conservation practice at Victoria and Albert Museum and technical research at Getty Conservation Institute. Controversies and debates have involved commentators affiliated with New Yorker, BBC Arts, CNN, Al Jazeera English, and The Washington Post.
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