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Biennale de Lyon

France - Lyon
Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon
 

The Lyon Biennale stemmed from a project by Lyon's Museum of Contemporary Art, directed by Thierry Raspail since its inception in 1984. From 1984-1988, the Biennale was preceded by an annual event entitled "October of the Arts", which ended with the exhibition "Colour Alone": The Experience of Monochrome". ... The event gave rise to the inaugural Lyon Biennale in September 1991.

The desire to create an event capable of artistic self-renewal while building a stable, long-term project that bonded with its host territory led to an organisational model specific to the Lyon Biennale: an Artistic Director builds the event's identity over time, and for each edition chooses a curator/ curators with whom he collaborates closely to devise an artistic project. The Lyon Biennale is therefore truly an authorial biennale and, as Jean-Hubert Martin noted, "a clever way of having themes addressed through the personalities of others". Each biennale provides the opportunity to explore a specific issue.

(From the website of the Biennale de Lyon)

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Biennale de Lyon

3 rue du Président Edouard Herriot
69001 Lyon
France

Phone: +33(0)4 72 07 41 41

Email: info@biennale-de-lyon.org
Website: www.biennale-de-lyon.org

 

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11th Biennale de Lyon
15 Sep. - 31 Dec. 2011
Curator: Victoria Noorthoorn
Extensive photo tour

10th Biennale de Lyon
16 Sep. 2009 - 3 Jan. 2010
Extensive photo tour: works by almost all the participants

History
of the Lyon Biennial
All the editions since 1991

 

Biennials